A simple diet is a "no brainer" diet. It means you want to lose weight, simply, efficiently, healthily, without lots of planning, preparation and cooking. It should be, but may not be perfectly nutritionally balanced, but a diet , for these purposes, is to lose weight safely within a limited time span. It is not a diet for life, but a way of eating for a month or so, to shed those excess pounds.
Reduce Variety
Nutritionists and dietitians might be up in arms about this advice, but a new study shows that people who lose weight and keep it off eat a lesser variety of foods. In the journal "Obesity Research," a study of long term weight loss showed that those who kept the weight off ate less variety of all the food groups, particularly those high in fats and sugar. But, they also found they ate a bigger variety of nutrient rich but low fat foods, such as fruit and vegetables.
The Cereal Diet
The basis of this diet is replacing two meals with two bowls of low fat, low sugar cereal a day, with skimmed milk. Then you can eat a "normal" but calorie controlled evening meal. According to a study in the Journal of American College of Nutrition, the cereal diet does work, and it is fat, not water, that is lost. The problem is compliance. It's hard to stick to once the diet is over. This is an effective diet for those who don't mind routine and are also mindful of portion control.
Meal Replacement Diets
Again, it's not rocket science to replace two meals a day with a meal replacement shake, drink or soup, and you will most likely lose weight faster if you add regular exercise into the routine. The good news is that you will get results. According to research from the "Nutrition Journal," those who stuck to a meal replacement diet lost more weight initially than those who stuck to a food based diet. The bad news is, once the dieting phase was over, the meal replacement group regained weight faster than those on the food based diet. It is thought that eating and drinking meal replacements does not reeducate the brain and taste buds into what is proper, nutritionally sound food based eating.
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