Cambridge diet?

That's the problem with most diets. They don't teach you how to maintian weight loss. Counting calories will allow you to develop habits that will enable you to keep the weight off forever.

Yup, a VLCD will do that to you, and frankly, that's how they make their money.

You have a lot to look forward to then. Set up your MFP diary. Eat any type of food you like, icecream being one of my daily treats The only real rule is do not over eat your calories over a week long period. If you stick to it you lose weight in a healthy way and learn to not over eat.

Good luck

I did Tony Ferguson, very similar. Lost a TON of weight, and put it all back on very quickly thereafter. Unlike you, I didn't seek advice and just let it happen and ended up with more to lose than I started with.

My biggest advice, apart from setting up MFP profile and following it, is to readjust your thinking. You're not going to lose it super fast, because you're not doing a VLCD. On the bright side, you're also not going to lose muscle mass along with fat, and potentially be cranky and miserable!

Don't think of it as a diet - make sustainable changes that will stick. Making extreme changes to lose just means you'll either regain, or will have to learn a whole new way all over again - losing sensibly and sustainably once may be slower, but is infinitely more likely to stick than learning a new, extreme way of eating once, then learning another whole new way of sustainable eating to keep it that way. If we got to needing to lose weight eating 'normally', then our 'normal' is what got us there and so you'll not be able to go back to 'normal' again.

A lot of people figure that they will lose it, then learn to maintain. But when you learn the right habits, losing and maintaining is exactly the same thing, just tweaking the figures.

Alatariel75 wrote: »

If we got to needing to lose weight eating 'normally', then our 'normal' is what got us there and so you'll not be able to go back to 'normal' again.

The keenest and most succinctly put insight I have read in the three months I been using MFP. We are here to help each other build a new and better "normal".

@LauraMcF2015 Congratulations on your loss. I had to look up "stone" and Wow. Follow Alatariel75's advice and you'll be set for life.