Good Diet Plans - What Makes Up a Good Diet Plan?

Good Diet Plans - What Makes Up a Good Diet Plan?

It's easy to become confused in the whirlwind of diet information. After all, if you knew what works to lose weight, you wouldn't be searching on the internet! It makes it hard to have the determination to lose weight if you're not sure what you're following really works or not. Is it a good diet plan or not?

I'm going to give you some important tips on how to recognize whether something is a good diet plan:

1. Does it leave you feeling hungry? The problem with most common diet plans is that they simply direct you to artificially restrict the number of "calories" you take into account every day. The problem is that you've got two things going on at once: the deep, instinctive urges that are operating from your subconscious, and then your conscious mind/decision-making. As we all know, that subconscious influence is extremely powerful. Most often, the urge to satisfy hunger eventually trumps your desire to lose weight! So it's critical that your weight loss plan doesn't leave you feeling hungry all the time.

2. Does it provide you with proper nutrition? Now, I'm not talking about throwing some powdered, chemical vitamins thrown into chocolate milk and sold as an expensive "diet" shake - that's not the kind of "nutrition" I'm talk about. I'm talking about real food, straight from Mother Nature, rich in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, phytonutrients, etc. The good stuff. Any diet plan that doesn't include LOTS of these things can't be classified as good.

3. Does it give you more energy or less energy? This is a serious issue that's rarely addressed. So many diet plans leave you drained and irritable. First of all, feeling tired will increase your tendency to be inactive, slowing your metabolism and decreasing muscle mass. In other words, making your problem worse! Second, feeling irritable is so uncomfortable - and what's a natural opiate for that stressed out, irritable feeling? You got it! Doughnuts, cakes, cookies - the stuff that makes you gain weight. A good diet plan should also give you lots of good energy.