You do realise that a fair proportion of that weightloss will just be water?

Thats medically impossible


"And so in the end you will have more fat cells than when you started"



Well i intended to change my lifestyle to more active including pilates and cycling

LOL BLIZZIE



Yes FLUFFY i do

So are youy saying that obese people have the same number of fat cells as slim, non-fat people?

They may personally possess more but they cannot INCREASE their own fat cells within the body only inflate them (so i was told anyway)

" the body might produce more fat cells if an adult gains a significant amount of weight or has liposuction performed."

Edit: I realise the liposuction is not relevant at the moment.

Ok hun - don't shout - lol

Sorry! Didn't realise it would come out like that.

LOL no worries

Dear everyone - please keep your comments coming
I recognise not everyone agrees with this form of dieting but luckily it is working for me and i will be careful about my health

Renton - well done on this week

Just be careful - ok?

*Echoes everyone else's comments*  Be carefull

Sorry but this diet sounds like hell and its not healthy to lose that much weight in one week.  I have been eating healthily for 18 months and have lost three stones eight and a half pounds without feeling sick, shaky, light headed or anything remotely bad.  I can understand people who want to get the weight off quickly but it must be far more fun to do it the way I have - I can even drink alcohol and eat chocolate and lose weight.  I would worry about my health doing this fad diet

BOLTON - i understand that yours IS a much healthier option, no question.
But the type of diet where i wud lose 2-3lbs over 2 years is just too long term and slow to maintain my enthusiasm. I needed a new approach to food, almost an addicts approach.


WELL DONE on your progress BOLTON - i'm well impressed

Thank you Rexi and OneToo


*sips banana bliss meal replacement shake - all 141 calories of it)

Well I think I'd be peed off on a diet like that .......anyone would. Have to say - I'm with Bolton Fan. I really hate to say it but ............you're not re educating yourself with regard to food - your body will go into starvation mode and the minute you return to eating normally you'll pile the weight back on (sorry to sound pessimistic) but been there done that. You need to be looking at altering your eating habits as a lifelong plan (that doesn't mean starving yourself) simply knowing what are the right choices .......you're not learning that this way IMO.
If it works for you that's good but ................I'm sorry but I'm really and truly sceptical.

Renton, as a 40 year starvation dieter I can't see how this diet will re-educate you. I'm glad you lost an initial amount which most new dieters do in the first week, my weight varies from 6 stone to 8 stone, due to my compulsive starvation diets, albeit devised by myself. I've totally fecked up my body, I can barely lift a saucepan without feeling my arms will break. You will never re-educate your stomach on so few calories but could harm your future self. You are young at the moment, my youngest son who's 19 has recently lost 33lb's just by cutting out coke & sweets. I wish you well, but I've affected over the years my eyesight, menstrual cycle, my strength through stupid diets. I'm actually lucky I have 2 son's due to my habit of starving myself.

Thank you all for your concern and input.
The plan i am following does reintroduce foods and exercise on a sensible scale - advice is given and literature provided - but the responsibiltiy is mine. To follow the advice - read the bumf - and feedback any helath concerns.

It IS re-educating me - i kow its not for everyone - i DO feel much healthier and my attitude IS changing for the better.
Its a long road of careful progress for the future - i need this - i was ill

DAY 8
Well this stir fry looks nice but it tastes 'orrible !! LOL
I'm learning to explore my cookery skills ... and i need practice
Chew chew chew . . . i never chewed sooooo much
Let me tell you - eventhough i'm hungry at the moment 'not' everything tastes good

Well done on your weight loss Renton, but I have to say I agree with most of the other posters in this thread. I can't for the life of me see how the diet can be re-educating on a healthier lifestyle. After years of dieting on and off, I have eventually lost all I want to lose and maintained my weight since over the last 3 months. I had balanced well proportioned meals and have dropped 5 sizes in 14 months. I don't intend to lose any more and keep a tight control over what I eat five days a week. Tonight I go out and have a few drinks t, Saturdays was always my treat night, I have a drink and eat what I want. You're certainly going to crave food on the amount of calories you're eating, whereas if you had a well balanced diet it would be much easier to stick to. I know you think it's working for you at the moment, and the pounds are dropping off, personally I thinks it's a crazy way to lose weight and not a good way in the long run. I wish you well and hope it all works out for you if this is the way you want to go, I'll echo everyone else's concern by saying please be careful.

Thank you ANN
Well you see my aim (and the aim of the diet plan) IS to reintroduce a sensible eating regime, with exercise so i will eventually be at your point within 3 months

Hiya Renton.
Congrats on your weight loss, but i have to agree with most. I just find it too drastic and pretty scary. I hope you get what you want from it, though.

I think that the story goes that most people who lose a lot of weight by dieting, no matter how they do it, usually put it all back on again over time and often a bit more each time too. Well done anyone who manages to keep it off, you are very much in the minority.
And Essie

Thanks for you comments Renton - I really hope you get what you are aiming for.  For me, the 18 months I've been going to Slimming World have gone so fast - the weight loss is slow, sometimes I even gain weight - but I feel its introduced me to the correct way of being healthy rather than just dieting.  I'm on 3 stones 9 pounds now and have another stone and a half to lose before I reach nine stones and today I bought size 12 clothes for the first time in about 22 years - I don't care how long it takes me just as long as I get there eventually - hope you do too

DAY 11
I think  its day 11 - anyhoo . . .
I wud love some crusty bread - lol.
Went shoppping today and went past the bread section but eventhough i LOVE bread (breathes deeply) i STILL didn't want to actually eat any. HUH !!!
Wot are they putting in my supplements? heroin??? LOL
Tis the oddest period of my life - not full yet not craving - hmmmmm


Diet is going well  . . .

DAY 13

Going well - never cheated - no desire to cheat - no interest in food at all
This is all very very odd - i'm finding it all so easy (how - i don't know)
Going great

DAY 14
I gained - yes gained - 2lbs - she sed it was water retention cos i aint drinking enough and eating slightly too large a meal (i have one a day)


Feel so down tried so hard

Don't think about the two pounds Renton,...think of what you've lost overall. It's still a HUGE amount in two weeks! Keep at it!

Thank you Ducky - its just i never cheated, not once - i thought i'd done everything right

Awww Renton, have a hug. As someone who once went to Weightwatchers (and needs to go back) I can remember how disheartening it is when you stick rigidly to the diet and somehow manage to put on weight. Don't let it throw you off course Renton, think of your long-term goal and you will get there.

Aw Renton. Don't let it dishearten you. This happens with lots of diets, you just must make sure it doesn't give you the excuse to slip.

Keep with it! Even if I don't think it sounds a "good" diet.

DAY 15
Thank you YOGI and JENNY
I do feel a bit down to be honest and ate about 10 black olives.
I'm gonna walk the dogs in the woods today eventhough i'm not meant to engage in exercise - cos this diet is leaving me with nothing.
No meals out, no drinking, no walking the dogs - i have nothing to look forward to
So its a dog walk today

Walking the dogs will probably do you a lot more good than that stupid diet, Renton. 

No truly healthy regime would insist you take no exercise and live on so few calories. It's just stupid and your body is obviously now reacting - as I said it would - by believing it is being starved and hanging on to every calorie it gets.

I'm resigned to middle aged spread

I've heard it's good on a toasted bagel

DAY - something - i lost count
I was staring at the cokie jar at work last night and thinking they looked nicely
Of course i did not cheat !!! You doubters, lol
I'm bored thats the only problem - but soldiering on
if i aint lost weight i will ice scream

Step away from the cookie jar, Renton!
When is your next weigh-in?

I can't understand how a diet that makes you feel like you have nothing to look forward to can be easier than one where you lose 1-2lbs a week and have everything to look forward to!  I know what you said about keeping the enthusiasm but surely the thought of being able to have a normal life and still lose weight must be more attractive than one where every day is a struggle just so you lose it quicker - if this actually turns out to be true?  As my consultant says, losing weight is a marathon not a sprint and healthy eating is for life not just to lose weight

YOGI - i get weighed on tues thanx for your interest xxx


Bolton - if you read up you will see that i aint really found this a strugggle at all - in fact i have found it really easy - not had any real feelings of cheating but its is dul and monotinous.
I'm doing things like this cos my incentive to success is to hit my target weight and never return to over weight - BEING my target weight is all i need to lead a new and healthy life

Renton - is it the Lighter Life diet that you're following?  My niece followed that and got to her target weight over a year ago.  She was always a beautiful girl but she is very tall which made her self conscious and the extra weight (she had 5 stones to lose) made her miserable.  Since reaching her target she has blossomed and has so much more confidence and joy in life.  It hasn't solved all of her problems but in many ways she's like a different girl.

She's maintained her weight since losing it - she eats with the family but has smaller portions and doesn't have some things at all.  She says it isn't that difficult as she's gotten into the habit of eating less and in her head knows that she's making a choice between the life she had before and the life she has now and no bacon buttie is worth that.  Her biggest problem is booze - she goes out a lot and likes her blue WKDs ......so sometimes she slips up there, but overall she seems to be doing very well.

For her the experience seemed to have given her the determination to keep it up so that it was worthwhile, and she seems to have learned from it.  I hope it does for you as well.