Cambridge diet

[DragonmotherKhaleesi]

Hi all,
Could those of you that are currently of have previously done this diet please talk to me about it? What it is, what you eat, costs etc?
I keep seeing it on Instagram but don't want to approach a consultant and get a hard sell.
TIA

Hello, from memory 4 shakes day, called sole source was around £65ish. I've done Lighter life too which is similar. I hope I'm not being patronising when I say...carry on eating too many calories after the diet regime ends....and you'll put the weight back on! 🥺🤔 Both diets work fast because you are on about 600 to 800 cals day. First three days were hell for me then I wasn't hungry.

I've been doing this and exante (a cheaper online version) since 18th Jan and I've lost over 4 stone. You eat 3 meal packs a day which can be things like porridge, soup, shakes, bars. They have some meals like cottage pie or pasta but they are nothing like real meals, I couldn't stomach them until i had been on plan a while and was craving something savoury. Exante works out around £35 per week and Cambridge around £50 per week. They are very similar food wise but on Cambridge you get weighed weekly and support from a consultant. It's a vlcd and works out at around 600 calories a day. Most people lose around a stone a month on the diet, but I imagine it's very easy to gain it all back and then some if you return to old habits. I'm not at goal yet as I want to lose 2 more stone but when I get close to goal I'm going to do IF which I'm hoping will help me maintain. I sort of did IF when having 4 days off over Easter and I didn't gain, I actually lost 1lb.

Forgot to add, the products other than the bars are mostly powder that you add water to to make a 'meal' and they do take some getting used to. Eating all your packs gives you 100% of the vitamins and minerals you need per day.

I did it for a few months back in 2018. I actually didn’t mind eating the food but I was very unnerved by the ingredients - it’s just maltodextrin basically and not real food at all. I wanted a kick start to get some initial weight off. I didn’t lose anything during the few months I did it and it was £50 a month so I gave up.
All the consultants I’ve seen have been very overweight too (more so than me) so that didn’t fill me with confidence either.

Thankyou!
Is it not just a more expensive version of slim fast? What's the difference?

I thought Slimfast was just shakes? I didn't have a single shake on Cambridge - bars and rice/noodle type things you add water to. Don't know, sorry!

Slimfast isn't total meal replacement and isn't a vlcd, on slimfast you have one 600 calorie meal as well as 3 x 100 calories snacks and 2 x 200 calorie shakes. I don't think having 3 slimfast shakes only to try and make it a vlcd would give you 100% of vitamins but I may be wrong.

I see.
It's just the cost that's putting me off!
For 3 products I've been 'quoted' £58 a week.

@ItWasTheBestOfTimes

I've been doing this and exante (a cheaper online version) since 18th Jan and I've lost over 4 stone. You eat 3 meal packs a day which can be things like porridge, soup, shakes, bars. They have some meals like cottage pie or pasta but they are nothing like real meals, I couldn't stomach them until i had been on plan a while and was craving something savoury. Exante works out around £35 per week and Cambridge around £50 per week. They are very similar food wise but on Cambridge you get weighed weekly and support from a consultant. It's a vlcd and works out at around 600 calories a day. Most people lose around a stone a month on the diet, but I imagine it's very easy to gain it all back and then some if you return to old habits. I'm not at goal yet as I want to lose 2 more stone but when I get close to goal I'm going to do IF which I'm hoping will help me maintain. I sort of did IF when having 4 days off over Easter and I didn't gain, I actually lost 1lb.

Do you think Exante is as good as 1:1? I don't need a consultant or someone to weigh me really.

Slim and save products are cheaper and more or less the same as Cambridge.

I wouldn't do it. It messed up my relationship with food, and I put every lb I lost back on as soon as I started eating real food again.

I don't think there is any difference in the products tbh. I suspect it will have an impact on my metabolism. I've pretty much accepted that I will re-gain some weight at first which is why my target is 1 stone lower than healthy bmi, but I plan to keep it down with IF and daily weighing and returning to meal packs for a week or 2 if I ever go half a stone over healthy weight. I've done exante before and maintained for 2 years until I got pregnant.

Am doing Cambridge Diet from 1st of April and am already down 1 stone and half (ai have more then 70kg to lose), for me it works well, honestly is like a discipline for me because I was messing with my health before. About the cost £58 per week/21 products, they definitely tasty and the good thing is that now they do solid food too like pasta, porridge etc.
I tried many diets until now, but this one is working for me

I find the Cambridge products do taste nicer. No doubt about it they really work, I lost a stone in 3 weeks then easily lost 2 - 3lbs per week. Once your over the first few days which are hard going you will be flying.