to spend £250 on this?

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www.dnafit.com/diet/

I'm getting older and fatter. I genuinely eat healthy and currently do 30 mins to an hour of exercise a day (gym, swimming, fitness DVD at home or a jog). But I'm not losing it anywhere but off my boobs! And Ive never had much boobage to start off with so I'm just getting flatter in the chest. But if I put weight on it doesn't go back to my boobs, it just gathers around my middle or my arse. It's really depressing! I'm clearly not eating the right things for my body and not doing the right exercises.

I'm considering this DNA diet (I want the most expensive package at £249 which will tell me what foods to eat/avoid and what fitness programme I should follow based on my genetics) but DH thinks it's an obscene waste of money and unreasonable of me to spend this much on what he considers to be nothing more than another fad diet that won't work....

Has anyone here done this diet. Is it worth the money? Or is my DH right? Is it just a fad that doesn't work?

If you're working out a lot at the gym I'd move to measuring yourself rather than weighing. Last year I lost inches all over without the scales changing. I did a lot of weights and body pump style classes. It's easy to get demoralised if the scales don't change when you're actually swapping fat for muscle.

I agree with your DH, sounds like a very expensive fad, with very very sketchy science at best. Put the money towards a dietitian/ nutritionist instead, make sure though if you go for a nutritionist make sure you do your homework as it's not a protected title, literally anyone can call themselves this including people that hawk those stupid shake meal replacements.

I should have said, the DNA diet sounds like a total waste of money. Spend your money on a personal trainer instead.

Dont do it they are all fads, from this to completely cutting carbs to completely cutting out meat. Like the others have said use it better spent on weights and treating yourself.

Its basically willpower, but I feel 1200 calories with workouts is not enough like others have said you need the muscle, the more muscle you have the more your burn while resting because them muscles need more energy it's a metabolism booster. You can plateau when building muscle because of the lean vs fat but it just means working through that. I really dont think you eat enough and your body cannot part with its reserves its stored. Its not a race losing weight like all these fabs make it out to be "instant results" a lot of these celebs are helped with surgery and lipo a lot of them loose it too fast and are left with excess skin and end up under the knife.

AdoraBell Muscle is considerably heavier than fat. Are you looking at simple weight, or health?

This is False! A lb is a lb muscles weighs no more or less than fat, Fat takes up 4 times the space than muscle in the body so you can look and feel trimmer even if your body weight stays the same. This is why you quite often plateau when losing weight and working out.

Been there done that spent the money. Am still overweight.

Apparently I should follow a Mediterranean diet. But then again apparently we all should!

I will try and find the report I got back. It was a few years ago.

I've just bought the Louise Parker book that Dragongirl recommended. Makes a lot of sense and a friend has done it and finds it's good and fairly easy. There is a thread on here in Weight Loss Chat. I haven't started yet as am away at the moment but planning if starting when I get back next week. I got the book on Amazin for about £10 and the new cook book was on Kindle for 99p. Not sure it still is.

I lose from my boobs first two but I think that just means that actually my boobs are fat! And if so they need to go too!

This is False! A lb is a lb muscles weighs no more or less than fat, Fat takes up 4 times the space than muscle in the body so you can look and feel trimmer even if your body weight stays the same.

Well obviously a lb of anything weights the same! If you had equal volumes of muscle and fat, the muscle would weigh more. Isn't that the definition of something being heavier?

OP that TV show is called How to Lose Weight Well. I have just read the accompanying book where he concludes that all the diets aren't up to much (apart from 5:2 diet IIRC) and then gives a load of diet advice that is basically eat fresh veg and protein and not too much of it plus some actual fasting. The book is worth a read actually - quick and chatty and pretty informative (and no I am not Xand Van Tolleken or whatever his name is!)

It's annoying to hear but the only thing that will cause weight loss is consuming fewer calories than you burn off. How you achieve that is up to you.
Crazy, expensive, fad diets can work because the expense motivates us to stick to them. But when the money runs out and the diet ends the weight will go back on.

It's BS. Don't waste your money, OP.

DNA testing is a completely reasonable approach to take towards better informing yourself about your health. DNA Fit, however, is not worth it. I have researched them extensively from a business perspective.

DNA Fit, or any genomic testing, cannot tell you what kind of fitness routine to follow, and you won't necessarily lose weight by swimming anyway.

If you're not losing weight, then you're almost certainly eating too much of the wrong foods and not working out effectively enough.

I would strongly recommend the Tracey Anderson Method. I'm doing Omnicentric via youtube, but you can also buy the dvd's, and there's a Tracey Anderson Method group on Facebook that's really supportive and fun to keep you motivated and pushing forward.

The method also comes with a diet plan.

When you say "healthy" what are you actually eating?

I was pretty similar to you six months ago, OP. A wobbly pear shape (albeit with a trim waist), a stone to lose, wanted to be lean. Three approaches:

1. 1200 cals a day. No naughty weekends.
2. Running, hard, most days. I dropped a cup size (or two) very quickly, the hips/tummy went next and now my saddlebags and thighs are considerably smaller. I worry that to get the final wobbly bit of bum gone, I'd start to look skeletal on top but I seem pretty stable there. So, IME, it takes time for the arse to catch up, but it does eventually.
3. Lifting heavy free weights. Like you (built more like a sprinter than a marathon runner), I tend to put muscle on easily. But the weights I do haven't bulked me up, mostly because I'm doing big compound exercises that don't make any particular part of my body pop out. Everything is tighter and harder. And I've dropped 3 dress sizes (from same shop, so absolute size is bollocks but relative size should be reasonably reliable). My metabolism has shot through the roof too - no longer only 1200 cals a day!

What weights do you do?

running/jogging combined with weights is the best way to drop weight and get lean, along with a healthy diet that is. Also make sure your body is fuelled don't let yourself get hungry your body will go into survival mode and store fat and water. make sure you are drinking plenty of water too, it helps with everything. I hope you finds what works for you.

Isn't that the definition of something being heavier?
No, it's the definition of something being denser

You aren't eating anything like enough and your body is clinging onto the calories it has. Seriously, this is how I got fat - years of restrictions causing my arse to cling onto what it has.

Spend your £250 on a proper nutritionist or treat yourself to a top end fitbit - mine tells me to eat WAY more than I would have left to my own devices and yet I'm slimmer and fitter than I've been for a long old time. Set it to the medium or lowest setting and eat lots and it'll slowly help you chip away.

StillMaidOfStars just read your post, and what you said is spot on, that's exactly the right advice, big compound exercises such as deadlifts and squats are great. that's what I was doing a good few onths back and started dropping weight, but things went tits up and now I need to get back into it.

No, it's the definition of something being denser

Well yes, but how else would you compare the relative weights (if we're measuring in kg that should be masses) of fat and muscle?

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try this!

If you can afford it, why not. If it's a stretch, no. You'd be better off going to slimming world or weight watchers or hiring a personal trainer/nutritionist.

I watch the programmes you are referring to. I thought the groom looked so much healthier at the end, a real difference.

big compound exercises such as deadlifts
Nothing - not one single exercise endeavour I have ever undertaken, and I've always been 'sporty' - has changed my legs/arse/hips more than deadlifting. I wish someone had told me 15 years ago

Purple I'm teasing you. It IS the definition of density, but on these conversations, someone always pops up arguing about what 'weight of muscle and fat' means. I now ignore it. In a physics seminar, such precision is necessary. On an Internet thread about weight loss and building muscle, less so

I'd suggest 5:2 diet and HIIT workouts for a month and see if that works?

Music I hope you get back to lifting soon. I love it. My personal trainer thinks it's ace, to find a 'tiny girl' so keen to progress

Purple

My point really was along the lines of

"I gained 3lb this week and I've been sticking to it 100% working out non stop" and someone coming along and telling you it's muscle because it weighs more, nice to hear but in reality it's not likely to be true.

Lowland I completely agree with your last post.

From what I've read I agree with InformalRoman

I looked at the reviews online, at reputable newspaper sites not just industry.
I'm surprised how much people seem to like it, they say it rang true in lots of ways for themselves. Also, the diet advice given was very general & nothing truly individualised.

Which made me think... Did they need a test to say all that stuff they already figured out about their physical potential & best diet? Not many surprises that were meaningful or Eureka! moments.

I was confused how the genes test can tell what someone's VO2MAX is from a genetic test. VO2MAX is 2/3 genetic & 1/3 developed. I know mine is very high because I was formally tested (breathing mask on a treadmill), but I bet the test would say I'm only medium. I worked for decades to get my high VO2MAX. It didn't come naturally.