Have you heard of the baby food diet?

Unbelievably, its where celebrity weight loss experts like Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Tracy Anderson recommend a ‘baby food cleanse’ consisting of easily digestible meals like smoothies and oatmeal. Don’t get me wrong, that really can work for short-term weight loss and even longer with a modified exercise regimen. Too bad it seems that women keep falling for unrealistic weight loss shortcuts and have resorted to literally chomping on baby food.

Now there will be a shortage of Gerber cans in the baby aisle near your grocery store.

To be fair, the baby food diet has a 86% positive rating by users at dietsinreview.com, though its easy to say most of those people would be pregnant women or just searchin for the next weight loss fad.

I think the baby food diet sucks on so many levels. Maybe I should grow up, but baby food lacks the nutritional requirements adults need. Not to mention, its a boring temporary fix while you hope to lose weight for a few weeks (and maybe hopelessly gain it back) because you are not gonna down baby food cans day after day. You are reading this because you know that’s unrealistic.

My verdict is simple: You can try the baby food to lose weight quickly, and it may work, and you might lose 3-7 pounds but that wont keep happening for long. Even Jennifer Aniston didn’t claim to feed from Gerber cans all day, so why should you?

Baby food diet fans, leave a comment and prove me wrong below.

According to Kate, its pretty simple. If you care about her losing weight, then it comes down to some extreme diet that helped her lose 10 pounds in 10 days. The ‘Kate Gosselin diet’ consists of simple exercise and portion control by running hilly courses (about four miles) near her house three times a week for about 45 minutes. Here is a breakdown of her eating habits:

Breakfast A bowl of cereal or oatmeal with nonfat milk.

Lunch A salad consisting of leafy greens, tuna or chicken (sometimes she uses low-fat cottage cheese) and light dressing (olive oil and vinegar or lime juice).

Dinner Steamed or roasted vegetables with fish or chicken.

Snack Fruit and a cup of coffee.

If you are looking to lose weight quickly, then this weight loss guide will help women achieve similar results

source: Ok! Magazine

I am usually very passionate about the flawed truth behind many scummy diet plans and diet pills, but today I let someone else confirm that. Tariq Osman, a drug professional from Plus Size Tall gives us the down low on many popular quick-fix diets.

You probably have heard of the Atkins Diet, which as a low-carb diet variant, has adverse side effects. According to Tariq, the idea of restricting an entire food sector from your diet is unhealthy, which can lead to vitamin deficiencies constipation and an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes.

As for the commercial meal substitution diets like Slimfast, Slimquick and others, it is difficult to maintain long term weight loss because these diet plans lack healthy, balanced food choices. I know it sucks, huh?

Alli weight loss pills have been claimed to work, but they will not help you miraculously lose weight without a proper balanced diet and exercise.

I would say, simply focus on weight loss methods that work.

Source: BerryDoctor.com

Simply interesting how weight loss expert Keri Glassman unveils some great tips in her new book The O2 Diet Its surprisingly based on eating foods that have high antioxidant activity levels. If you ever heard of ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) – a scientific scale that represents antioxidant levels of natural foods, then you will understand Glassman’s diet that recommends consuming 30,000 ORAC points a day, which is higher than the recommended daily consumption.

By consuming ORAC-rich fruits and vegetables daily, you can forget about low-carbing and calorie counting and enjoy healthy nutrient-rich foods that help you lose weight more easily.

You are probably wondering, what are these antioxidant superstars and how do they help so I can pick them up at the grocery store?

She estimates that the O2 diet should help you lose about 2-3 pounds a week. And some of the weight-loss wonders are: artichoke, lemon water and red grapefruit which are all packed with very high ORAC points. Foods like  figs and watermelon help slow down the aging process and make your skin glow. Want more? There’s blueberries, dark chocolate, prunes and cherries. They all have thousands of ORAC points too and in addition help you bolster immunity, fight heart disease and keep you healthy.

I am no ‘ORAC Mathematician’ but before coming across Keri’s book, getting some of this foods from this grocery store and eating them raw or mixed in a smoothie helped me cleanse my body and enjoy great results with my weight loss success story quicker. What do you know? I beat Keri to this discovery…I should get first credit. lol!

Well, Keri or anyone else can leave me a comment below and talk about their experience. Here’s one for healthy living!

Stacker 2 and Stacker 3 are a new brand of diet energy pills manufactured by NVE Pharmaceuticals that claim to help you burn fat and increase energy.

They contain caffeine, which accounts for the increased energy. They also contain synephrine, structurally similar to ephedra (an FDA-banned substance in diet products) and can increase fat burning in the body. This combination of synephrine and caffeine makes for a potentially harmful drug and may be associated with ischemic stroke and increased blood pressure according to the Mayo Clinic.

The difference between the dietary supplements is that Stacker 3 contains more caffeine. It also contains chitosan, a supplement commonly extracted from the shells of crustaceans, like shrimp and crab that is thought to inhibit the absorption of dietary fat.

“Any weight loss product that claims quick weight loss (more than two pounds a week), eat whatever you want and still lose weight, or all you do is take the pills without having to exercise is a short-lived weight loss promise,” acording to Sarah Krieger, a registered dietitian and national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. “Without proper control of food intake and exercise, diet pills are only an effective short term tool.

“Like many diet pills, Stacker contains an appetite suppressant and caffeine, so the idea is to eat less and have a boost of energy, which is supposed to motivate you to exercise,” Krieger said. “The problem is that when a person stops taking the pills, the appetite returns.”

Nadya Suleman of ‘Octomom’ fame sports a sexy bikini for the cover of the latest issue of Star magazine. She weighs 120 pounds, down from 270 pounds, with proper dieting. In fact, there was no surgery involved for the Octomom. It is quite amazing, and people will probably know her for the new image instead of the pregnant photos.

The 34-year old mother of 14 says women who are pregnant can lose the belly fat, by being on a proper diet and exercise program.

Nadya shows what exercise and good diet can do in an eight-page special in the magazine. It’s remarkable that she could do this without surgery, as many women who give birth feel that surgery is the only way to flatten their bellies.

The octomom still lives in La Habra, California. What’s also incredible is that she had a Caesarian section to perform the delivery last year. She has six other children ranging in age from 7 to 3.

Unbelievably, Suleman wants more children. She told Good Morning America in an interview that she wants more children if she gets married. Nadya also stated that she is only sleeping “two hours a night” because she’s writing a book.

You are probably wondering, how much does it cost to take care of all those kids? She goes through $1,000 in food and 700 diapers in one week. She also goes through about 5 gallons of milk and at least eight loads of laundry each day. She employs a team of five nannies that costs $10,000 a month. Waoh!