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Looking for vegetables that are ultra low in calories? Here's our top ten picks:

1 cup of romaine lettuce, 9 calories

1 cup of mushrooms cooked in no calorie cooking spray, 40 calories

1 cup of radishes, 20 calories

1 cup of spinach, 40 calories

1 medium tomato, 25 calories

1 cup of zucchini squash, 28 calories

1/2 large cucumber, 20 calories (about 5 ounces)

1 cup of celery, 20 calories

1 cup of cabbage, 32 calories

1 large carrot, 30 calories

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I may not personally know you, but I know your pain. I want to help you so badly! If you desire to drop some weight, why not give the following advice a try? I would like to challenge you to stick with these recommendations for four days. You can do this!

Rather than 'go on a diet' please try this Life Plan for four days. Just FOUR days! Begin on a Monday and end it on a Thursday - or continue until you've lost to your desired weight. You'll not only feel physically better, you'll feel mentally clearer. Your self-esteem will also get a huge boost, and in the process you'll feel prouder about yourself! What's more, this is totally free!

As you follow the Life Plan you won't need to count calories or fat grams. The purpose of this plan is to get you on track - to get you thinking about each and every morsel of food that you intake throughout the day. What you eat, truly matters. The amount of food that you eat, also truly matters. However, by eliminating the high calorie foods from your diet, it's much harder to gain weight during those times when one may overeat.

Try to aim for the following:

Sky's Life Plan - Four Teensy Days!
- Cut back or eliminate butter, cream and oil from your diet.
- Instead of 'sweets' eat a piece of fruit.
- Opt for a 'skinny' version of a food rather than 'the full-blown deal'.
- Eliminate alcoholic drinks from your diet as well as sugary drinks. Instead, opt for water or diet drinks.
- Eat lean meats, fresh veggies.
- Use those wonderful blue or pink packets to sweeten your drinks, cereal, etc.

Before you put food into your mouth, STOP - LOOK - LISTEN TO YOUR INNER VOICE. Ask yourself:

- What am I eating?
- Is this loaded with fat?
- Is this loaded with sugar?
- Is this fried?
- Is this beer loaded with calories?

THINK - THINK - THINK.

Good luck, and let me know how the Life Plan works for you!

Source: www.dietbites.com

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The Atkins Diet has a huge following and is based on no more than 20 grams of carbohydrates per day.

The following foods may be eaten on this diet because they contain no carbs:

Beef, pork, lamb, bacon, venison, veal, ham, lamb, chicken, turkey, quail, duck, goose, Cornish hen, pheasant, oysters, tuna, salmon, mussels, clams, squid, shrimp, crab, lobster, herring, sole, trout, flounder, sardines, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, poached eggs, boiled eggs, deviled eggs, fresh/aged cheese, goat cheese, cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, cream cheese, cottage cheese.

You may eat up to 3 cups of the following:

Celery, peppers, cucumber, radishes, lettuce, escarole, olives, mushrooms, bokchoy, endive, parsley, Alfalfa sprouts, jicama, fennel, mache, sorrel, chicory.

You may eat up to 1 cup of the following veggies:

Leeks, scallions, onions, tomatoes, cauliflower, rhubarb, kale, eggplant, chard, asparagus, beans, okra, pumpkin, hearts of palm, brussel sprouts, broccoli, snow pea pods, bean sprouts, squash, Dandelion greens.

You must avoid:

Beer & spirits, bread, grains, juice, chips, potatoes, flour, sugar, rice, pasta and cereals.

We cannot recommend this diet because it restricts certain foods.

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The main reason that you don't fall over dead with this fad diet is because the shakes are packed with calories. If you've never experienced a liquid diet, you've never experienced hell. These are the absolute worst types of diets on the digestive system. Phoey on the idiotic theory that , 'It's good to cleanse the system."

A system can only be cleansed so many times. It's like cleansing a car until the paint job shines! If you keep cleansing, you'll eat off the paint. Sort of similar to your tum.

This is the basic daily diet:

1 large salad

veggies

3 Jumpstart Shakes

Unlimited Sugarfree Gelatin

Exercise 30 minutes per day.

Drink at least 8 glasses of water per day.

Weigh every morning.

You may only eat what is outlined per day in the plan. However, you may space the meals throughout the day if you wish.

Here is a day's example of the plan:

Breakfast: 1 shake + 1 fruit

Lunch: 1 shake + 1 fruit + gelatin

Mid-Afternoon Snack: 1 veggie + gelatin

Dinner: 1 shake + 1 large salad + 3 veggies

Snack: 1 fruit + gelatin

Though the shakes contain vitamins and minerals, the diet sucks. I'll take a Hershey's candy bar for 220 any day over a liquid shake.

Added to the 'fad diet pain' is the price of those shaky cans $$$$. Our advice: Save your hard earned money! Try our 10 Day Diet Plan and enjoy healthy meals while you lose weight. Your unshocked system will thank you - as will your pocketbook!

source: www.dietbites.com

This content is for informational & reading purposes only.

The basic hooey behind this Fad Diet is to give the dieter the notion that this diet will boost their sluggish metabolism. It's nutsy-coo-coo.

The diet also contains too few calories to support a healthy lifestyle. And it contains enough cholesterol to clog up the Holland Tunnel.

Oddly enough, this diet is a small mock of The Scarsdale Diet.

The rules of this Fad Diet:

Drink a minimum of 4 glasses of water or diet beverage per day.

Any of the following may be used to your heart's content: salt, pepper, vinegar, lemon, herbs, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, mustard and catsup.

Day 1

Breakfast:

Coffee/Tea with sugar substitute

Lunch:

2 hard-boiled eggs + 1 cup spinach

Dinner:

Lettuce & celery salad + 1 six-ounce steak prepared with no calorie cooking spray

Day 2

Breakfast:

Coffee/Tea with sugar substitute + 1 water cracker

Lunch:

Lettuce & celery salad + 1 six-ounce steak, grilled or broiled

Dinner:

8-10 ounces of lean ham

Day 3

Breakfast:

Coffee/Tea with sugar substitute + 1 water cracker

Lunch:

2 hard-boiled eggs + 1 cup of green beans + 1 cup of tomatoes

Dinner:

8 - 10 ounces of lean ham + 2 cups of green beans & tomato salad

Day 4

Breakfast:

Coffee/Tea with sugar substitute + 1 water cracker

Lunch:

1 hard-boiled egg + 1 cup of carrots

Dinner:

1 cup of REGULAR yogurt + 1 ounce of Mozzarella cheese + 1 cup of fruit salad

Day 5

Breakfast:

Coffee/Tea with sugar substitute + 1 raw carrot + the juice from one lemon (pucker up!!)

Lunch:

1 four - six ounce fried fish fillet + tomato salad

Dinner:

1 four - six ounce steak, broiled or grilled + a green salad

Day 6

Breakfast:

Coffee/Tea with sugar substitute

Lunch:

4-8 ounces of grilled/broiled skinless chicken

Dinner:

2 hard-boiled eggs + 1 raw carrot

Day 7

Breakfast:

Tea with lemon

Lunch:

4-8 ounce grilled/broiled steak + 1 1/2 cups of fruit salad

Dinner:

A sensible dinner.

Our suggestion would be to implement grilled or broiled lean meats into your diet, as well as packets of no-calorie sweetener. The only meal that we can recommend from this Fad Diet is the dinner for Day 7: A sensible dinner.

And shouldn't ALL meals be sensible?

source www.dietbites.com