LigherLife- worth a try????

[alicemama]

Has anyone tried ligherlife. Its supposedly designed for anyone who has 3st or more to lose- and yes I fit into that category, only just tho.

been invited to an information night tomorrow and can't decide whether to go or not.

I lost 4st in 4 months on this. My problem now though is maintaining it. After the first couple of days you aren't hungry any more and it definitley works fast. Give it a go - it worked for me.

Without a doubt give it a go, I've lost 6 stone and got my life back, cost me a bomb though but worth every penny.

Can you tell me what Ligher life is, please?

it is expensive, the cambridge works on the same principle and is half the price,
think ll is about £60 a week and cambridge is approx £30 a week, cambridge diet have a website where you can see if there is one local to you?

it is basically meal replacement milshakes or soups or bars, and then you have to drink loads of water,
i would like to do it to lose my last 1 stone, but i havent got the will poer

best of luck if you decide to do it.......

alicemama - whereabouts are you? my friend is a LL counsellor and she has such excellent results

i would like to go back on this once peter is out of hospital. atm i find it hard getting a babysitter to go to the sessions, but i did lose over a stone in my 1st 2weeks on it. but then slipped off. you do have to be really strict on yourself as otherwise a little nibble will turn into a sandwich.

Thanks for the info Sanchpanch. Sounds too expensive for me to experiment - know any good willpower tips? :-)

Dazzlincaz-try the Cambridge Diet.Although it's £34.00pw that INCLUDES all your "food" for a week.I also thought it was expensive,but when you tot up everything you spend each week on food,you'll probably find it's ALOT cheaper and it will therefore save you money while you're on it.I was off it for 6 weeks and put on 8lbs,went back on it last week and lost 3lbs,so I'm getting back into the swing of things again.It's certainly not easy to get back on it though,when you've had a lapse,although I did lose 3.7 stone in 3 months which obviously I'm very pleased about.

Wow, Bubbaloo - terrific achievement! I have found it relatively easy to lose weight in the past, but got to the tricky years now when the pounds just don't want to shift. Sigh. Think Dh would consider the Cambridge Diet a bit wacky and say to exercise (which to be fair, I should be - but feel too tired and certainly not inclined to get even hotter and more bothered in this heat!) Btw - what is the food like on the CD - shakes and such?

Yep,it's shakes,soups and choc bars but strangely enough they actually don't taste too bad.Good for you if you can stick to a normal diet as the CD is very unsociable,although you will lose weight very quickly on it.

As an experienced dieter who has tried loads of diff diets with diff levels of success and weight loss (shakes, soup diets, atkins, blood type, slimming world etc etc), I would like to post one word of caution. Whilst there is no doubt these types of diets are fantastic for helping you shift a lot of weight fairly quickly, which is brilliant, personally I question their validity as a diet long term. It is hard losing all that weight with little thought about healthy long term living and eating as it is all weighed and measured for you, and then once the weight is off, just readjusting to a new lifestyle just like that. You have to see it as stage one of a life changing thing, rather than the total solution or the weight will just pile back on - sometimes this is more dangerous than staying the same. Please think it through and make sure this really is for you.
Personally, "short cut" diets have always failed for me. I lose the weight, buy a new wardrobe, go off the diet once slim and BANG start to pile it back on, slowly at first and then before I know it, back to square one. Another wardrobe to pay for and another diet to hunt down. I am now on the slimming world and finally feel I have turned it around as I am no longer dieting, I am learning to eat and cook balanced sensible food, cope with dail temptations and keep it "real".
I am not knocking ligherlife as I know it has helped many people, just trying to say that it is not a quick fix. It will help you shift the weight but then it is up to you. At some point you will need to "do it for yourself" and return to "normal" food etc and that can be extremely hard to do after a food supplement diet.

Realise a lot of my weight problems are affected by hormonal based cravings for sweet stuff. The weight gain hasn't been helped by thyroid problems though it is supposed to be sorted now and blood levels in normal range - getting that checked again may be a good move........iron level may be on the dip because of fibroids=heavy periods. Joys of womanhood!

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Absolutely Lemontart - that is the real point. I am just impatient - so shifting the weight was something I knew I could do when I had the right mind set (have done this several times before - 3-4 stones each time) but it just comes back.
I just couldn't be bothered with the 8-12 months of work it usually takes me.

With Lighter Life I lost it more quickly but I was always aware that the when I stopped the diet the real work would start. Now I have lost quite a bit of weight on lighter life and I am grateful to it but I have now joined overeaters anonymous to try and deal with the overeating issue. In my mind any 'diet' even if you call it 'healthy eating' is about restricting your food intake to control weight. The problem with this for me is it is difficult not to then obsess about this which affects my emotional health as well as my physical health. I find myself thinking about food all he time and either congratulating myself or beating myself up about what I have eaten that day to the exclusion of anything else.

I have had to face the fact that I am a food addict and for me the break I had from food in lighter life was helpful to see I could live without obsessing on what I was going to eat and in fact be a lot happier that way.

Now unfortunatley food is not like alcohol - I can't just give it up - if I could I would - but I trust that with help I will learn to stop using food as a 'fix' for my problems.

As for the lose skin theory - I've lost lots of weight in the past both fast and slow and my skin at 41 is pretty good and not that lose at all- This is probably just genetic luck. I don't really belive the -'lose it fast get baggy', 'lose it slow, don't' theory as it isn't my experience but for someone else it may be true

Lemontart-Also agree with you but like Lazycow says,when you have lots of weight to lose and know you can lose it fast on LL/CD the temptation is too high to ignore.Maintaining the weight is definately the hardest part of the diet,but I'm hoping that once I reached my goal weight I'll be so happy with the new me,that I'll be careful in what I eat.I also know this isn't always the case.And as for saggy skin,I've "only" lost 3.7 stone and have no saggy baggy bits and my CD counsellor lost 8.7 stone and also didn't have too much saggy skin...and never went to the gym.

LL worked for me .... maintaining it didn't and I put all 3 stone back on again in 2 years. Have unsuccessfully tried to do LL again a couple of times but lose a stone then stop.

Now doing my version of LL using 2 x SlimFast shakes a day and a LL soup in the evening (using old 3 pack LL method)and it is working well.

I manage about 3 - 3.5 litres of water a day. I believe Slim Fast is almost the same as LL shakes but in terms of nutrition but at 79p for a can or £1.20 for a smoothie are a lot less money than full LL and you don't have to sit through weekly 2 hour 'rehabilitation' classes 'discovering why you eat' - which personally I found tedious. I only enjoyed the moral support bit in the fact each week you meet other people going through the same diet hell as yourself.

I've lost 6 stone on LL but am dreading trying to keep it off. I' going to Florida for 2 weeks on 8th August and I am still doing the management programme but there is no way I can be making two foodpacks a day up whilst walking round on holiday so I am going to have to just bite the bullet and survive on normal food only. Hopefully all the walking round in the heat should counteract any "junk" that I my shove down my throat. Just to mention about loose skin as I noticed someone else talking about it, I agree that the quicker you lose it the baggier it will be. I've been "lucky" in the fact that it took me twice as long as normal to lose the weight due to a slow metabolism caused by medication. I think this has given my skin chance to catch up. My counsellor herself lost 5 stone in less than 5 months and the skin on her arms looks horrendous and there is nothing she can do about it so I am extremely grateful not to be left with this problem. But I suppose if you have been seriously obese and have got yourself down to a healthy weight, I would imagine a bit of saggy skin is the least of your worries.

hi ladys, so glad I found this chat, I am on lighterlife and would love to know what the management programme is all about is it still 66 pounds a week and only two meal packs a day?.
god its expensive enough at the moment, I don't want to put the weight back on that I lost though.

thanks.

I started lighterlife today!! Had my first class yesterday and am very positive at the mo - also very hungry at the mo too!!!

The maintenance programme still costs money but you start on 3 packs a day and some food and gradually reduce the number of packs over several weeks. You pay per food pack so when you are on 3 food packs a day you pay less (£40 something - can't remember exactly)

thanks very much for the info lazycow! I feel so bad calling you that but then again i'm kinkysex which sounds strange as well!. I want to lose the weight but don't want to lose my wallet.
Hi Lozza26 ive just finished my first week of LL so keep me posted on how you go

Will do, when did the thought of food go away? It just seems to be the only thing I can think of at the mo, think it's coz I know I cant have it!! When do you weigh in?

Hi again, you tummy gets use to it from day three onwards the thought of food was less and no more rumbbling unless it was shake time.
bare in mind that I have to cook everymeal for my family!, including all my favs and do the weekley food shop but then I am surounded by men!.
I weigh in on a wednesday eve at 6pm and I will admitt I was really tired for the first three days but i am back to normal now, and looking forward to ordering some new food and watch the new video and I think this week we get are keep fit ball!.

So kinky you must have weighed in by now, how have you got on??? I have had an up and down first week but nothing that shouldn't has passed my lips, get weighed in tonight. Also have to still cook everyday for dp and lo, it's her first birthday party Sunday so am cooking 101 party foods - nightmare wont be able to pick at the sasuage rolls!!!