I'd love to join this discussion. Thaks for starting this thread, Karbea.
At 5'4" (on a good day), I'm not exactly tall; I'm also not exactly a spring chicken, so now need to watch what I eat before I turn definitively globular.
I had started looking positively rotund in photographs, but couldn't be bothered didn't really know how to shed the weight. About a month ago, someone I bumped into (quite literally) and got talking with told me about what she claimed to be an "easy" diet from Australia? I wouldn't go as far as to say it's easy, but it does seem to be working - although only to an extent but that's probably because I haven't done the minimal exercise that's required alongside it. I've NEVER dieted before, but something prompted me to give this a go.
Only meat and eggs every three hours for the initial three days. Nothing else. Except water. And tea/coffee with minimal milk and no sugar. For three whole days. Ugh. Then - on days 4, 5 and 6, you add a slice of granary/wholemeal bread (only for breakfast) and veggies (no root veg.) throughout the day.
Day seven was the clincher for me: you get to have a complete blowout 
. ALL DAY. Cream cakes, chocolate, the lot. Sin.
No more "just meat" days after that: you just do the predominantly-meat-and-a-slice-of-wholemeal/granary-bread-and-some-veggies thing after that, punctuated by a blowout day.
The strange thing was - I didn't really even WANT those sinful, decadent things when my blowout day came round: instead, I wanted fruit, yoghurt and milk! Possibly all the things my body truly craved - rather than what my tastebuds THOUGHT they needed.
That got me thinking, and I decided I NEEDED the dairy, too - and the fruit. So I adapted the diet to include moderate portions of fruit and dairy (skimmed milk).
I've lost 4 kg over the past month - going from 64 kg to 60 kg (my target weight is what I used to weigh two years ago: 53 kg). (Admittedly, there's only minimal exercise mixed in: all I do is walk the dog that doesn't really like going for a walk once in a while. The DCs take her the rest of the time. I put my hand up to having gone for a "proper" walk three times over the past month.
And I now have two blowout days a week. 
Must do more exercise, drink more water. It HAS helped that I've stopped drinking the red. It HASN'T helped that I'm lumbered with impossible project deadlines atm and have to keep going tappity-tap at my PC all day long. 
Is that my blowout day I see approaching on the horizon? 