Cambridge Diet

myright

I'm paying £35 a week for it.

Is there any cheap place where I can buy it from?

thanks

faithcecilia

Each CDC charges their own price (or is free to, many do charge rrp) and you get their service as well as the product. There are other nutritionally balanced VLCD's with their own pros and cons, ie Lighter Life is a lot more expensive but have structured sessions, and Exante is a lot cheaper but is mail order and no counselling. Why not have a google and see what you can find?

Eric_Pisch

Pros: you loose weight

Cons: most of that weight is lean muscle mass

Pros: you dont have to think about what you are doing

Cons: you have learnt nothing about healthy eating so easily fall back into your old eating habits but now with a substantially reduced metabolic rate from muscle loss

gettingready

I have started Cambridge today (again) and the cost of shakes was £1.95 per shake and bars/ready cartoons at £2.20 each so weekly for 3 per day just over £40.

Exante works at £2.38 per shake so more expensive. Their "bumper" packs are cheaper but those are mixture of flavours some of which I do nto like so no good for me anyway and one has to buy over 80 shakes in one go so the initial outlay is massive.

Lighterlife is ridiculosly expensive and so is Howards Way.

The cheapest probably Lipotrim - available directly from chemists who run it (not all do).

All of them are total ..... but I have no control over food so this is the only way for me.

I know what/when I should eat - I just do not stick to it at all and stuff my face with jam sarnies at unsane 3am every nigh.

Lost 2 stone on Lipotrim before but never refed properly, went straight back to chocolate so put it all back on.

Hope to loose 2 stone on Cambrisge now and will just have to be careful when I get there weighwise ...

Sigh...

isie1980

Most recently I have done Cambridge, paying around £40 a week for sole source. Generally successful, I lost 1.5 st then had to stop as I learned I was pregnant (was dieting to help conception so very happy!).

Previously I have lost 4.5st on Lighter Life which was £66 per week including a good 1.5 hour small group counselling session. I stuck to it 100% and lost the weight in 4 months. It then took me a good 1.5 years to regain that 1.5st I went to Cambridge Diet to lose. LighterLife really helped sort out my relationship with, and attitude to, food. I was a real comfort eater, secret binger and chocaholic. I now have a totally different attitude to how, when and what I eat.
Totally honestly when I was paying £66 a week for LighterLife I was spending less than I had previously been spending on food (when you consider the weekly supermarket shop, alcohol, snacks and fizzy drinks and popping into McDs for a 99p burger about 3 times a week!). Having said that I lived alone - now that I live with my hubby, it would definitely be more expensive as we'd still be doing a supermarket shop for him, and clearly for anyone with a family it would probably increase the weekly food spend.

I would recommend LighterLife but it does 'feel' expensive handing over £66 a week for a bag of milkshake sachets.
Cambridge works equally well, but I think more willpower and self control is required.
I've tried Exante too but personally I need someone else to weigh me weekly to keep me on track.

Whatever you do, and especially if you go down the non-LighterLife route (ie no counselling) I would recommend getting a copy of Gillian Riley's book "Say goodbye to overeating" which should help you work through your issues with food for less than £10. Another word of advice when following a sole source diet would be to find cheap no food treats to reward your successes: a pedicure at the local training college, a relaxing bath with a wine glass of fizzy water(!) and a good book, regularly slap on body cream to prevent stretch marks and help you love your body. My biggest incentive was buying a pair of £10 trousers from Matalan 2 sizes too small - a daily reminder of my goal as I hung them on the outside of the wardrobe!

Hope this helps...
Isie