Dukan Diet

The newest weight loss research is providing insights into the best ways to shed pounds. Dr. Mehmet Oz offered some tips from those studies on how to boost your metabolism to burn calories faster on the Dr. Oz Show. His new diet even allows you to splurge on holiday treats by cycling among low-carb diet days, high protein days, high fat diet days, and “cheat” days. Can Dr. Oz’s new Fast Metabolism Weight Loss plan help you?

Dr. Oz explained that his new diet uses a concept known as carb-cycling. However, before you change your diet, check with your personal physician so that you can customize it to your own health needs.

Chris Powell, star of Extreme Weight Loss, helped Dr. Oz design the plan to provide two splurge days each week. They emphasize that by shifting diets throughout the week, from a high protein diet to a high fat diet to a high carb diet, you will burn fat faster and increase your metabolism. In addition, by following a low carb diet on most days, you will keep your body in prime condition.

One day each week, you’ll take a different approach with a Smart Carb diet. This day features foods that are high in fiber, such as oatmeal and berries for breakfast, whole grain bread and a bean salad at lunch, whole grain pasta with veggies for dinner, and fruit for snacks.

Two days a week, your high protein diet day will include three low carb diet meals with lots of protein and two snacks that combine protein and veggies. For example, you might have cheese and cucumber for a snack, and eat steak with cauliflower for dinner.

Your high fat diet days will occur two days a week. You’ll eat two snacks that contain fat, such as an apple with peanut butter. Your meals will all include fat as well, such as avocado with your lunch.

Be sure to schedule in advance. For example, you could have Saturday and Sunday as your two days of splurging, Monday and Tuesday as your two high protein days, Wednesday as your Smart Carb day, and Thursday and Friday as your healthy fat days.

Seeking a way to jump-start your weight loss? As the Inquisitr reported, Dr. Oz recently created a new Fat Flush plan. It’s designed to help you lose up to five pounds in just three days by cutting carbohydrates and encouraging you to sip a special fat flush broth.

What if you try to stick to your diet but keep getting derailed? First, check with your doctor. And then consider trying psychological weight loss tricks to stay on track, suggests Psych Central.

“What drives our behavior is not logic but brain biochemistry … We are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize — not rational beings with emotions. The more primitive, emotional brain generally has precedence over the newer, more rational brain,” points out Dr. Howard Rankin.

Some tips for avoiding sabotaging your diet goals include coming up with new ways to motivate yourself and developing a strong support system. Emotional support can make a dramatic difference in achieving your goals. And that support might include professional help. For example, if you’re anxious about going to the gym, consider hiring a professional trainer to get you started.

[Images Via Dr. Oz Show]