I don't lose weight- scientific miracle?

Also, the research is rather all over the place - there is also some research that suggest that there results are not consistent over the long term. Enough evidence to suggest that while LCD (and not VLCDs) might be the best long-term solution, for some, other options should be considered.

There are a lot of reasons not to recommend VLCDs with regards to personal fitness objectives around performance, muscle development, osteo health, child rearing plans, etc... without knowing a person's medical history.

Do you have any sources for these claims?

Doctors must monitor all VLCD patients regularly—ideally every 2 weeks in the initial period of rapid weight loss—to be sure patients are not experiencing serious side effects.

Many patients on a VLCD for 4 to 16 weeks report minor side effects such as fatigue, constipation, nausea, or diarrhea. These conditions usually improve within a few weeks and rarely prevent patients from completing the program.

The most common serious side effect is gallstones. Gallstones, which often develop in people who are obese, especially women, may be even more commonly developed during rapid weight loss. Some medicines can prevent gallstones from forming during rapid weight loss. Your health care provider can determine if these medicines are appropriate for you. For more information, see the WIN fact sheet on dieting and gallstones, listed under Resources.

VLCDs (less than 800 kcal/day) are not recommended for weight loss therapy because the deficits are too great, and nutritional inadequacies will occur unless VLCDs are supplemented with vitamins and minerals. Moreover, clinical trials show that LCDs are just as effective as VLCDs in producing weight loss after 1 year.

Sure. i'll focus on current guidelines unlress you have a specific question you'd like me to address. Guidelines each have references to research.

I do seriously appreciate the time to put those together, but I need actual study references. Please provide links to the actual study references or the pages that contain them.

The problem is many recommendations are without scientific merit. Take sodium... The CDC recently commissioned the IOM to investigate it's sodium recommendations of 2,300mg to see if it should be lowered to 1,500mg to match other recommendations from places like the AHA. In the study conducted by the IOM they found no negative associations for consumption at the current average American intake of 4,300mg and even a little higher; however, the CDC did not change it's recommendations.

In addition, further studies are required to determine the long-term outcome in respect of glucose regulation as the observations made after 12 weeks of return to a normal diet were necessarily limited.

This study demonstrates for the first time the time course of a return of normal beta cell function and hepatic glucose output by acute restriction of dietary energy intake in individuals with type 2 diabetes.

The issue is a VLED should ONLY be done under strict supervision / doctors care.

Not true.

Compared to a high-carb/low-fat diet, this may be true, but if you compare it to a VLCKD (very low carb ketogenic diet) the truth is that with a moderate deficit, VLCKD's reverse symptoms of Type II diabetes at the same rate as a VLED.

Not true either. First off in many diet studies "ketogenic" is severely misapplied and simply synonymous for low carb. Secondly studies with ketogenic diets show that it can take up to 6 months to reverse diabetic conditions.

The reason VLED's work is they are, by nature, also VLCKD - though they're a starvation type instead of moderate deficit.

Not true. You could do a 800 calorie banana diet for example (which I've done in my health experiments).

]And even though it can take over a year to develop a nutrient deficiency, this doesn't mean we should recommend it to people. VLED's take serious monitoring and nutritional counselling.

I stopped losing weight because I was not eating enough. How many calories a day do you eat? Maybe you have been on like a life-long plateau?

Nobody here is an MD so you won't get any consistent and accurate advice.

Um... You do understand that even MDs have inconsistent and inaccurate advice right? You know like Dr. Adkins, Dr. Agatston, and Dr. Joel Fuhrman just to name a few... Very inconsistent and if they're very inconsistent it means at least 2 of 3 are inaccurate.