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?

[dontpetthesweatythings]

Yes Cozie avoiding Sugar (as much as you can anyway, it's in EVERYTHING) is a big help. I don't have mid afternoon crashes anymore and I am certain my skin looks better, I'm prone to spots usually.

My fitness pal also helped me to keep on track with a sensible amount of claories a day. Sometimes you just don't realise how many calories/how much sugar or fat a food contains. And portion size. Don't fill your plate to bursting.

[StuntGirl]

I'm so much more aware of portion sizes and the nutritional value of the foods I eat now, I just genuinely didn't have a clue about it before.

[Viviennemary]

Years and years ago I lost weight with weightwatchers. Have tried a few times since and had no success. I think the latest one from them is dire. I've lost at Slimming World but it was hard going. Took me a year to lose a stone. I tried Cambridge and lost a stone in a few weeks. But then went on holiday came off the diet and put it nearly all back on over a period of a few months. Tried low carbing but that's not working either. Still looking for something doable.

[MarysBeard]

I am obsessed with food. Dieting - especially counting.every.bloody.thing.I.eat. only exacerbates it.

[ChuffMuffin]

Just under 30lb lost thanks to Cambridge diet. Really made me think about the shite I was eating.

I now weigh less than when I stopped the diet and there is no way in hell I'm ever putting that 30lb back on again. I feel amazing.

[chandellina]

Fewer carbs such as bread, nuts for snacks, lean protein and veg at most meals - should do it in no time. Also get a Jillian Michaels dvd like 30 day shred and do it every day.

[hazeldog]

Im getting baby weight off right now i use a pedometer and stick to around 2000 calories ( my fitness pal makes it easy to keep count) and 10000 steps a day. It really is excersize that does it though. Twice I've been 15-16 stone due to medication and a thyroid problem
and lost 5-6 stone in 6 months by excersizing and keeping track of what I'm eating so I don't go overboard. Any diet that cuts out foods or leaves you hungry is doomed to fail. And sugar makes you fat not fat.

[Fluffycloudland77]

The rosemary conley hip and thigh diet, 19 years ago now but it changes how you eat forever.

It's probably really dated now but it worked for me.

I've just done the shred, very hard but only 20 minutes. The cat was very concerned about me.

[SoleSource]

Slimming World, WW, Cambridge or Lighter Life.

[rainydaysarebad]

When I was in university, I remember our lecturer telling us a story about a diet pill that became really popular back in the 90's (might have been 80's can't remember). Anyway, it involved taking a blue pill on day one and then waiting 3-4 weeks until you'd lost your desired weight, and then taking a yellow pill. That's it.

It turned out, that in the blue pill, there was a tapeworm egg. Once ingested it would hatch and the tapeworm would eat alot of the food you ate, so you'd lose weight. The second pill would kill the tapeworm.

This tapeworm diet is illegal now, but this is why I would never trust a diet pill.

The best way to lose weight is to 1. Eat less 2. Eat fresh fruit and vegetables 3. Cut out the sugar. You just need the mental will power to do it.

[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.

[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.

[FrenchRuby]

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

[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.

[Acumens100]

tapeworm myth

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[CheCazzo]

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[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.

[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.