Weight Loss Diet Plans: Atkins, Paleo, HCG and Whole Foods

Comparing diet plans like HCG, Paleo, and Atkins can help you find the best extreme weight loss meal plan. Learn the consequences of junk food and how to navigate low-carb cooking with soy flour.

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The Lemon, Cayenne Pepper & Honey Diet

The lemon, cayenne pepper and honey diet -- a variation of the notorious master cleanse -- uses the same methodology and philosophy to purportedly detoxify your system.

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Can I Drink Soy Milk on Raw Food Diet?

People follow raw diets to improve health, lose weight and treat specific chronic conditions. A raw diet involves eating uncooked plant foods -- specifically nuts, seeds, sprouted grains and beans, vegetables and fruits.

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Top 5 Weight Loss Books

More than $20 billion is spent per year on weight loss books, drugs and surgeries, ABC News reported in 2012. With dozens of books coming out each year, it's difficult to know how to tell the good books from the fad books.

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How to Lose 30 Pounds in Four Months

In four months, you've got that big event -- a wedding, reunion or beach vacation -- and you feel your body just isn't ready for it. A 30-pound weight loss will help boost your confidence and health.

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How to Lose Weight Fast With the Liquid Diet

One specific liquid diet doesn't exist. Many variations of a very-low-calorie diet that has you subsist on juice, clinically prepared nutritional drinks, smoothies, or concoctions of cayenne pepper and lemon juice for days, weeks or even months persist, however.

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What Is Sassy Water in the Flat Belly Diet?

The Flat Belly Diet promises to help you lose up to 2 pounds per week and shrink inches from your midsection. You focus on eating whole, minimally processed foods, especially foods rich in monounsaturated fats.

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What Salad Dressings to Use on the Atkins Diet

The Atkins Diet, or any other high-protein, low-carb diet, severely limits the amount of starchy foods you eat daily. Many foods contain carbohydrates, but you'll find high amounts of them in bread, pasta, sugar, many snacks, potatoes and fruits.

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Diet to Lose 10 Pounds in a Month

When you want to lose 10 pounds for an occasion next month, such as a high school reunion or your best friendโ€™s wedding, think twice before going on a fad diet.

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What to Eat to Lose 20 Pounds

Losing any amount of weight requires you to burn more calories than you consume. Since 1 lb. equals 3,500 calories, for 20 lbs. you must create a 70,000 calorie deficit over several weeks. The most successful rate of weight loss is 1 or 2 lbs. per week says Joanne Larsen, R.D.

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Side Effects of the Master Cleanse

First published by Stanley Burroughs more than 50 years ago as a toxin-reducing and body-flushing program, the pamphlet "The Master Cleanser" has morphed into a protocol used by superstars and others seeking to demonstrate their dieting grit.

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What Meats Are High in Protein and Low in Calories?

Red meat provides you with high-quality protein, but many cuts contain a great deal of saturated fat, resulting in a high calorie count. Lean cuts of meat still offer all the protein, with far fewer calories.

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Weight Watchers Grocery List

A coached plan with online support such as Weight Watchers really can help you lose more weight, compared to trying to lose weight on your own.

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How to Lose 25 Pounds in 8 Weeks

Weight loss requires hard work -- no matter of how quickly you try to lose the weight. A weight loss of 25 pounds in eight weeks is exceptionally aggressive and requires extreme dedication and effort.

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Total Carbohydrate Daily Intake for a Low-Carb Diet

You may have heard that a low-carb diet helps with weight loss and better health for diabetics, but exactly what constitutes "low-carb" is unclear. In 2007, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggested that a low-carb diet consists of 50 to 150 grams daily.

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Safe Food to Eat During the Master Cleanse

The Master Cleanse, also known as the lemonade diet, is an extreme dietary cleanse, which has you consume a concoction of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water for at least 10 days. You also conduct a nightly saltwater flush and take a laxative tea.

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