What's the most effective diet?

Lalaladybird

I'm going to join a slimming club but I'm not sure which one to join.

What are your experiences of national slimming clubs and which ones have worked for you?

74jax

All diets claim one thing - to loose weight.

The only way to loose weight safely is only consume the ammount of calories you need.

Diets reduce the calories in most of the cases, so you loose weight.

If you want to eat more - burn off more calories, if you want to loose weight - consume less calories.

Pick a diet that you can stick too and one that is working for you. one that doesnt make you think you're missing out as youreally want to eat the biscuit. Eat the biscuit, just burn it off.

Jess_B

All of them are successful if you stick to it! I'm a Weightwatchers girl myself and its worked for me in the past and I'm still doing it now and still lossing athough going it alone as I know it like the back of my hand these days!
Weightwatchers say you can eat anything as long as you point it and don't go over your points for the day and veg has 0 points so you can eat as much of that as you like. I find it works when I stick to it but like anything I have good weeks and bad weeks and I still like to live a little!

pigpen

My mother swore by weightwatchers.. and my friend did marvellous at slimming world.. I think you need to just find what works for you and go with it.. they are all much of a muchness.. stop eating crap and exercise..

charlies_mum

I agree that you need to exercise in addition to any diet. I did Weightwatchers but was always hungry. I did the Slimming World diet and lost 1.5 stones in 6 months and found it really easy . However, I have put it all back on since

BillTrac

I am on a weight management programme. NOT a diet.

I have lost 15lb in the last 5 weeks by NOT being on a diet.

I eat almost as much as before, just more sensibly. It is run by the NHS, it's a 12 week programme about your eating habits more than what you eat and how much

consultant31

Being a Slimming World Consultant, I'm biased, but over the years I've done every 'diet' under the sun. As everyone says, they all work if you stick with them BUT.....depriving yourself of something that you crave will not work long term, so the solution is not to 'go on' a diet, but to relearn how to eat sensibly and healthily.

Slimming World's Food Optimising isn't a diet, it's a healthy eating plan which honestly works if you follow it. There are no banned foods, but you are encouraged to eat lots at each meal time so that your hunger for rubbish diminshes. The plans allow 'real' food, jacket potatoes, pasta, rice, steaks etc etc, not just salads. You are allowed a measured amount of 'treat type' foods (chocolate, wine, whatever takes your fancy) every day and actively encouraged to have them to make sure you don't have feelings of deprivation.

charlies_mum - you will always regain the weight if you go back to your old ways, whichever way you lost the weight in the first place. This is why your 'healthy eating' plan has to be a lifestyle choice.

Lance

I lost about 1.5 stone. I had low fat / sugar cerial for brealfast, Shredded Wheet is lowest, with low fat milk. Went to gym in lunchbreak and had evening meal at 1600, tuna & rice etc. After that I drank tea to kill the hunger because the evening was when it hit me and I used to snack. After a month or so the fat and hunger go. Without the 45 minuts of exercise I find my body metabalism slows, I'm 50, and weight stays the same. If you cannot go to a gym take a long fast walk.

pukkamum

I lost 6 stones with WW's after being overweight for 20 yrs, the simple fact with ww's is that if you stick with your points, write EVERYTHING down that you eat, you will lose weight.
I always said that if someone would just tell me what NORMAL foods i could eat i could lose weight, and thats what WW's did.
It is a diet in that you lose weight but it is more about re-education, teaching you about food choices and portion control.
I found that even when i decided not to follow it, when i was pregnant, i still made good choices!!!!!

It also takes into account the fact that we all like a bit junk food every now and then or a drink etc just as any slim person would.

My one point though would be to stay for the meetings all the people i know who have suceeded on WW's stayed for the meetings.

Lobell

I've lost 6 stones by eating better (not necessarily less, although portion control has been a part of it), cutting down on alcohol and moving more. Exercise really is the key.

pinkclouds

No personal experience of diet clubs but an acquaintance of mine used Scottish Slimmers for a couple of months or so to tone up for her wedding. She was a size 10 and wanted to lose a few pounds. I couldn't actually see the difference but she said it worked so I believe her.

Not a diet club but I also know someone else who had good success (2 dress sizes, I think) with that Special K cereal diet that they advertise on the cereal boxes.