The Atkins Diet is a popular, yet controversial, diet that helps users shed pounds while eating all of the protein they want. What’s the catch? The Atkins diet requires users to eat a low-carb diet, which is not known for long-term effectiveness. However, if your New Years Resolution is to lose weight with the Atkins diet, then you’re going to want to check out all of the Atkins recipes DietsinReview has to offer. You can also take some of the stress of meal-planning out of the way by trying two of our yummy Atkins lunches!
Lunch #1
This lunch is quite tasty and everything can be made the night before to take to work with you. Start by sipping on a frothy Italian Cream Soda (1.4g carbs). Your main entree will be Spinach with Chicken and Apricots (3.7g carbs), which combines the sweetness of fruit with the zing of balsamic vinegar for a taste explosion. For dessert, get to know the tempting step-sister of your traditional brownies, a low-carb version of Blondies (2.3g carbs). This lunch will have a total of 7.4g carbs. If you are allowed 30g carbs every day, this means you will save 2.6g carbs from your lunch meal to use at snack time or dinner time.
While a 1,200 calorie diet can result in faster weight loss, it can also be harder to stick to because there’s not nearly as much flexibility with your meals and snacks (every calorie has to be chock full of nutrition). Because of this, many people opt to go with a 1,400 calorie diet. This diet and exercise plan will still result in steady weight loss, yet has a few more calories for those who do more activity or are of a larger frame.
However, just like the 1,200 diet plan, it’s important that you select nutritious foods as much as possible and eat regularly throughout the day with the bulk of your calories being consumed at breakfast and lunch.
1,400 Calorie Diet Meal Plan
Breakfast: Eat half of a cup of cooked steel-cut oatmeal with one cup of skim milk, a few walnuts and one cup of fresh blueberries.
Morning snack: Part-skim mozzarella stick with one cup of grapes.
For many people, choosing to live a vegan lifestyle is emotionally and physically rewarding. However, sometimes it is difficult to come up with new and tempting vegan recipes. Sure, you could eat a green salad every night of the week, but your taste buds would get bored pretty quickly, not to mention that you probably would not be getting all of the vitamins and nutrients your body needs to function properly. So, what is a vegan to do?
The Vegan College Cookbook was created for college students who want to follow a vegan lifestyle while remaining within their budget and time constraints. In other words, these recipes are not going to take a long time to make and will leave your wallet smiling after your trip to the grocery store.
Moms are a special breed. They do it all, and then some more, and rarely complain and hardly ever ask for anything in return. What happens in all of this psuedo-superwoman-esque-ness is that they give up a lot of themselves in order to care for a household, the children in it, the spouse, and the hundred other people and things that demand their attention each day.
Alison Sweeney is one of those moms. She has two kids, two jobs, an adoring husband, and, let’s be honest, what from the outside appears to be a pretty fabulous life. But brass tacks, she’s still a mom trying to do everything she can to maintain and manage. So, she wrote The Mommy Diet.
The book is supposed to help all these superwomen do it all AND do some for themselves, too. It’s all about getting fit and staying that way before, during and after pregnancy… even if it’s several years after.
I had a chance to speak with Alison about her new book, during a break from Biggest Loser 10 finale rehearsals. She’s excited about the book, and should be, because there’s a lot of information in there women… moms… need to hear.
There are a lot of fad diets, but none of them compare to voluntarily ingesting parasites to help you lose weight. This trend is best known as the Tapeworm Diet. When you ingest a tapeworm, it secretes proteins into your intestinal tract that make food digestion less efficient. And since the parasite is also consuming some of your food for its own survival, this should add up to weight loss for you.
Is this what it’s come down to for some of us? We need to have an alien creature eating inside us to lose weight? While this is a fringe approach to weight loss, it has its devotees. Female Chinese students are resorting to roundworms, another intestinal parasite, to lose weight… but their motivation is to give them an edge in a competitive job market. (more…)
If you’re looking for a little inspiration for your New Year’s resolution to drop some weight, you might consider seeing which of your favorite celebrities succeeded last year. No matter who you are, losing weight can be a tough challenge that takes a lot of determination. See which diets worked for them, and read why it was all worth it in the end!
We’re particularly happy to see several successful older men choosing to shed some pounds. Jason Alexander, Ricky Gervais and John Goodman all have reputations as big funny guys, but the health consequences of being overweight are no joke.
So you are giving Weight Watchers a try this year in hopes of shedding those few extra holiday pounds? Good idea!
Weight Watchers created a new points system, PointsPlus, in late 2024. This new points system was the biggest change to the Weight Watchers program in 13 years and was a great improvement. The PointsPlus system gives you an extra edge in your weight loss efforts by combining the newest breakthroughs in nutritional science with the tried and true Weight Watchers approach.
For some people, the hardest part of Weight Watchers is coming up with yummy meals that will stay within their point allotment for each meal. So DietsinReview has come up with a few tasty lunch or light dinner Weight Watchers recipes for you to try out during your first days on the new PointsPlus program. All of these lunches should keep you in line to meet your daily points allotment.
One of the most trusted weight loss systems, Jenny Craig is now offering its eTools for free! Regardless of whether or not you purchase other Jenny Craig products, you can use these online features to help you reach your weight-loss goal.
There are five great eTools to incorporate into your weight-loss plan. The first is a Progress Tracker, that can help you assess your current needs and make goals. There’s a Menu Planner, that can help you pick meals to stay on track. There are tons of great recipes to help inspire delicious and healthy meals, and lastly, there’s an Activity Planner to help you get moving.
Big Love actress Ginnifer Goodwin’s comments in Health magazine may have ruffled some feathers at Weight Watchers. Although Goodwin is not overweight today, she says she had a habit of overindulgence since childhood. In a recent interview with Health magazine, Goodwin said she has been a member of Weight Watchers for 23 years. The actress might have been exaggerating, but 23 years ago Goodwin was only nine years old.
TMZ reports that Weight Watchers responded to the comment defensively. “Under no circumstances whatsoever” can children under the age of ten enroll in Weight Watchers said the company. “Between the 10th and 17th birthday, a doctor’s permission note is needed and the doctor is responsible for recommending a healthy weight goal.” However, Weight Watchers has a major policy change in 2003, so the rules may have been different when Goodwin was younger.
A heart-breaking new statistic that all parents should be concerned with has just been released by MSNBC.com: nearly one third of all U.S. babies are too fat.
The long term study was comprised of more than 7,500 infants from across the country who were all born in 2001. By the time the infants were nine-months old, 32 percent were considered overweight or even obese when compared to the standard growth charts developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When the children were two-years old, the percentage had increased to 34 percent.
Luckily, just because your baby is a little chunky now does not mean he/she will be an obese adult – if you start making changes now.
Doctors and scientists have long known that formula fed babies gain weight faster, and are heavier, than breast fed babies. It’s been surmised that the differing growth rate has to do with the composition of the formula, which is cow based. Recent studies support this idea.
Researchers know that free amino acids and proteins increase satiety in adults. They wanted to see if infants had the same result. Headed by Julie Mennella, PhD, researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia randomized 64 healthy term infants whose mothers had already chosen formula over breast feeding. The babies received either cow’s-milk formula (Enfamil) or protein hydrolysate formula (Nutramigen) from ages 2 weeks to 7.5 months. By the end of the study, those infants who received the Nutramigen had weight-for-length and weight-for-age scores closer to normal than those infants who received the Enfamil, or an average of two pounds. One of the reasons for the faster weight gain may be the comparatively higher consumption of the cow’s-milk formula despite both formulas containing the same number of calories per ounce, as reported in the journal Pediatrics.
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