What diet do you follow

lewissheldon125 wrote: »

Same with the 5:2 diet, the 2 days are a major calorie deficit and this is what contributes to the weight loss although i am aware there are other health related benefits.

If you can commit to a calorie deficit with MFP and a little regular exercise (you don't need to be running marathons) you will lose weight in an controlled and healthy manner.

I'm aware that the 5:2 is causing the deficit as should anyone with half a brain be. She was asking what methods people were using to cut calories (diet). The 5:2 is just my preferred method.

DeguelloTex wrote: »

Dawn410 wrote: »

Sounds like the leptin diet works because:

1) most peoples' after dinner eating is usually high calorie ( think cookies, ice cream, chips, buttered popcorn). Skip that, and you Eliminate those calories.

2) Eating 3 meals a day ensures you are eating eating at regular intervals, so you are less likely to binge.

3) No large meals = fewer calories

4)Breakfast containing protein= You'll feel fuller longer and not have blood sugar spikes

5) Reduce carbs. Most of the carbs weeat are refined and full of calories. Reduce those , you reduce your caloric intake, and losee weight.

1) Not if you just move those calories to earlier in the day.

2) 2 meals a day and 6 meals a day could also occur at regular intervals.

3) Not if you eat more at the smaller meals to make up for the calories missing from the large meal.

4) What if you don't feel hungry in the morning?

5) Carbs have four calories per gram, regardless of how refined or not they are.

It sounds like most of your reasons for believing the leptin diet works comes down to fewer calories. Any approach in which you eat less than you burn will work.

I think that's her point... she wasn't the one originally saying she's on the leptin diet. She's just trying to find reasons why that diet might lead to you losing weight.

DemoraFairy wrote: »

DeguelloTex wrote: »

Dawn410 wrote: »

Sounds like the leptin diet works because:

1) most peoples' after dinner eating is usually high calorie ( think cookies, ice cream, chips, buttered popcorn). Skip that, and you Eliminate those calories.

2) Eating 3 meals a day ensures you are eating eating at regular intervals, so you are less likely to binge.

3) No large meals = fewer calories

4)Breakfast containing protein= You'll feel fuller longer and not have blood sugar spikes

5) Reduce carbs. Most of the carbs weeat are refined and full of calories. Reduce those , you reduce your caloric intake, and losee weight.

1) Not if you just move those calories to earlier in the day.

2) 2 meals a day and 6 meals a day could also occur at regular intervals.

3) Not if you eat more at the smaller meals to make up for the calories missing from the large meal.

4) What if you don't feel hungry in the morning?

5) Carbs have four calories per gram, regardless of how refined or not they are.

It sounds like most of your reasons for believing the leptin diet works comes down to fewer calories. Any approach in which you eat less than you burn will work.

I think that's her point... she wasn't the one originally saying she's on the leptin diet. She's just trying to find reasons why that diet might lead to you losing weight.

Except her reasons don't make sense. Why is three meals a day "regular intervals" but six isn't, for example? If her point is that lower calories works then, yeah, that's great, but there's no reason to have to jump through those silly hoops to get lower calories.

My weight loss plan? CI<CO and walking.

And I've lost 50 lbs.

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I follow the:
Eat the foods I like within my calorie goal trying to focus on nutrient dense choices most of the time and incorporate exercise such as walking every day diet.

It's a bit of a mouthful (literally and figuratively) so i will just go with CI<CO.

OP I don't know much about Slimming World but I've seen a few posts on here about it and it seems sort of like a British version of Weight Watchers. I know some people like those type of programs because they are regimented and help take the guesswork out of figuring out what to eat in order to stay within a calorie deficit. there are people who need that kind of structure, but I don't think it teaches you how to make choices that enable you to create a calorie deficit or maintain a healthy weight in the long term without a bit of a crutch. Plus it's expensive and calorie counting is free!

Although I'm not not on a "diet," one thing I've done is drastically cut out any junk food (but not completely) and amount of carbs (like pasta and breads) and increase my intake of fruits, vegetables, and protein/calcium. Maybe one day of the week I'll have a bag of chips and a candy bar.

My diet is eat to my macros like I hope it will be forever more :-)

davert123 wrote: »

jonnysharpe wrote: »

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

if you use a 'diet' you are most certainly doomed to fail in the long term....

Can you elaborate on this?

research knocking around this week shows that less than 1% of woman and less than 0.5% of men actually keep the weight off they lose when the diet. Better think lifestyle change and change who you are and what you do forever rather than join the 99% who think the answer is cutting out a bit of fat for a couple of months and then end up bigger than they started out 6 months after that. Of course its easy to think we are the special ones ;-) I think its worth putting the effort in to being one though

re you referring to the "research" that tracked people's weights without regard to whether they were actually trying to lose weight or to some other research?

I follow a high fiber diet. Only 2 rules - eat high fiber, don't overeat.

My diet consists of a wide variety of foods - always lots of vegetables, lots of legumes, some fruit, lots of olive oil. I eat meat (occasionally beef, more occasionally pork, turkey or venison, mostly chicken and fish/seafood). Also reduced fat cheese, non fat greek yogurt, high fiber grains, nuts daily, sweets regularly but not daily, snacks occasionally. The only things I regularly drink are unsweetened tea, almond milk, water and wine. My focus is on balance, but I don't limit my macros by percent. I losing by eating at what I think will be maintenance calories so losing very slowly. I have lost about 20 lbs in a year, and have about 10 (m/l) to go. My plan is just eat this way until I naturally stop losing weight and then stay there.

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

if you use a 'diet' you are most certainly doomed to fail in the long term....

Nonsense.

I am on the Mediterranean Diet mixed with the Vegetarian diet. I was quite bloated and my stomach did not look good. With the addition of good fats (olive oil), I look much better. I feel much better with the addition of whey protein. I have also just eliminated gluten an grains as well.
I've lost 15 pounds in about five or six weeks.
The interesting thing is that my weight wouldn't move before the addition of the good fats.

CICO
I haven't actually changed the types of food I eat at all. I'm just getting appropriate portion sizes for my calorie goal and I've lost weight.

I eat LCHF at a deficit.

DeguelloTex wrote: »

DemoraFairy wrote: »

DeguelloTex wrote: »

Dawn410 wrote: »

Sounds like the leptin diet works because:

1) most peoples' after dinner eating is usually high calorie ( think cookies, ice cream, chips, buttered popcorn). Skip that, and you Eliminate those calories.

2) Eating 3 meals a day ensures you are eating eating at regular intervals, so you are less likely to binge.

3) No large meals = fewer calories

4)Breakfast containing protein= You'll feel fuller longer and not have blood sugar spikes

5) Reduce carbs. Most of the carbs weeat are refined and full of calories. Reduce those , you reduce your caloric intake, and losee weight.

1) Not if you just move those calories to earlier in the day.

2) 2 meals a day and 6 meals a day could also occur at regular intervals.

3) Not if you eat more at the smaller meals to make up for the calories missing from the large meal.

4) What if you don't feel hungry in the morning?

5) Carbs have four calories per gram, regardless of how refined or not they are.

It sounds like most of your reasons for believing the leptin diet works comes down to fewer calories. Any approach in which you eat less than you burn will work.

I think that's her point... she wasn't the one originally saying she's on the leptin diet. She's just trying to find reasons why that diet might lead to you losing weight.

Except her reasons don't make sense. Why is three meals a day "regular intervals" but six isn't, for example? If her point is that lower calories works then, yeah, that's great, but there's no reason to have to jump through those silly hoops to get lower calories.

A) I don't don't follow any special diet. I try to eat healthy and stay within my calories. I was just pointing out why it probably works.

I'm glad your diet works for you. It won't work for everyone. Some people need more rigidity than others. So, yay for you and what works for you, go get a sticker of something. But the world doesn't revolve around just you, so there are different eating styles for different people. Nobody said there is only 1 way.