With all the diets to choose from, some of the most popular ones are low-fat diets and low-carb diets. If you’ve ever lost weight using either of these diets, then you probably know how passionately people feel about them.  If the Atkins diet worked well for one person, he or she is convinced that low-carb is the way to go.  Same goes for people who monitor every single gram of fat.  But which diet is truly better?

As much as I love my weekends, I definitely appreciate the routine and structure of  the weekdays.  With weekdays, I have a routine that lasts 5 days, compared with my weekends in which anything goes.  I try to stay healthy by working out and making good food choices, and on the weekdays this isn’t too hard for me.  I wake up early to get in my workout and then I eat a healthy breakfast and dinner.  And even though it’s tempting to flee the workplace for fast food during lunch, my rule is…

How often have you purchased expensive pills, gone on crazy diets or tried cutting out all your favorite foods in attempt to drop a few pounds?  As we all know, these weight loss strategies almost always fail. Even if you manage to lose some weight, it usually comes right back because it’s impossible to live off of grapefruit forever, and it’s unrealistic to not indulge in pizza or ice cream every once and a while.  Researchers at Virginia Tech, however, have found that simply drinking water can help people lose weight.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been hearing a lot about cleanse diets.  Honestly, I never paid much attention to them before, although I’ve had friends swear that they work. I was convinced they were nothing more than scam diets. One thing I do know is that all kinds of celebrities have raved about cleanse diets.  So I decided to do a little investigation…

The other day I was reading an article about new diets that are taking over America.  I was scrolling through the first few and then landed on a page that said F.A.S.T. Diet.  I was intrigued enough to click on it.  Was this going to be a scam diet that claimed to help you lose 20 pounds in one week?  I was also curious about what the acronym stood for?