Are you on a diet? If so, food is at the forefront of your mind. You’re eating less, so the foods you eat should be tasty, and good for you too.

Perhaps you’re wondering whether there are any specific diet foods which you should be eating. Yes, there are. Let’s look at some of them now.

1. Stock up on Vegetables and Fruit

Here’s the good news about vegetables: most vegetables have very few calories (potatoes excepted) so you can fill your plate with vegetables at lunch and dinner, and know that you’re sticking to your diet.

Since you’re eating less, use your diet to get creative about what you eat. Try vegetables and fruits you’ve never eaten before — you can try some of the tropical fruits like papaya for example, which are not only good for you but which taste great too.

2. The Diet Super-Foods You Should Be Eating

In the press recently there’s been a lot of talk about super foods for your diet. Foods which are often mentioned in this context include: blueberries, broccoli, salmon, and green tea. These foods are certainly great additions to your diet, especially green tea, which has the effect of suppressing your appetite too. Try drinking a cup of green tea before each meal, you’ll find that it definitely helps you to feel full sooner.

3. Remember Oatmeal: Millions of Racehorses Can’t Be Wrong

Racehorses are fed on oats, and oats are a great vitality food for people too.

Here’s one of my favorite diet foods: oatmeal. Oatmeal is great for your vascular system and heart, and it’s wonderful when you’re on a diet because it’s very satisfying.

In the winter, soak rolled oats overnight then put them in the microwave for instant oatmeal. In summer, eat your oatmeal in the form of muesli.

Losing weight doesn’t have to be difficult or boring. Use your dieting time to think about what you’re eating, and explore exciting new foods.

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Want to lose weight and get healthy at the same time? Cottage cheese diets have been around for decades, usually in the form of "3 day diets". However, cottage cheese is a valuable addition to any weight loss program: it’s packed with protein and calcium ensuring that you get great nutrition for minimal calories.

1. Cottage Cheese for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

If you’re on a weight-loss diet, consider adding cottage cheese to your meals.

You can use cottage cheese as a replacement for any form of protein. In addition you can eat it at any time as a snack: it makes a low-calorie treat.

If you want to incorporate cottage cheese to your breakfast menus here are some tips. Cottage cheese is very bland, so it mixes well in smoothies. If you’re making a banana smoothie with skim milk, add a tablespoon of cottage cheese to bulk up the protein. You can also mix cottage cheese with a sugar replacement, then sprinkle it with cinnamon, and enjoy it on toast.

For lunch, add cottage cheese to tuna and pack it into a bread roll. You can also use cottage cheese as a sandwich filling when you mix it with salsa.

For dinner, mix cottage cheese with cheddar cheese you’ve grated, and use it as a dip for potato chunks you’ve sprayed with oil and roasted in the oven.

2. How Long Can You Stay on the Cottage Cheese Diet?

There a many forms of a three day cottage cheese diet — all of them are extremely low calorie, so don’t stay on any of these diets for longer than three days. Very short very low-calorie diets are bad for your health.

The best way to add cottage cheese to your weight loss program is to use it as part of your everyday diet.

3. Health Benefits of Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese has around 200 calories per serving — just 120 calories per serving if you choose the low-fat version. It also offers you around 30 grams  of protein per serving, and is a rich source of calcium.

The biggest benefit of cottage cheese is that it’s a great source of protein, and if you eat protein at every meal you’ll find that you’re less hungry, and suffer from fewer food cravings.

Try cottage cheese — if you’re on a weight-loss program it’s a wonderful food which you should include in your diet.

Eat Stop Eat: the "no diet" way to lose weight for good — and keep it off

  Silly weight-loss diets, like all fads, come and go. If you’re tempted by one of these dieting disasters (perhaps you’ve tried one, and been less than satisfied with the results), here are the alternatives.

1. The Cabbage Soup Diet. This weight-loss diet seemed like such a great idea: eat nothing but cabbage soup for a week and watch the pounds melt away. However, by the second or third day, the sight of the soup had most of us running to the vending machines. (Not only was the diet monotonous, many of us reacted to cabbage in a flatulent way.)

The alternative is to make sure you load up on a variety of healthy, non-starchy vegetables at meals and snack time.

2. The Cookie Diet. This weight-loss diet sounds like every dieter’s dream: Eat a cookie and lose weight. However, depending on which version of the diet you follow, you may end up with cookies with unknown ingredients and dubious nutritional value. In addition, you may end up paying exorbitant prices for cookies that taste like cardboard — or worse.

The alternative is to allow yourself a small snack (i.e., a small "real" cookie) each day and focus the rest of the day on healthy foods.

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3. The Magic Berry Diet. This weight-loss diet, touted on many talk shows, says that by ingesting this magical fruit, you will "rev your metabolism" and drop pounds incredibly fast.  While the jury is still out on whether this particular diet really works, the product can be very expensive.

The alternative is to add at least one piece of fruit to every meal to satisfy your craving for sweets. To rev up your metabolism, add more exercise to your day: Walk for at least 30 minutes every day. Play with your kids. Park a little further from the door.

4. The Juice Fast. This is the weight-loss diet that claims that celebrities lose weight by going on a three-day juice fast. However, the creators of the diet claim that their particularly expensive juice is the best one for you.  

The alternative is to use natural juices for only a day or two to get rid of excess water weight. You’ll save money and still lose weight in an emergency situation. Juice fasts are not meant for long-term use.

5.  The No-Carbohydrate Diet. This weight-loss diet involves eliminating all bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and cereal. While it’s true that cutting back on carbohydrates can help you lose weight quickly, totally eliminating them can affect your metabolism and your memory.

The alternative is to cut back on processed foods, such as white bread and white rice, substituting them with whole grain versions.

6. The Diet Pill Diet. The various versions of this weight-loss diet say you can eat all you want, whenever you want and still lose weight — as long as you ingest this miracle pill or potion. Of course, these products are expensive and you’ll likely regain all the weight you lost once you stop taking the pill. Further, many of these diet products have "secret" ingredients that could cause health problems down the road.

The alternative is to take your time and lose weight sensibly: Eat a balanced diet, cut out snacks and second-helpings and be sure to add some daily exercise.

7. The Cereal Diet. Some cereal companies have promoted the notion that by eating their supposedly nutritious cereal twice daily can help you drop pounds. The commercials touting these weight-loss diets sure sound convincing. However, once you read the nutrition labels you’ll find that the cereal actually does not offer much by way of vitamins, minerals or other nutrients.

The alternative is to eat a balanced diet, emphasizing proteins, fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

In a nutshell, you don’t need expensive, special products or exclusive weight-loss diets to achieve your goal. Eat healthy foods, get some moderate exercise in every day and over time you will lose weight and live a healthier life.

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