The Sonoma Diet and the Mediterranean Diet: Are they really alike?
Believe it or not there are two diets out there that can help you lose weight without counting calories, or giving up carbs. This is the general basis behind the Sonoma Diet.
The Sonoma diet has been structured after the Mediterranean Diet but designed more toward weight loss results. In fact many people often confuse the two diets and think of them as one and the same, but there are a few key differences.
While both diets promote portion control, calorie control and believe in the theory that good food should be enjoyed and savored, the similarities stop there. While you can eat carbs on both diets, the Sonoma Diet is structured more like the Atkins and South Beach diet programs. However the Sonoma diet refers to its three phases as Waves. Wave 1 is designed to help you kick your sugar habit and like the other similar diets forbids fruit or alcohol for the ten days of the first phase. Most people will experience rapid weight loss in those first ten days and that often motivates them to stay on Wave one longer than they should.
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The Mediterranean Diet has no restriction phase. It does not require any type of deprivation at any point of the meal plan. Both the Sonoma Diet and the Mediterranean Diet consist of delicious menus and recipes to follow and make. Some people find that the Sonoma diet has time consuming recipes that require difficult to find, expensive ingredients while Mediterranean has affordable ingredients and offers tips on how to shorten cooking time. However, neither diet has difficult food restrictions except for Sonoma’s wave 1 of the diet where fruit and sugar are not allowed. After finishing wave 1, the Sonoma diet is very similar to the Mediterranean diet. Though the Sonoma diet instruct you to use 9 inch plates and how to fill it for lunch and dinner, the Mediterranean diet teaches you how to control your portions yourself without depending on sectioning off your plates. The Mediterranean also wants you to follow more of a plant friendly diet with very little meat.
While you can lose and will lose weight on the Mediterranean diet, you probably will not see as fast results as you will during the first ten days of the Sonoma diet. The Mediterranean diet believes in allowing yourself the right to enjoy all food as long as you maintain portion control. Both diets feel that not enough emphasize is placed on portion control and aim to get that across to their uses.
Do not use these programs if you are looking for a quick fix. With the exception of Wave 1 on Sonoma, slow and steady wins the race when it comes to losing weight on either of these plans. The slower the weight comes off, the less likely it will go back on.
