To ask those on Cambridge/Slimming world etc diets their weight loss?

[Ghostlife]

Looking to find out week 1 loses and then average loss after that.

I am done with long term diets for now.

Rosie several of the diets have bars and ready meals one I have looked at is Exante. Another way is to fast every other day instead of 5:2.

Cambridge, 12 lb in the first week, 7 stone in 9 months (could have been easily 10 stone but had a lot of days off here and there) another 5 stone to lose

Rosieposy slim and save have lots of other non-milky things apart from shakes. I have been doing it for nearly two months and use the savoury sachets which are surprisingly edible. You can also add vegetables and sugar free jelly

can fully recommend them in every way

Faustina would you mind telling me how much you lost in the first few weeks?

Cambridge have spaghetti, risotto, porridge, soups and bars as well as shakes, but you make the shakes up with water not milk.

you do know its a really bad idea...this dropping as much weight as possible as quickly as possible thing?

Works for me

Ok cool, none of my business, I won't interfere further ?
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I'm on SW and have lost around 8lbs in 8 weeks. its nice and slow and easy

Cambridge made me really ill, i ended up in hospital with chest pains and then with pnuemonia - i think its a horrible horrible idea - at least with SW you are encouraged to eat well, salads and fruit, natural stuff

yes you can have muller lites and sugar replacements, but overall i think its much healthier than replacement foods diets

in fact, just sat and had my possibly adjusted SW pancakes (couldnt remember the exact recipe)

35g oats
2 eggs
muller lite
tsp baking powder

fried with lite oil, and then covered in frozen fruit, really nice and filling and is half a 'syn' (i think) for the baking powder...

I'm sorry Kitten that you were ill, but I have to just say I cannot see how a low calorie diet with all the micro and macronutrients your body needs could cause pneumonia, which is either bacterial or viral. By all means it would not have been sensible to continue dieting at all whilst you were so unwell, but as for the cause...

You ended up ill while you were on it, not because you were on it, in my opinion.

But I have to agree that if a person has a lot of weight to lose, and they can do so happily and consistently on a healthy eating programme, then they should.

But if they have tried them all and for whatever reason are not getting the results they want or need a faster more driven approach in order to maintain their resolve, then a VLCD at least to kick the arse of the first 3 or so stone can very much be the way to go.

Using a VLCD to lose a lot of weight as quickly as possible safely is better than never losing the weight - by a long, long shot.

Ghostlife I'm sorry I haven't been weighing myself at all. It was a lot though. I had something that was a 14 and am now back in a 6.

I also haven't felt ill at all (like you might if you weren't eating properly) - neither have I felt hungry except perhaps once or twice when I've had some of the vegetables you're allowed (you can have around 200g of them each day, plus sugar free jelly)

Tatty i know several doctors who would disagree with you.

I felt ill a lot of the time on the VLCD - and i personally think that my immune system was 'hit' by it, which allowed me to get unwell

its just my personal view - but i do have a friend whos gum bleed HORRIBLY when she tries to do the Lighter Life diet. I just dont think they are healthy for most of us....

Slimming World. 2lbs first week, average one a week. Lost 2stone 3.5lbs in a year. Went from a BMI of 27.8 to 21.5

Avoid very low cal diets. I did lighter life and lost 2 stone... And then my gallbladder as well! It does huge damage to the pancreas and gall bladder. Losing weight that quickly is never healthy.

I'm on Cambridge. I'm on day 5 and so far this week have lost 12lb. Yes, of course it is mainly water, but I don't really care! I'm on it because I have horses and my weight is holding me back with what I want to do. I have about 7 stone to lose. I'm tried SW and never got on with it, I have a very strange body and normally need 1200 kcals a day to maintain weight. On SW because it is so unrestrictive I was eating more than normally and I was STARVING on it! on Cambridge I haven't felt hungry at all, even through I'm on step 1 (4 shakes a day, about 550 kcals.)

I have been doing Exante for 10 weeks now and lost 25lb I lost 7lb the first week and after that it's been about 2-4lb a week. It's not super fast but I find it easier to stick to than most diets I have tried.