Cambridge Diet

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Francesanne wrote: »

I've never tried the Cambridge diet but don't think you should waste your money. I can appreciate you wanting fast results but that's really not the best way to lose your excess weight. Why not try Slimming World. I lost over a stone on their regime and you honestly never need to go hungry and it's a good healthy regime. A very overweight family friend has lost nearly 5 stone. The ideal weight loss is 1/2lb per week and depending how much you need to lose. I've heard of many people who do these instant liquid diets and put the weight straight back on afterwards. You're not learning how to change your eating habits and that's what's important. Good luck.

Your opinion but most certainly not mine.

Yes we do learn how to change our eating habits :j

Having lost over 11 stones with Cambridge I would recommend it to anybody without any reservation whatsoever.

Most people who do WW or SW go back time after time after time as they regain the weight plus more.

Cambridge isn't instant and is not a quick fix, we work hard at our results.

LeaSparkle

I have been on and off the Cambridge Diet since 1999. I lost six stone the first time and managed through sensible eating and excercise to keep it off for three years. I then put the weight back on, lost it again, put it on, lost it again. I had a baby 11 weeks ago and have found now that I put five stone on throughout the pregnancy. I started the Cambridge diet again on Monday and feel absolutely fine. The diet is rapid - I usually lose well over a stone in the first fortnight but if you re-educate yourself to follow a proper healthy low fat diet once you have lost the weight it DOES stay off. Unfortunately I tend to eat takeaways far too often!

As a Cambridge veteran I feel I don't really need the councilling any longer. I have found the Cambridge Diet on the Ebay US site, My friend has just had a load sent over from the states. With Postage and packaging it works out at about £107 for six weeks supply. That's so much cheaper than the £35 (ish) a week you would pay over here.

I would be interested for other CD users to tell me what they think of this? I would always recommend first time CD users to go to a councillor though.

Louisepp

LeaSparkle wrote: »

As a Cambridge veteran I feel I don't really need the councilling any longer. I have found the Cambridge Diet on the Ebay US site, My friend has just had a load sent over from the states. With Postage and packaging it works out at about £107 for six weeks supply. That's so much cheaper than the £35 (ish) a week you would pay over here.

I would be interested for other CD users to tell me what they think of this? I would always recommend first time CD users to go to a councillor though.

The US Cambridge is a different 'diet'. It's a different formula, different rules, made by different people. In other words, it's not the same

As for the counselling. I really word recommend you saw a counsellor. So much has changed over the years to keep up with the new NICE guidelines. First and foremost, your health is the most important thing.

Oh and BTW. The US Cambridge isn't allowed to be shipped here. I guess there might be a problem with it going through customs should it get picked up, but you might be lucky

Jennikay

LeaSparkle wrote: »

I had a baby 11 weeks ago and have found now that I put five stone on throughout the pregnancy. I started the Cambridge diet again on Monday

If you're breastfeeding you're not allowed to go on Cambridge.
This is why it's important to have a counsellor really.

Having said that, I wish I could get 6 weeks of Cambridge Diet for £100! :P
But you can't really guarantee the safety of it, or if it's genuine.

Good luck

Cute_'n'_Quirky

The UK CD diet is marketed in the US as www.successdiet.com and can be shipped to the UK without problem. It is the same as ours.

The US Cambridge Diet is not the same as our Cambridge. The Cambridge Distributors are not allowed to sell out of the US but the sellers on ebay.com have no problems. I have had the porridge shipped from the States from ebay - over a year ago now though. There is no problem with our Customs at all, or the US Customs either. How the ebay sellers get away with it I don't know but they order from the manufacturer and ship whatever you ask for.

Same with the success diet too - I have had theirs shipped here when they were doing some divine bars - which have now been discontinued as they are having problems with the manufacturing of them.

Having said all of that I would still recommend going to a CDC here - since you get the support. It is not necessarily the Counselling as such it is the being monitored that I find helps - having never been to WW or SW or anything else like that myself.

I started out buying Cambridge from all over since I didn't want anyone to know the horrific truth of how much I weighed - I was so ashamed.

Then - wanting the bars and flavours I couldn't get I went to a CDC and have never regretted that at all.

As was mentioned above you cannot do any of the Cambridge Plans when breast-feeding as your body needs the nutrients for the baby's health and well-being.

Do go to a CDC and do it properly.

Jennikay

They do say that you can use it as extra nourishment while breastfeeding though

Eeek - I weighed myself this morning and have gained 3lbs on holiday

Going to be glugging the water - am tempted to go on 810 for a few days.

x

Louisepp

Cute_n_Quirky wrote: »

The UK CD diet is marketed in the US as www.successdiet.com and can be shipped to the UK without problem. It is the same as ours.

The link between the UK Cambridge and the Success programme goes back years. It is a different formulation and isn't allowed to be sent to the UK as it doesn't follow the UK regulations.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

I have had the success diet formulation sent out to me here in the UK - Rosemary Garrison has no problem with that at all.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Jennikay wrote: »

They do say that you can use it as extra nourishment while breastfeeding though

Eeek - I weighed myself this morning and have gained 3lbs on holiday

Going to be glugging the water - am tempted to go on 810 for a few days.

x

Don't worry it will only be water-weight and will drop off in no time.

I had 12lbs of water-weight when I came back from Germany - through flying - which fell off in two days :T

suzy121

hi every1 ive been watching your postings for a while now and im happy 2 say im on day 4.still feelin a bit hungry but think its cos im thinking a lot about food arhhh.well done 2 u all on your losses im very impressed with how u have all done keep it up. hope i can follow u all !