To ask which diets you have had success losing weight with?

[ophelia275]

I want to lose a small amount of weight (about 10 pounds) but get rid of my mummy tummy. I intend to do a bit of exercise when I get the chance but focus on my diet.

There are so many out there. I am thinking more along the lines of a paleo/natural food diet (Marisa Peer style) but also thinking about a low carb diet. However, I know others have had good success with Slimming World.

So, can I ask what diet has helped you lose weight and you enjoyed doing?

[frankie001]

I started sw in July. Lost 3.5 stone and needs to do the same again. Love it, just have to be organised.

[manicinsomniac]

Any diet will work if the total calories are below you BMR or TDEE or whatever it is.

I maintain a very low weight by eating fruit, vegetables, chicken, fish, eggs and oil for cooking.

But I lost to the same weight, a bit lower and much much lower by all of these diets:

1. The jellybaby and marshmallow diet - used it when I was a dancer - great when you need loads of energy but can't look bloated in a leotard.
   
2. Low Carb diets
   
3. Fruit and Veg only diets
   
4. 2-4-6-8 diets (alternate between 200 - 800 calories of anything)
   
5. fasting
   
   and lots more. As long as the calories are low the food stuff doesn't matter.
   
   Not true for health though!

[FurryDogMother]

I lost 5 stone about 8 years ago by low carbing, and kept it off for 3 years, after which I got complacent and the carbs (and weight) crept back. Back on it now, and the weight's coming off again - plus I'd forgotten a) how much I enjoy this way of eating, it's not like being on a diet, I don't feel restricted, and b) how much better I feel over all - more energetic, skin and hair improved, sleeping better. The first two weeks are a bit of a struggle, but after that I find it plain sailing - and won't be getting complacent again! Lesson learned :)

[goldglitter]

I lost over 2 stone with weight watchers. I also weighed my food especially rice/potatoes which helped me realise I didn't need as much food as my eyes wanted. Lots of water and veg - I limited fruit and still enjoyed a treat and 2 glasses of wine over the weekend.

[KaraokeQueenOfTheNorth]

Urg zombie thread!! Sorry :-(

[KaraokeQueenOfTheNorth]

Calorie counting is the only thing that works for me, it's the only thing flexible enough to fit into my life. and it is really simple, eat less calories than you use = weight loss.

[HairyGrotter]

I lost 4st with WW but put a stone back on, am now on The Harcombe Diet and just completed phase 1 and lost 9lbs in 5 days. I'm on to phase 2 now and find it simple and scientific. The first phase is hard as you are weaning your body off processed food and sugars (caffeine was my biggest sin) so you feel a little rough for 3-4 days but it works

[Groovee]

Slimming world with a 3.5st loss in 10 months. I loosely follow that now but am doing my fitness pal which calorie counts and I've lost 22lb so far.

[elleephant]

Also took up some minor walking ( again on basis whatever I did had to be sustainable) so got rid of car parking and now bus and walk 15-20m back and forth to work each day.

Should add ewas exhausted for first 10 days or so but then body seemed to adjust.

[elleephant]

I previously lost about 4 stone with ww, put on about 5 pounds on my lowest weight and stayed there for years, then met dh and had e babies, tried to lose the stone and sa half myself with "healthy eating" etc, failed miserably, went ack to ww at end of Sep and it's now gone. Found new plan much easier.

As others have said, for long term success you cannot view it as a diet but rather "the way you eat now". My portion sizes were just too big and it helps a lot that I can eat as much fruit as a fancy to fill a gap. But I'm not a big fruit lover so easy for me to genuinely use it just when I'm hungry between meals.

[RedHelenB]

The good thing about Slimming World is you don't have to pay out when you are in target & that's a good incentive to stay there!I started it about a year ago & I took about 6 months to lose just over a stone but that was in August & I've been in target ever since. I don't stick to the plan but I have found it has made me want to "binge eat" less.

[CheCazzo]

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[BlueGoddess]

Slimming world for me too. I've lost 1.5 stone in 10 weeks and have definatly been educated by it- it's more about changing the way you eat and exercise rather than depriving yourself.

[chrome100]

I too want to lose about half a stone. My diet is currently very carb heavy
Everyone recommends dropping the carbs but I've tried that before and had such little energy I could barely walk. I do have an active lifestyle (cycle to work and back every day, swimming five times a week and hiking at weekend) and I just can't do sport without carbs. How do people manage?

[MarshaBrady]

That is a few lapses because I chose to at the time but easy to go back to low carb.

It makes me feel good not rubbish or like an onerously restrictive diet which is important for the long term.

[MarshaBrady]

Not really a diet as I have been doing it for ages, with a few croissants etc on holidays.

Low carb. The best about this for me is all the sugar it cuts out. So no cereal, no low fat food, no processed stuff.

Protein; lots of fish, eggs, tuna, fillet steak, rost chicken, sashimi as a treat and lots of vegetables. Cream and butter. Energy levels are good.

[Acumens100]

tapeworm myth

[rogersmellyonthetelly]

IMO there is only one diet which works. That's the one where you expend more calories exercising/living than you are eating.
It's often easier said than done, but I generally find that eating less butter/cholocate/sugar and getting my arse to the gym a couple of times a week is enough to lose weight at an encouraging rate.

[FrenchRuby]

Slimming World for me. I've lost 6 Stone in the past 16 months.

[GhostShip]

I find 'diets' don't work long term. It shouldn't be 'I'm on a diet' it should be 'I eat a varied healthy diet'.

Don't do any of these faddy diets. We all know how to eat healthy, it's common sense. I found that eating healthy foods, limiting myself to 1500 calories and going to the gym regularly made the weight drop off.

[Fluffy1234]

I went from 13 and a half stone to 9 stone low carbing last year. It took 8 months to lose the weight. I didn't follow a particular diet, just cut the carby bit out of each meal and only snacked on protein.
I eat carbs now and have stayed the same weight since Christmas.