This is a guest post by Kim from the Weight Loser Blog.

For those that don’t know, Consumer Reports is a large, independent, and nonprofit publication that reviews and compares a wide range of consumer products and services. Consumer Reports also has their own testing labs and millions of dollars to spend each year testing and getting real feedback from real consumers.

Consumer Reports is probably best known for their reviews and testing of automobiles, but they also test loads of other products and services. Let’s take a look at a recent study they did on the best and worst diet plans. Here is their list of the top diet plans available:

Generally Good Diet Plans:

1. The Volumetrics Eating Plan – Maximizes amount of food per calorie.
2. Weight Watchers – Good for long term dieting.
3. Jenny Craig's – High dropout percentage, but good results.
4. Slim-Fast – Great for people that can’t cook and have little time.
5. eDiets.com – Tons of customizable plans.

Generally Not So Good Diet Plans:

1. The Zone Diet – Requires a lot of math and average weight loss was low.
2. Ornish Diet – Very low fat vegetarian diet with had an extremely high dropout percentage.
3. The Atkins Diet – Too restrictive for most, however many are less hungry on this diet.

If you are interested in losing weight and want to try out a diet plan, things can get complicated in a hurry. Hopefully these two lists will help you find the diet that is right for you and help you to shed some pounds!

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Comments (4)

No diets for me
written by MrCooker , June 02, 2008

Surprisingly the Atkins diet is in the "Not to good" diet plans. Didn't see that one coming.

Anyway, you won't see my following a diet. Just watch my food, hit the gym often and there you go. Weight loss and muscle gain all without a diet.

Not a Huge fan of Diets
written by Tom , June 02, 2008

I am not always a fan of many diets, especially so called fad diets. Like you said with the Atkins diet, it can be too restrictive. I think many diets are not necessarily geared towards long-term success, and some can be dangerous. This is not to say that there are not good diet programs, because there are numerous that do work and are healthy. However, I suggest using caution when jumping into a set program that requires a great deal of change.

Weight Loss Plans
written by Akavar , June 26, 2008

i thot the weight watchers one would be up there... my bro and sister both did it and had good results - they were always counting and checking their points on their smart phones.
-Jason

mmi
written by mmi , July 31, 2008

i often try to diet, sometimes success but not longer...

and then my weight was back.
sometimes i was so despreate.