Thinking about the Cambridge Diet

jmbcab7

Does anyone have any information about the Cambridge Diet? They have you consume 3 shakes a day with a total caloric content of 420 calories a day. Is that too low? Is it dangerous.

I'm desperate to lose weight and someone had approached me about the Cambridge Diet. This is why I would like your input regarding Cambridge. They say it is so simple but I don't know if it's safe. They say you can lose 20 lbs in a months time. That sounds like it's too much. Please send me your comments as I am morbidly obese and need to lose weight and do it as quick as possible.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Have a good day.
Jimmy.

rhogr000

That's unbelievably low and unbelievably dangerous. At 420 cal/day you'll give yourself serious health complications, up to and including heart problems.

Healthy weight loss should be no more than 2 lbs per week; however, in the first few weeks you may drop more than this because your body is jettisoning extra water weight...but you'll eventually reach equilibrium.

Instead of looking for a quick fix with this, or any other fad diet. Concentrate on consuming a healthy, well-balanced diet that is, depending on your age, weight, activity level, and gender, somewhere between 1500-2000 calories/day (and more in some instances).

oX_Vanessa_Xo

420 is a great number!



For something else tho....

AlchemyOfTheBlackSunCult

Very dangerous way to lose weight.

With any form of "diet" you go on, you should think to yourself, can I eat like this for 1 year straight ? Be realistic, if your answer is no, don't bother trying it. A macronutrient based diet that puts you in caloric deficit will yield the safest, healthiest and most realistic way to lose body fat. You shouldn't limit yourself to what you eat, but rather limit yourself to the amount of calories you eat in a 24 hour period. If you want to eat ice cream, fit it into your macronutrients, simple as that.

1 pound of fat = 3500 calories. If you are 500 calories in deficit for a week, you will lose 1 pound of fat (500x7=3500). This concept has been around for a while and these dangerous fad diets don't take into account your personal basal metabolic rate, which is the center of your diet.

GreenChile3

That's unbelievably low and unbelievably dangerous. At 420 cal/day you'll give yourself serious health complications, up to and including heart problems.

Healthy weight loss should be no more than 2 lbs per week; however, in the first few weeks you may drop more than this because your body is jettisoning extra water weight...but you'll eventually reach equilibrium.

Instead of looking for a quick fix with this, or any other, fad diet. Concentrate on consuming a healthy, well-balanced diet that is, depending on your age, weight, activity level, and gender, somewhere between 1500-2000 calories/day (and more in some instances).

This^^

joleenl

This thread will probably get cut off because it promotes a extremely low calorie diet.

Lose weight slowly at max 2lbs a week. Be patient! Do it the sustainable way through diet and exercise. Use MFP to track it. Eat no less then 1200 calories a day unless its a temporary thing - like fasting or calorie cycling. Make this a lifestyle change and you'll keep it off.

This is my 2 cents!

Paco4gsc

My opinion about the Cambridge Diet is that it's a huge money sink (all of the products for the diet must be purchased from the company) that promotes an unhealthy and ultimately unsustainable lifestyle. I know from your profile that you have some sense of urgency for weight loss for a surgery, but this is not a good way to do it.

Catlady87

You cannot permanently lose weight through a "diet". What will happen when you stop the "diet" and eat normally again? You'll gain it all (and maybe more) back.
You need to consider a lifestyle change because that is how long you will have to keep control of what you eat - for the rest of your life. If you get to goal and eat balanced then you will be fine, but you can't just say "oh I've restricted my a calories for 6 months, so me it's all fair game".
You signed up to MFP for a reason. Use the site as it is supposed to be used for, work out what your basal metabolic rate is and your total daily energy expenditure. Never eat less than your BMR and eat 20% less than your TDEE calories for sustained, healthy weight loss.
Fad diets aren't the way to change your life for the better.

jfrankic

It's called a DIEt for a reason.