Cambridge Diet

Cute_'n'_Quirky

calleyw wrote: »

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

Read up on Cambridge then you might just know what you are talking about!!!!

None of what you say in that post is medically correct for Cambridge.

And no, I don't work for them.

Slim Fast is NOT at all the same product or plan as Cambridge.

Cambridge does NOT affect your metabolism in the way you suggest.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

lynzpower wrote: »

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?

For Cambridge you must have 14 pounds to lose, so yes you would be fine.

Cambridge is safe, medically and nutrionally, it was designed by the medical profession for continued use.

Have a look at the website - there is a wealth of information there.

Or if you want to, please do pm me, that is not a problem.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

For the cynics and the sceptics - from the www.cambridge-diet.com website

The history of the Cambridge Diet


The Cambridge Diet stems from the early 1960's when Dr Alan Howard, then a research scientist at the University of Cambridge, developed an interest in overweight and obesity.
He began to investigate methods of weight reduction, using himself as one of the guinea pigs. Together with Dr Ian McLean-Baird of the West Middlesex Hospital, in 1968 he organised a National Symposium on Obesity, the first ever held in the UK. They went on to a collaborate and develop the perfect diet. Successful trials led to the introduction of the Cambridge Diet.
With Dr McLean-Baird, Alan Howard set up a research project at the West Middlesex Hospital. What they wanted was a formula food with:

• the excellent weight loss properties of starvation, but no undesirable side effects
• the right level of protein to protect lean tissue
• the right level of carbohydrate to promote a mild ketosis and eliminate a sense of hunger
• the right levels of vitamins, minerals, trace elements and essential fatty acids to maintain good health.

The first formula produced excellent weight loss results, and further work by food technologists enhanced flavours and led to the first commercial version of the Cambridge Diet. The effectiveness and safety of this revised formula was tested both in hospital and with outpatients.
This study demonstrated three important factors:

• remarkable weight loss
• patient acceptability and
• patient safety

and led to the Diet becoming more available in obesity clinics in London and Cambridge. Long term safety was assessed and confirmed by further independent research in the UK, the USA and across Europe. The Cambridge Diet was launched commercially in the USA in 1980 and has been available in the UK since 1984.

cleverclogs_3

i did try a simalar diet lipotrim,3 shakes a day or bars,plenty of water no food what so ever stuck with it for 6 weeks then finaly came off it when i fell sick/run down/tired/grumpy you name it i had it. i would recomend not going to this extreme as all it does is make your metobilizm smaller,putting your body into starvation mode so when u start eating proper again,your body stores all fat it can in case you start to starve again!!!! hence piling on the pounds plus more!!!!:money: so save your money and join a gym,thats what i did and just eat healthy.

lynzpower

well I have made contact with my local counsellor waiting for her to ring me back.

If I pile it back on later, then thats my own dumb fault, but i have to give this a try to give it the kickstart i need

Out of interest I was going to join a gym as well. Thise who are familiar with the cambridge, shall i hold off joining till i get to the stabilisation phases? Just worried Ill be apying out for a month but too weak to go IYSWIM.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Cambridge advise you not to embark on a fabulous gym membership if you haven't done it before, simply because it is a VLCD.

I have been going to the same health club for over 6 years and so I continued to use the rowing machine and the swimming and I have had no problems.

You do need to do some exercise in order to help your body to ping back into shape, but take it easy for the first two weeks as your body adjusts to the new eating regime.

There are folks I know who still go to the gym every day Monday to Friday before work and are following Cambridge to the letter. It all depends what you are used to already.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

cleverclogs wrote: »

i did try a simalar diet lipotrim,3 shakes a day or bars,plenty of water no food what so ever stuck with it for 6 weeks then finaly came off it when i fell sick/run down/tired/grumpy you name it i had it. i would recomend not going to this extreme as all it does is make your metobilizm smaller,putting your body into starvation mode so when u start eating proper again,your body stores all fat it can in case you start to starve again!!!! hence piling on the pounds plus more!!!!:money: so save your money and join a gym,thats what i did and just eat healthy.

All of that is totally incorrect.

Plum_Pie

Cute'n'Quirky,

I'm interested in how you will maintain your loss when you reach your goal weight. Will you continue to eat some Cambridge Diet products as meal replacements or will you move to a plan of eating specific 'normal' (ie widely available) foods?

Here is some more info on VLED from the NHS:
http://www.clinicalanswers.nhs.uk/index.cfm?question=5084

lynzpower

good question plum pie.

personally from rading the cambridge pages, it looks to me like if i moved from VLCD to things like proper meals with weight watchers ( in thier maintainence phase) i should be OK?

Better had be as im obsessed with their no point moroccan casserole

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Plum_Pie wrote: »

Cute'n'Quirky,

I'm interested in how you will maintain your loss when you reach your goal weight. Will you continue to eat some Cambridge Diet products as meal replacements or will you move to a plan of eating specific 'normal' (ie widely available) foods?

Here is some more info on VLED from the NHS:
http://www.clinicalanswers.nhs.uk/index.cfm?question=5084

Once you reach a BMI of 25 you switch up from whichever plan you have been on. So you would go from -

Sole Source to 790 which is 3 x CD plus one meal for one week
then from
790 to 1000 which is 2 CD + breakfast + dinner for one week
from 1000 to the 1200 plan which is 2 x CD plus breakfast, lunch and dinner
then to 1500 which is food only to calorie intake to maintain weight.

If you go from Sole Source or 790/1000 immediately you will gain weight !!!

Remember that this diet has been scientifically proven and medically safe. It does work provided that you don't cheat!

edited to add -

LynzPower - yes you could probably have a WW meal once you get to the 1000 plan but Cambridge do encourage fresh food as opposed to prepackaged!