Many Ways to Lose Weight! There’s no end to the number of weight loss approaches, and as the problem of obesity grows, so do the array of solutions. In February 2000, the USDA began looking at the claims made by some of the popular diets, and in January 2001, the USDA met to develop research standards to study the effects of these popular approaches. The diets that involve food instead of pills, formulas, and non-food supplements fall into three categories: high-fat, low carbohydrate; moderate fat with balanced nutrient reduction; and low to very low fat diets. PersonalDiets is a moderate fat plan with balanced nutrient reduction, with about 25-30% calories from fat, 50-55% calories from carbohydrate, and 18-20% protein. When weight reduction diets have been looked at objectively, it has been shown that it really doesn’t matter what balance of nutrients are, as long as the calories are reduced, weight loss occurs.  The reason PersonalDiets gives you a moderately low fat diet with a balance of nutrients is that this is the diet that has been shown to help people maintain the weight lost over time.  Why not learn to eat the way you need to eat to maintain a healthy body weight while you lose?   In addition, these diets have other health benefits as well.  Because PersonalDiets focuses upon replacing saturated fats with monounsaturated fat, eating low amounts of high fat animal foods, and increasing the nutritional quality of the foods you eat, it is a diet that is made for good heart health, and reducing risk of certain cancers and diabetes too. While there are many diets that have substantial benefits there are just as many with huge drawbacks especially if the diet plan is something you can't adapt to your lifestyle and develop new eating habits so you can stick with it over time.  After all you don't  want to lose weight only to gain it back. The key is to follow a diet plan you can live with, a diet that makes sense nutritionally, not just for losing weight.   Diets | Diet Plans | Healthy Diets | Dietitian/Nutritionist | Directory |  Weight Loss Program | FAQ's | FREE Diet Profile  HOME