During my teen years, I tried controlling my obesity using the very popular method, at least to us teenagers back then, known as liquid therapy. It’s a diet merely composed lots and lots of water and some fruits. No not the liquid diet therapy for Crohn’s disease patients.
I know that it’s actually for people who has recently undergone surgery but my reliance on my research ability and my understanding of the human body – I have a BS Biology degree, made me resort to this drastic dieting technique allowing myself to be my own guinea pig. 
How did I fare with this water diet?
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The Medifast weight loss program is a simple enough to undertake method to purportedly lose a lot of weight. This program will cost at least five hundred US dollars, as it requires clearance from a physician, which, in turn, will require blood tests and medical exams to be done. Counseling is done online or through call centers. The program itself consists of low-calorie meal plans, where the company provides replacements for meals that can be paired with ordinary foods.
But how reliable is the Medifast diet, and does it work for a lot of people? Although a lot of positive reviews are available at http://www.medifastdiet.com, the diet still has to be scrutinized and the facts have to be balanced. Medifast itself has been around since the early 1980’s, where it was classified as a simple meal replacement program that was characteristically low in calories. It was also popular in the medical community, as most low calorie diets were also geared toward lowering cholesterol, easing the symptoms of heart disease, and even preparing people for delicate operations.
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Ashtanga Yoga might seem like an easy alternative for those who are looking to get into a weight management program. And it can be attractive for people who want to go for an old, time-tested fitness technique.
However, Ashtanga Yoga is not centuries or thousands of years old: it was developed in the early years of the twentieth century, and is now being taught in many countries as a way to not only lose weight, but to cleanse the mind and the body.
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Atkins diet, Atkins Nutritional Approach or just Atkins is a low-carbohydrate diet and was formulated by Dr. Robert Atkins to solve his very own problems of being overweight. Dr. Atkins conceptualized this diet plan based on a theory that overweight people tend to ingest more carbohydrates. Since the body uses fat and carbohydrates for energy, eating lesser carbohydrates would mean that fats are burned more.
As some people claimed to have lost their weight on Atkins, some doctors and nutritionists criticize it. You should decide for yourself by weighing in the pros and cons of the Atkins diet plan before embarking on it.
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