Low Carb Diets

Anabolic Diet
The Anabolic Diet is a low carb diet designed to transform your body into a “fat burning machine.”  The diet is favored by many body builders, but is suitable for the average weight loss seeker. You’ll enter into several low carb and high carb phases. During the low carb phases you train the body to switch from running on carbohydrates to running on fats, taking in less than 30 grams of carbs a day in the first week. Dieters should consumer 5 -6 meals per day and eat whenever they feel hungry.

Atkins
Atkins, the extremely low carb, high protein diet, was developed out of a belief that eating too many carbohydrates contributed to weight gain. The sometimes controversial diet requires that one eat more protein and fat so the body can lose weight effectively. This means enjoying a diet of bacon and eggs, steak, tuna with mayo, shellfish, cheese and more, but limiting oneself to a daily intake of 20 grams of carbs (minus fiber). Fruits and vegetables are allowed, but this is after a two-week induction program. The diet emphasizes exercise to maintain overall health. 

Eco Atkins Diet
The Eco Atkins Diet holds the same principles as the traditional version of The Atkins Diet, however, it’s a vegetarian diet. Rather than consume high amounts of animal-based protein, this diet requires dieters to consumer large amounts of vegetable-based protein (primarily from soy and gluten). Dieters enjoy a diet of soy foods, beans, nuts, seeds, no-starch gluten products, veggie burgers, soy beverages and avoid things like rice, potatoes, baked goods and other starchy foods.

South Beach
Like Atkins, South Beach is a high protein diet and begins with a sometimes brutal induction phase, however, South Beach provides you with a long-term eating plan and allows you to snack. The three phase plan starts with induction, where dieters must eliminate bread, sugar, rice, potatoes, pasta and fruit. They'll then move into the phase where carbs are reintroduced, however the key is to consume smaller portions until reaching a target weight loss goal. The final stage is eating properly for the long-term, which suggests that one continue eating smaller, but sustainable portions, fewer carbs and integrate exercise into their your daily routine to stay lean.

South Beach Supercharged
South Beach Diet Supercharged uses the same elements found in the original South Beach Diet plan, however this version allows more flexibility in the earlier stages as well as an exercise component. South Beach Superchaged suggests that dieters do interval training in order to burn more calories, as the stopping and starting motions force the muscles to work harder, thus burning more calories.  This plan also provides many strategies for maintaining weight loss, 40 new recipes and an expanded menu in phase two (allowing more fruits and small amounts of alcohol).

Diet-to-Go
Diet-to-Go is the low carb, low fat diet meal delivery plan. Dieters can receive up to 7 days worth of food in one shipment (sent via UPS each week). This includes 3 meals and 1 snack per day.  On the low carb plan, dieters consume anywhere from 1200 to 1600 calories a day and have the option to customize their meal plans each week, enjoying items like Egg & Broccoli Pie.

Dukan Diet
Favored by big names like Jennifer Lopez, Kate Middleton and Giselle Bundchen, this is a four-phase, high protein, low-calorie method to losing weight. There is not calorie counting involved or weighing food and you are free to eat as much as you want at anytime of day--so long as it’s lean protein. The diet was first created by a French physician, Pierre Dukan as a way to treat obese individuals. Along with protein dieters should consume oat bran, a large amount of water and take at least a 20-minute walk--daily.

P90X Nutrition Plan
The P90X Nutrition Plan was created to help dieters not only lose weight, but build muscle (while using the P90X workout plan). Like most low carb diets, this nutritional plan also designed around a three phase system. The initial phase almost completely eliminates carbs, while protein intake is up in order to burn fat and build more muscle. In phase two, complex carbs are reintroduced into the diet (wheat, oatmeal, certain fruits). When dieters are ready, they can transition into phase 3 which includes more carbohydrates to sustain high endurance workouts. The plan provides a meal outline or gives the option to create your own based on the approved food options.
 

The New Beverly Hills Diet
Judy Mazel introduced a fresh approach to low carb diets in the early 1980’s and since then the diet has stuck.  While on The New Beverly Hills Diet, you stop combining carbohydrates with protein and fruit with anything. Eating protein with protein and carbs with carbs helps to keep natural enzymes in line and ultimately halts weight gain.  The diet works by kicking off the day with an enzymatic fruits wait two hours and you are free to consume carbohydrates (and fats) or proteins. However if you start with carbs and switch to protein, you’ll be required to eat protein for the remainder of the day.  Within 35 days, you’ll see a 10 - 15 pound weight loss.