121 diet

[MissJD]

Did anyone tried 121 plan ? I'm thinking to sign up with a consultant, i see loads of ppl losing weight fast on it

And if someone can recommend a good consultant , as i see hundreds on Insta , not sure who to sign up with ?

Thanks x

I did 1-1 about 5 years ago and lost 3 stones in about 6 months.
This diet suited me because i find abstinence easier than rationing. Meal wise there is nothing to think about apart from your 3 or 4 daily 1-1 products & lots of fluids (preferably water)
There is a wide variety of products to choose from. I preferred the bars to the shakes as I felt I was actually eating something solid and stayed fuller for longer. I'd have one with a herbal tea or coffee. I didn't bother with the meals or porridge as I found the portions too small and therefore not filling. I also allowed myself a packet of the 1-1 crisps which I saved for an evening treat when watching TV or scrolling my phone.
Early on, to be successful on this diet you have to get into the mindset that eating is a means to an end. For me eating became functional rather than pleasurable. But I fully understood that this was just a temporary state whilst I shed my excess weight.
Your consultant will guide and support you back into eating a normal healthy diet. Most of us so called 'lifelong dieters' know what we should be eating but for whatever reason we find portion control difficult. The 1-1 diet helped me to reset my portion control button.
To maintain my weight loss I now calorie count.
TBH this diet is not for the faint hearted but it definitely gets results. It's easier if you have the support of your family & friends because if they moan that your restrictive diet is making you antisocial it just adds pressure and could de-rail your efforts. Just reassure them that's it's temporary and you'll be back on the scene (much slimmer) soon.
The diet does appear to be costly at first glance but when I compare it to what I'd normally be eating/drinking, take-aways etc it probably works out cheaper.
My consultant was Liz Hancock and she's lovely🙂

oh thank you ! Very detailed , i'm going to start tomorrow i got all
my products , i got lots of soups as normally smth hot is filling and will do 1B

Very encouraging to hear all the success stories and the fact that consultant will walk me through steps once i lost the weight that i need to

X

I did it when it was the Cambridge diet, about 5 years ago. Many promises about how the weight will just fall off initially.

Didnt lose anything at all. And the food is mainly maltodextrin. Not my idea of healthy. And my consultant had no answers/explanation…. Made the £60 per time or whatever it was quite a bitter pill to swallow!

Most of the people involved in multilevel marketing style diet programs are not nutrition specialists and have a very basic understanding of nutrition.

You might be better off with a group like slimming world who have some relatively reliable requirements for their consultants including a proven track record of weight loss and experience of going to their meetings.

It's important you find something that works for you that you can really enjoy, if you don't enjoy it then you won't be able to sustain it.

I’d save the money and just buy meal replacement shakes on line.

To my shame, I was a Cambridge diet consultant about 15 years ago. They know people pile the weight back on. It was joked about in training that you will have repeat costumers for years. Most of the consultants doing the training had piled it back on.

Not that you make any money, it’s an MLM at the end of the day, I was sucked in but soon realised what a racket it was and left.

There is nothing special in the consultant training. you are just fed a load of spiel to try and get people in.

I’m not saying that meal replacements diets aren’t sustainable- they are. BUT you have to use them as a tool to change your entire life. A break from food while you relearn everything. you have to put the work in.

You have to learn about what food does to your body. People take the quick fix of shakes, lose weight and then go right back to a diet of sugar, processed food, alcohol and takeaways. It’s the same with all diets. Unless you change your life entirely, it will come back on.

i joined a consultant who would ignore me but check on me when it's time to order more products

I wasn't taught anything and i tried to do 1B but i'd end up binging and was encouraged to try again and was like a vicious cycle .

now i'm stuck with 3 weeks worth of products and it's like £3 per sachets , 4 sachets a day , i left the group and blocked consultant , as i was also encouraged to start vaping to reduce hunger so now also developed a habit 🙈

I'm looking to join my local Slimming World , maybe i will try to use up
what i have first not to waste money

Yeah, that’s the case usually. they only care about how many products they can flog because, honestly, like any MLM, you only make money if you are a consultant with lots of other consultants signed up under you. You make laughingly little if it’s just you selling the products. I did it for 6 months and I only just broke even on the stock I had to buy.

I actually don’t like anything like WW or SW personally. I’ve seen friends do it and they buy all the low fat stuff with loads of added sugar, all the SW own snacks etc which are processed to hell.

I do understand how hard it is though. I have lost ten stone over the last 3 years (still going, I was very large!), but I’ve done it by entirely changing my life and thoughts about food and nutrition. I’m not and haven’t been “on a diet” to lose it. There won’t be an end where it will pile back on, because I haven’t changed the way I eat in the short term to lose the weight. this is life long, it’s how me and my whole family eat now.

It took me until I was 40 and a huge health scare to get to that point though. I gained a massive amount of weight and yo yo’d on diets for years. I’ve done them all. nothing worked until I sat down and learned about what I was putting into my body was affecting it.

I have done it twice. First time I lost 3 stone and kept it off for 5 years, second time I lost 2 stone and kept it off for 6 months.

I think if you're desperate to do something and break out of a mental rut, it can be a good kick up the bum but I would view it as a means of losing maybe 1 or 2 stone before migrating to something a bit more sustainable. I think the difficulty comes when people use it to lose all their weight, come to their goal and then have nowhere to go other than back to disordered eating patterns.

If I ever did it again I would view it as a 'bridging' diet just to help me lose the first stone and move to something more normal.

that's how i want to think of it , just to use up 3 weeks of products i have , probably lose a stone doing that

Then move to smth i can sustain as @Peteryourhorseishere says to do a lifestyle change of how i think of food

But i do think weekly support of SW and actually joining a group of ppl who are losing weight could be helpful.

I need to lose 2-3 stones and keep it off for good , i'm so mentally tired of yo-yo 'ing

@MangoooGirl you can still go to a group and not do the diet.

I know someone who needs the accountability of being weighted every week, so he goes to weight watchers and just pays to be weighted and nods and smiles when the leader talks about food choices. He’s actually lost 8 stone by eating low carb and doesn’t see it as a diet he says he will eat that way for life.

Weighed 🤦🏽‍♀️ Got a toddler keeping me up at night!

i think that definitely will motivate me , i just want to be in a group with ppl who need to lose weight so don't feel as lonely 😂

And support always helps , thank you for advice X