need to lose 10-15 lbs. Have been struggling for years

did you excersise with any of them?

also- look into HCG diet

I would be thrilled to have 15 pounds left to lose!

You can do it! Just use this site! I did Jenny Craig and paid at least 3 thousand dollars over the few months I was on it. It worked, but the principle behind it was calorie reduction. I was on a 1500 calorie plan and was dropping weight like crazy. Some weeks I'd gain, and it felt like a waste of 125$... Now if I gain a week, it's not too big of a deal b/c I'm eating my own foods and not paying an arm and a leg to do it.

WW is also all about calories in the end... save your $$$, it's all about tracking.

Try and plan your meals weekly, that's what I do. And if you do, try not to deviate at all from your weekly plan... so make sure you make a plan you can stick with, not just celery sticks and peanut butter. Give yourself days to look forward to eating!

did you excersise with any of them?

also- look into HCG diet

You're kidding, right??? The HCG diet is absolutely insane. It involves hormone injections coupled with starvation (500 calories per day) AND it costs hundreds of dollars. You should really research something fully before recommending it to strangers.


"In 1995, the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology published an analysis of research showing no benefit of hCG in promoting weight loss. A December 2009 position paper of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians concluded they did not recommend hCG as a weight loss aid.

Quack Watch.org director Stephen Barrett, MD tells WebMD that "scientific studies have demonstrated that hCG injections do not cause weight loss.”

He describes the protocol as extreme, nearly impossible to adhere to, and senseless, especially because the clinical trials have demonstrated that hCG is ineffective as a weight loss aid.

There are no FDA-approved hCG weight loss products, and the FDA and Federal Trade Commission have cracked down on several companies marketing hCG weight loss products


Not only will you waste your money on hCG, but there are also potential consequences -- from side effects of the product and self-injections to nutritional deficiencies.

It is virtually impossible to meet your nutritional needs for carbohydrates, protein, fats, and fiber with less than 500 calories per day and the diet will most likely result in vitamin and mineral deficiencies." -WebMD

I have done ww, with some success but I think MFP is just as good, plus its free.

I too don't have that much to loose, and I find it is harder!

I find that tracking calories alone doesn't cut it for me, at the moment I am doing a diet very low in carbs, no dairy, little sugar (from fruit), high in lean protein and veggies, which also means is low in calories. It is working great, I have lots of energy and I am exercising 5+ days a week, which is something that I have always felt too weak to do on any diet .

The most important lesson I have learned so far is that you have to push through it, you cannot pay attention to the daily fluctuations in weight. Just this week the scale showed I had gained 2 lbs and I have a scale that measures body fat and water, and I knew it was not water retention. In the past that would have discouraged me and I would have quit ("after all the sacrifice and you still gain weight???? I might as well eat what I normally eat"), but this time around I am pushing through it, kept eating right, kept exercising, today I have lost 3 lbs, i.e. those 2 "ficticious" lbs plus 1 more, so 1 lb/week which is a slow but steady and healthy way to loose the weight. This has happened several times, you just have to give your body time to adjust to what you are doing.

You can totally do it!!!