Help me by Ranking the 'famous' diets

rubadub

Originally Posted by rubadub
How much does this cost per day?

connundrum wrote:

It was 85 quid for a week's supply.

That is extremely expensive, over €12 per day for around 500kcal! I would not recommend the diet to anybody but if you insist on doing it it would be easy enough to knock up your own version. I saw the ingredients list and there is nothing magical in there. What is disturbing is the lack of info on exercise on lipotrim, if you go to the gym for 1 hour you will easily use up that miserable 500kcal you ate and so of course you will be liable to faint.

The GI is the only sensible one and is more a change in looking at food overall in life rather than a 6 week plan to starve yourself and mess up your metabolism.

Dieting is pretty simple, work out how many calories you currently eat, no estimating, weigh food and calculate it properly, every little snack. Then eat 500kcal less per day which adds up to 3500kcal per week which should be about 1lb of weight loss per week, a good steady reasonable amount which will not have you fainting etc.
If you know how many calories you are allowed you will naturally go towards lower calorie foods since you can eat more.

And of course exercise.

davyjose

Over the last few months I've put on a good bit of fat. I'm not proud of this, but what can ya do? Well ... fix it. I have a sedentary (I'm not sedentary, but ... it's easier to describe this way) BMR of 2900, i.e. sitting around all day and doing nothing will burn 2900 calories. Now what I am doing is eating five small meals a day, totalling not more than 1500 calories. I'm also aiming to burn 500 cals a day (1 lb a week). This is my "quick-fix"! It is not a lifestyle change, because it cannot be. After maybe two or three (in my dreams:D ) weeks I shall start to eat more heartily, and try to maintain muscle mass, while continuing with a calorific deficit (here's the lifestyle change - or lifestyle reversion). At this It will take me months to achieve my goal of weight-loss, whereby, I will begin to start trying to regain lean muscle weight, and keep the fat off. I'm not kidding myself here - its not gonna be easy and I'm not sure it's even the best course of action, but I DO understand where the OP is coming from - there is a sense of panic to drop weight. I'm already at this a few days (I know - beware the ides of Jan, but I'm hardly gonna start this before xmas, am I?), and it's getting easier - I'll keep you all posted anyway.
But I guess my point is, I'm trying to be realistic about what it takes to shape up, and I'm not sure that 90% of 'dieters' realise this!

Froot

First off stop this stupid arguement. No internet warriors need post.

Secondly, Transform has got a point in what he said about responsibility. I have been trying to lose weight all my life. It was only when I sat myself down and stopped looking at physical solutions (ie pills, programs etc etc etc) and started looking in my head trying to figure out how I got from 7lb's in 1985 to 330lbs in 2003.

Of course it is important to follow the right advice regarding a program and yes you should be allowed to ask questions without being made to feel (more) self conscious for doing so.

My advice to you as someone who has lost well over 100lbs the right way (ie through diet and exercise, the majority of which was diet I have to say) is that it is a good idea to sit down and write down why you think you are overweight and see what it is you want to do about it.

Regarding a diet, any diet which replaces food with supplements is very strenuous on every part of your being. I have done the Velocity diet for the 28 days and I know what it feels liek to look at a f*cking apple and get that insane hunger people get when they pass a cake shop, thats how bad it was.

HammerHeadGym

hey op,

try the zone diet. I did and i think it's fantastic. also you can eat lots of yummy food on it too

turbot

I've tried many, which would take too long to describe.

Dangerous Choice

There are some supplements that can accelerate fat loss quite a lot, though they are not so good for you. For example, ephedrine / caffiene / asprin stack is known to be very effective, albeit often with unwanted side effects.

The fastest account of weight loss I ever heard was a guy I knew in school who went raving every night for 7 days in a row, which basically meant intense dancing for 6 - 8+ hours a night. He took loads of E and Speed to keep going, and was 17 years old, and lost a stone in a week, and his face literally shrank.


A Smarter Choice...

What I've come to think is fantastic is Patrick Holfords Low GL Diet and advice in general, because as well as losing weight, I feel much better than normal, wherein many diets are unpleasant and leave someone feeling whacked out much of the time.

So I strong reccomend his Low GL Diet Book and his recipe book, and for me, in conjunction with the kinds of techniques Paul McKenna teaches, and some exercise, in 4 weeks leading up to xmas, I lost 6kg and most importantly, felt much better at the end of it.

You can read my fitness log in the logs section.

daveirl

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justsomebloke

turbot wrote:

The fastest account of weight loss I ever heard was a guy I knew in school who went raving every night for 7 days in a row, which basically meant intense dancing for 6 - 8+ hours a night. He took loads of E and Speed to keep going, and was 17 years old, and lost a stone in a week, and his face literally shrank.

If possible could you please expand on the guidlines for the "ravers guide to waste loss" and if possible can you please link to any sites about it as this could do wonders for my physique, as I planning on doing the pirate diet but I think this maybe slightly more benefical to me

rubadub

Yes I remember a few whippet E heads too, guys who were once athletes just wasting away, not only are they exercising they are not eating due to the appetite suppresant effects.

I always wondered if people notice people on E in gyms at all? I am not a member of a gym but one time saw a guy with an obvious "E gurn" lifting weights, thought they might do it for the stimulant effects, possibly able to lift more.

kriss

i am on the lipotrim diet a week now and i lost 8 pounds!!!!!!!!! go me!!! only another 3.5 stone to go but anyway...... i find it really easy. i work in a hotel, food all around me and i dont even think about it, what does happen tho is that i seem to gget kinda sick at the smell of a greasy fry.