Lighter Life- Back to eating foods

fitzcoff

Hi,

My sister has been on the lighter life diet for the last 8 months, 3 weeks ago she started back on food, upto then she was eating their bars, soups, shakes etc.

I don't know if anyone has been on this but on the return to food, it is very strict. Currently shes allowed to eat the following
week one

chicken, cottage cheese, eggs, fish, quorn, shellfish, tofu & turkey
all herbs
chilli sauce, herbal teas, lemon & lime juice, skimmed milk, mustard, red wine vinegar, fat free salad dressings, soy sauce, tobasco sauce & worchester sauce
cabbage, celery, chicory, cress, endive, lettuce, spinach & watercress

week two

dips - fat free
sugar free jelly & diet drinks

broccolli, cailiflower, courgette, cucumber, fennel, mangetout, mushroom, peppers, radish & spring onion
curd cheese, fromage frais, skimmed milk, yogurt, rice milk, soya milk

week three

bacon, beef, eggs, game, ham, kidney, lamb, liver, pork, offal, quinoa, soya mince, tempen, veal & vension
cooking sauces - fat free, fruit smoothies &fruit juice
tomatoes - fresh, tinned, puree & passata
apple, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, clementines, damsom, grapes, kiwi, peach, pear, plum, pomengranta, raspberries, rhubarb, strawberries

week four

artichoke, asparagus, aubergine, bean sprouts, brussel sprouts, kale, leek, marrow, okra, shallots & swiss chard

I know there is a lot there but she is only allowed protein once a day but what she is really missing is carbs,

Anyone have any ideas what she could fill herself with or if you have used this diet what inspiriation have you for her as she is struggling at the moment.

Thanks

shellybelly08

Hey there

Hope u dnt mind me commenting on this but im really curios about the plan.. has your sister lost much weight.. ?? by now she is probably maintaining her new figure..!! :P

Have started researchin the plan but I am very curious about it.. How did she find things? I understand the food substitution would be hard!!

Thanks again

Michelle !! :P

EileenG

Really, she has to suck it up. One of the hardest elements of a meal replacement is returning to normal food. Eating carbs (and I'm guessing the carbs she is craving are not broccoli and green beans) is a surefire way to undo all the way she has put into losing the weight.

Fennel cooked in chicken stock and pureed makes excellent soup, that might help.

You can also make a great desert with cottage cheese and sugar free jelly which is quite bulky for the amount of food in it.

Bottle_of_Smoke

fitzcoff wrote: »

Hi,

I know there is a lot there but she is only allowed protein once a day but what she is really missing is carbs,

Anyone have any ideas what she could fill herself with or if you have used this diet what inspiriation have you for her as she is struggling at the moment.

Thanks

Hang on now. Only allowed protein once a day, is not allowed have fat(aside from eggs/meat), and is missing carbs?

what does she eat?

fitzcoff

If you look back at the date this was first posted April last year, she had been on the diet 8 months at that stage and was starting to reintroduce foods into her system.

As I said in the post she was struggling, and went on to treat herself to the food that she was craving and eventually the diet went out the window.

She had lost around 8 stone over the 8 months and was feeling great, but as with any of these diets old habits die hard and she has put back on weight, not 8 stone but I suppose around 5. (on a side note she is dealing with depression at the moment)

The person that was "counselling" her during the lighter life program let her get to an unmanageable (for her) weight of 9 stone.

My cousin went on to do this also but had around 3 stone to lose and has managed over the last 6 months to return to eating and keep of the majority of the weight loss.

All I can say is that she has extreme will power for the 8 months and stuck to all the bars, shakes and soups but as soon as real food was introduce she started craving carbs. She found this the hardest part, she said the hunger in the beginning wasn't as bad as wanting a feed of spuds when the introduction of solids started.

Hope I'm making sense. but I would say to anyone that yea this works in the short term but ......... from reading the stickies and threads on here there are much better long term solutions out there. ( that's my 2 cents )

But if you have any questions I'll gladly try to answer them

corkcomp

not going to get into the whole carbs / fat / protin debate but IMO the issue with regaining weight afterwards is 1. down to returning to old habbits such as over eating and not exercising enough and 2. (which leads on from 1) simply consuming too many calories, regardless of their source...It stikes me as very odd that one cant have berries and certain green / leaf vegetables until week 4.. im not sure of there is any real science behind that tbh.

Animord

God love her - that is soul destroying. I hope she sorts herself out.