If you’re looking for a diet plan that will finally get you the results you want in in the least amount of time while still being healthy, you’re in luck!

I’ve taken the liberty of doing a little research to find the top 5 diet plans women have been seeing worthy transformations. While we might be able to see the physical changes in appearance, I’m sure there are many invisible changes and benefits we can’t.

This is only a short list of some popular effective diets proven to get results and the basic concept behind them.

So without further ado…

1. The Atkins Diet

Claim to Fame: The goal of the Atkins diet is to lose weight by a avoiding carbohydrates and controlling insulin levels. You can still eat as much fat and protein as you want though!

Main idea: According to Dr. Atkins, the main reason for putting on weight is the consumption of refined carbohydrates, especially sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and flour.

How it works: When a person is on the Atkins Diet, their body’s metabolism switches from burning glucose, or sugar, as fuel to burning using stored body fat. This switching is called ketosis. You’ll see this mentioned over and over as a common principle in other diets as well.

The Atkins Diet has four main goals.

• lose weight
• maintain weight loss
• achieve good health
• lay the permanent groundwork for disease prevention

2. The Paleo Diet

Claim to Fame: Doesn’t require counting calories and allows you to eat until you’re satisfied.

Main Idea: If a caveman (or cavewoman) didn’t eat it, neither should you.

At some point humans evolved from hunter-gatherers to farmers. When this happened our diets shifted from eating meat, fruits and vegetables, to a diet consisting of primarily grains such as bread, pasta, rice, etc. Some think it’s the healthiest way to eat since it’s based on our history and what the hunter-gatherers of early civilization ate.

How it works: Still very popular today, the paleo diet suggests only eating things that the earliest of humans might have eaten such as meat, grains, vegetables, and fruit, but excluding dairy, grain, sugar, and processed foods. Some experts say that although our diets have changed, our genetics have not and still need time to catch up.

The secret to the Paleo diet is this…we know carbohydrates turn into sugar to be used for energy, so you consume as little as possible. When there’s no more sugar to use as fuel, your body is forced to burn fat as an energy source. So by lowering your carbohydrate and sugar consumption, you’re forcing your body to burn fat through a process called ketogenesis.

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3. The Zone Diet

Claim to Fame: Dr. Barry Sears, who developed the Zone diet, claims it is closely linked to ideas of human evolution, with the aim of preventing “diet-controlled inflammation.” The benefits include healthier weight, less sickness, and slower aging.

Main Idea: Just 8,000 years ago, grains, bread, and pasta were not part of the human diet. Human genes change as their environment changes, but this is a slow process.

Therefore, even 100,000 years is a relatively short period in evolutionary terms. The Zone diet takes this into account and provides a diet plan based on what foods we should eat, according to our genetic makeup.

How it works: The Zone diet involves reducing intake of carbohydrates to ensure healthy insulin levels, and consuming plenty of omega-3 fatty acids and polyphenols. The goal of this diet is to reduce inflammation.

• Meal plans make use of lean meats and natural carbohydrates.
• Reducing inflammation is the primary goal.
• Critics of the diet point out that fewer carbohydrates can lead to a lower fiber intake.
• Maintaining insulin levels within what Dr. Sears calls a “therapeutic zone,” makes it easier to burn excess body fat and keep it off permanently.

4. The 2 Week Diet

Claim to Fame: A Foolproof, Science-Based System that’s Guaranteed to Melt Away All Your Unwanted Stubborn Body Fat in Just 14 Days…No Matter How Hard You’ve Tried Before!

Main Idea: The 2 Week Diet contains scientific methods used by bodybuilders, celebrities and fitness gurus. It uses little-known techniques to help your body melt away unwanted weight in 2 weeks.

How it Works: When we eat, the fat we consume is broken down into fatty acids. The fatty acids are small and can travel through cell walls to be used as energy. Fat that isn’t used as energy is returned and stored in are fat cells. These fatty acids later form into triglycerides that are then too large to pass through the cell walls to be used as energy. The triglycerides become what is known as stubborn body fat.

By targeting those triglycerides, they can be broken back down into fatty acids that can be used as energy.

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5. The Ketogenic “Keto” Diet

Claim to Fame: This high-fat, average-protein, low-carb diet has been used in medicine primarily to treat difficult-to-control epilepsy in children.

Main Idea: This diet promotes the metabolic formation of ketone bodies by causing the body to use fat as its primary energy source.

How it Works: The word “keto” comes from the molecule your body produces known as ketone. When there’s a low supply of glucose (sugar) in the body, ketones are used as an alternative energy source. Sugar is the body’s preferred source of energy. Since sugar is produced by carbohydrates, when there’s a low amount of carbs in the body, it turns to fatty acids into ketones for energy.

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Some of these diets are similar in the fact that they’re low carbohydrate focused. This could potentially cause brain fog and low energy levels until your body adapts to the changes in diet. As always, you should consult your physician before undergoing any new diets.

Here’s the truth about the Ketogenic Diet.

I hope these helped give you an idea and good luck on your journey to a healthier lifestyle!