| When people say they want to lose weight it's | | | | beginning that can range from 2-4 weeks |
| typically fat that they desire to lose; after all how | | | | depending on how much willpower you have. |
| many people have you heard claim to want to | | | | After this initial period your blood sugar should |
| lose muscle mass? While there will always be | | | | have leveled out, reducing the chance of you |
| controversy over fad diets some of them do | | | | craving carbs. You can then start reintroducing |
| seem to target fat. Here are two of the best fat | | | | "good carbs" such as whole wheat bread, brown |
| loss diets. | | | | rice, and wheat pasta. Unlike most fat loss diets, |
| The Atkins Diet | | | | The South Beach Diet insists it's a lifestyle change |
| Quite possibly one of the best known diets, The | | | | as opposed to a diet and includes a third phase, |
| Atkins Diet eliminates all carbs in favor of lean | | | | meant to maintain your weight. |
| proteins and vegetables. As long as you stay | | | | While dieting, you can increase the effects by |
| within a normal amount of calories you can fill up | | | | increasing your metabolism through exercising or |
| on eggs, lean meats, cheese, and veggies. The | | | | introducing a dietary supplement like Resveratrol. |
| only problem with the diet is that such a | | | | These are only two of the hundreds of diets |
| restriction on carbs can have an adverse effect | | | | available claiming to guarantee fat loss; avoid diets |
| on the body since you need carbs to give you a | | | | that completely restrict most major food groups. |
| source of energy. | | | | Low carb diets are one thing, but living off nothing |
| The South Beach Diet | | | | but grapefruits or soup is never healthy. Being |
| Very similar to The Atkins Diet, The South Beach | | | | skinny is not worth risking your health for. |
| Diet has a very strict zero carb phase at the | | | | |