Weight Loss Diets Examined

Fad Diets & Dieting Fads: Do they work?

Weight Loss Without Drugs: A Physician's No-Starving Diet.

These days when there's a pill for just about every problem, it's hard to understand why a physician would shun medication and drugs to help patients lose weight.

According to the creator of the SunSlim Diet, it's one physician's drug-free, no-starving approach to solving the problem of losing weight. Drugs are over prescribed and unnecessary when it comes to weight loss. It's easier to lose weight and keep it off permanently without drugs. By using food to stimulate your metabolism, instead of drugs to suppress your appetite you can lose more weight than with drugs... if you know what foods to eat. And that is what appears to be at the heart of this system.

The author of this diet, Dr Siegrist, is a physician specializing in psychiatry. Depressed people often resort to food for comfort and she saw her patients trapped in a vicious cycle. They felt bad so they munched. Then they put on weight and felt worse, so they ate some more. She suggested weight loss to all her overweight patients. Eventually she realized that weight loss was a key factor in lifting most depression but became frustrated when patients started to yo-yo. That is one week their weight would be down, spirits up, the following week their weight was up and their moods were down.

Obviously the normal diet advice, cut calories, eat low fat, wasn't working. At least not for lasting results. Obsessed with finding a solution, much research, including trials and observations, went into formulating this diet. Over the last 18 years it has been refined until weight loss is now certain for 29 out of 30 users, according to a recent study.

Today results are so impressive that other physicians are recommending SunSlim diet.

Sunslim diet comes with specific eating plans and although at first glance this weight loss system seems similar to the Atkins and South Beach diets, it's not. This is neither low carb nor high protein but a finely balanced weight loss which also happens to be low fat. That makes it safe and does not leave you vulnerable to kidney damage as with high protein / low carbs. Also, unlike the other diet plans, this one only uses two phases. In phase 1 which would be likened to Atkins' induction, you do get to eat carbs.

Phase two which many users claim is a cinch, permits every food group, including carbohydrates and sweets. You're also allowed to eat fried food, popcorn, French fries and other fattening food during this stage.

The complaints about this diet is that it requires you to eat too much food. During phase one where there are some restrictions, portions are huge so hunger should not be an issue. Another slight problem with this diet is the 5 times a day you have to eat. Some people find it impractical to eat this much this often.

The program uses “normal” food, calls for light to moderate exercise and comes with are a couple of recipe books with some 500 or so different menus.

Results are faster than Weight Watchers and the weight lost is lasting.