The Atkins Diet The Atkins diet is based on high protein, low-carbohydrate fare. It allows all of meat and vegetables you want with no restrictions on fats. Fruits are kept to a minimum. Bread, pasta, and other grain products are restricted. Many people have had weight loss success on Atkins’ Diet because it offers many delicious food options. However, it can be high in fat, possible harmful over long periods of time and low in fiber and calcium.

The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet This is another reduced carbohydrate diet that allows meats, dairy, vegetables, fruits, and grain products, but restricts all other carbohydrates. It tends to be quite high in fat and saturated fat.

The Choose to Lose Diet This is a low fat diet that allows you to eat from all of major food groups. You are only restricted by a "fat budget" that you choose how to spend. Carbohydrates are allowed, as well as lean meat, poultry, seafood, fruits, vegetables, bread and pasta. The Choose to Lose Diet allows an ample amount of fruits and vegetables and it is low in saturated fat and it provides a fairly healthy eating plan for fast weight loss.

The DASH Diet The DASH diet allows for a high carbohydrate intake, with moderate amounts of fat and protein. It was originally designed as a low-pressure diet. The DASH diet follows principles of Food Pyramid, but it suggests more servings of fruits and vegetables (up to nine daily,) and more dairy servings (two to three daily servings of low fat or nonfat dairy.) The DASH diet may require too much food for most people to see weight loss results.

The Eat More Weigh Less Diet This diet is an extremely low-fat diet that focuses on vegetarian fare. It allows fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, egg whites, and some nonfat dairy products. This is a very restricted diet that limits even healthy foods like lean organic meats, poultry, and low-fat dairy products. This diet is great for vegetarians, but it is low in calcium, and it may be too difficult for most people to follow long enough to see weight loss results.

In light of recent films like “What Bleep Do We Know?” and a collective surge in awareness of Energy therapies and theories, one question that clients repeatedly ask me in my coaching practice is, “Is nutrition really that important?”

My short answer is that, yes, it's all important. The Modality of body is not any less or more important than any of other Modalities.

The longer answer is that when you take care of physical, you send a message to Higher Self, sometimes referred to as Observer, that you are willing to take care of your Self; that you appreciate this physical manifestation of spirit or Energy realm. That, in turn, puts energy in motion. It's self- nurturing on a symbolic level. Everything physical is symbolic of spiritual realm. So, you symbolically nurture spirit by taking optimal care of body.

When clients become lackadaisical in their efforts to maintain optimum health, instead focusing almost exclusively on spiritual or emotional health, their physical health inevitably begins to decline. This, in turn affects their emotional health, and begins cycle of an overall decline in total health. Each Modality is intricately interwoven and interconnected with others. Any change, whether perceived to be large or small in one Modality, has a resounding impact on all.

Each Modality has octopus-like tentacles reaching into other four Modalities, changing and altering their fundamental state based on how optimally you are functioning at any given time. As such, nourishment or negligence of physical has deep and resonating repercussions in all areas of Self. This then, has direct and immediate implications on your capacity to actualize your full potential.

Each one of us has ability to achieve greatness in our lifetime. The only way this is even a remote possibility, is to ensure optimum or peak functioning in each of Five Modalities. This requires diligence, dedication, and a deep commitment to bring to bear all that you are capable of conceiving.

Admittedly, this is no easy task in a culture that not only breeds mediocrity, but often celebrates it as an accomplishment. Each day, each moment, that we are plugged into our Overarch, is a challenge to greatness that we are capable of bringing to fruition. Focusing energy, creativity, and thought on our inner lives requires a conscious effort to tear ourselves away from seductive pull of a consumer- driven world.

We receive and internalize billions of messages every day to look at ourselves from outside, as opposed to looking out from behind our eyes. We are inundated with media, advertising, and images encouraging us to consume rather than create; to accept rather than challenge. Our profound spiritual connectedness to nature, to one another, to our deeper and higher selves, is replaced with stagnant dogma. None of this is an accident. All of these factors jointly produce effect of an insatiable soul-hunger; a hunger for which we are then offered material “cures.”