K.I.S.S. Diet Plan - A Keep It Simple & Satisfying Diet Plan

By Michelle Dixon

If you are searching for a diet plan that is easy to implement, where you can find everything you need at the grocery store and is healthy and satisfying, you may wish to consider the K.I.S.S. Diet Plan. The K.I.S.S. Diet Plan may work for you because it can be adjusted to your lifestyle, it is not strict and incorporates positive aspects of several other diet programs.

The K.I.S.S. Diet Plan uses healthy low carbohydrate foods, low carb meal replacement shakes, pre-packaged, portion controlled meals, low calorie, healthy snacks, fresh fruits and vegetables and an all natural appetite suppressant diet pill.

The K.I.S.S. Diet Plan advises you to eat 6 times a day: 3 regular meals, and 3 healthy snacks. You choose what to eat at each meal. Each day you should have:

• (1) Meal replacement shake or bar which is low carb/high protein with a serving of fruit or non-starch vegetable.
• (1) Pre-packaged, portion controlled low carb/high protein diet meal with a serving of fresh fruit or vegetable.
• (1) Prepared meal (fresh food) using 5-6 ounces of lean meat or fish either roasted, baked, broiled or pan broiled with a very small amount of olive oil. Add to that a tablespoon or 2 of sauce or chutney; Plus, 2 cups of vegetables with a tiny amount of olive oil and/or a sprinkle of low fat cheese. And, 1 cup of brown rice, whole wheat pasta (you can add a little low carb tomato sauce to it) or sweet potato.
• (3) Snacks spread throughout the day/evening, like 15 walnuts or almonds, 30 pistachios (no preservatives), a bag of low sugar "100" calorie snacks, a sugar free popsicle, fat free yogurt, 2 ounces of fat free cheese (anything that is low carb, low sugar and within 100-125 calories).
• (2-3) All Natural Appetite Suppressant diet pills like Hoodia Plus or Proactol.
• Daily: Drink 6-8 ounces of Purified Water and take a good multi-vitamin.

With the K.I.S.S. Diet Plan you have a lot of variety. It's not just meal replacement shakes or prepackaged diet meals. Yet, it does use these "easy" diet meals so it keeps the program simpler. You decide when to eat the meal replacement shakes or prepared fresh foods, so you can go out to eat for one meal, yet have a no preparation meal too.

All of the diet foods and all natural diet pills can usually be found at your local chain grocery store. There are normally good low carb/high protein meal replacement shakes or protein bars there; plus you can use frozen prepared portion controlled diet meals like lean cuisine or healthy choice. You can make it even easier by purchasing the diet foods online too.

The K.I.S.S. Diet Plan works because it is low calorie, yet satisfying. Plus, by eating 6 meals a day your body's metabolism kicks up so you should burn more calories. Add some exercise and you are all set to lose weight fast and easy.

By Michelle Dixon, Copyright 2007. Michelle Dixon writes about many different types of health and fitness subjects. For more information regarding K.I.S.S. Diet Plan please see http://www.kissdietplan.com

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Diet And Losing Weight Made Simple

By Alwyn Beikoff

That dreaded four letter word again. It needn't be the big boogeyman that it is. Everyone has a diet. It's not just about losing weight. It's what and how we eat. That's it.

Problem is, you do it wrong and you get fat. (Added to by the fact that it's easier to take it easy rather than expend energy.)

So you go on a "diet". Most diets aim to cut calories. Fair enough I suppose if you don't want to burn off the excess food calories by exercising.

Unfortunately people frequently make the mistake of assuming that if you're losing weight on 1000 calories a day then you'll do twice as well on 500 calories a day. Over-zealousness like this is counter-productive to losing weight because it results in muscle loss and flabby loose skin that looks as bad as skin tight with fat.

It's true that you won't lose fat if you consume more calories than you burn. But over dieting means that by not eating enough you won't add any more muscle which burns extra calories simply to sustain itself. In fact you'll actually be losing muscle instead of losing weight from fat supplies - making fat loss even harder!

The solution is to diet right.

* Eat plenty of muscle-building foods, high in protein, complex carbohydrates and fibre. The good protein foods are chicken (not the skin), lean red meat, tuna and other fish, egg (particularly the whites) and milk.

* Make sure you eat protein with each meal because the protein slows down the digestion. This helps to avoid spikes in your blood sugar levels.

* Good carbohydrate foods include fresh fruits and vegetables, rice, potatoes and whole grain products.

* Avoid foods with a lot of calories in a small portion. It's too easy to over eat on these foods as they feed your fat cells and kill you appetite for muscle-building foods. These are fatty foods like chips, hot dogs, oils and so forth, and sugars: cakes, sweets, soft drinks and desserts. You won't be losing weight by eating a lot of this food.

* Processed foods generally contain lots of fats and sugars so avoid them as much as you can.

* Use vinegar, lemon juice or non-oil herbal dressings. If you must use oil use a cold pressed olive oil.

* Eat more, smaller meals rather than 3, 2 or even one meal a day as some people do. Four to six, small quality meals are better than 3 or fewer larger ones.

* Limit between meal snacks to fresh fruits (bear in mind they are sugars), nuts (the fats in nuts are mostly the beneficial form of fat), lettuce or bell peppers and other raw green vegetables.

* Drink plenty of good quality water. It not only helps to suppress appetite but helps to clean out the wastes from your body.

* To help cover the nutrient gaps in your diet you could take a multivitamin with minerals. The nutrients your body doesn't need will be excreted in your urine.

* To help burn fat you might also consider a couple of free form amino-acid capsules and a lipotropic fat burner with your meals. Any of these thermotropic fat burners and fat burning potions however are not even worth wasting your money on though if you aren't tending to the basics mentioned above.

They are the simple facts of diet and losing weight. It's not really rocket science. But remember that diet is not the only part of the equation. If you support your diet with the right sort of exercise you give your diet more latitude to accommodate some of the not-so-good things you like to eat. Of course, you must also deal with the mental and emotional aspects of the weight problem as well.

But as far as the diet side goes, while it can be made as complex as you like, and there are certainly many things to consider, the simple fact is, to lose weight you must consume slightly fewer calories than you expend, and how you do that is important as well.

Alwyn Beikoff (http://www.BodyMindUnlimited.com) is an educator and personal performance coach who helps people the world over to change the way they think and create the body and life they desire.

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