1. Bust out the Sugar, Bust off the Fat
What do you get when you combine an endocrinologist, a gastroenterologist, a cardiothoracic surgeon and a former CEO? The Sugar Buster Diet Plan. The Sugar Busters started when one of the authors discovered his triglycerides dropped 50 percent when he started eating steak, lamb and cheese. The main premise of the diet is that eating less sugar prohibits obesity, diabetes and high cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
2. Spikey Insulin
The Sugar Buster's Diet relies on the theory that insulin levels spike when we eat sugary foods. This spike causes the body to quickly store energy as fat. It also provokes our livers to produce cholesterol and more triglycerides to form in the body. Dieter's use a glycemic index that rates foods for how much of an insulin spike they create. The highest glycemic foods are typically starchy carbohydrates. The lowest glycemic index foods are fat, such as the fat found in avocados and any meat like chicken or beef.
3. The Forbidden
The restricted foods include desserts, chips, including corn and potato, white flour bread, pasta, crackers, bagels and rice with white flour in it, jellies, raisins, sugar and ripe bananas. Whole wheat pasta is permitted.
4. Eat Meat
You can eat any meat products on the sugar busters diet. No sugar cured bacon or ham is allowed, though. The fish and seafood must have no breading. You can eat eggs, olive oil, low fat milk and sour cream as long as it is low fat. Sugar-free yogurt is permitted. Nuts are allowed, as well as nut butters. Mayonnaise and salad dressings are allowed with no extra sugar. Artificial sweeteners are permitted, including diet sodas and other beverages. Moderate foods include coffee, butter, cream and cheese. You can eat sugar-free ice cream in small portions.
5. Good Sugar Busters
Sharon Stone and Tori Spelling famously lost weight on the diet. The diet was described as "Low Carb for Dummies" because it is fairly easy to follow and involves no calorie counting, although the authors recommend sensible portion control. They also recommend that the diet is not appropriate for elite athletes or people who exercise a lot. It's a good starter diet for people wanting to try a low carb diet who still want to enjoy some carbohydrate laden foods in moderation. It is especially effective for diabetics who don't want to rely on insulin.
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