Cambridge Diet

Cute_'n'_Quirky

About CD

It was created by doctors.

There were 8 years of clinical trials proving it safe.

It provides 100% perfect nutrition, so therefore CDers are probably eating far better than non CDers.

To lose weight you need to cut your kcals substantially, yet it's very difficult to get 100% perfect nutrition with conventional food alone for under 1200kcal per day - therefore you end up in starvation mode and don't lose weight with conventional food alone.

Fruit contains sugar, veg contains carbs, although they are great for maintaining a healthy weight, those two things can make it very hard for people to lose weight.

Exercise alone is NOT an effective form of weight loss. You can exercise yourself into the ground and only lose 100g of fat each week - yet it's great for health.

candygirl

Cute_n_Quirky wrote: »

About CD

It was created by doctors.

There were 8 years of clinical trials proving it safe.

It provides 100% perfect nutrition, so therefore CDers are probably eating far better than non CDers.

To lose weight you need to cut your kcals substantially, yet it's very difficult to get 100% perfect nutrition with conventional food alone for under 1200kcal per day - therefore you end up in starvation mode and don't lose weight with conventional food alone.

Fruit contains sugar, veg contains carbs, although they are great for maintaining a healthy weight, those two things can make it very hard for people to lose weight.

Exercise alone is NOT an effective form of weight loss. You can exercise yourself into the ground and only lose 100g of fat each week - yet it's great for health.

Thanks for that advice:p :pbut i recently lost 16lbs in 5 weeks but healthy eating, and swimming 3 times a week.It's a slow process but for me it is more of a healthy option:)

mapcr77

Hello!

After reading about the Cambridge Diet, I would like to give it a go. I'd like to lose 1.5st, though I'd be happy with just 1.

Anyway, let's say I like some Mary Kay products, but I don't buy them because I hate how intrusive sales representatives are, and I wouldn't like a similar situation with a CD councillor. I like the sound of the science behind the CD, but I hate the thought of someone calling every few days or even every week or two to ask about my diet. So I wanna hear your experiences/thoughts about it? How does it actually work?

Many thanks!

Cute_'n'_Quirky

I have just finished 7 days on Cambridge.

I have lost 17 pounds.

I have lost 4" from my bust, 4" from my waist and 4" from my hips!


You usually go to your CDC, they don't come to you. You can go weekly, fortnightly or monthly, whatever you choose.
They will supply the shakes/soups/bars and any advice you need along the way.
Most of them are just suppliers of the product.

The website is at www.cambridge-diet.com which has full details of the plans, etc.


The diet was designed by a hospital doctor in the UK to formulate a plan with perfectly balanced nutrition with weightloss.

The Cambridge Diet went onto the UK market in 1984.

You must be 14 pounds overweight before you start Sole Source CD - or SSCD.

On sole source I have three meal replacements per day. These can be a Shake or a Soup.

Yes it is a Very Low Calorie Diet but is proven to make your body enter ketosis very quickly - fat burning mode - and to be perfectly safe.

By week 3 I am allowed to swap one of the shakes/soups for a chewy bar. So then I can have 1 x shake, 1 x soup and 1 x bar plus a savoury drink on top. Plus at least 8 glasses of water/ 4 pints per day. You can also have black coffee and tea and zero cal drinks as long as they have no citric acid. Diet Coke has citric acid, Coke Zero does not, for example.

Every fifth week I do Add a Meal Week - AAMW - where I have the three replacement meals plus one 'green & white' meal of chicken/fish/quorn/cottage cheese and green vegetables only. This is to increase calorie intake a little and boost metabolism, to stop the body thinking you are going into starvation mode! Then week 6 you go back onto Sole Source.

You can also do The Sole Source Plus One Meal per day (790Cals) or a 1000 or 1200 cal plan if you wish.

The ketosis naturally sends you into no hunger at all!! None, not at all.

There are people on a messaging board I belong to whom have lost 98 pounds in four months. The official Cambridge line is 14 pounds per month, though. It depends how much you cheat too!

CD really does educate you as to how little your body really needs to fuel itself.

When you reach a BMI of 25 you go to the higher plans for a week at a time, gradually reintroducing various meals and foods, losing a shake/soup here and there so that you maintain your new weight.

I have no complaints with it at all.

mapcr77

17 pounds in a week, that's amazing! Well done!!!

Another question. My BMI is currently 26, and losing 9 pounds would bring it down to 25, so do I quialify for the CD?

And what happens if you decide the diet is just not for you? Do you call the councillor and tell him/her you don't want to do it anymore and that's that?

Thanks and good luck with the weight loss!

Cute_'n'_Quirky

I think you would be required to do the 790 plan not the Sole Source because of you being almost to your BMI.

It is said that Cambridge is only suitable for more than 14 pound weight loss. They may want you to do the 1000cal plan, which does work.

You can decide not to continue at any time, there is no contract involved.

They are very flexible.

mapcr77

I'd really like to try the diet now, problem is my husband is not too keen! He doesn't like the sound of replacing meals so dratically, so I need to convince him somehow... My birthday is coming soon (big 3-0!) And the best present I could give myself would be to fit back into my old clothes! Has anyone else had issues with their other halves when dieting?

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Cambridge is medically sound, being developed by the medical profession for use on patients who needed to lose weight quickly and safely.

Do take a look at the website and maybe also the Forum too.

I wonder if your husband has problems worrying that he is going to lose you to someone else if you are suddenly slimmer and more fabulous than you are now? That does happen quite a lot you know!

You would not be allowed to do the full meal replacement because you haven't got that much weight to lose. A 790 plan is 3 x meal replacements plus a large protein-rich meal - chicken/meat/fish/cottage cheese/quorn plus vegetables per day.

You would lose the weight in no time!

You would just need to convince him that you love him anyway and that various aspects of your life will improve too (nudge, nudge, wink* wink*) if you know what I mean.

calleyw

mapcr77 wrote: »

17 pounds in a week, that's amazing! Well done!!!

No that is dangerous.

To lose 17lbs that means you have eaten 8500 to 17000 less calories a week to lose that.

To me it is neither healthy or safe to lose it like that. I know bigger people will lose more as they are heavier. As you don't just loose water but muscle. And you need muscle to burn fat.

Every time you diet and restrict calories you muck your metabolic rate up pushing it lower. So next time it makes it harder to loose weight.

That is why I have never liked CD or slim fast as they are not teaching you how to have a good relationship with food. With out that you never learn to lose and maintain safely.

I prefer my slow and steady method but each to there own.


Yours


Calley

lynzpower

I knwo with ligter life one needs to have more than ( is it) 5 stone or more to lose?

Im 5.1 and weigh a saddening 11 stone. My GP says I sohuld be 8.1 which I think is too low, but I would like to be 9 again.

I need to do something very regimented, i like weightwatchers, but cant stick to eat adn end up scoffing 10 mini WW cheesecakes.

my food issue is I LOVE IT, and I just have never been one for saying no.

Id like a counsellor too, I need to be shamed out of my gluttony I think.

Do |I have enough weight ot lose for cambridge?