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Created by Jordan Rubin, The Maker’s Diet is based on biblical and scientific resources, focusing on the four components of total health - the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional. Because the plan has some fairly strict rules to follow (some from the Bible, and some from science), it’s best to read more about them here, to be sure you are willing to follow the rules.

The diet is divided into three two-week phases, with each phase being easy to follow, featuring foods that are healthy and delicious. You can either join online, or purchase the book if you prefer the DIY plan.

Members who join online get 14 tools to help them with the plan:

40-Day Calendar & Plan
Meal Planner
Shopping Lists
Recipe Finder
Eating Guides
Shopping Guides
Today’s Schedule
Success Journal
Weight Tracker
Message Boards
Diet Buddies
Daily E-mail Newsletter
Answers from Jordan
Online Support

Get The Maker’s Diet book

Costs:

The cost of the online program is currently $4.99/week, while the book costs approximately $13, and as always, you’ll incur the normal cost of groceries.

Sample Foods:

Easy Egg Scramble
Coconut Mild Soup
Family Roast Beef

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This free online diet plan includes:

- Healthy Eating: A healthy weight-loss plan personalized for your needs. 1000s of tasty and easy chef-created recipes to help the weight loss process easier and more enjoyable.

- Proven Results: An amazing 95% of FoodFit Plan members report improved eating and fitness habits.

- Lifestyle Changes: Designed with the University of California Davis Medical Center, the plan is easy to follow, enabling you to lose weight and keep it off for life.

- Newsletters: Free newsletters packed with delicious recipes to keep you in the know.

- Recipe Box: Store all your favorite FoodFit recipes in your own personal recipe file.

Costs

The only costs you’ll incur at this time are for your groceries.

Sample Foods

- Fresh Greens with Grilled Tuna and Orange-Ginger Vinaigrette
- Red Snapper Vera Cruz
- Carne Asada Tacos
- Crunchy Pork Cutlets
- Apple-Walnut Cookies

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Low carb diets have become one of the most popular diets out there
today. Healthy Carb Cookbook For Dummies makes it easy to make this diet a part of your lifestyle, because it includes everything you need: from recipes to a multitude of tools to help you count carbs.

You’ll find:

- Lots of recipes for dishes with 5 carbs or less
- Recipes for soups, seafood, meat dishes, vegetarian, crockpot specialties, and desserts
- Guidelines for eating low-carb when you’re dining out

Author Jan McCracken includes these in the book as well:

- A shopping list for a well-stocked low-carb kitchen
- Tips on using spices creatively for variety and flavor, and tips for reducing stress so you can avoid binging.

Costs

You’ll spend about $13 for the book, and incur the normal cost of groceries.

Sample Foods

- BLT Soup
- Beef and Asparagus Stir-Fry
- Maple-cinnamaon Almond Snack

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Like most online diet plan web sites, Start Your Diet comes complete with lots of free tools, meal planning, and community support to help you lose weight.

Their basic membership is free and offers diet tools, such as:

- Track your weight
- Plan target goal dates
- Special goal planning tool
- Track daily water intake
- Weight tracking chart
- Free diet profile

The deluxe program includes all the basic plus over 30 unique tools to give you an extra advantage. Some of these tools include:

- Diet tracking calendar
- Charts and graphs
- Diet blog
- Buddy finder
- Favorites list

Costs

Normal grocery costs. Deluxe program is $29.95/year.

Sample Foods

Allows you to eat both store bought and take out foods, using calories as a guide.

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The Eat This, Not That plan isn’t exactly a diet, at least not in the normal sense of the word, but it is a weight loss theory that involves choosing what to eat and what not to eat - so in that sense, it is a diet.

Basically, it revolves around the idea that many of us gain weight because of the food choices we make at restaurants and grocery stores, not knowing that we are choosing items that are LOADED with calories. This plan’s goal is to reveal which of those foods are packing possibly half of an entire day’s caloric count, and which you should be choosing instead.

One example is that if you knew that a turkey pot pie from Swanson’s has 610 fewer calories than a turkey pot pie from Pepperidge Farms, you would be able to make the right choice the next time you reached into the frozen food bin at your supermarket. And if you continuously made those “right choices”, over time, you would lose weight just because you were armed with the facts you needed.

In this way, you are making less of a drastic change to your eating style, but make more of a change to your caloric intake.

Costs

Less than $15 for the book, plus normal grocery and restaurant food costs.

Sample Foods

Since this is about choices, it’s difficult to list sample foods. Instead, here are some sample choices:

• A McDonald’s Egg McMuffin has less than half the calories as the Hotcakes.
• Red bell peppers have twice the Vitamin C and 9 times the Vitamin A as green bell peppers.
• Krispy Kreme’s Very Berry Chiller has 500 calories less than the Mocha Dream Chiller