[InLimbo]

With their wonderful circle ratings. For diets, Volumetrics, Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig were the top three. They also looked at Abs Diet, Sonoma, South Beach and Zone among others. For books, The Best Life Diet stood out the most. There was some general advise for success in losing weight as well as the top three questionable trends.

Pick it up at the library - 3 or 4 pages.

Cheers.. Sue

[Suzanne 3FC]

Great issue! I just read the online version.


Diet Plans (ranked in order best to worst)
Volumetrics
Weight Watches
Jenny Craig
SlimFast (thanks nelie )
eDiets
Zone
Ornish
Atkins

Diet Books (ranked in order best to worst)
The Best Life Diet
Eat Drink and Weigh Less
YOU on a Diet
Abs Diet
South Beach
Sonoma
Ultra Metabolism

The whole article includes a lot of information on how they rated the diets, and includes some helpful information on dieting. It's a great issue

[nelie]

Suzanne, slimfast is between JC and ediets

[AquaWarlock]

WebMD just did a story on this, along with some of the diets' authors responses:

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20070...t-is-best-diet

[Glory87]

How interesting - I loved Ultra Metabolism!! I wonder why Ornish is ranked so low - too hard? (practically vegetarian and almost 100% whole foods).

*edit* I see - Ornish is ranked low because of 10% fat, well...that does make sense, I personally aim higher than that!

[nelie]

Interesting, so it sounds like they didn't actually have anyone follow the diets? Trust me, follow the JC diet for a couple of months and well you'll see why they have a high drop out rate

[AuntieMameNJ]

The WW Core plan is based on Volumetrics.

[InLimbo]

Saddly, I have been on many of these. My highest success was on WW but I had trouble maintaining it - always felt guilty if I ate outside my points range after hitting maintenance and then just dropped it totally. The low carbs give me a quick loss, but again, hard to maintain. I tried Best Life diet, but felt like I did not want the stress of following someone else's menus.