There seem to be a lot of conversations at the moment about diets - so I thought I would start this one - not about any diet in particular (or healthy eating plan to be politically correct), but anything that anyone has found to work "long term".
Me personally, I have tried weightwatchers, slimming magazine club, slimmers world, etc. but actually found none of them worked long time.
I know that the key to losing weight with any diet is to stick at it - I suppose I have answered my own question - any diet will work if you actually stick at it.
One thing that I find disheartening about slimming clubs is the amount of people (me included) that don't stick at it and a year or so later are back weighing more than when they started initially - it is as though you get into the yo-yo dieting scenario although I have never thought of myself as a yo-yo dieter.
The only way I have ever lost weight and kept it off (more or less) was when my husband left me last year - but this is a bit of a drastic measure.
Saying that, I can feel it slowly piling back on but I am still smaller than I have been in my recent memories but don't want to slowly get biggr and bigger over the years.
My friend is currently on the "cornflake" diet but I am not sure about the benefits of this as surely once you stop eating cornflakes for breakfast and lunch (and a normal healthy meal for dinner), all the weight you have lost will go back on.
I think the hardest thing for me is the "drink". To be honest I don't seem to eat much, but I do drink every night, whether I am at home or on my one night out. I think it must be the calories in the vodka that does it!!!