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I remember quite a few years ago there was another diet called *****life. I got out all my pharmacology books and checked each ingredient most of which were a laxitive.
A good healthy diet is the best option with small portions and do not overload the plate. We do tend to think the plate must be full. Better to use a smaller plate.
Be very careful of a starvation diet as someone already says you not only lose the fat but the muscle to.
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My three sisters and my neice all went on the lighter life diet about two years ago.They kept to it meticulously and all gained their target weight and I have to say looked fantastic.They threw out all their big clothes and bought new wardrobes and I was really envious of them.
However and it is a big however as soon as they finished the diet they all gradually put the weight back on,all four of them and they ended up back where they started.You need a will of iron to maintain the weight loss ,losing it didn't actually present too much of a problem to them but keeping it off was.
I had tried the cambridge diet many many years ago which was some thing similar and I told them that as soon as they started to eat "proper food " the weight would go back on.The diet was very expensive to do ,I think one of my sisters said they were paying something like £60 a week each and this went on for months.All that money wasted,they could have a holiday for what they paid.Recently they have had another go but second time around it is not so easy to keep to it,their motivation doesn't seem the same.
My daughter despite knowing all about her aunties decided to have a go herself,she just wanted a quick weight loss but she wasn't heavy enough and they wouldn't let her do it,was I relieved because she has absolutely no will power at all and wouldn't have kept to it whilst she was on it.
If you haven't got a very strong will power and all good intentions are definetly not enough I'd try something else.
Daisy
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This is worrying I'm afraid :o((
"She has a completely different attitude to food now and sees it as the enemy rather than her comfort blanket!! "
This screams out eating disorder !!!!
Food is essential to life and is most definitely not an enemy.
The right education about food is that no food is totally wrong if consumed in moderation.
Educating people that eating a balanced lower fat diet, and keeping in moderation too much high fat snack foods such as crisps, biscuits pasties and sausage rolls is more realistic than charging the earth for what is, a starvation diet which puts strain on your body, and gives a dangerous message to those who mentally may be vulnerable to going down to bulimia/anorexia route
I was told, about 11 years ago by my GP based dietitian, that the diet I was given was for life.
This was a healthy eating plan, which to be fair I ended eating more than I was, but still lost weight because I was eating the right things.
The diet sheet was a guide only, and soon we got used to portion sizes for meat, potato and veg/salad etc., as said, our plates were fuller, but more balanced than they originally were.
Over the years we have put weight back on, Ive had another child since, and PND and depresion has led to comfort eating. But recently, when we ripped out our old kitchen I found the diet sheet. In the next few weeks, I will start to follow it again using it as a guide, and am actually looking forward to eating more healthy and cutting sdown on the rot we are eating of late. and still being able to have the odd curry, or bag of crisps, or bit of choc, again all in moderation.
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