Lighterlife

[mummytasha11]

Hi everyone

Been looking at the website and thinking I might go for it. Does anyone know how much it is?

£72 per week. I have completed the programme a total of 3 times; amazing weight loss but difficult to maintain!! I have lost a total of 15 stone over the 3 times I did it and always put the whole lot (and more besides back on). A lot of money to have 'wasted.'

Hi, I have tried every diet under the Sun including Lighterlife. However, the best one I have found so far is the General Motors diet. You can download it online. Set up for the General Motor Company in America by a nutritionalist. It gives fast results, detoxes your body and I lost 10lb the first week (I only have 2 stone to lose so that is a big loss). It's a detox diet so you will lose your cravings after around 4 days and you only eat healthy food whilst on it. My friend's husband has also done it and lost 2 stone and he is a Doctor.

Friend of mine did it but found it hard to keep off.

I could not survive being that hungry

£72 per week? Blimey.

I know 2 people that have done LL and one that has done Cambridge Diet (which I think is v similar).

They all lost shed loads of weight. They have all put back their shed loads plus a bit extra.

I can see how it could be tempting, but from what I have seen - it doesn't work long term. It seems very boring too.

I did Cambridge, which is exactly the same but cheaper. I lost 2.5 stone last summer and looked and felt great. Went from a 16 to a 10. The first 4 days are very very hard, but after that you lose all hunger, as long as you stick to it, which I did. I lost the 2.5 stone in 10 weeks.

The problem is afterwards. It is not the diets fault you put back the weight, it's your own. Everyone said to me, 'you know you'll put the weight back on when you go back to eating normally don't you?'. But the thing is I wasn't eating normally before, I was stuffing my face. The fact that I have put on about 10 lbs and am now a 12 is down to Chinese takeaways, toast with Lurpak and wine.

I am now doing the superdrug one, cheesily called Celebrity Slim. I will lose the 10lb in about 3 weeks. But this time I need to reassess what 'normal' eating is for after the diet.

Don't 90% of people who have lost weight regain? - yet we are all still hopeful that when we lose weight we can slide into the successful 10%.

Recently I posted a question asking people to share what strategies have worked for them in maintaining their weightloss once they reached their goal. I got 4 replies - was that an indication of the lack of success in maintaining? If I'd asked which diet I should go on to lose weight I'm sure I'd have had loads of advice.

YY it is not the diet that is the problem, it is the maintenance.

And Betty's (lack of) response to her thread bears this out.

I used Cambridge shakes and Atkins to lose nearly 4 stone. I've put a stone and a half back on through making poor choices / bingeing / lack of excercise ie my fault, not the fault of a previous diet.

It gives quick results, but is hard to maintain the loss

One of my friends has done lighter life, twice.
She has gained again.
I think the big selling point behind lighter life is the counselling and the support to look at why people eat they way they do, and try and use food as a means of getting energy rather than as an emotional replacement. And clearly what ever methods they use are not necessarily successful.

The cost is supposed to cover all food for a week, plus the counselling sessions but even so, unless you have plenty of money, its a bit expensive for one person.

Betty ,
I am a repeat offender on weight loss/gain, and it all comes down to bad habits for me. I do well, then slide back into bad eating.
But I also think that most people on this topic (Big/Slim/Whatever) will be people who are trying to lose weight, and not necessarily people who have lost it and kept it off if you see what I mean. Perhaps that is why you didnt get many replies. Unless you posted in Chat, in which case you are probably right.....

Melty Fair point - I posted on the thread on this forum.

I do know people who have failed to maintain on the Cambridge diet, weight watchers, slimmers world, rosemary conley...even weight loss programs that claim to re-educate the slimmer.

I think maintaining is just bloody hard and most of us need to eat quite a bit less just to maintain our weight because our calorie requirements have decreased quite a bit due to body mass decreasing - it almost feels like a permanent diet without the thrill of the loss.

Just to warn you that I know of a group of women that did LL and all but one had to have their gall bladders removed. It is not a good way to lose weight.

You could join us on our Paul McKenna thread. We've all lost loads of weight and eaten what we liked ~ chocolate included!!

Solo - what is the connection between LL and gall bladder removal?

Rapid weightloss causes gallstones. Every single person I know who has done lighter life or cambridge has put AT LEAST the amount they lost back on. About 8 people.

Something to do with the fats or lack of? not sure, I only had a short conversation about it with one woman who told me she'd stopped doing it due to all her friends losing their gb's.

Shocking!

I know of 3 people who have been on LL. One is still on it and is looking ok, the others not so successful. They also say that the weight goes back on in places it wasn't previously.

Also something to do with cholesterol here

LaGrenouille - that is so true re the weight going back on in new places! Certainly of the women I know.

@ nora :) how are you?

I am fairly fab thanks, Solo. Will be back on the Paul thread soon. Tis the only thing that makes sense.

GilbertandGeorge, I actually feel quite sorry for those who put it back on. They are so pleased with the weight loss, go out and buy a whole new wardrobe and then have to go and buy big clothes again. The two I know were very pleased with their new look, and became more confident and friendly. Now they are back to being miserable.