What diet has really worked for you over the long run to lose weight?

nupururja
nupururja Posts: 43 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
There are so many different diets out there, having tried the low carb, south beach, LCHF ,Low calorie diet etc..which one has worked for you ? How much weight did you loose and in how much time?

I need to lose 10 pounds in a month before my wedding in december :) Help please!
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  • crzycatlady1
    crzycatlady1 Posts: 1,930 Member
    edited October 2016
    I figured what calorie deficit I needed each week to lose the extra weight and then adjusted how many calories I was eating to match that. I did that for a few months and dropped around 50lbs.
  • carligirl
    carligirl Posts: 2 Member
    I work out religiously and found myself gaining weight until I started eating Paleo. Not strictly but close to. Vegetables, meats, not many carbs in the forms of breads/pastas, and small amounts of fruit due to the sugar content. I've lost 14 pounds in 3 months. I've found myself not struggling with it. I enjoy what I'm eating. I get creative with it. I don't really miss the carbs and if I do, I have some. Same with the sweets. I don't deny myself anything but this way of eating doesn't really have me craving anything either. If someone is eating something that looks good, I'll ask for a bite and that's usually good enough.
  • 2_FitNFab
    2_FitNFab Posts: 163 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    The eat whatever I want in appropriate amounts diet worked for me. I lost 50 pounds in a year.

    If 10 pounds is all you have to lose, as in, that will make a significant difference to your appearance, one month is a very short and possible too short timeframe. You can expect to lose up to 1% of your total body weight per week, provided you do everything right - which is, logging correctly and consistently, hitting your calorie goal every day, no cheating, no forgetting.

    ^^ This but sometimes I cheated. :neutral: I would however put in longer workout efforts afterwards.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    nupururja wrote: »
    There are so many different diets out there, having tried the low carb, south beach, LCHF ,Low calorie diet etc..which one has worked for you ? How much weight did you loose and in how much time?

    I need to lose 10 pounds in a month before my wedding in december :) Help please!

    Less calories in than calories out - or more calories out than calories in. They both work. B)
  • courtneyfabulous
    courtneyfabulous Posts: 1,863 Member
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    Eating in a calorie deficit, using tools like MFP and a food scale.

    A calorie deficit is the only "diet" that works.

    This.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited October 2016
    nupururja wrote: »
    There are so many different diets out there, having tried the low carb, south beach, LCHF ,Low calorie diet etc..which one has worked for you ? How much weight did you loose and in how much time?

    I need to lose 10 pounds in a month before my wedding in december :) Help please!

    All diets work on the same principle...all diets are designed to help put you in a calorie deficit...there's nothing magical about any specific diet plan...do the one you can do consistently.

    Personally, if I were to pick an actual diet plan I would probably pick South Beach...the last stage is supposed to be your maintenance stage and you're supposed to do it forever...my eating closely mirrors Phase III of the SB diet but I gravitated towards that on my own.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    edited October 2016
    nupururja wrote: »
    There are so many different diets out there, having tried the low carb, south beach, LCHF ,Low calorie diet etc..which one has worked for you ? How much weight did you loose and in how much time?

    I need to lose 10 pounds in a month before my wedding in december :) Help please!

    The "diet" where I eat less food.

    My Fitness Pal is great for this exact diet. You eat food you like (measure your portions) and then log it. Set a reasonable weekly weight loss goal. Hint - no more than 1 pound a week (fast weight loss is for obese people). Then meet that calorie goal.

    If you choose to exercise, then log that activity & eat a portion of those earned calories as well. Only a portion because calorie burns are estimates. You can do this. :)
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I'm not really into named diets. Don't see the point. Figuring out how to eat an appropriate amount to lose and then maintain and generally focusing on eating a healthful diet (based on nutrition principles, not some weird theory of how one must eat for weight loss) and foods that I enjoy and which are satisfying for me is what has worked.
  • akmomof7
    akmomof7 Posts: 162 Member
    I lost 70 pounds following the south beach diet. I found it easy to follow and satisfying. The problem I found is that once you get closer to your goal weight, I stopped losing. It Is possible to follow the diet quite closely and still consume excess calories. I was able to maintain the loss until I got pregnant. Now I am just counting calories on mfp and have lost additional weight and now am 2 pounds from my initial south beach goal and plan to lose an additional 5 pounds before going to maintenance.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    "diets" that are sold or have books etc help you lose weight if you follow them.

    They all help you lose weight...but...most do not help you with keeping the weight off because they don't go into what you do when you hit goal...

  • T0M_K
    T0M_K Posts: 7,526 Member
    eating less calories than I burn.
  • UpEarly
    UpEarly Posts: 2,555 Member
    The moderation "plan" worked (still works) great for me! I lost 60 pounds in 2011 simply by doing a 250-400/daily cut from my TDEE. The weight came off slowly - it took me about a year. But five years later, I'm still at my goal weight. It was easy. I didn't stop eating any particular food (just less of it). Maintaining has been easy too.
  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    edited October 2016
    TLDR: You have to choose what best works for YOU and adjust your consumption and energy expenditure as necessary to lose, maintain, or gain weight.
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    nupururja wrote: »
    There are so many different diets out there, having tried the low carb, south beach, LCHF ,Low calorie diet etc..which one has worked for you ? How much weight did you loose and in how much time?

    I need to lose 10 pounds in a month before my wedding in december :) Help please!

    All diets work on the same principle...all diets are designed to help put you in a calorie deficit...there's nothing magical about any specific diet plan...do the one you can do consistently.

    Personally, if I were to pick an actual diet plan I would probably pick South Beach...the last stage is supposed to be your maintenance stage and you're supposed to do it forever...my eating closely mirrors Phase III of the SB diet but I gravitated towards that on my own.

    This revelation/discovery was the biggest game changer for me. I don't like following diet plans created by others with rules like Paleo, Keto, Special K, etc. just to obtain a deficit. Once a named diet starts telling me what I can and cannot eat, I know I will start feeling unhappy and deprived. If that diet makes me feel that way, then I cannot adhere to it forever.
    While none of us are special snowflakes to the laws governing CICO, we're all special snowflakes in HOW we best create the deficit needed to lose weight. For weight management, I only follow the one rule that matters: a balance of energy.
    Being active helps. I walk a lot, mostly for fun, and the extra burn gives me wiggle room to eat more than I would otherwise have to eat if I were sedentary.
    I personally find a food diary the best sustainable plan. It's just so easy to plug in whatever I crave for the day. Of course, I'm not silly enough to eat chips, candy, etc. all day long and expect to stay full and healthy, but I can fit in enough to keep me happy while maintaining a healthy weight. I don't feel deprived, and I'm healthy by pretty much all measures.
    Still, I know some people don't like counting calories, and it drives them crazy enough so that keeping a food diary would not work for them in the long term. As such, once they come to better understand proper portion sizes, they come up with ways to keep them from overeating like not eating at times where they're likely to overeat when they'e not truly hungry (early morning, late at night, etc) or skipping/adding snacks if their body weight goes up/down.
    The one thing everyone who maintains their weight loss successfully does do, however, is consistently eat as much as they burn.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    edited October 2016
    I've lost 84 lb this year but this isn't a diet. All I do is eat Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper, using the MFP food diary to record what I plan to do and plan to get plenty of protein. I also use MFP to record the exercising I do, and I have done more exercising this year. I've even cooked some dishes I never tried before, and bought some books* I never would have heard of before. I've recently even learned to make traditional Neapolitan pizza dough and started culturing and consuming kefir. My weekend plans include my first attempt at culturing yogurt at home. But no, this isn't a diet. It's just a new life I'm living.

    *Ken Forkish
  • bryandrain
    bryandrain Posts: 2 Member
    edited October 2016
    The Run your A s s Off Diet.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    No diet. It's not complicated. I don't know why so many people feel they need to make it more complicated than it has to be. And then they fail...over and over again. You just need to pay attention to the amount of calories you are stuffing in your face, keep it at or under goal consistently, and that's it. I've been maintaining for more than 5 years now. :)
  • nupururja
    nupururja Posts: 43 Member
    Has anyone heard of the egg fast? Has it worked for you?
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    nupururja wrote: »
    Has anyone heard of the egg fast? Has it worked for you?

    A diet consisting of just eggs, cheese, and butter doesn't sound like much fun. I'm sure it would result in some short-term weight loss, but once you went back to eating regularly the weight would just come back.
  • nupururja
    nupururja Posts: 43 Member
    edited October 2016
    courtneyfabulous wrote: »
    Eating whatever I want within my calorie limit is basically the only thing that has worked for me in the long run for weight loss. I also like to eat as much "real food" as possible like meats, fish, whole grains, lots of veggies, greens, fruits, Greek yogurt, and make sure I get enough fiber and protein every day, and take vitamins. This is so I feel healthy. I also eat treat foods as long as they fit my calories so I don't feel deprived, but when I eat too many treats/sweets/processed/packaged foods I feel kind of gross and get acne breakouts. I also like to eat gluten free most of the time- I get bloated and my stomach hurts when I have gluten.

    But you aren't really talking about the "long run" are you? You're talking about fast dieting for a specific event. That's kind of contradictory.

    That's a very different goal and you're choosing to lose weight at the most stressful time of your life. At least the last couple months leading up to my wedding were stressful- and I was having just a small one (50 people) and had a wedding planner- still very stressful! I lost about 5 or 10 pounds before my wedding just by being stressed about looking pretty in my dress so I avoided any foods that I thought might put weight on me.

    I also quit alcohol completely until the day of my wedding- that probably helped the most. But be careful to only have 1 or 2 drinks at your wedding if you do that, believe me you will not need or want more.

    Good luck, but try not to put extra stress on yourself at this time with a weight loss goal on top of all the planning and impending major life event.

    Hi, I have managed to lose 35 pounds since march this year and hence reached my last 10 pounds now. I work out daily 1.5 hours at the gym and also follow the 1200 calorie diet
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited October 2016
    OP I am not sure why you have created three threads to day about cleanses/fasts, how to lose the last 10 pounds and now this one...

    From working on your threads, you are eating 1200, exercising 1.5 hours a day and you have reached plateau. You are looking for and paying attention to all the comments and posts that point to ridiculous things for you to get there.

    I posted something informative on your other thread, as I did not know this was about fast and rapid weight loss. I get needing to lose weight for your important day, but you should rethink your calorie goals and even the exercise if you will, and perhaps work on added stress you may have from planning a wedding and attempting to lose this weight.

    You might not lose 10 pounds in one month, and most definitely cannot doing the method you are trying now as you have now reached an impeccable low or slow down in your weight loss now.

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