The 10 Most Popular Diets of 2016

From Delish

As part of its annual year in review, Google released its most-searched-for diets, and the results were pretty surprising. Some we were all too familiar with (waddup, taco cleanse?!)-and some left us, well, Googling like everyone else.

1. GOLO Diet

This is a 30-day, self-proclaimed "rescue plan" that claims to reverse your insulin resistance, boost your weight loss, reshape your body, get rid of your belly fat, and lower your metabolic age. But there are three huge components to it: supplements with every meal, a "metabolic fuel matrix"-AKA a hyper-specific meal plan-and a "GOLO roadmap" that includes an online forum to chat with others on the diet and a "perfect 5" exercise plan.

2. Taco Cleanse

We put this hilarious yet oddly satisfying and health-conscious meal plan for a week straight. Despite it requiring you eat tacos for every single meal (no, we're not kidding), the results were surprisingly awesome. Even Jennifer Aniston swears by it.

3. Military Diet Substitutes

Virtually a crash diet, this meal plan is about eating the bare minimum. You can essentially only eat the following: coffee, grapefruit, peanut butter, canned tuna, eggs, whole-grain bread, banana, green beans, carrots, broccoli, cheddar cheese, cottage cheese, and Saltine crackers. Lame.

4. Atkins 40

Kim K famously lost all the "baby weight" from her pregnancy while on an Atkins plan, inspiring one of our editors to put the low-carb concept to the test. The verdict? It's strict and hard to follow if you aren't able to prepare your own meals (the pre-made frozen options are pretty blasé) but no doubt effective.

5. Ketogenic Diet Foods

This is an extremely high fat diet. If you try this out, you're consuming 10 percent carbs (less than 20 grams total for the day!), 20 percent protein, and a whopping 70 percent fat-because you want your body to use fat for energy. The catch is they have to be good fats, like from avocado and nuts. You can't have any rice, pasta, beans, or bread, and definitely no sugar whatsoever. "You're basically stuck with vegetables," our social media editor, who's taking it for a spin, said. "But you get to eat bacon and Ranch so... worth it?" (Pssst...this is also the diet Tim Tebow follows.)

6. Dissociated Diet

The premise for this meal plan is a theory that states that when some nutrients are ingested together they slow down the digestive process. When you're following this diet, you can't consume acidic foods (proteins) with alkaline foods (carbs). Fruits and vegetables are the main premise of this program, while starches and fats are very restricted.

7. The Wild Diet

Based on a book by Abel James, this eating style "goes beyond Paleo" to "burn fat, beat cravings, and drop 20 pounds in 40 days." Seems a little too good to be true until you read that it's about "feasting" and consuming "whole foods in the quantities that they naturally exist," which means you're not restricting calories or cutting out one food group (other than processed stuff).

8. Pizza Diet

Some diets just don't make sense at all, and this one is the epitome of insanity. Eating saucy, cheesy, totally greasy pizza at every meal for five days straight should not equal losing weight. (And it essentially doesn't.)

9. Dukan Diet

This one claims to "redesign your eating habits" and "permanently maintain your weight." It's a high-protein, low-fat, and low-carb diet that includes only 100 foods. The four phases of this program sound scary: Attack, Cruise, Consolidate, Stabilize. Like, what exactly are you doing to your body? You also have to pay $30 each month to gain access to the instructions, find recipes, track your progress, and get nutritionist advice.

10. Mono Diet

This is probably the most sketchy concept of all fad diets. It's been debunked by countless food and fitness publications because it suggests you only eat one healthy fruit-like 50 bananas-all day every day.

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