Diet Television Tip: Don’t Like To Cook? Let Jenny Craig Do The Work
If you don’t like to grocery shop, cook, or spend much time planning meals, prepared meal diets may be the way to meet your weight loss goals.
The Jenny Craig Diet is one of several diet plans in this prepared meals category. Among Jenny Craig’s claims to fame is to take credit for celebrity Kirstie Alley’s repeated dramatic weight losses (the most recent being 75 pounds). Whether Kirstie can maintain her current weight loss, and whether she does so by continuing to follow the Jenny Craig Diet, remains to be seen.
Once you sign up for one of the Jenny Craig diet plans you have access to a database with hundreds of meal choices for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You don't have to think about the calories or proportions of proteins and carbs--it's done for you. The newest plan, Jenny Craig YourStyle, claims to take dieting history, eating patterns, activity level, and goals into account to help you design a more personalized weight management plan that works best for you.
In addition, the Jenny Craig plan considers any food that is less than 25 calories as a “free food” that you can have at any point during the day (as long as you don’t go overboard and have 20 of whatever it is).
Caveat: Although vegetarian menus are available, the Jenny Craig website states that none of the current Jenny Craig meals are kosher certified. The Jenny Craig plan doesn’t leave you on your own; if you need lots of help and support for your weight loss efforts, you have it 24/7 by phone, online, and via regular meetings with a Jenny Craig consultant.
Jenny Craig focuses on helping you reach your short-term weight loss goals. When it comes to maintaining a healthy weight over time, you may need to take more responsibility. Part of the idea behind Jenny Craig is that eventually successful dieters will use the Jenny Craig meals as models for preparing more of their own meals as far as portion sizes and balanced food groups.
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Diet Television Tip: Nutrisystem Diet Controls Carbs But Doesn’t Demonize Them
If you think you can commit to a month’s worth of prepared meals as part of your weight loss plan, the Nutrisystem Diet may be a good short-term option for you. The Nutrisystem Diet is not low-carb in the traditional way, but it is based on the glycemic index of foods. The glycemic index is a way to assess the “quality” of carbohydrates and whether they cause your blood sugar to spike or remain stable. The nature of the glycemic index and whether it really matters if you’re trying to lose weight remains uncertain, but the diet’s emphasis on healthy, complex carbs is sound.
The bottom line is that the Nutrisystem foods do focus on healthy, complex carbs, such as whole grains, that will promote stable blood sugar levels and feelings of fullness.
Once you sign up for the Nutrisystem Diet, you peruse the menu options and place your order by phone or online. Once you have made your choices, a 28-day supply of food arrives at your door with a Welcome kit and a planning calendar that outlines what to eat when.
An added bonus: Nutrisystem offers plans specifically tailored to older adults and people with type 2 diabetes. And as prepared meal plans go, it’s convenient. The food arrives at your door, and if you need help and support you can get it by phone or Internet; there’s no need to visit a weight loss center or have personal meetings or weigh-ins with a consultant.
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Diet Television Tip: Slim-Fast Optima Diet Offers More Options
The latest addition to the Slim-Fast family of weight loss aids is the Slim-Fast Optima Diet. Unilever, the parent company that owns Slim-Fast, claims that the new Optima plan will help keep you satisfied so that you are more likely to stick to your diet and lose weight.
The four elements to ensure weight-loss success on the Optima plan are as follows:
A personalized, balanced meal plan that combines Slim-Fast products with foods that you prepare yourself.
Regular physical activity (although Slim-Fast isn’t too specific about how much exercise or what type).
Expert support and weight loss advice. The Slim-Fast website and online diet plan materials offer a variety of dieting tips and advice similar to the advice found on other dieting support sites. The plan claims to adhere to healthy eating principles endorsed by the American Heart Association, American Dietetic Association, and the National Institutes of Health, with an emphasis on healthy fats, lean proteins, and complex carbs.
Tools to track progress. The Slim-Fast Optima Diet designers believe that being able to log your eating and exercise habits will let you track your success and provide motivation.
All the Slim-Fast diet plans call for replacing breakfast and lunch with a Slim-Fast product, and then eating a healthy but low-calorie dinner. The plan does advocate low-calorie snacks, specifically fruit such as apples and bananas, and of course the Slim-Fast snack bars.
If you have more money than time and you are trying to lose weight quickly, Slim-Fast may provide a reasonably healthy short-term option.
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