Tried and tested diets!

[Campervanlife4me]

Which diets have you done that have actually been successful. Tried and tested diets that work?

Oh, and I think any 'diet' (hate that word btw) that keeps insulin production to a minimum is probably going to be a win for most people in terms of both health and weight. But again, maybe not all.

5:2 (though I did 4:3).
I lost 2.5 stones in 3 months. I did the diet properly - didn’t cheat, didn’t snack on non-fasting days. I did have the occasional takeaway on non-fasting days though 😀 - without disruption to my weight loss.
I still occasionally use the diet to control my weight - fasting every now and again.
Dieting is a state of mind - you have to get your head in the right place for it to succeed.

I’ve gone completely gluten free( for health reasons) even checking tomato sauce, other items for wheat, rye, oats and barley and malt products
Totally lactose free
Sugar free also..

A side effect is that I’m losing weight

I go from 7 pm till 10 am or later fasting.
Only snacks are little oranges or a handful of grapes

I’m 53 and have just lost 34lbs in the Fast 800( aka blood sugar diet) , I plan to maintain on 5:2, ( but with a few more calories on fast days).
I train x3 / week.
There are some great threads on here that have kept me going. One of them , the 5:2 thread I think has a link to the original Horizon documentary that launched the 5:2. It’s very inspiring.

As you only have a stone to lose I’d do the Fast 800 for a fortnight then go onto 5:2.

Best of luck

and ingrained habits are very hard to break.

They are less hard to break once you are eating right. Which means very little added sugar or simple carbs in my case. Once these are cut out and you eat adequate protein and fat with plenty of non starchy veg then you really do feel satiated after meals. I was never so hungry as I was when I was eating wrong. However now I can easily fast if I want to. Regarding the reeducation, that's what it can takeoff people to give something new a go for long enough to reset the system. If you don't believe it is going to work it is much easier to give up. Research can help with nurturing the belief it will work.

an obsessive topic for millions of people.

It's easy to get very enthusiastic when you see something working. It seems too good to be true. You crave more of it and want to continue. You want to tell everybody about it.

I've lost 1 1/4 stone with WW since Feb. I'm a slow loser but at least I'm not getting any baggy skin!

It's great as no food is forbidden, you just have to be accountable for everything you eat. Choosing the 'right' foods to allow for treats becomes a habit so I can see it being sustainable once I hit goal, which I'm currently halfway to.

By far the most successful diet I've ever been on was low carb/atkins. I did it about 10 years ago and lost a shit ton of weight. Since then I was able to keep my weight from going too far up the scale by just going back on a low carb diet every time I got over 11 stone.

In the last year or so I seem to have lost the plot and can't bear the thought of dieting but then again can't bear to be so fat (probably over 12stone now but afraid to get on the scale).

I think I'm just going to have to do the low carb thing again if I ever want to be slimmer. Carbs are not my friends. Low carb is the only thing that's ever worked. Its carbs or clothes unfortunately.

I'm doing intermittent fasting, fasting for roughly 16 hours a day (I started at 12 hours, set my aim for 14 hours, and then found I stopped feeling hungry until about the 16 hour mark so have settled there), been doing it for just over a month and lost 5kg

It's easy to get very enthusiastic when you see something working. It seems too good to be true. You crave more of it and want to continue. You want to tell everybody about it.

Tell that to all the people who have successfully lost weight and put it back on! It's easy to get very enthusiastic for a while. Not so easy to remain permanently enthusiastic for the rest of your life. Low carbing, for example, is incredibly effective, but not many people will happily give up bread/cake/chocolate forever, and reintroducing it in moderation is a slippery slope. Been there, got the t-shirt.

Tell that to all the people who have successfully lost weight and put it back on!

I've done that before after I'd had D.C. Once you bite the bullet it is easy to get enthusiastic again. You don't have to give chocolate, bread etc up forever if at all. You just find a level whereby you don't put weight on eating them. It maybe you eat a small amount of bread everyday and you only eat chocolate and dessert on special occasions. That's fine with me. I enjoy dessert more when it is something special and I have expensive tastes in chocolate.