Lighter Life

[hilili]

Has anyone tried Lighter Life or the Cambridge Diet ? Any thoughts ?

[Pickle]

I've not tried them, but have watched friends try and fail. If you can stomach the horrible meal replacement drinks you will lose weight, but you learn nothing about healthy eating and it's difficult to maintain any weight loss once you start eating proper food again.

I love food too much to be able to do that sort of diet. Healthy eating and exercise?

[edcam]

We are doing the 2:5 Fasting Diet. It's amazing. Weight dropping off but not in constant pain from hunger or boredom. 2 days eat up to 600 cals for men, 500 for women. They don't have to be consecutive days. The rest of the week eat what you like. You'd be surprised how much you can eat for 600 cals if you plan properly.

[hibbs]

I had 2 friends that lost tones of weight on the Lighter than Life diet but unfortunately both after 24 months put all their weight back on plus more :-(

[uncleglen]

Ditto hibbs -but using the Cambridge Diet.

[SpriteCat]

Ive personally tried Lighter Life and lost over 3 stone to be taken ill with a stomach ulcer due to my body not getting food to process so stomach was being affected by unused stomach acid. I stopped the diet immediately but tried just healthy eating and piled on 2 of the 3 stone I lost... I have now found the best way to do it... smaller portions and excercise, I know it doesnt sound fun but it works :-D

I would say do a food based diet instead of shakes and soups, which tasted disgusting anyway! Dont know how I coped with it for 5months! YUK!

[Charlotte W]

Diets Don?t Work. If you want to lose weight and keep it off you have to change your eating habits forever. If its weight loss you are interested in then there is only one way that works and it doesn?t matter what you eat at present you just need to eat less of it. If you eat healthy food but you eat too much you will put on weight.

It took Michael Winner about 70 years to learn this and he is one of the kings of fine dining. I doubt he has ever eaten junk food on a regular basis if at all but because he ate too much of the fine food he did eat he spent most of his adult life being overweight.

The key to permanent weight loss is to eat less and but not feel hungry. Most people don?t know how to eat properly and that is one reason why so many people eat too much. If people have food issues they too will struggle with maintaining a healthy weight.

In my very humble opinion, dieting for permanent weight loss is a complete waste of time for most people.

[edcam]

Charlotte W Wrote:

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> Diets Don?t Work. If you want to lose weight and

> keep it off you have to change your eating habits

> forever. If its weight loss you are interested in

> then there is only one way that works and it

> doesn?t matter what you eat at present you just

> need to eat less of it. If you eat healthy food

> but you eat too much you will put on weight.

> It took Michael Winner about 70 years to learn

> this and he is one of the kings of fine dining. I

> doubt he has ever eaten junk food on a regular

> basis if at all but because he ate too much of the

> fine food he did eat he spent most of his adult

> life being overweight.

> The key to permanent weight loss is to eat less

> and but not feel hungry. Most people don?t know

> how to eat properly and that is one reason why so

> many people eat too much. If people have food

> issues they too will struggle with maintaining a

> healthy weight.

> In my very humble opinion, dieting for permanent

> weight loss is a complete waste of time for most

> people.

I agree with everything you say. The 2:5 Fasting idea is pretty much a "for life" thing (and doesn't feel like a diet, as you can have what you want most of the time but actually end up generally eating more carefully/healthily.)