Alizonne ... help? : /

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Hi all. So disheartened, I was all set to sign up and start at the new Cheshire clinic but then read a lot and realised that the food preparation sounds very complicated- far too complicated for me. I am very bad at cooking in general and so the idea of 'recipes', 'baking' 'roasting' etc etc wouldn't be any good for me, not to mention work wise probably not feasible most of the time anyway even if I was a better cook and as this is my main my problem with eating healthily - it's not so much my will power as needing it as "simple" as possible when it comes to the food.
So unless there are some fail proof options that I can have continually (variety is not my main concern just simplicity/ease) then I am thinking it will be a no-go for me :(

(I also wondered it exercise advised against?)

All the food comes in a sachet
Soup you mix with hot water
Pizza you mix with water, kneed the dough, add the tomato sachet and put in the oven
Omelettes you mix with water and then put in the frying pan

It couldn't be easier.

I personally just have the drinks now, I have 5 a day, mix with 330ml of water in the shaker they give you and away you go.

I have Orange, Orange and Pineapple, Peach & Mango, Orange and Grapefruit and Exotic fruits.

I'm in week 10, weighed after the weekend but last week if lost 57lbs in 9 weeks.

I've seen some enormous weight losses from people on this "diet", but don't think it is sustainable when you stop.

Here's a quote from another forum about someone who lost loads of weight.

"Somebody I know (can't mention names as they're a success story/photo on the Alizonne website) took a course of treatment and was successful.

However, they have since put the weight back on and more besides. That's a lot of money, just to go putting weight back on.

I think that the confidence, happiness and freedom it can bring is wonderful but I feel that this person's downfall, was they were never able to change their food habits."

It's the same with any diet, if you don't phase off it properly and then change your eating habits afterwards you will put the weight back on.
The receptionist at my clinic is one of the success stories and she's kept it off for years, it all boils down to how much you want it.

It's the best diet I've been on, purely because it's the first one that actually knew and told me my metabolism.

If I entered my stats into weight watchers or slimming world they were saying I should eat 3400 cals a day to maintain, so to lose weight drop that by 500 a day.

My actual metabolism due to yo-yo dieting was 2600. So no wonder I wasn't losing weight by dropping 500 cals, I was still 300 cals a day over what I should be eating!

If at the end of this diet if you think you can go back to take aways and booze all the time then you have more money than sense. For me it's a life changer, I'm set to lose 8.6 stone and I'm half way there in 10 weeks, at the end of it this body and being around for my daughter is worth more than a takeaway or beer.

One thing that hasn't happened on any of the threads including the big one about Alizonne is for people to come back and update on how they have done. Everyone seems to be enthusiastic for a few weeks and then vanish. Makes me wonder if they are all too embarassed to admit that they have spent thousands losing lots of weight and then put it all back on again as it wasn't sustainable.