Celebrities & Their Dieting Faves

The zone diet

The basis of the zone diet requires that you maintain the level of insulin in the body in a certain zone, it is said that by doing so you can lose up to 10 pounds in 5 weeks. On this diet you eat three main meals a day plus two snacks in between never going more than 5 hours in between eating.

One third of your meal is made up of a protein food which should be no bigger than the size and thickness of the palm of your hand. The other two thirds should consist of carbohydrates which can be fruit and vegetables and a touch of fat which can be nuts, olive oil or avocado.

Cut Out The Fat From Your Diet

There have been many diets promising to work wonders for us while still eating fatty foods but health experts still insist that to lose weight and keep your heart healthy a low fat diet is the way to go.

A report published in 1993 linked heart disease with the diet, since then guidelines have been set out to help reduce our intake of sugar, salt, fat and saturates.

Diet Failure

It is thought that around 70% of the female population have been or will go on a diet sometime in their lives, dieting has always been popular and there has been many different diets and diet and exercise routines throughout the years.

It seems just about every week a famous face will pop up with the next diet and fitness routine that will promise to change your life. People will try anything to shed those pounds, from popping the latest wonder pill that promises to work even as we sleep to drinking nothing but milk shakes as replacements for meals. Why then do so many of us fail when it comes to dieting?