No-Fad Diet: You Can Eat Pizza!
The perfect diet: You can eat anything you want, even pizza and ice cream, and still lose weight.
You're not dreaming. The perfect diet is here, although its authors call it the "no-fad diet." Fad diets come and go. One week it's low fat and the next it's low carb. Forget that. According to the American Heart Association's new no-fad diet, there is just one simple formula you need to know to lose weight:
Burn more calories than you consume.
The diet is outlined in great detail, including recipes, in the book "No-Fad Diet: A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss." It's a diet for the rest of us. Love pizza on Friday nights? Keep eating it! Just eat two pieces instead of three or four. Crave ice cream? Go ahead and indulge, but eat sorbet instead.
This is a no-nonsense approach to healthy living and weight loss centered on reasonable portions and regular exercise. "The theme is based on behavior, nutrition and physical activity," Dr. Robert Eckel, president-elect of the American Heart Association and professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told The Associated Press. Almost 200 recipes with a full menu plan kick-start you and even show you how you can still enjoy that occasional doughnut or biscuit with bacon.
There are two ways the no-fad diet helps you lose weight:
The 75 Percent Solution: Eat 75 percent of what you normally eat. Do include servings from each food group and avoid just trying to cut back on non-nutritional foods.
The Switch and Swap Approach: This plan offers lower calorie alternatives that substitute, for example, a cinnamon roll for a cinnamon-raisin English muffin with 2 teaspoons of light tub margarine for a savings of 312 calories.
The difference between the no-fad diet and so many fad diets is that this one is not an all-or-nothing approach. Diets that restrict or even remove certain foods are hard to stick with over the long haul.
Here's an interesting tidbit: Eat 500 fewer calories each day, and you'll lose one pound a week. It's not a fast-track diet plan, but it's one that might just work for a long time to come. Maybe the rest of your life
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