To want to do a drastic diet?

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I have gained huge amounts of weight over the last two years and am now nearly 15stone.

At my height, that’s pretty large and I’m very depressed.

Wondering about doing a liquid/shake diet. Any views?

Sorry OP but those are excuses.

I get it. I made them for 20 years. I lost my 20's to being 7 stone overweight. So I'm not being a dick. I'm being honest and I know what I'm talking about: you need to change that mindset or it'll all be pointless.

Tofu is low carb. I like tofu, mind. I do an 800 kcal day once in a while, tofu is the best.

Sounds like you’ve made up your mind so it reallybaure why you posted. Go buy some slim fast and crack on. People are trying to help and you have a defensive answer for every suggestion.

Yeah I’m not making excuses, I want to lose weight, but apparently only a Mumsnet approved way will mean I get advice

If you have nowhere to cook, just follow a strict 1000-calories a day plan. Buy ready meals you can microwave. Add loads of salad. Just keep track on your phone how many calories you've had.

Also, if you didn't want comments, opinions and advice, why create a thread?!

There is a huge amount of scientific evidence out there that walking for 30 minutes a day helps with weight loss, and reduces the incidence of heart disease, diabetes and hypertension.

I agree with the others about your attitude. You don’t know what will work for you until you actually try it 🤷‍♀️

It’s right for her, not me. Is that so difficult to understand?

There was absolutely no need to
comment on her weight. That was a cheap and nasty shot and you know it.

Yeh OP I'm still 14 stone but I was 17 stone and I'm losing weight every week. So your snidey comment about being 14 stone still means fuck all as I'll be slim within a year and you will still be making excuses
Crack on you don't want help you want a magic way to get rid of the weight and there isn't one

You are making excuses though what type of cooking facilities do you have?

People have suggested about a dozen different safe, healthy ways to lose weight and you’ve been dismissive of all of them.

Do as you like. None of us care.

It really wasn’t fucking meant as a snidey comment! Christ. The point is that I would NOT have the patience to have waited for nearly six months and still be fat, kudos to you, lavender, but not me, seriously.

Yes, I have, shadow, because I didn’t ask about them.

When you lose the weight on a vlcd how will you maintain the weight loss after? What's the plan?

Now you sound like a petulant teenager. MN approved - come ON!! First we are all saying different methods, and secondly we are saying what any doctor in the world would say. Starving yourself for a few weeks will make you a couple of stone thinner - and then it'll pile right back on with interest as you eat everything you've denied yourself and you have no coping mechanism in the form of exercise and a healthy eating plan 🤷‍♀️

If you want a thread full of VLCD converts, then search online for forums connected to those specific products. SlimFast has a very active FB community, and loads of them have lost tonnes. Plus I didn't see any headscarves in the "after" pictures, so fingers crossed!

But if you lost 3 stone like lavender has you would be 3 Stone down
Probably look and feel loads better and be only 2 stone to the target

Make all the excuses you like no one really gives a shit - your body your weight
People are giving you ideas and your shouting them down
For what it’s worth the only way I lost weight was through a gastric sleeve
And I had less weight than you to lose but I was sick of putting the same 4 stone back on and back off

I did the paleo diet and lost a stone in 3 weeks. I used all the recipes from pinterest. It is quite enjoyable and makes it easy to diet too as long as you enjoy fruit and veg you will be fine.

I don’t really count slim fast as a VLCD, it has an add a meal replacement.

itsbetter by eating normally. Not that it is really anything to do with this. How will lavender cope when she’s no longer doing SW? You eat a normal amount and maintain.

For people who don’t give a shit you’re getting quite wound up

Try the drastic diet & be brave enough to come back & tell us how it went? I'll be genuinely delighted for you if it works well, especially down the line in 1-2 yrs. They must work well for some folk. Richard Simmons himself got thin by starving self for 2-3 months, come to think of it.

... which put him in hospital, mind.

I'll be slim within a year and you will still be making excuses

😁👊🏻😁 team @LavenderDoll!

Have a look at intuitive eating OP. Instagram - LauraThomasPHD or the book by Evelyn Tribole. It’s an amazing approach.

I just know what works and what doesn’t.
However, you don't, do you? Otherwise you wouldn't be in this position and you wouldn't be asking for advice? How can you expect different results when you won't try something new? You are getting good advice on here but you aren't listening. You need to change your mindset otherwise your mind will talk you out of sticking to any kind of plan.

No, I’m not listening Have a good day.