Is JUDDD too good to be true?

So I've been looking into JUDDD after a recommendation from someone else with the same metabolism problem I have (Hashimotos) and it looks too good to be true! I've seen lots of success stories but I was wondering if anyone here had any to share? And of course negative stories! I'd love to hear both sides of the experience!
Please if you've been doing JUDDD tell me:
*how long you've been doing it
*how much you've lost on it
*the pros
*the cons
*how easy it is to get into it

I am a JUDDD success story Started it towards the end of last October, at my highest weight ever (around 171lbs). I had just had some blood work done and my fasting glucose number was border line pre-diabetic. I lost a grandfather to diabetes and that was the push I needed to lose the weight. I stumbled onto JUDDD on another forum and it was a life changing moment for me! I have a healthy relationship with food now, I totally broke my night time mindless snacking habit and I'm the healthiest I've ever been. I had blood work done towards the end of my weight loss phase and my numbers were fantastic, including a fasting glucose number of 89 Oh, and I'm wearing size 4 jeans now instead of size 14s!

I lost almost 50lbs with it, from end of October to around April of this year (I started transitioning to maintenance in March and started cutting back on my low calorie days, still continued to lose though and I'm now 10lbs under my original goal weight).

Pros-
-you only 'diet' every other day, which I think is the biggest reason why it worked for me. I could eat normal/as I wanted every other day and that gave me the motivation I needed on my low calorie/fasting days. There's always tomorrow! The crazy thing is, I never woke up on my normal days and binge ate-in fact, a common issue is people just aren't hungry on their normal calorie days. I always made sure to eat higher calories on those days, but I never ate mindlessly or felt that I had to make up for my fasting days.

-it's very flexible. I took a break during Thanksgiving week and Christmas week and ate as I pleased, which included several parties. Afterwards I'd just get back on my rotations and within a few days I was hitting new low weights again

-NO food group restrictions at all. I did JUDDD with the typical SAD diet.

-I learned the difference between real hunger and habitual eating. This is a huge lesson to learn, if you're going to be successful in maintenance. I was able to break my night time snacking habit, which was a big factor in my gaining weight.

-while JUDDD doesn't tell you how to eat, it was a starting point for me to eating healthier. You really learn how to get the most food for your calories on those low calorie days and I began eating more veggies. As I've transitioned into maintenance that's become my new focus

-on many of my low calorie days I'd get crazy amounts of energy. I also never felt run down or lethargic on those days. I actually started designating more physical work on those days because of the energy I felt.

-JUDDD is very forgiving. If you have something come up (a party, work event etc), you can just take a break and then afterwards resume your rotations.

Negatives-

-the first couple low calorie/fasting days are hard, as you figure out the best way to do them. Some prefer to eat one large meal at supper time and then just drink coffee/tea the rest of the day. For me, doing small portions every couple hours worked best. After I figured that out my fasting days went really well

-weight loss is not linear with JUDDD, but instead is a series of 'bounces' and 'whooshes', with an overall downward trend. I highly recommend only weighing yourself twice a month-after your first low calorie day of the month and then again after your last low calorie day of the month. That will give you an accurate picture of your losses. Weighing yourself daily or even weekly is not going to give you an accurate picture. I've seen many people on the other forum get frustrated when the scale bounces and they get discouraged. With JUDDD you really do need to step away from the scale!

I no longer do JUDDD since I'm in maintenance, I do a different version of IF now (8:16). I truly enjoyed doing JUDDD for weight loss though and highly recommend it! My mom is doing it now, after seeing how it worked for me, and she's lost almost 30lbs and for the first time in her adult life is no longer obese

The book for the plan is called The Alternate Day Diet by Dr. James Johnson and he also has a website that has all the info/calculator you need to figure out your calorie amounts.

As you know, I do JUDDD. I've lost 129 pounds and 119 of those were from JUDDD. It took me a year and a half, but I also took several maintenance breaks along the way (the last one for 4 months). It's a very healthy way to manage your weight, as long as you aren't prone to EDs.

pjsdj, if you google JUDDD, you'll find Dr. Johnson's website. There's a calculator which gives you your calorie allotments. It's a very easy plan, basically eating very low calories one day, and maintenance calories the next day, rinse and repeat. There's nothing to buy, no membership fees, no special foods. That's why I love it. It's a form of intermittent fasting. If you've heard of 5:2, it's like that, but came out several years before, and it's alternate days instead of 2 days per week fasting.

My numbers (at my current weight) are around 1750 calories for my up day (UD) and 330 or so for my down day (DD). On UDs, I eat whatever I want, up to that 1750 calories or so. On DDs, I often skip breakfast, have a small Wendy's chili for lunch, and a salad for dinner. It's really not that hard and after a few DDs, your body gets used to it.