Doing a paper and I need some help

HCG
Atkins
South Beach
Body by Vi
Jenny Craig
Slim Fast

Just a few to start your list in case you weren't sure where to start.

You should let us know when you're done with your paper - I'd be interested in reading it!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/390151-should-i-do-the-hcg-diet

Good luck on your paper! I would like to read it too when you are finished.

The Cabbage Soup diet! Blech.

I don't follow the diet, but I do make the soup pretty often. I like cabbage though.


Hey OP, good luck on your paper!

I know that Weight Watchers has been touted as truly effective. I think because it uses "real" life food, instead of prepackaged meals, or starvation plans. It is meant to teach people to eat within a certain parameter, and make it a habit, or lifestyle, rather than view it as a true "diet".

My ex husband used to go on Atkins periodically. VERY effective in the short term. In the long term, it gave him gout. And there were a few other issues that I worried about (too many ketones, for example). And I was never convinced (when I tried it myself) that I wasn't just eating fewer calories.

Good luck with your paper!

Fad Diet - Healthe Trim! Bought it after listening to all the "success stories" What they don't tell you is that you have to completely give up caffeine, any kind of coffee, soda, etc. because it's basically just a bunch of stimulants! Nothing like paying $60 a bottle for something I could never stick to - no coffee? diet soda? caffeine? I took it for a few days and was so gittery. When I stopped I gained the 4 pounds I lost plus 2 more - in one week!

I think Consumer Reports ranked diet programs recently.

Most fad diets work. Whether or not you can keep the weight off afterward is a different matter entirely.

The cleanse with the lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and honey.

Not sure if it's really a 'diet' per say, but it's aimed at people trying to jump start their weight loss!

Tapeworm diet! http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/diets/tapeworm-diet/

I wonder how many calories are in a tapeworm??

HAHAHA!

*WARNING: bad joke follows*

Probably not as many as in a Duck-tape worm!

*let's hear the moans*

My sisters and Mother Had went on a newer diet called the HCG diet. Basically you go for 21 days eating approx. 400 calories a day. Which to normal dieting is like just one chincy meal. Anyways, you supposed to take these drops that are said to be a female hormone that women have while pregnant. I gives you an extra 1000 calories. However, since your not eating solid food, your metabolism goes in overtime the remainder of the day. Its actually funny, as I spoke to my sisters and my mother, they said that the only hard thing about the diet is that it get some getting used to not eating, but they didnt have any hunger pains or anything uncomfortable. They lost 21 pounds in 21 days, all of them. I have 2 sisters Nancy and Jennifer, and my mother Darlene. However, the diet says to take off about 3 months before starting again, and also has you watch your eating and also your weight. This diet isnt for someone that cant be organized or focused though, as you need to be very watchful and disiplined, or you could either gain more instead of losing, or your body has a small chance of going into starvation mode, and then you could be battling Anorexia (not sure if I spelled that correctly). Anyways, its just a diet, and not one to combine with exercise. However, it did supply suprising results and wasnt one that caused someone discomfort and or causing you to feel like your in a constant state of hunger. Smile... Hope this helps!!