A Simple Diet for Success

There are lots of ways to lose weight and dieting is probably the most popular of them all.

But dieting is not always the simple image that many people hold of a bored, overweight person sitting at a table with a plate of lettuce leaves and celery sticks to live on!

Diets can be interesting, fun and exciting while still being extremely effective for producing weight loss in the dieter, when they do it the right way to suit their own personal needs and lifestyle.

However, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that keeping the diet as simple as it can possibly be is still the most effective way of attaining success.

Why Simple Beats Complex

The main reason a simple diet system is favored over a more complex one is that it is easier for most people to follow a simple program. And when things are simple, they tend to stick them out to the very end.

On the other hand, a complicated system can leave people confused and they can quit because they can't keep up with it or they simply get fed up with all the hassle.

There are several very simple ways to diet and lose weight.

One that is growing in popularity because it is so effective is a combination of ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting. It works because going "keto" takes by far the biggest cause of weight gain, sugar, out of the equation.

By cutting right down on simple carbohydrates (especially in processed foods and foods based on refined wheat flour such as bread, pasta, pastry etc), the body stops storing fat. Instead, it starts using the already large fat store as fuel in the form of ketone bodies.

This reduces the amount of fat stored in the body, reducing physical body size and weight so you look and feel way better.

Intermittent fasting speeds up the fat burning process while it also addresses the huge problem of insulin resistance, the common denominator in most of the illnesses associated with obesity in the West, such as type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

The Simplest Solution Has Problems

The only real problem with this weight loss solution is that far too many people don't like the idea of intermittent fasting. Plus too many people are addicted to simple refined carbohydrates and find it difficult to give up all the foods they like to eat.

This is not really a problem with the "keto plus fasting" model, it is a problem with people and their eating habits!

While a few people in every thousand have come around to the way of thinking that makes the most sense, which is to cut the source of obesity out of the diet and use the power of intermittent fasting to turn things around, most simply can't face the upheaval in their daily eating habits.

It is for the vast majority that still want to lose weight that commercial dieting solutions have appeared. I won't beat about the bush here: these commercial diets exist to make the companies that sell them a lot of money!

And they absolutely do that. Just look at the commercial value of a company like Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem, for example. These guys make millions of dollars!

They know people want a convenient solution and until some scientist comes up with a magic pill that will make everything right (don't hold your breath for that to happen), their diet delivery solution is taken up (and paid for) by thousands of people every week.

So let's talk about what, to most people, is probably the simplest diet solution of them all. That is to make use of one of the popular diet meal delivery programs that you can get from a variety of well known companies that specialize in that kind of thing.

Many of these systems have been covered in other websites where you can read reviews of Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, eDiets, Bistro MD, Diet-to-Go and all the other well known convenience-based diet programs that are available.

Achieving Dieting Goals

Their success is down to the fact that they take out most of the work that goes into maintaining a healthy, low calorie and nutritionally balanced diet which effectively frees up a great deal of time for the person who is dieting so they can get on with doing more of the things they enjoy in life.

That means they don't even need to set foot in the kitchen to cook or mess around with food preparation because all that is done for them. As long as they can operate a microwave oven, then they can have a great hot meal in front of them in under two minutes for zero work!

That is so appealing to so many people that it's no wonder these diet companies are doing so much business! The best advice is to keep it simple and you keep your interest and see the program through to a happy and successful conclusion.