2010

If you don’t like grapefruit, the Hot Dog Diet is a popular alternative. The Hot Dog Diet first appeared in Look Magazine in August 1963. Breakfast is the same thing every day, 1 fruit (1 peach or 1/2 canteloupe or 1 tangerine or 1/2 grapefruit), 1/2 cup skim milk, 1 egg or 1 ounce (1 […]

The original Grapefruit Diet was first published in Harper’s Bazaar Magazine in 1941. It’s a little more structured than the 10 Days 10 Pounds Off Diet (see yesterday), but it still is good for about a 10 pound weight loss in 10 days. For breakfast every day eat a whole grapefruit and black coffee or […]

The 10 Days 10 Pounds Off Diet, also known as the Grapefruit Diet, and also known as the Mayo Clinic Diet, was the most popular quick weight loss diet of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The Mayo Clinic stated they had no connection with the diet. All meals started with half a grapefruit or 6 ounces […]

500 DIET – Eat 2 meals a day, whenever you want. Each meal is 1 Meat, 1 Vegetable, 1 Fruit and Drink. Don’t eat all the food if you’re not hungry. Eat 1 meal, 2 meals, or pick at your 2 Meats, 2 Vegetables, 2 Fruits and Drink all day. Food can be eaten right […]

You can’t control your carbohydrate cravings, but what you can do it make it much easier for yourself, when you have sweet and starch cravings, not to eat them. Picture your favorite carbohydrate in your mind’s eye. Imagine a Dairy Queen Chocolate Sundae or a Starbuck’s Chocolate Chip Cookie or a bag of Kettle Potato […]

Carbohydrate cravings are inevitable, and naturally increase over time, especially on a low carbohydrate diet during carbohydrate deprivation. So, what can you do to control your sweet and starch cravings, so you don’t cheat on your diet? What can you do to stay focused? How can you conquer and combat your sweet and starch cravings? […]

Overcoming your carbohydrate cravings is the key to staying on a low carbohydrate diet. It’s the most important thing you have to do to be successful in weight loss. Your sweet and starch cravings are natural and increase over time. They are your body’s way of assuring that you get the vitamins and minerals in […]

Emotional eating is actually easier to get a handle on than craving eating. All emotions are either Mad, Sad or Glad – or some combination of these feelings. You eat in response to feeling happy, to feeling sad, to feeling stressed, to feeling elated. The key is to drive a wedge between thought and action. […]

Hunger is not a problem on a 1500 calorie protein and fat diet, because you won’t be hungry eating 1500 calories of protein and fat, if you don’t eat carbohydrate. Carbohydrates trigger hunger because they release insulin, so if you can stay off carbohydrates, you won’t be hungry. The real problem in sticking to a […]

Overweight is a dance of your hunger, emotions and cravings. If you stick to 1500 calories of protein and fat, without carbohydrate, you’ll lose 3-5 pounds a week. The problem is not eating carbohydrate. You won’t be hungry on 1500 calories of protein and fat, so the issue is controlling emotional eating and carbohydrate cravings. […]