Diets You Have Tried

dsb188
dsb188 Posts: 121 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello,

I am currently doing Keto/Low Carb. I am 6ft male.I went from 350 to 311. In about 170 days. I am at the point where I want to try something new. I literally feel like I can't doing the low carb thing. For the past few weeks I have been on and off of it. I geuss I would like some variety and I'm becoming annoyed I can't eat carbs. I still have alot of weight to lose but i was wondering any other diets other people have tried that have worked.
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  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    Have you tried simple calorie counting?

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants
  • dsb188
    dsb188 Posts: 121 Member
    I've tried calorie counting and it didn't seem like I lost a lot of weight. I think i lost some but not as much as I did with low carb. At this point though i would be willing to try it again.
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    Are you sure it wasn't a case of you just losing patience? You have to remember that we didn't gain the weight overnight or in a month or two. We shouldn't look to lose it fast. The more restrictions I placed on food, the less likely I am to stick it. The best plan is calorie counting in my opinion. It is backed by scientific facts and cost $0.00. I think you should give it another try.
  • hanna1210
    hanna1210 Posts: 286 Member
    I've tried calorie counting and it didn't seem like I lost a lot of weight. I think i lost some but not as much as I did with low carb. At this point though i would be willing to try it again.

    Try calorie counting again. The downside of "dieting" is that you get burnt out. The weight loss you're hoping to achieve is going to have to be maintained. The best way to do that? Eat less (and correctly) and move more. Easier said that done, I know, but it's much better in the long run.
  • GradatimFerociter
    GradatimFerociter Posts: 296 Member
    I tried the pizza and beer diet. I gained 150+ pounds though so probably not what you are looking for.

    Was fun though.

    Oh, and fried chicken.

    Damn now I want fried chicken.

    Seriously though if keto isn't for you then I would echo what is said above. You could try some IF protocol or "The Warrior Diet" if you like, or even the ol' school steak and eggs. Go man.

    Good luck :)
  • dsb188
    dsb188 Posts: 121 Member
    I'm going to go back to calorie counting. I think i am burned out to be honest and its not helping if I'm on again and off again. Thank you!
  • navygrrl
    navygrrl Posts: 517 Member
    Damn it. Now I want fried chicken, too.

    Back on topic. I have tried Atkins, Weight Watchers, the 17 Day Diet, the cabbage soup thing, multi-grain cheerios diet (what I was put on in the Navy when I was too heavy). I lost weight with all of them. I was never able to stay on those diets long enough to get to maintenance. I count calories now, weigh my food, and try to make food choices that best fit my macros. Sure, sometimes I have cake and ice cream, or those stupid delicious chocolate pralines from River Street Bakery. And I sometimes have fried chicken as well. :smile: Sometimes I go over on calories, and sometimes I'm under. What I have finally figured out is that food is not my enemy (except milk - I can't digest it). I can eat and enjoy my food, but being conscious of what I eat and learning what proper portion sizes are is what will get me to the finish line and beyond this time.

    Also, I started lifting heavy and OMG the changes it makes to your body is awesome.
  • KseRz
    KseRz Posts: 980 Member
    Every diet I have every tried worked. Until I stopped, then I gained it all back and then some.

    I have this sneaky suspicion that the reason they all previously worked was because of the restrictive nature of them. What I think was happening was that I began taking in less calories I was burning and thus; lost weight.

    So then, when I went back to my regularly scheduled eating program I always gained it all back. I think it might possibly be due to the reason that I was eating more calories than I was burning.

    So, I decided to eat whatever I wanted and make sure that I ate less than I was burning. Lo and behold. It worked. It called the eat what you want, but just less of it diet. You should try it!!
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    There's the apple diet
  • kwantlen2051
    kwantlen2051 Posts: 455 Member
    Damn it. Now I want fried chicken, too.

    Back on topic. I have tried Atkins, Weight Watchers, the 17 Day Diet, the cabbage soup thing, multi-grain cheerios diet (what I was put on in the Navy when I was too heavy). I lost weight with all of them. I was never able to stay on those diets long enough to get to maintenance. I count calories now, weigh my food, and try to make food choices that best fit my macros. Sure, sometimes I have cake and ice cream, or those stupid delicious chocolate pralines from River Street Bakery. And I sometimes have fried chicken as well. :smile: Sometimes I go over on calories, and sometimes I'm under. What I have finally figured out is that food is not my enemy (except milk - I can't digest it). I can eat and enjoy my food, but being conscious of what I eat and learning what proper portion sizes are is what will get me to the finish line and beyond this time.

    Same here. Tried almost everything out there. Was successful for a while with Atkins - totally low carb, lost weight for 4 yrs on that diet but developed reynauds and some other symptoms. I was gettng sick from the low carb diet plus high stress job. So got back to eating carbs. I gained all the weight back plus more The only one that has worked for me so far is MFP - calorie counting and keeping active. Good luck!
  • Kevalicious99
    Kevalicious99 Posts: 1,131 Member
    Go eat some carbs .. you will be just fine. I eat 150-250g every day .. and have lost a ton of body fat doing so.

    The only diet I have tried is the calorie deficit one .. calories in < calories out. Works great as I am in maintenance now.
  • TheBrolympus
    TheBrolympus Posts: 586 Member
    There's the apple diet
    The apple diet is the best. The best part is all the apples. Apples! Apples! Apples!
  • _Josee_
    _Josee_ Posts: 625 Member
    There's the apple diet
    The apple diet is the best. The best part is all the apples. Apples! Apples! Apples!

    I've read in another post that you have to alternate between apples and water. One apple, one glass of water. One apple, one glass of water. Supposed to be very good for losing stomach fat.
  • TheBrolympus
    TheBrolympus Posts: 586 Member
    There's the apple diet
    The apple diet is the best. The best part is all the apples. Apples! Apples! Apples!

    I've read in another post that you have to alternate between apples and water. One apple, one glass of water. One apple, one glass of water. Supposed to be very good for losing stomach fat.

    You are thinking of the Apple/Water cleanse. That is different than the Apple Diet.
    The best part is the apples!!! Did I mention APPLES!
  • dsb188
    dsb188 Posts: 121 Member
    I think I was losing weight. I can't even deny that but for me I get sick of all of the high fat foods. It was okay at first but I became very sick from doing it.
  • dsb188
    dsb188 Posts: 121 Member
    This sounds like great advice!
  • nosebag1212
    nosebag1212 Posts: 621 Member
    yeah, it's called a calorie deficit, calculate your tdee and eat less than it, it's not hard, you don't need any pre packaged 'diets', losing weight is literally the simplest concept ever
  • keobooks
    keobooks Posts: 92 Member
    The only diet II've ever been on was the CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Plan) It's not a weight loss diet but a diet to get diabetics and heart patients off meds. I went on it because my parents paid for it.(Its one of those programs you pay for and then go to 12 sessions once a week to learn all this stuff and then you can go to all the other meetings for free for the rest of your life. Dave Ramsey's money plan is like that too. Must be a church thing)

    I don't have diabetes or heart problems so I am not sure why they wanted me on it or why I agreed to it.

    http://www.chiphealth.com/

    Lots of people with diabetes and heart problems got great results. Its a whole lifestyle plan -- not just a diet. Unfortunately, a big part of the lifestyle plan included grinding your own flax flour and making all your food from scratch. It wasn't my thing at all. But I admire anyone who can stick with it.
  • d3m1urge
    d3m1urge Posts: 38
    Low carb/keto....NEVER AGAIN.

    Ruined my metabolism, made me feel miserable, couldn't sustain it, ridiculous community
  • d3m1urge
    d3m1urge Posts: 38
    Just to add I now eat 300g minimum carbs a day, feel FANTASTIC and I'm losing weight at the same rate.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    The only diet with a name that I've ever tried was the Macrobiotic Diet. I wasn't overweight at the time and wasn't doing it for weight loss, though I did lose about 8 lbs. without trying. It is restrictive, but you can eat carbs. I don't recommend it if weight loss is your only goal.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I have never tried a diet, ever.

    Seriously.

    I did the "move more, eat less" thing which worked but VERY SLOWLY (lost 45 lb in 4 years on that from 307 to 262)

    Then I tried MFP calorie-counting and lost 78 lb so far.

    I knew I could never stick to a planned diet long-term so I didn't bother, and I was way too skeptical about shakes and pills to even try those.
  • anndelise
    anndelise Posts: 14
    The ony "diet" I've tried before now is the Whole30 one. It's basically just a 30-Day challenge to help people adjust their taste buds. You eat mostly fresh whole natural foods while drastically reducing processed foods (yogurt's ok, corn chips not), to cut out chemical additives, fillers, get higher quality ingredients, etc. I liked it, and most of what I learned from doing it still influences my current decision. For example, instead of getting artificial sweeteners, or processed sweeteners, I'm using local honey, even though it's frowned on for keto.

    One eating style that I looked into before deciding on the Whole30 was a Seasonal Diet. Basically each season supports different styles of eating. Spring is good for quick growing foods like sprouts, stalks, leaves, more water (lighter soups) rather than heavy fats, fish, fowl, eggs, spring berries, etc. Spring helps clean out Winter's system. Summer leads to mid growing vegetables, summer squashes, etc. We are usually more active in summers, so need more carbs to keep up with the energy expenditure. Late summer gives us tomatoes, peppers, drying out harvested grains, etc. Autumn leads to long growing denser carb items and moving into heavier fats to prepare us for winter. Winter squashes, tons of fruits, fowl that are on the move again, culling out deer, drying or smoking meats, setting vegetables to ferment, etc. Winter we live off the foods we 'set by'. Hearty soups, fermented veg, meats, fats. We're typically not moving as much in winter, and eating more hearty meals and fats, so we tend to eat less often. Summer is great for high carb low fat, winter is more suited to low carb high fat.

    If I reach a point where I decide to quit keto, I'll revert to seasonal whole natural foods. But this time I'd take into consideration insulin and blood sugar effects and adjust accordingly. It might be safe to say that for me, keto is a lengthy holdover just to get things going while I work out a decent plan for the seasonal natural foods style of eating.
  • keobooks
    keobooks Posts: 92 Member
    Ugh.. macrobiotic. My parents were on that when I was a kid. I remember lots of kelp and pickled plums. Ulp.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Ugh.. macrobiotic. My parents were on that when I was a kid. I remember lots of kelp and pickled plums. Ulp.

    Yeah, the seaweed was tough for me to get used to, having been brought up on a typical American diet. Toasted nori is pretty tasty though. And I'm really good at rolling sushi now. :smile:
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    I did the 'Eat Less Cr@p Than Normal' diet. It involved eating exactly what I normally eat, but a bit less. I followed my heart, and not a diet that tells you that all you can eat is cabbage for 4 weeks or starve yourself for a quarter of your life.
  • crepes_
    crepes_ Posts: 583 Member
    I always struggled with my weight and had difficulty losing, so I tried a bunch of things. Weight Watchers and NutriSystem (absolutely disgusting cardboard food) are the ones I remember most. I don't think things like that work out too often because you're not learning how to solve your problem, nor are you even learning what your problem is. You're just learning to follow a strict set of rules. What happens when you stop giving them money and they stop giving you guidelines? You go right back to what you were doing before because you've learned nothing.

    Later found out I had PCOS and am insulin resistant, so I now do a LCHF diet to help manage my condition. Excellent results in terms of labs and ultrasounds, and it helps stablize my hunger so I'm not ravenous all the time - therefore helping me keep my calorie deficit strong. I think I may have had an issue with gluten as well because my stomach went from constantly being upset with me to never making a peep.

    I don't know if I'd recommend it to someone who didn't need it long term. It's great for diabetics and for people with other medical conditions that would benefit from it, but why not go the simpler path if you can?
  • willnorton
    willnorton Posts: 995 Member
    just for the heck of it.,, look at a plan called EAT TO LIVE" by Dr Joel Fuhrman....

    i lost 29 pounds in 2 weeks eating a lot of food....

    im type 2 diabetic and we have always been told a diabetic cant eat carbs..i went from a 20 gram a day low carb diet to eating somehwere around 150 a day.... look at my food diary from March 17, 2013 for about a month....i lost great weight and my blood sugar numbers got to normal....

    amazing...my blood work was perfect.... doctor was amazed...

    just google it and take a few mins to digest a little....

    good luck to you....
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Im on BopdyByVi, its a powder which can be made into shakes, smoothies, pancakes, brownies, muffins, porridge, coffee etc etc so not stuck to the same thing day in day out, I posted about it yesterday and got told off but if you want know more feel free to inbox me :) x

    Probably because you're hawking your garbage and violating the TOS :huh:

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  • Slaintegrl
    Slaintegrl Posts: 239 Member
    I've tried quite a few "eating plans" in my lifetime. There was Atkins, Sugar Busters, Medifast, some VLC thing I tried in my 20's. Always lost weight. Then gained it all back plus some. I've gone from close to 400, down to about 145, back up to over 300, down to 180 or so, up and down and up and down. Now, I'm trying to learn good eating habits, cutting down on high calorie, no nutrition foods. Eating more fresh veggies and fruits. Because I'm type 2 diabetic, I have to be careful with sugary foods (so donuts, cake, cupcakes, ice cream are not an option for me at the moment). Also, because I have some kidney issues, my protein intake has to be limited - doctor's orders. But I'm down 82 pounds this time!

    It's all about learning to eat in moderation. Enjoy the foods you like, maybe just in smaller quantities. Moderation is the key.

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