A balanced diet sounds easy, but you cant just wake up one morning and be on a balanced diet, initially inorder to lose weight one has to go on a deit plan or something of that sort. People find protien diets a lot easier than other diets and it really works and the best thing about it is that you lose weight around the belly area which is a "female dog" but you gotta be very careful cause and follow it correctly and make sure to have as much water as you can LOOOT OF WATER while you're on this diet. Normally after you get done with it (2 weeks) you lose anywhere from 10-18 pounds and your eating habits change dramaticallly!!!
google south beach diet and read the plan. It has a list of things you can eat and all.
things to eat: cheese (doesnt matter if it's low fat or not), eggs, daal, nuts, milk, fish, chicken, beef, vegetables
things to stay away from: bread (white and bran) rice, roti, oil, ghee, coffee, tea, and all that. the good thing is that you can eat upto 6 times a day and you wont gain any weight.
Hope this helps!!!
im not sure if i agree with the statements in red. Protein contains calories, though not as many as one gram of fat does..but saying that you can be on protein diet without gaining any weight is i think inaccurate. The only way you can lose your weight is if you're burning more calories than you're eating. Eating eggs, daal, nuts milk, fish, chicken, beef, vegetables as you said will result in gaining weight ( more of muscle mass than fat ) if you eat 6 small meals of all of these combination for 2 weeks.. but like i said earlier, you can also lose weight as long as you're burning off more calories than you're consuming throughout the day. I'd also like to add to this since we're at losing weight topic.. one can also lose weight by eating healthy fats.
Talking about balance diet and not eating complex carbs or carbs in general doesnt make any sense. Bread, coffee, tea, rice, whole wheat is all good and should be included in a balanced diet.
If the only reason one is trying to be on high protein diet is so that they can lose weight.. well, losing weight has a lot to do with balanced diet and a lot of hard work.. i'm sure no one here wants to lose weight and want to have loose skin or dry or dead kind of skin...
Eat pretty much everything ( except the bad fats ofcourse ) in moderate amount and burn more calories off than you consume on that day.
PS: being on protein diet will not help you lose weight around your belly. Spot reduction isnt possible with either workout or diet.