Best Diet To Keep Weight Off

When it comes to losing weight there are almost as many diet plans as stars in the sky. But in the ongoing debate over what works best, one type of diet seems to come out ahead.

Most diets don't work all that well. Seems like every week we hear about a new diet that's better than the rest. The truth is almost all of them help you lose weight right off the bat, but don't do much to help you keep that weight off later on. And for most of us that's the goal, to not only shed the weight but to keep it from coming back.

But a large European study found that diets consisting of high protein foods and ones with a low glycemic index were best at keeping that extra weight off. Part of the key to the success was that people on these diets were much more likely to stick with their program and keep from gaining back weight.

Although they don't endorse any commercial diet program, the researchers involved in this study say the commercial diet that most closely resembles the best diet in their study is the South Beach diet. But other experts say not to forget exercise in all this as well--while your increasing protein and cutting back on refined, processed carbohydrates. That seems to be the big key in losing and keeping that extra weight off.