Diet Plans

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Weight Watchers

WeightWatchers.com also has an online program which you can combine with Weight Watchers meetings if you so desire. The standard monthly plan for the online program costs $46.90 for the first month and $16.95 for each additional month. You can save $15.80 by signing up for three months right away at $65 followed by $16.95 a month.

The site provides interactive tools to track and manage your daily food choices and your progress; lots of recipes and meal ideas; tips and a restaurant guide for healthy dining out; and an online community that you can connect with 24/7.

Chef's Diet

The Chef's Diet is a convenient food delivery service, bringing a results-oriented and unique eating experience directly to your doorstep.

Billed as the nation's only 5 star diet, it is endorsed by athletes like Lenny Dykstra, actor Kevin Costner, actress Jenny McCarthy and many more celebrites.

Chefs Diet™ is based on the 40-30-30 Nutrition Concept popularized by Dr. Sears' Zone Diet.

There is a metabolic state in which the human body operates most efficiently. This metabolic state can be achieved by eating the correct proportion of carbohydrates, fats, and protein in your every meal.

The Chefs Diet™ program is a 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein and 30% fat diet developed to insure the proper insulin to glucagon ratio.

Any food that you eat works for or against the two major hormones, insulin and glucagon. These hormones do a lot of important work but perhaps the most important is maintaining energy flow in the body. Their interplay determines whether the body stores or spends (burns) calories but there's much more to the diet's benefits.

The 40-30-30 equilibrium results in a decrease of insulin-glucagon ratio, which in its turn causes production of "good" superhormones called eicosanoids which are responsible for the diet's health benefits including weight loss, prevention of chronic diseases and inflammation, enhanced immunity, better physical performance and mental health, and greater longevity.

Several plans are offered - including a Kosher diet - starting at $14.95 a day, which includes all meals and snacks.

The Sonoma Diet

The Sonoma Diet is based on the principles of the famous book.

It's motto is "Food, Wine & Weight Loss."

Starting at just $5.00 a week, you get a free diet analysis, and learn that meals are all about celebration and not deprivation.

This plan is not about avoiding food - but rather is about losing weight by enjoying food — delicious, flavorful, rich food.

There are three segments, called "Waves."

Wave 1 will last only 10 days, but you'll immediately start eating delicious breakfasts, lunches, and dinners prepared with healthful whole foods.

The online Meal Planner and recipe database will provide all the options you need to stay satisfied.

Wave 2 is the major part of the diet. This is the eating plan you'll stay with until you reach your target weight.

More than anything else, Wave 2 is about variety. You'll even be incorporating wine into your diet, if you'd like!

Wave 3 starts the day you reach your target weight. At this point, you've accomplished much more than a healthy (and great-looking) body weight — you've changed your entire approach to eating.

Nutrisystem

Nutrisystem is another plan that sends you all the prepared meals and snacks you need - carefully designed to help you lose weight.

There are many testimonals from ordinary people, as well as celebrities, who have lost lots of weight on this program.

Again you get a free diet analysis, a motivational materials and an exercise DVD.

If you sign up for the auto delivery system you can receive two weeks of free food.

Which to Choose

One of the first considerations is cost.

Nutrisystem and Chef's Diet are expensive mainly because frozen prepared meals are shipped to your home.

In a way this is good - you just eat what you are sent. The promise is that you will not feel hungry between meals.

The bad part of this is that you might be at a loss as to what to do once you have lost all that weight.

The Sonoma Diet, Diet.com and Weight Watchers are more about teaching you how to lose weight and keep it off. Once you reach your ideal weight, you should know how to keep it off.

All studies of diet plans show that they all work if you stick with them - so the main question for you should be whether you want the convenience of prepared meals or if you want to do it yourself.

This article is for informational purposes only and is not meant to be taken as medical advice.