Diet

slimfast108

I have been eating a lot for last couple of months and have gained a lot of weight with all this. I need to shed this extra weight, I have started Cambridge diet. Please share your expirence with dieting.

jgnatca

I just looked up the Cambridge diet. It is a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) and not promoted by MFP.

I did not slim fast. I slimmed slow; but the change was dramatic. Significant weight lost over three years. I did it by calorie counting and a whole lot of support and counseling from our local weight loss clinic.

kommodevaran

Why are you doing this to yourself? I've lost 50 pounds eating real food in proper portions and logging here at MFP.

Moxie42

My experience is that diets don't work permanently. The weight comes back. The ONLY truly successful people I know followed a plan that they could follow for a lifetime. Some might have done a temporary plan like Whole30 at certain points but the point of it was to get into the habit of eating healthy and saying No to junk, NOT to find a quick fix...others eat all the same foods they ever did (pizza, ice cream, etc.) but in moderation...and others switched to clean eating almost all the time.

So...some people do restrict more than others and there isn't ONE right answer BUT they all ate a healthy amount of calories every day and those calories did not exceed the amount of calories they expended through daily life and exercise. People who starved themselves (which is basically what the Cambridge "diet" tells you to do) gained it back and then gained even more than that. Everyone says "oh it'll be different for me" but if that were true then everyone would follow that diet and everyone would be thin.

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