Diets for Quick Weight Loss: Safe and Effective Diet Ideas That Will Help You Lose Weight

By Judy Beck

Diets for Quick Weight Loss Safe and Effective Plans To Lose Weight When considering weight loss there are two different philosophies on the diets for quick weight loss. One you lose a vast amount of weight early and not to easily. It goes off, but maintaining it and keeping it off is very difficult. This type of diet is a crash diet. It is not healthy. It does not work for long-term weight loss. Quick weight loss diets do not need to be the same as crash diets. Of course, it is possible to see a significant amount of quick weight loss from a quality diet like the Mediterranean Diet, Paleo Diet or even the Hypothyroid Diet. A good quick weight loss diet will not have you dumping a large amount of weight in the very beginning. It will start with enough of a push, to give you incentive to see that this diet for quick weight loss is more sensible. Safe weight loss comes in a steady pace, rather than a huge amount in the beginning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781631878428

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Diets for Quick Weight Loss

Safe and Effective Diet Ideas That Will Help You Lose Weight

JUDY BECK

Copyright © 2013 Judy Beck

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Diets for Quick Weight Loss

Three philosophies on dieting are also considered to be a means of quick weight loss. These three diets are well balanced and each diet helps to maintain good weight loss while eating highly nutritious foods. These diets are not to be confused with crash diets, which work to lost weight too fast. Crash diets may result in massive weight loss in record time, but the truth is, weight loss will not stick unless a lifestyle change in dieting is made. The three diets referred to here are the Mediterranean Diet, Paleo Diet, and the Hypothyroid Diet.

Just because it is quick does not mean the largest amount of weight is lost in the beginning. It means you will have a good jumpstart at weight loss, if you follow the diet and stick to the diet. It means you will have continued weight loss at a steady pace as you stay on the diet. Healthy weight loss starts with a quick weight loss, but evens out soon, so that it is a steady flow. This helps to nail down a healthy lifestyle change. Good diets are meant to facilitate weight loss while also keeping you satisfied.

Even if you do lose a significant amount of weight quickly you will want to do things to make sure you keep that weight off. Healthy weight loss comes when you change your habits of eating. If you diet long enough to lose the weight and not continue with eating healthy the weight will come back. In the same token, dieting alone is not enough. Strong recommendations are to exercise at least half an hour every other day. Optimally daily exercise will do the body good. Exercise and dieting go hand in hand and they both must be continued for weight loss success in the future as well.

The Mediterranean Diet helps us to lose weight in a healthy way, by the inclusion of many fresh fruits and vegetables from plants that grow naturally in the Mediterranean region. For many years, these people were studied for their longevity and excellent health. Obesity in this area is rare and it is because of their diet. The Mediterranean Diet helps to promote cardiovascular healthy. The diet is rich with foods high in antioxidants and omega 3 fatty acids. This diet is meant to be a lifestyle change, once you go on the day, you should stay on the diet to maintain weight loss.

A closer look at the Mediterranean Diet shows the addition of vegetables and fruits that are packed with nutrition. If we simply added these beneficial foods to our diets our bodies would be so much healthier. Their diets are rich in olive oil and seafood, two foods that help the body to build a strong immune system. Eating these foods on a daily basis, and excluding junk foods gives the body the best chance to become as healthy as possible. Strong emphasis is placed on exercise and socialization too to help build the muscles and strengthen the mind.

The Paleo Diet is the same diet our ancestors of ancient times ate. The Stone Age people ate a diet consisting of certain fruits and vegetables and a huge variety of meats and good fats. Research shows our Stone Age ancestors lived long healthy lives. They were not fat, maintaining a healthy weight level. Since they seemed so healthy and thin, the Paleo Diet gained popularity again, offering people an alternative to helping with weight loss and a lifestyle change to healthier nutrition. The Paleo Diet is very closely akin to the gluten free diet.

The Paleo Diet may be a difficult one to follow if you are accustomed to eating grains and beans. The Stone Age people did not eat anything with grains or beans and yet they are among the healthiest of our ancestors. They did eat a lot of meats, but the vegetables they ate helped to digest and gain the benefit from the healthier fats and proteins. We have learned from them how a diet rich in meat and vegetables helps to boost the immune system and keep us at more optimum weight levels.

The Hypothyroid Diet is for people who suffer from a thyroid that does not produce enough thyroid hormone. The thyroid is responsible for balance metabolism and when it is off the body faces many symptoms from low energy to a host of other issues. Thyroid issues are often treated with prescription medications but can also be treated with other means such as diet. The purpose of the Hypothyroid Diet is to list the foods that help to promote a healthy thyroid. The thyroid is affected by certain foods, so there are foods that need to be avoided as well as a list of foods that are safe and beneficial to consume.

Foods affect us, no matter whether we have health issues or not. It is true we are what we eat. Our bodies react to the food we ingest. If we fill our bodies with junk day in and day out it will eventually cause us problems. Or if we already have health issues, it just exasperates the condition. We can often reverse and treat most health concerns with our diet. This is true of those who suffer with Hypothyroidism. This is why the Hypothyroid Diet helps so well to treat those with low thyroid issues. In this case, the diet treats and sometimes reverses the condition.

Each of these diets listed in this book give a sample menu and food list. Advice is given for eating out at restaurants as well as outings with friends. Sometimes the hardest part of any diet is the actual starting. It is as if you have a large hump you have to overcome in order to get going with the dieting. You will receive timely advice for getting started and gaining the momentum needed to make the diet a success. Knowing ahead of time that dieting success results in a change of lifestyle with your eating habits helps.

Section 1: Mediterranean Diet

Introduction

Every solid weight loss plan requires increased attention on the foods you eat. But the contents of your diet, however healthy, cannot provide wellness if one fails to remember to structure their lifestyle accordingly. If you want to lose weight, finding solid information is the key to this step. That information can help you achieve the best mindset to reach your goals.

If the extremes of modern day fringe diets impose too great a demand upon your palate, it may perhaps be beneficial to look backwards in time for more natural and traditional diet based health solutions.

Whether your objective is to lose weight or eliminate a chronic health condition, more and more people nowadays are turning to the Mediterranean diet as a means to improve their overall wellness. Providing a delectable variety of proteins, vegetables, and favorite recipes dating back thousands of years, a Mediterranean diet is one, which can enable you a healthier lifestyle while still providing delicious meals.

It doesn’t just taste delicious; it’s good for you too. The Mediterranean diet first came to the attention of the west in the mid 20th century when studies showed that people living in Southern Europe, where most recipes share much in common, not only had much longer life expectancy, but were comparatively free of chronic conditions such as heart attacks and hypertension compared to their northern neighbors.

It was perhaps a bit over-hyped a few decades ago when it was hailed, due to some misinterpreted facts in early studies, as a veritable fountain of longevity based on dietary factors alone. For example, at the time of the initial studies, the majority of Southern Europeans were still engaged in agricultural labor, and with private car ownership as well as public transport (in most areas) hard to come by, the people walked pretty much everywhere they went. Additionally, they didn't take notice of the more favorable work-life balance common in Mediterranean cultures, the early studies failed to report that an active lifestyle was part of the answer to why Southern Europeans lived longer, healthier lives. Despite this, it’s a truism that no diet, however salubrious, is going to be of much benefit without an active lifestyle.

Before becoming the global sensation that it is today, the foodstuffs comprising the Mediterranean diet were based more on easy availability than on any profound ancient wisdom known by the region's early inhabitants, although human intervention played a significant role in which crops became dominant.

Unlike less favorable climates, with short growing seasons and a need for food that would last the long winters, both the choice and quantity of foodstuff in the Mediterranean was vastly greater than that found in less naturally blessed environments. Whereas the common people of the north subsisted