From Keto to Intermittent Fasting, read on about your diet before you do-it!
A common saying among fitness enthusiasts and nutrition experts is that weight loss is “20% exercise, 80% diet“. Sadly, those who workout hard but still can’t seem to shed the pounds know this saying is painfully true.
We know that picking a diet plan and sticking to it can feel intimidating or outright impossible, but Booky has got your back- and your belly! Check out our list of some of the trendiest and effective diet plans out there. Who knows, maybe one of them is the diet that will have you shedding those pounds like nothing!
Ketogenic Diet
The Ketogenic Diet, more popular known as just “keto”, is a low-carb diet that aims to replace your typical daily carb intake with healthy fat. By replacing your carbs with fat your body enters ketosis, a metabolic state that let’s you burn fat for energy at an extremely effective rate.
Aside from the immediate weight loss effects, keto also offers a slew of other benefits such as handling Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and even Alzheimer’s disease!
What you can eat: eggplant, spinach, cabbage, tomatoes, coconut, avocado, shrimp, tuna, sardines, beef, pork, chicken, cheese, chia seeds, Brazil nuts, macadamia nuts, walnuts.
We recommend: pairing your keto diet with low intensity workouts such as jogging, swimming, and lifting at a lighter weight.
Intermittent Fasting Diet
Intermittent Fasting isn’t like your typical diet plan in the sense that it doesn’t really focus on what to eat as much as it focuses on when to eat. Basically, you’re only allowed to eat within a set period of time. So if you’ve set 1PM-9PM to be your designated eating window, then you cannot eat anything outside of that time slot.
There are a couple of ways that you can go about intermittent fasting, but the most popular one is having an 8-hour window during your day where you can eat while strictly fasting the rest of the day. Other methods include fasting for two days out of the week or even fasting for an entire 24-hour period.
What you can eat: as the we’ve mentioned, you can basically eat whatever you want, provided that it’s within your allotted eating window. However, you should still practice restraint during your non-fasting periods, only eating what you would be eating regardless of the fast.
Intermittent Fast Tip: You can have water and coffee even during your fasting windows, so remember to stay hydrated!
We recommend: timing your workouts smartly. If you’re doing the 8-hour fast, you’ll still be following your regular schedule more or less, so you won’t have to adjust your workout as much. But if you’re doing a 24-hour fast, then you should probably turn to a more low-intensity exercise to make up for your lower food and energy intake.
Military Diet
Unlike the other diets which allow you more freedom in your food choices, the Military Diet follows a strict, low-calorie meal plan that takes course over three days.
The Military Diet is effective because it follows a very basic premise: reducing your daily calorie intake results in losing weight. This means that if you follow the meal plan, you’re guaranteed to drop a couple of pounds- but watch out! If you simply go back to your regular eating habits after doing the Military Diet, most of those pounds go right back.
What you can eat: unfortunately, you’re only supposed to eat what the standard 3-day meal plans dictates- but at least you’ll have all of your meals pre-set for you!
Read On: The Sample Military Diet Meal Plan
We recommend: doing very light exercise while on this 3-day diet. The calorie loss can be rather drastic and can have ill effects paired with heavy exercise, if you aren’t used to it- so walking and light yoga should do.
Paleo Diet
One of the biggest diet trends from a few years ago, the Paleo diet is founded on the belief that we should follow the natural diet that our ancestors had millions of years ago during the paleolithic era. This means eating only the organic meat, fruits, and vegetables that were already available to our ancestors way back then.
Though there are a lot of elements about the Paleo diet that are up for debate, the bottom line is that eating clean and avoiding processed food will always deliver reliable results.
What you can eat: beef, pork, chicken, lamb, salmon, shellfish, shrimp, onions, broccoli, carrots, blueberries, strawberries, oranges, apples, bananas, walnuts, almonds, macadamia nuts.
We recommend: keeping your workouts business as usual. Paleo diet plans shouldn’t be eating into your energy or capacity for workouts; in fact, a lot Paleo enthusiasts claim hitting personal bests while on the diet.
Atkins Diet
Similar to the keto diet, Atkins is a diet plan that emphasizes a low-carb intake balanced out with healthy fat and protein to induce weight loss. The difference, however, is that the Atkins diet aims for a longer, more sustained lifestyle change and even lets you work initially prohibited food back into your diet.
Some stricter versions of the Atkins diet plan follow a four phase set-up, but you can just stick to the food plans and still enjoy great results! The basic gist of it is that carbs are kept to a minimum while a fat and protein make of the bulk of your nutrition.
Learn More About the 4-Phase Atkins Plan
What you can eat: chicken, pork, beef, salmon, shrimp, kale, carrots, tomatoes, onions, avocados, pears, bananas, apples, oranges, berries, hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, macadamia nuts.
We recommend: following the Atkins plan’s own structure for exercise, which is a daily 30-minute cardio regimen of varying degrees of intensity.
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