Dukan Vs Idiot Proof Diet (low fat Vs high fat low carb)?

[queenbrunhilda]

Want to start something tomorrow - have finally got head together. Have lost weight on both successfully in the past but now have a stone or so to lose. Need a motivating first week. Erring towards Dukan as I can keep going with tea with skimmed milk plus diet coke (I know, I know ). But then again the cheese and peanut butter of IPD are appealing! Any suggestions?

Read an interview with India Knight recently and she doesn't do the Idiot Proof Diet herself anymore and has gained weight. She implied that life was too short to go without biscuits etc.

So sorry I was thinking of the wrong person. This was an extract from the India Interview.

I'm still (as is Neris) so proud of that book and I'm delighted you like it. Weight - it varies. I like to pad out a bit for winter, which is why I am eating a healthful slice of Battenburg as I type. But I try and abide by the principles of it as much as I can, and if there's a terrible fatness emergency then I go back into it. I do think one's relationship with weight changes with age, though - it kind of seems to matter less.

I'm doing Atkins (HFLC, similar to IPD) and finding it really suits me. Being able to eat fat is just lush and I've lost a stone in the last 6 weeks. I still drink tea on it but with almond milk. I've never tried Dukan though so can't comment on that.

I've never tried Dukan. Life is too short to be working out whether or not its a veg day! Its also low carb and low fat which the Diet Doctor says is a recipe for disaster!

IPD is really easy. Its like Diet Doctor and the Mumsnet Boot Camp but without the yoghurt (well, until Phase 2). I've been low carb now for around 4yrs and wouldn't eat any other way.

I will admit to feeling a little let down when I heard that India Knight had put weight back on. Its a personal choice I suppose. I don't miss stodge anymore. It makes me feel physically ill.

Thanks All - have started the Dukan attack phase. Might experiment with switching to IPD after a few days of that (know it's a bit risky to chop and change - has anyone else tried in-flight modifications?). Will try tea with almond milk. A Diet Coke substitute may be harder....'tis truly the work of the Devil.

I used to have a real Diet Coke habit but just before Xmas I suddenly went off it not really sure why but I'm not complaining. Have you tried just sparkling water instead? I found with me it was the fizziness I was craving. We have a soda steam and I use it make fizzy water and find a pint of it in a nice glass maybe with ice and lemon feels quite 'special'.

I did IPD diet to lose weight for my wedding. I'd been fluctuating within a range of about ten pounds for the last ten years - doing weightwatchers, Dukan, food combining, detoxes etc. but IPD was the only thing to break through that plateau and get me down to my ideal weight.

My fiancé lost a stone as well, and the friend who did the diet with me got down to her slimmest weight since university. Now I am 35 weeks pregnant, back on the carbs and two stone heavier but will definitely do IPD again to lose the post-baby weight.

I did notice though that as you reached the home straight (towards the lower end of the healthy BMI range in my case) you needed to be a bit more careful with the fat - the dairy anyway. I'd started off using loads of cream and butter and had to be a bit more sparing to lose the last few pounds. But IPD got me most of the way there much more painlessly than any other diet I've tried. Some of the recipes from the diet book and cookbook are lovely too - we still have the tarragon chicken all the time.