What to eat, what to avoid?

On some diets, you are told to eat "balanced" meals but limit calories. On other diets, you have different food groups excluded - simple carbohydrates, high glycemic index carbs, saturated fats, any fats, etc. The "avoiding" rule is easier to follow if you don't cook. However, sometimes, you eat more just because you haven't enough essential nutrients. Nutritionists always stress that it's not what's ON the plate that matters but rather what's NOT there. For example, to fight stalled weight loss, the Carbohydrate Addict Diet doesn't instruct to further limit your plan in any way but to ADD a big salad (raw dark green vegetables) before meals. There are diets that calculate for you food combinations that can shift your metabolism to the fat burning mode. A free diet plan of this kind can be found at bantadiet.com