crazy dieting in the new year

Grapefruit diet
Cabbage soup
High Fibre
5-2
18-12
Low fat
High Protein
Nutracheck
Cambridge
Slimming World
Weight Watchers
Rosemary Connoly

- done them all still fat I wonder what the common denominator is?

I remember in the 80s buying appetite suppressants called Ayds, they were a fudge type sweet - obviously didnt work. They chose an unfortunate name for the 80s.

I have tried most of the diets above including an egg and peanut diet!

I try and eat healthy now but don’t really diet.

My mother ate Limmits as well. What about the banana diet, Ryvita diet and a milk only diet. That one was 2 pints of milk throughout the day every so often.

I think it probably is quite good for us to have a day every so often of eating very little and giving your gut a rest.
I expect the Michael Mosley diets have superseded all the ones in magazines from times gone by and the weight loss injections as well.
It will be interesting to see how they pan out in a few years down the line.

The only one that seemed to work for me was intermittent fasting. I did the 16:8 version. Of course as soon as I stopped back the weight came.

Oh this brings back memories.

My mum was never without a bottle of PLJ in our fridge. She swore by it, along with the Cabbage soup diet, Cottage Cheese diet (with various bits in - pineapple being a favourite of hers) Limits, Ayds (remember them!) and any other faddy diet she'd read about; she tried them all.

Happy Days

Intermittent fasting together with Second Nature is working well at the moment. The weight loss is slow but the gain isn’t happening.

A friend of mine did a coffee and oranges diet. Worked like a dream, but she looked skeletal. When she stopped it the weight roared back on

'Diets' are why Slimming World and Weight Watchers are still in business after decades and doing very well thank you.
They never work, any of them.

1summer

I remember in the 80s buying appetite suppressants called Ayds, they were a fudge type sweet - obviously didnt work. They chose an unfortunate name for the 80s.

I have tried most of the diets above including an egg and peanut diet!

I try and eat healthy now but don’t really diet.

I used to end up eating the whole box…I did lose a lot of weight with the high protein diet. In fact I’m lucky that I didn’t damage myself permanently as I didn’t drink enough water with it and I’m sure that it ruined my metabolism as for many years later I’d put weight on so easily. It was only in middle age that it dawned on me that my binge eating was hormonal and that three weeks into my cycle I would start craving sweet food. Me and a friend still talk about the brown rice diet that we both did in our late teens; I still struggle with the smell of brown rice even though I’m now trying to include it in my diet. I’m still using recipes from Rosemary Conleys low fat cook book.

Samsara1

Grapefruit diet
Cabbage soup
High Fibre
5-2
18-12
Low fat
High Protein
Nutracheck
Cambridge
Slimming World
Weight Watchers
Rosemary Connoly

- done them all still fat I wonder what the common denominator is?

Many of the diets you mention are not remotely crazy they are based on sound nutritional principles. However the fact that you list all, good bad or indifferent and then ask what the common factor is, well the common factor is you

There is no point in starting a diet until you understand why you both put on weight in the first place or cannot lose it. The usual causes are that you are eating too much or your diet is nutritionally poor.

So ask yourself why you eat so much. Is it because you are always hungry, bored, eat when you are unhappy/happy/angry or is your usual diet unhealthy? High in fat and sugar and UPFs.

A good start is to ween yourself gradually off the usual food causes of weight gain, too much sweet or fatty food. Try to reduce snacks and eat fruit or veg instead of biscuits or crisps.

To reduce you consumption of UPFS, cook from scratch. reduce your consumption of ready meals. Read the backs of packets and see how many raw materials you reconginse as a farm product. The more ingredients with scientific names you haven't heard of the less healthy the food.

At the end of the day it is upto you. If every time you 'go on a diet' you spend your time longing for it to end so that you can go back to having bisuits with your coffee in the morning and so on, then there is no point in beginning to diet because it ha failed before it starts, because a healthy eating pattern is something you follow for life.

Slimming World has never worked for me; i find they do not really support vegans. all this so many points eat buckets of that healthy extras beyond me!
yes I remember many of the diets including Ayds and I agree not best of names.
worst for me was a Slimfast I ended up in hospital!

I remember a nutrition Professor blaming Rosemary Conolly for generations of depressed women who didn't eat enough fat for their bodies to create hormones properly.

My mother used Ayds, but ate them like sweets….not quite the idea.

My mother was on a permanent diet and tried them all . She was diagnosed with Osteoporosis in her 60s . Has fractured both ankles and has multiple tiny fractures in her spine , causing constant back ache .
I think Rosemary Connolly was the reason mum wouldn’t eat fat in dairy ,meat , oily fish . Back then she didn’t realise there were good fats and bad fats .

Carol Vorderman put out a diet book which was a detox diet, in around 2000. I tried that, and have never felt so well on a diet before or since. After a Christmas heavy on wine and chocolate, I might dig it next week out as I think I’ve still got it somewhere.

AmberGran

I remember a nutrition Professor blaming Rosemary Conolly for generations of depressed women who didn't eat enough fat for their bodies to create hormones properly.

I buy full fat GreekYoghurt which is supposed to be more healthy than low fat. I’m sure that my neverending diet has caused no end of problems over the years. I once did a detox for several months, though, and felt so good. At the time I said if only I could stick to it forever…but, alas, I slipped back into unhealthy eating.

I’ve done many of the diets mentioned above but the ones that worked well all have certain things in common like high protein, low carb, low sugar, lots of fibre and intermittent fasting. I’m thinking of the Dukan diet ((Michael Mosley came much later but was very similar to the Dukan) low GI diet and the high fibre diet. I maintain a healthy weight by living by the main principles of all those. Most of the time anyway!

I went to weight watchers once and lost a couple of stone it came back ofcourse but what shocked me was our leader. She was slim and fit looking and told us about her successful weight loss - I think to be a leader you had to have lost weight.

Well a few months after I left, I saw this leader but hardly recognised her. She was enormous.

Unfortunately as M0nica says, we have to address the reason why we put on weight before we can deal with it.

I tried them all. In my fifties I decided it’s all brainwashing. Been the same weight ever since. I eat anything because it’s allowed. It’s surprising how food loses its attraction when it’s allowed. No calorie counting.

I did the 5:2 diet when it came out. I lost 2 stone in 4 months. That was 10 years ago and I have not put that weight back on.

That particular diet suited me, so it worked. Two days a week, I had to walk away from food, instead of scoffing everything I saw. Once I learned to do it 2 days a week, I learned to do it every day and on the occasional days I overeat it doesn't really matter.

But more than anything you need to realise that it is your current food choices that are making you fat, so they have to change. It is just getting your mind set right and then finding a dietstyle that suits you. Some diets are crazy, others aren't.

I know. I guess we all know what we should and shouldn't be eating and how much of it. I always found that 'being on a diet' made me obsessed with food. I reckon that if I'm sensible about shopping I do much better ie if there's no cake and crisps in the house I can't be scoffing them. However, knowing is one thing, doing is another!

Monica I was being satirical I thought but thanks for the lecture anyway. I'm doing fine on Healthy Eating and exercise as advocated by the NHS.

Come 1st January every year and I usuallt start the diet resolutions.
There's a slimming club nearby and the queues have begun.
A friend gave me some of their diet soups and they were foul .
I ate less than I usually do over Christmas mainly , because I felt unwell .

My New Year Resolution this year is to be realistic.
I'm not in my twenties and thirties super active and likely to be a size eight again .

My mother actually ended up in hospital having drunk PLJ in an effort to lose weight.
Another time on a diet of Slimcea she was faint from hunger.
I used to dread the moods when she dieted existing on cigarettes and chewing gum.

Over the last couple of years a once easy going fun friend ,who is naturally a 16 in a dress has dieted due to the overwhelming influence of a friend.
She has changed radically and now a 12 in a dress ,but the change in her personality isn't nice .
I shall make an effort to eat more fruit ,salad and vegetables,but I'm not going to diet again .

Perhaps the best diet of all is the simplest one which I read somewhere.

Eat less, move more.