Lighter Life

jackomdj

mookiandco wrote: »

The cambridge diet is the same but cheaper. There is a thread on health and beauty board The cambridge stuff is made by lighter life too.
P.s lost 5 stone in 5 months on cambridge diet.

I think the Cambridge Diet is wonderful, I lost 5 1/2st on it & thought so much about the diet I became a Counsellor. In 2007 one of my customers lost 12st on the diet & became Cambridge Slimmer of the year.

I always say to my customers on day one..."if you go back to eating what you used to eat in the quantities you used to eat it the weight will go back on for the reasons it went on in the first place" If you choose to change & do the maintenance steps you will be able to keep it off.

Today is day 1 back on the diet for me - I did however have a baby so I had a reason to put some on - & I am actually looking forward to it.

Good luck with whatever you choose.

Nicky
Cambridge Diet Counsellor - Swindon

Sorry I put the quote in above & forgot to say...I think you will find LL is made by Cambridge rather than the other way round....but Cambridge has a wider choice in flovours etc

Penny35_2

Thank you all for your comments...

I have an appointment tomorrow with a Cambridge Diet Councillor, so fingers crossed

bizywizy

good luck.

Can I just ask why you think meal replacements are going to be the way to go rather than using food which is cheaper????

I do think that every diet scheme has so many pluses and the fact that you stick to it has to be the main thing so which ever way if it works its got to be good.

really wish you lots of success.

UKTigerlily

I'd like to have tried it but am Bipolar so can't do that of CD unfortunately!

jackieb

I did this 3 years ago. I wouldn't recommend it at all. I lost more than 4 stone in 3 months. I hated all the soups and shakes, so I lived off some bars and chocolate shakes. I stopped when it went up by £19 a week to £66. As soon as I stopped I developed gallstones. Whilst doing it I lost clumps of hair. It would come out in handfuls (it came back eventually). I felt awful on it too.

I liked the group and I liked the CBT. I put it all back on again when I stopped though.

nickyhutch

You have to remember that whichever diet you do, and are successful on, when you stop that diet, if you don't make efforts to maintain that weight loss, it will of course pile back on. It doesn't pile on because you've lost it quickly, it piles on because you go back to your old habits. If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.

If you do go with cambridge, start thinking hard about how you're going to keep it off. I'd recommend WW or SW, something like that, or calorie counting.

Really good luck - it's lifechanging!

Running_Horse

jackieb wrote: »

IAs soon as I stopped I developed gallstones.

Someone I know ended up in casualty with excruciating internal pain, that they could not find the cause of, and then put the weight back on.

Becles

We all know what healthy foods are, and what's not so healthy, and we all have our vices - chocolate, crisps, alcohol etc.

It's not rocket science - cut down on the unhealthy foods, eat mainly healthy meals and do some exercise. We all know that already!

You don't need to pay vast quantities of money for replacement meal shakes and stuff like that. Just use real food in moderation and eat what you fancy from healthy foods, but still have the odd bits of unhealthy food otherwise you just end up craving it so badly which affects your willpower to continue.

I don't do formal diets as I find them too restrictive and prefer to eat and enjoy meals that I fancy. I lost a stone last year just by eating more healthy and doing more exercise. I've not been so active and have eaten more unhealthy foods over Christmas, but I've returned to healthy meals and exercise this month and hope to lose more weight.

bizywizy

the fact we spent lots of money means we are more likely to stick to it.

we all know the foods to avoid but lack the willpower ect to do it by ourselves.

By spending out we owe ourselves much more and we seem to buy willpower.

Sureslim is a set fee which made me consider it hard but thankfully it bought me the willpower I needed and 7 1/2 stone down cant be sneezed at.

a piccie of my journey.


As said -= it doesnt matter how you do it as each person is different and its what suits. I never in a million years thought I could stop taking in milk, bread, potatoes - but I did it. I can have potatoes now which is nice.

BizzyBek

I would say check with your doctor first.