This blog, the best diet for you, is put together because I don’t believe that there is one diet which is made for everyone. In the course of my life I have lost more weight than the weight of the average person. And for this reason, I have a lot of personal experience when it comes to dieting. There’ve been times in my life when I was doing asplit routine, going to the gym six days a week, three hours a work out and there have been times when I only did yoga for exercise.

I guess my obsession with diet began when I was in college. I was working as the chief of maintenance at a Ramada Inn to pay for my 10 years of college, and while sitting in my office one day, I suddenly realized that while I had taken vitamins regularly for years, I had no idea what they were. After about a quarter of a million pages of study I learned all about fats, proteins, carbohydrates, enzymes, minerals, and a whole bunch of other things that I hadn’t even realized existed. At that point I invented a diet. This may have been the perfect diet for me, and it produced miraculous results. I must have had hundreds of requests for my secret. Well the essentials of the diet were: 1) first calculate the amount of protein that should be consumed by a person who weighed your desired weight. 2) now adjust the fats and carbohydrates to that amount of protein, according to a formula that I had derived. 3) now do a bunch of other things that I don’t remember such as take polyunsaturated oil and lecithin with every meal.

Now the problem with this diet was that in those days computers filled entire rooms, instead of desktops. The amount of math required just to figure out what to eat for one day dissuaded every person that eagerly asked me for my secret. Maybe I was ahead of my time, it wasn’t entirely unlike the zone diet which came out 20 years later, but the problem was it was too complicated to be followed by the average person.

In choosing a diet you have to select one that you can, and will follow. It could be the greatest diet in the world, but if you don’t do it — so what. Now their are a lot of workable diets, but they all have different degrees of workability for each person. There are a lot of reasons for this, some as simple as if you don’t like meat don’t try to do the Atkins diet. Some are more complex, such as food allergies, for example I’m allergic to bread, or more precisely gluten, so any diet that included bread for sandwiches would not work very well for me. And some people’s metabolism just work better with one particular diet than another.

The point is that when you’re looking for the best diet for you, it is important that you gather all the data and sift through it until you find a few choices that you like. Then you need to try them and see how they work, because in my view point every body is different. You really never know what will work for you until you try it. I remember arguing one day when a coworker told me about a low carbohydrate diet. I had never heard of training your body to use fat before, so I laughed at her. I just couldn’t see how something like that could work.

Shortly thereafter, while thumbing through a copy of “Muscle and Fitness” magazine I saw an article where the author talked about getting in shape using the low carb meal plan. Now while the magazine publisher was very sure to put a disclaimer after the article, I began to think that there just might be something in my coworker’s argument. In searching for data, I found the “Anabolic Diet”, a diet developed by Canadian doctor as an attempt to help natural bodybuilders. I decided to try it because I had put on a little weight. I lost 60 pounds in three months, but at that point something went out with my metabolism in the diet stopped working for me. Since I had about 180 pounds of lean body mass at the time, it didn’t really bother me, but I did find it interesting.

To this day I’m not totally convinced that low-carb diets are good for you in the long run, but I do have to have to admit that they probably are one of the most effective diets for losing weight. But again that was for me, I had a friend who tried a low-carb diet and couldn’t do anything but gain weight. so when anyone tells you that their diet is the absolute best diet for everyone, take that with a grain of salt. I don’t believe that such a diet exists. Now since I’m a very curious person, I would actually love for someone to prove me wrong on that.

So what I will be doing in this blog, is to attempt to present you with all the information so that you can find the best diet for you.