Diets
For many people who lead busy, fast paced lives, finding time to look after their health and also their weight can be difficult, especially as most conventional diets require some level of time and work to be successful.
However, there are several popular diet companies that have a solution for this with their ready-to-go, pre-packaged diet meal plans that are designed with such people in mind.
Before you head out and sign up with any one of these companies, you might want to have some prior knowledge as to what to expect from the kind of meals they provide.
This is just so that there are no unexpected surprises when the food turns up at your door.
That's what this section of the website is all about. In here I have put selected articles that focus on particular diets and explain them at length, taking the information from extensive research on my part and adding some expert opinions of my own.
The point to this is to provide you with factual, no-nonsense information and advice as to whether you should go on this or that diet or not.
There's no hard sell or sales pitch involved in my articles, just the facts bolstered by customer feedback trends obtained from up to date consumer forums and review websites.
At the Outset
Here's a pretty solid analogy to set your mind in the right direction. If you were going to buy a new car, you'd go to the dealership, get all the pamphlets and information about it, grill the sales clerk and take a test drive before you ever consider parting with any of your hard-earned cash.
It makes sense to act like that with a major purchase such as a car, but what about a major health decision like a diet? If you treat your health like it's more precious than a new car (and it IS!), you're gong to do as much research first before you buy into anything or allow one morsel of food to pass your lips, right?
So let's take an overview look at the kind of diets that are popular and that I'll be looking at. By the way, I'll be featuring each diet I review in its own separate article, not this one. That will make it easier to read only the information you actually need to know about.
Meal Replacement Diet Food Delivery
The first thing that most people find great about these diet meal delivery style programs is the sheer variety of the meals that are provided in the various diet plans. This is perfect if you tend to get bored eating the same thing every day. Of course, it also helps to be sure that the diet works before you start. But generally with company programs, this is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
With these diets, you can eat a different meal every day if you want to. One downside is that the size of the meals is generally smaller than many people are used to. This is because a balance has to be found between making the meal interesting, tasty and nutritious and keeping the calorie count low enough so that you will lose weight.
Replacing Regular Meals
Other than that, the meals are meant to completely replace all your normal meals that you'd eat in a day. That means at least three a day including a dessert after the main meal and generally two separate snacks to eat between meals as well. Again, this varies a little from plan to plan, so you'd need to check up on the one you prefer before you start to check how many meals there are each day.
The quality varies from company to company, but is generally pretty good considering the meals are pre-packaged. Just be aware that they will never be gourmet quality! For losing weight in a most convenient manner, the diet meals from these programs are definitely hard to beat.
Of course at the end of the day, what you should really expect to get from a diet is to lose weight as healthily as you can while getting into to good shape at the same time. If you can do that as easily and effectively as possible, then you chose the right plan. Congratulations!
Additional Reading / Reviews
Below are the titles of the in-depth review and information articles I mentioned further back in this article. Click on whichever one interests you to read and learn!