The Face Analysis Diet

This diet is basically an analysis of your face, skin, and hair which determines what foods that you should be eating and what foods you should be avoiding.  According to Elizabeth Gibaud, there are 6 arhcetypes in which everyone can fall under.  Personally, I have no idea which archetype I am from looking at this chart, but maybe that just means this diet is not for me! But don't let that discourage you, this diet may be perfect for you.  The basis of this diet builds off the statement that your face is the key indicator of what's going on in your body.

Which type are you?
Type 1: This one is ruled by your thyroid gland. If you have a shiny nose, fluffy hair, cold feet and hands, bulging eyes, and dry skin.
Avoid: Mangoes, white flour, red wine, yeast products, and chocolate
Eat: Cucumbers, oats, apples, potatoes, and asparagus

Type 2: This one is ruled with your liver. If you have a yellow tint to your skin (particularly around your mouth), reddish or bluish nose, and/or a thick and furry tongue, and red ears. If you are suffering from lack of concentration and motivation, as well as experience nausea.
Avoid: Oranges, curry, bananas, alcohol, and coffee
Eat: Cherries, limes, apricots, potatoes and garlic
Type 3: If your are suffering from water retention and have a bloated face, puffy under-eyes, vertical line or groove under the tip of your nose, swollen fingers or ankles, and a hard time concentrating.
Avoid: Soy sauce, peanuts, canned fruit, red meat, and cheese
Eat: Spinach, broccoli, onions, fresh fish, and pineapples
Type 4: If you have inflammation easily, a greasy chin, nose, and forehead, very tight or open pores, horizontal lines on your forehead, sagging cheeks, and smelly feet.
Avoid: Rice, pastries, alcohol, mayonnaise, and shellfish
Eat: Millet, turnips, carrots, asparagus, and berries
Type 5: Prone to having complaints about your skin.
Avoid: Watermelon, raisins, strawberries, eggs, and beer
Eat: Oats, cabbage, apples, butter, and parsley

Type 6: This is only applied to men and is ruled with their prostate. If your ear is red at the top or forehead is red and has horizontal creases above your top lip, dark rings under your eyes, and a furred tongue
Avoid: Sweet potatoes, vinegar, aubergine, red wine, and blue cheese
Eat: Grapefruit, peaches, lentils, courgette, and watercress


So, basically, analyze your features and see what foods should and should not be in your diet.  Beautify yourself and your body... if you can categorize yourself into one of the types.  If not, keep diet searching!!!

What do those lines on your forehead, puffy bags, and open pores mean? 
Here are the pros and cons to Kate Winslet's facial analysis diet!!!

Happy dieting!
MIA

Baby Food Diet

If you hate the texture of food and love the thought of all your food pureed into one bowl of yuck, the Baby Food Diet could be for you!  Instead of eating 3 whole meals and a couple snacks a day, you replace them with small jars of inexpensive baby food.

Baby food is full of vitamins and minerals.  The portion sizes are small enough where they will satisfy your hunger, but you won't overeat.  There are also kinds of baby food that organic and most are gluten-free for those of you who want that in your diet plan. 

On the other hand, the small portions may lead to binging later or may not satisfy you.  The texture may get boring. 

The baby food is no doubt very healthy because its purpose is to feed babies.  That is why it is full of fruits, veggies, vitamins, etc., with no extra fats, fillers, or other unhealthy chemicals. 

For more opinions on this diet and thoughts of A-listers, click here!
Also, if you want to try to spice up your meals a little bit, look at these baby food recipes.

Good luck,
MIA

5 Factor Diet

The 5 Factor Diet was made, once again for our favorite celebrities.  We look to our Hollywood Stars to see what keeps them skinny and beautiful.  As much as we see many gimmicky diets and different ways to have an eating disorder, some of our stars follow healthy meal plans.  This diet is one of those.  If you want to look like the stars, but eat food, this is the probably the closest thing I can give you! 

This diet was all started by a man named Harley Pasternak.  He was faced with a challenge to create a diet that not only was healthy and practical, but it had to be able to fit into the schedule of a Hollywood star and all the ingreiance had to fit into a mini fridge.  He also had to put together an excercise plan that would fit into the breaks during their day.  Now the diet can be accessed by everyone, also accompanied by excercise videos, customized meal plans online, and motivational books.

This is what he came up with!

• It is designed to give you results in 5 weeks.
• You are to eat 5 meals througout the day.
• Each recipe contains no more than 5 ingredients and should take around 5 minutes to prepare.
• The workouts are 25 minutes long.
• You will get 5 cheat days out of those 5 weeks. 

These key concepts are what makes this diet easy, efficient, and effective!

If you want a sample of a meal plan for the five weeks check it out!

Here's what Mode Athletics personal trainer Mike Roulston thinks about this diet. 

Also, if you're looking for some recipes to get started, this should help you out!

Until next time!
MIA

US Ski Team Diet

So the US Ski Team Diet sounds just like what it is.  It's the diet that the US Ski Team followed in order to drop a ton of weight.  It became very popular in the 70's and everyone and their mother took a stab at it and usually came out successful if they went about it correctly.  The motivation was that the skiiers used it to drop 20 lbs in 14 days, sounds unhealthy, but if Olympic athletes are doing it, why can't we? The diet is simple, very restrictive, and say a big farewell to our friend carbs.  The organization of the diet is to eat all that you want within limits, becuase the foods listed as acceptable will make you feel full.

Check it out!

Monday

Breakfast: Grapefruit, two eggs, clear tea or coffee
Lunch: Two eggs, tomatoes, clear tea or coffee
Dinner: Two eggs, combination salad, one piece of dry toast, clear tea or coffee

Tuesday
Breakfast: Same
Lunch: Two eggs, grapefruit, tea or coffee
Dinner: Steak, olives, celery, cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, clear tea or coffee

Wednesday
Breakfast: Same
Lunch: Two eggs, spinach, tea or coffee
Dinner: Two lamb chops, celery, cucumber, tomatoes, clear tea or coffee

Thursday
Breakfast: Same
Lunch: Two eggs, spinach, tea or coffee
Dinner: Two eggs, cottage cheese, cabbage, one piece of dry toast, tea or coffee

Friday
Breakfast: Same
Lunch: Two eggs, spinach, tea or coffee
Dinner: Steak, celery, cucumber, tomatoes, clear tea or coffee

Saturday
Breakfast: Same
Lunch: Fruit salad (put anything in it and eat as much as you want), clear tea or coffee (meaning no sugar/cream)
Dinner: Steak (lean), celery, cucumber, tomatoes, clear tea/coffee

Sunday
Breakfast: Same
Lunch: Cold chicken, tomatoes, grapefruit
Dinner: Chicken, tomatoes, grapefruit, carrots, cabbage, clear tea or coffee

REPEAT FOR THE SECOND WEEK!

This diet stresses that you are only supposed to follow this plan for 2 weeks, not longer because it will be unhealthy for your body.  It also says that abstaining from eating is very harmful your health as well.  The diet prohibits the consumption of alcohol, eating between meals, and using butter or fatty dressings to spice up your foods. 

I think this diet is feasible.  Yes, it is very strict, but it is healthy in the sense that you are eating a balanced diet.  You are not starved because you can eat as much of the food listed as you want and the foods used in the meal plan are very filling foods to tide you over to the next meal.  The things that the diet prohibits such as carbs, fatty dressings and butter, and alcoholic drinks are things that we should always be watching in our routine diets.  The other reason that this is possible is because it is only for two weeks.  When people try to go on diets for months or years, they tend to binge when they are prohibited from many foods or aren't eating enough to satisfy their bodies.  I would actually consider trying this one myself. 

Here's an article from Sports Illustrated (in 1985) about the ways World Cup skiiers follow a diet plan and what the reasons are. 

Also, you can learn how to eat like an Olympian!

Happy dieting!
MIA

The Caveman Diet

Way back when dinosaurs were roaming the earth, the habitants were clearly not equipped with the technology we have today.  They ate whatever they could get their hands on.  This is the basis of the Caveman Diet.

The RULE-  It's simple. You are only allowed to eat things that can be picked, foraged, or hunted in their most natural state.  This means meat, fruits, vegetables, nuts, eggs, and berries. 

This means you are not allowed to eat grains, beans, potatoes, dairy products, sugar, or salt. 
There's no catch either!  You can eat as much as you want on this diet, so you definitely won't starve like you will on the majority of the other diets out there.

Ray Audette was the man who invented this stone aged meal plan 15 years ago after he was diagnose with diabetes and suffered from arthritis.  Soon after he changed his way of eating completely and his health took a turn for the better!

"After I stopped eating them [foods prohibited on diet like milk, beans, potatoes, grains and sugar], my blood sugar went normal within a week,"  Audette claims.  "I'd also been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis for about a dozen years before that.  It went away and never came back."

CBS talks to Audette and researchers to dig deeper into the diet.

 This diet is macro and micronutrient healthy for the body and for its functions. Some argue that it is not as healthy as it sounds, but you can listen to the arguments and decide for yourself. 

On this diet, Audette as able to lose 25 pounds.  How many will you lose?

Let me know!
MIA

Dinner for Breakfast Diet

Did you ever treat yourself with a platter of delicious pancakes, dripping with syrup, with a side of bacon and milk for dinner? Well, flip it around and you've got an effective diet! Experimenting dieters have tried eating the "Dinner for Breakfast Diet" or the "Reverse Diet" and come out with great success.

The Rule: Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

The Theory: Tricia Cunningham, the founder of the diet, uses the theory that if you eat the meal with your bulk of your calories in the beginning of your day you will lose weight. Why? Science shows that you burn the majority of your calories during the day and barely any of your calories at night when you sleep.  Therefore, by eating a bigger meal in the beginning of the day, you can burn those calories during your daily routine, and finish with a small dinner.

My opinion is that this sounds like an awesome idea.  It makes complete sense if you really think about it.  The only thing that throws me off is when I think dinner for breakfast, I think a chicken breast with grilled vegetables and pasta.  Not quite something my stomach will be prepared for at 6:30 in the morning!! EW! Thankfully, people who have tried the diet have come up with some satisfying recipes to make your breakfast not so...dinnery! 

If you are considering this diet, get started today!  Here's a suggested shopping list to get diet rolling and the calories burning!
Here are some famous people who follow the Reverse Diet and some meal suggestions.

Keep me posted!
MIA

The Lemonade Diet

When life throws you lemons, make lemonade.  When life throws you love handles and saddlebags...make lemonade?

Did you ever think when you were selling Dixie Cups of lemonade for 25 cents on the side of the road that you were creating a famous diet?  Probably not.  The Lemonade Diet is great...if you don't like food.  On this diet you can only drink your lemonade all day, a morning salt-water flushing solution, and a cup of herbal laxative tea at night. 

Oh, and this lemonade is NOTHING like the kind of lemonade you had at your little stand.  Here's the lemonade recipe... yuck, take a look!

2 oz. of fresh squeezed lemon juice. No bottled lemon juice for you lazy one's out there. 

2 oz. of maple syrup
1/4 of a teaspoon (or more) of cayenne pepper
2 Cups of Water.

Make sure to flush out all your insides with this solution every morning when you wake up!

2 teaspoons of salt and 1 quart of water.

Then at night, end everything with a cub of Herbal Laxative Tea.

If i were to be on this 10-day diet plan, I would be beyond starving.  Nothing on this diet is hunger suppressing.  Also, the thought of putting maple syrup and cayenne pepper in my lemonade would make me vomit, but maybe that's the point?  An extra 5 pounds would probably be dropped after throwing up all your water weight.  The Lemonade Diet to me just sounds like a week and a half long vacation in your bathroom.  If you have a long morning commute or any other commitment that prohibits you from having an all-day pass to the restroom, I do not recommend it.  Bloating, diarrhea, and constant bladder pressure sound extremely uncomfortable and not worth it!  This dieter talks about their horrorifying experience, she wasn't as happy with her results as Beyonce was. 

Please let me know how this one treats you! BEST of luck,

MIA

The Cookie Diet

What do Angelica from the Rugrats, Santa Claus, and grandmothers around the world have in common? They all love COOKIES!!!  Don't we all?  Cookies and other sweet treats are the downfall for people trying to lose weight, but what is all this buzz about a cookie diet?  From hearing that there was a possibly effective diet out there that involved cookies made me jump onto the computer and start nerdin' away through the research.  And guess what?  The diet is REAL!

Dr. Sandford Siegal invented this too-good-to-be-real diet.  Now, if you were waiting for the catch, here it is.  Doc Siegal invented a hunger-supressing cookie.  Now I've never tried the cookies, but like most dieting food that's advertised to be delicious, experimenting dieters are often disappointed with cardboard/bitter/chemical/etc. taste.  I can only imagine Siegal's treats are as apeitizing.  Unfortunately, I will probably never get to tell you readers what i think after trying the coookies because Doctor S only makes them available for his patients in his clinics. 

Looking into what the meal plan consists of for the Cookie Diet let down my  Your eating habits are just a little better than the Olsen Twins.  This diet consists of only one meal a day. I repeat, ONE MEAL A DAY!  Now, now, says Sandford, you also get to eat 6 hunger-supressing cookies a day.  Wow, how full-filling, six cookies and one meal a day! How satsifying...NOT!

For someone who has food readily available to them, it would be very difficult for me to sit in the school cafeteria while everyone is chowing down on hamburgers and pizza while I sit there nibbling on my 6 cookies.  On the contrary, during the summer, I am on the go non-stop.  This would actually be a practical thing for me to try and I am sure all you on-the-go people out there would agree.  This is why celebrities like Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Jessica Simpson, and Denise Richards can handle this diet.  It's convenient to just grab a bag of the Dr.'s cookies on their way out the door. 

Here's another success story that ET investigated.  This woman goes from a size 24 to a size 2 in 8 months.  So it IS possible.  I wonder if she had her wallet on her when she was weighed and measured?  Why, because while your shaving inches off your wasteline, you're also ripping cash out of your bank account.  For just one week supply of cookies, the price is around an eye-opening $60!!!!!!

Keep me posted!

MIA

The Grapefruit Diet

Aaah the Grapefruit Diet.  Its start was in the 1930s, but in the 1970's, the magical fruit took dieters by storm, and then was made popular again in the 80's, making its imprint as one of the most famous fad diets ever.  Hollywood stars used it because it is one of those "shed off some pounds before having to squeeze that big butt into a size 0 red dress for the Oscars in week" diets.  There are several versions of this diet but here is a basic one with a meal plan and instructions:

Breakfast: >1/2 Grapefruit or 4 oz. Grapefruit Juice (unsweetened)
                >2 eggs (any style)
                >2 slices of bacon

Lunch: >1/2 Grapefruit or 4 oz Grapefruit Juice (unsweetened)
           >Meat (any style, any amount)
           >Salad (any kind of dressing)

Dinner: >1/2 Grapefruit or 4 oz. Grapefruit Juice (unsweetened)
            >Meat (any style, any amount) fish can substitute meat
            >Vegetables (any green, yellow, or red vegetables cooked in butter or ay seasoning)

Bed Time Snack: > 1 glass tomato juice or 1 glass Skim milk

Vegetables Allowed: Red onions, green onions, bell peppers, radishes, cucumbers, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, peas (AVOID- white onions, potatoes, celery)

Instructions:

1. At any meal, you may eat until you are full.
2. Don't eliminate anything from the diet, don't skip bacon at breakfast or omit salad.  It is the combination of foods that burns fat.
3. The grapefruit starts as a catalyst that begins the fat-burning process
4. Cut down on caffeine.  Try to limit 1 cup per meal at mealtime
5. Don't eat between meals. 
6. No deserts!

After reading the diet and its positive aspects, I would be attracted to follow this diet because you are eating a lot and eating until you are FULL!  Besides the fact that I can't get past the bitter taste of a grapefruit, the meal plan seems easy and not too much of a fast.  I am astonished that they allow you to eat bacon. Come on! That's like the biggest  NO NO in the dieting rules!  If the Grapefruit Diet allows my favorite salty, juicy, and greasy "meat" to be included in my everyday meal plan, I am totally up for it!!!  Another thing is something I hear advised from my mother every day, "Watch your salad dressing Mia! You know you can't put Ranch on everything!"  Believe me, I have found way in which to use Ranch that no person could ever imagine! Love that, but isn't it filled with fat?  YES, but the followers say that the fat works in with the fat-burning process.  (I wish I could tell you that they we're telling the truth, but I honestly have no idea).  Based on the evidence I have found, everywhere it says that the balance of the fats and other components work together to make this diet successful.  Bad news.  I know that this meal plan starts to sound like the DREAM DIET, but don't worry, they omit deserts (aw man!).  As much as I would like to believe in this diet, the lack of restrictions on amount and fat content makes me think that this plan isn't practical, but that's for you to try and decide!

For additional thought on this diet, we look to WebMD! 
Even "Weird Al" Yankovic has his own opinion on this magical fruit! : )

POST YOUR THOUGHTS AND RESULTS!!!

Mia