What is the most successful diet you have ever experienced?
March 11, 2010 by admin
Filed under Weight Loss Questions
Who hasn’t tried a diet, at one time or another? How much research do you have to do to be committed to a diet? How many follow the example of a friend, or workforce gossip? What is the most successful diet you have ever been on, and why did it work? If you can suggest sources of viable information, I would appreciate it. Help! I have tried everything!
I can’t handle anyone else telling me what I can and can’t eat.
Currently, I have lost 26 pounds by just doing my own thing. I eat two Dannon Light n Fit yogurts, a bowl of raisin bran with 1/2% milk and a sensible dinner each day. I don’t say anything is off limits, but I have to watch that I only eat ONE serving of things. I occasionally allow a treat.
If someone had told me to eat only that every day I would not have followed it. I think sometimes you just really have to figure out what works for you.
A little exercise and a little less food works wonders. And no fast food! EEk, that stuff is horribly calorie-laden.
Good luck to you.
A lifelong commitment to regular exercise.
Honestly, this has been number one for me. The problem with a "diet" is that we almost always see them as a temporary change. We stop eating certain foods for a while, we lose weight, then what? We go back to eating the same as we were? It just doesn’t work – the principle is flawed. The only "diet" that works is changing your habits for the better, and exercise, exercise, exercise.
I have never tried a "diet". Ever.
What has always worked for me is eating whatever I want in good measure on the weekends.
During the week I cut out sugar and /or high calorie foods, all fast food is out, and I always eat breakfast and lunch.
Walking the neighborhood as much as I can helps too.
I think after my mother came to near death after being on the Scarsdale Diet I never looked to fads diets as as a good thing.
Of course, diet and excercise always works best. But when the popular phen-fen diet pills was around, lost a lot of weight with no exercise. But it was so dangerous that they took it off the market. My mother still has heart irregularities from taking them. I think I just about taken every diet pill that’s ever came out. All of them works, but you must combine them with exercise. They usually already cut down your appetite, so you won’t be that hungry. And I think that, if you take diet pills for a long time, you build up resistance to them and they won’t work so well. I wouldn’t advice anyone to try diet pills becuase I think all of them might be dangerous. My sister tried hydroxycut and her legs got very swollen and so she gave me the rest of them. Diet pills affect different poeple in different ways. I joined LA weight loss on January 25 and I’ve lost 20 pounds. But I like to excercise and I started to eat healthier. I love fitness, so I buy all the fitness magazines and everytime I hear some diet advice that’s worked for someone, I’ll try it. I’ve tried them all. When my son was nine months, I had just about lost all my pregnancy weight when I found out I was having twins. The twins are seven months now and I have 35 more pounds to lose. So that’s why I went to the extremes of joining a weight loss center. Everyone always ask me why am I so into losing weight and they just don’t understand.
Atkins was the best diet for me. (55yr. Female) My Dr. suggested it in 2000, before it became popular. I lost 132# in 2 years. (278-146) Once I eliminated sugars/carbs, the weigh fell off. I just walked, no fancy exercise plan. I had been obese all my adult life and tried all of the diets.
I seem to fit the Atkins profile of needing to stay around 40 carbs. per day. Once I start adding carbs, the weight comes back. I also need to walk, else the weight come right back. I believe some of us have a life long problem and will always need to be conscious of "what" we eat. Everything that the Atkins Diet proclaimed rang true for me; Sugar/Cholesterol levels lowered and I felt so much better. No more Sugar Blues… Now, when I eat heavy carb meal I feel sluggish and get a slight headache. I don’t do this often, for me, it is no longer worth it. I want the weight loss more than the food. When you see results, that is what kept me going. With other diets, I saw no results, so I was easily discouraged.
Now, compared to 6 years ago, there are so many Low Carb products to give you variety; but I mainly eat "whole" foods, foods in their natural state. I rarely eat anything boxed or canned. I don’t induldge in the "Net Carb.". I count: "The Carbs".
I hope this helps and my suggestion would be the same as my Doctor said to me, "Get the Atkins Diet Book, read it, and see if it is something you would like to try." It became a Gift of Life for me. I wish All..
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