1. The Structure House Weight Loss Plan

This is structured after Gerard J. Musante’s (the author of the diet) work at the actual Structure House, a Durham, North Carolina-based residential treatment center for obese adults. This book/diet offers a holistic approach to weight loss with motivational components. This diet helps followers understand the ‘why’ behind overeating and helps them to put their lives in balance. This book wants you to find other things than food, i.e. time with friends, outdoor activities, etc., and includes many recipes!

2. The Step Diet

This diet really focuses on walking to help motivate you to lose weight and slim down your waist, and it even comes with a pedometer. It incorporates easy things for losing weight from intentionally going for a walk or making small changes in your life like parking farther away from the store and in turn burning more calories. The plan puts emphasis on calories burned rather then cutting calories, while nutritionally this diet asks you to “Cut food intake to 75 percent of what you currently eat.”

3. Weight Watchers

The plan is flexible, provides generous support and teaches you how to live life during and after this not-diet. Learn more about this 45-year old weight loss plan, and why its revolutionary Points system works so well.

4. The EatingWell Diet

Released in 2007 by author Jean Harvey-Berino, PhD, RD, to help dieters focus on behavioral changes – including finding and facing eating triggers, eating and shopping mindfully, etc. This behavior modification is combined with a 28-day mix-and-match menus to maximize lower calorie intake while maintaining weight-loss-rate criteria.

5. The Volumetrics Eating Plan

This diet is based on the idea that when we eat we like to feel full. This diet promises weigth loss based of focusing on the energy density of foods. Author, Nutritionist Barbara Rolls, PhD, uses her Volumetrics plan to explain how low-density foods like fruits and vegetables, as well as soups and stews, fill you up without overloading you with calories. The diet also focuses on exercise a second, but key component in the Volumetrics plan encouraging the dieters to log a guide for their 30 to 60 minutes of daily activity claiming that this will help provide motivation.

6. The Best Life Diet

Bob Greene is forever linked with superstar/dieter Oprah Winfrey, and that’s exactly where this diet came from. It’s a balanced and moderate approach to changing your lifestyle for the better.

7. The Solution

This program helps people figure out why they’re overeating. Author/Dietitian Laurel Mellin’s developed this method which is based on The Shapedown Program, a successful weight-management plan she created for overweight children and adolescents in the late 1970s. The focus of obesity is not so much in terms of diet and exercise, but as another expression of the interaction of mind, body, and lifestyle.

8. You: On a Diet

From the famous Dr. Oz on Oprah, this diet teaches and motivates you about weight (and waist) loss with a sense of good humor and fun, as well as trusted expertise about health. This book includes recipes, easy-to-understand nutrition, teaches you how the body works, and helps the reader calculate how many calories they need each day.

9. The Sonoma Diet

Based on Mediterranean eating: consuming plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, olive oil, fish, and nuts while incorporating different phases of weight loss.

10. The Spectrum

Dr. Dean Ornish, MD, offers a program that moves you along four separate paths to health – nutrition, exercise, stress management, and personal relationships. This plan provides a holistic approach (including how to reduce stress and includes a meditation DVD). This whole-body approach, includes a vegetarian lifestyle, stress management, and exercise, is on target in terms of health, disease prevention, and reaching a healthy weight.

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Whether it’s co-worker cookie swaps, cocktail parties or your grandmother’s homemade apple pie, this time of year is filled with seemingly endless temptations. All of these mouthwatering treats can make it very enticing to abandon your healthy eating behaviors.

Now, more than ever, is the time to remain committed and continue the positive lifestyle changes you’ve already made. And with some helpful eating strategies, you can do just that!

Eat Breakfast. You may be tempted to skip breakfast and “save” all your calories for the big feast. Doing this will make you more likely to overeat. If you eat breakfast and a light lunch, you should only be mildly hungry by the time the big meal arrives. This will enable you to make mindful, moderate choices.Use Volumetrics® strategies to fill your plate.  The Volumetrics® approach allows you to eat more food and feel more satisfied with fewer calories. Choosing water-rich, high-fiber and low-fat foods allows you to increase your portions, while keeping your calorie intake in check. Start your meal with a vegetable salad or broth-based soup.  Fill half your plate with non-starchy vegetables. Substitute lower-fat ingredients when whipping up your favorite dishes.

Keep an eye on your portions.  Fill your plate one time, and use handy household items to visualize what a moderate meal looks like.  Here’s an example: 4 ounces of turkey (palm of a man’s hand), 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes or stuffing (small fist) and at least 1 cup of seasonal, non-starchy vegetables (light bulb).  Limit gravy to a tablespoon or two (nail polish bottle).  Pop in a piece of sugar-free gum to help you resist going back for seconds.

Strategize for social situations. You can still enjoy social events, while you are losing weight—all it takes is a little pre-planning. Offer to bring a vegetable platter to your holiday party, so you can fill up on water- and fiber-rich veggies instead of fried appetizers or fudge brownies. When going out to eat, look at the restaurant menu online, and plan what you’ll order ahead of time.  And while you’re at holiday events, offer to be the official party photographer to keep you focused on the people—not the food.

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