Day 3 of my diet...

To be fair I've found it quit easy to do, no headached, I have been tired but I'm cut back so much on coffee, and I have been exercising late at night.
(cant get early due to family commitments)

Anyway let me know if you do it and how you get on.

Lamb Chops for tea Yummy

 

I'm sure anyone would lose a lot of weight with that diet. Don't know if the claims of 14 to 20 pounds are exaggerated or not, but if you stuck to that religiously you'd definitely lose some, maybe a lot. I'd be interested to know though, how much people weighed after the second and third week, when they've gone back to a normal diet. Whether the weight has stayed off, or if it has gone back on.

When I've dieted in the past, nothing like as radical as that, just three square meals a day, cutting out snacks and doing more exercise, I've often lost 5 to 7 pounds in the first week. Smile on me face like Angelina Jolie has been sucking me **** all week. "This is a doddle" I've thought "I'll lose two stone in a month and be down to 11 and a half stone in two. Piece of piss this dieting lark." Next week, eat exactly the same, do just as much exercise if not more, only lose a pound. "WTF?" Well, my metabolism has still been on full whack, my body thinking I'm going to be shoving cakes and beer down me neck all day like I have in the past. The exercise that I've started doing, that my body isn't used to, has exacerbated that. Result - half a stone gone. Second week my body has realised it's no longer being supplemented with cake, the reduction in calories and the increase in work appears to be a permanent thing and if it carries on burning fuel at the same rate I'll have wasted away by Whitsuntide. So it slows down and I only lose a pound. It sort of evens itself out then and I can lose a couple of pounds a week, but nothing like that first week.

I once lost 7 pound the first week and put every bit of it back on the second week just by going to a party, having some booze and eating buffet snap.

 

I hope this diet plan has been emailed to Steve Evans.

 

Good luck mate, but if you do want to lose weight and keep it off its all about long term lifestyle change.

I lost a stone and half five years ago and haven't put it back on. I wasn't big and was playing football at a good level at the time, but I was carrying a bit too much weight for my body shape (primarily on my face). And there was no way I was giving up beer and wine so I needed to look at my diet.

Basically it was down to portion control, reducing (but not cutting out) carbs, finding healthy food I enjoyed eating, and allowing myself to eat pretty much what I wanted at weekends. Trying to live like a monk, eating food you don't enjoy just isn't sustainable. Don't deny yourself the things you like because you'll be miserable, bit use them as a treat. And once you find the healthy foods you really enjoy you'll end up wanting them as much as the stuff that's bad for you.

And of course exercise.

 

You lost a stone and half off your face......wow

 

I'm certainly no expert but I would echo other posters comments about a sustainable diet being key. I've tried faddy, short term diets in the past and it tends to follow that you get good results short term and then revert back quickly after falling off the wagon.

This time round, I've done a month cutting out unnecessary stuff (fizzy drinks, snacks, bread, overly carby stuff and where possible....beer) I'm only having soup for lunch and have completely cut out sugar which I used to have tons of in tea etc. Added to a little bit more exercise and I've lost a stone in just over a month. It's not killing me so I'm not in a rush to pack it all in and I reckon I should be able to do another month easily enough to get to my target weight.

As with all things in life, it requires patience. I've been guilty of expecting the weight to drop off instantly but I reckon if you reduce the severity of the diet and extend it for a few weeks longer you'll get better results.

 

There are several small things you can do that individually don't matter much but together make a difference. Aggregating small gains and all that:

Don't drink pop. It's f***king terrible for you. Cutting out pop and drinking water (ideal) or diet pop (not ideal but still better) will be a big help.

Stairs not lifts.

Try and have a bit of a walk at dinner time. Not possible with all jobs but if you can get out of the office whilst it's sunny for half an hour you'll burn a few cals and also give your metabolism a bit of a boost.

Complex carbs not simple carbs. Generally brown is good, white is bad.

Eat loads of veg. Good for you and very filling but has few calories.

 

First place any weight goes is on my cheeks. Hence my desire to stay lean. Didn't want to look like a haamster on my wedding photos

 

Yep, wholewheat pasta all the way. And try replacing potatoes with sweet potatoes

 

My mates missus gave my missus a very similar diet to this a few years ago with similar promises, and it does work while ever your on it , because as i explained to my missus, its not a diet, its fecking starvation
Seriously though, and this goes to all who want to do it, if your keen to get fitter and lose weight then give the fit reds program a go. I did the last one, was a real eye opener what the lads teach you regarding nutrition and the training(which you can carry on with at the academy after the fit reds is done) is hard but very good. I personally lost 10lbs, a couple of inch of mi gut and my blood pressure dropped dramatically.

 

I desperately need to do something to improve my fitness, I used to dance 9 hours a week and do around 14 hours of walking but now do zilch except PE lessons. Looking at the diet Kev posted, that's the first one I could ever stick to, normally I can't do diets (not that I want to) because I don't like half of the things on it. When I was 'dieting' for my wedding I probably ate as many eggs as that suggested but I don't like yolk so I had hard boiled egg whites or my scrambled egg whites (just them, nothing added). I also had a salad every day for lunch. The only thing I cut out of my diet was bread and crisps (still ate chocolate cake though :redface: ) and I was the skinniest I've ever been.

 

That much weight in such a short space of time is water weight.

One you start plateauing is when the hard work will start.

Keep at it mate.

 

That's bad mate. Fair enough, you lost 4 stone, but if that's all you were eating, that is seriously bad.

 

Just finished a 2 hour gym session myself, which is no joke in this bloody heat.

I found the easiest way to lose a bit of timber(along with exercise) is to swap my lunch and dinner around. Works wonders.

 

I've been on the whisky diet.....I've lost three days already

 

Just read the diet....its been round a lot of years , its know as the mayo food clinic diet. Its origins stem from a hospital in america. It was introduce to get weight of fast for people who needed a operation but were over weight.
ive done this diet numerous times since the 80s .
Yes it works , works as well as the atkins one too.
weight drops of you.
The trouble is the moment you stop the weight increases pretty fast and you will find you put your weight loss back on and some more too.

to be honest ive strugled with my weight for years been a yo yo dieter, how ever my weight these days is more consistent since i became a vegan 4 1/2 years ago.
Im not saying not to do this diet because it does work but just watch out for when you come off it.

hope this helps.

 

Biggest myth in the weight loss world that excercise helps you loose weight.

Basically the only people who loose weight through excercise are those who have the time and inclination to excercise for something like 2 and a half hours every day - i.e. professional sportsmen or nutters.

In all other people millions of years of evolution pre-programme you that once you've exerted yourself - you actually do less (half an hour extra watching telly - a slower pace walking the dog, etc) over the remainder of the week to even out the energy consumed.

The health and fitness benefits of excercise are immeasurable. But unless you are a professional sportsperson or a psycho it doesn't help you loose weight.

 

Can't agree with that. Whenever I've lost weight I've combined dieting with exercise. I don't go to the gym, I walk for an hour or more every day. Walking one day does not make me do less the next day. I go for a walk every single day. And the opposite of what you have described has happened to me. When I was unfit I was a bit of a couch potato, but as I've become more healthy I've become more active. I've taken up gardening, so after my walk I often spend time mowing the lawn, weeding, putting in new plants (I'm failing, my enthusiasm is not matched with any aptitude, but the effort is there).

Exercise, in my case walking, burns more calories than sitting on my arse. Scientists now say that after exercise you continue to burn more calories than you would have done had you sat on your arse. I'm certainly not a professional sportsman and although I'm a bit mental, I'm not a psycho when it comes to exercise. I was born lazy, or maybe just chose to be, but doing the walking has helped me kerb that a bit.

 

Gioer. Weight maintenance/loss is a balance between calories taken in and calories used. To lose weight you need to effect an imbalance so that you are using more calories than you take in. You can either do it through eating less or moving more, both work.