Is there anyone on here who has used one of these diets and kept the weight off afterwards?
Are you supposed to continue on these shakes/meal replacements after you get to your goal weight or will you be able to eat 'normally'?

I know quite a few people who have done the Cambridge Diet and kept the weight off.  It is like all diets really though.  If you eat too much after having lost weight it will go back on. 

You have to follow the Cambridge Diets plans before you go back to eating normally and no you don't have to have shakes/meal replacements once you get to your target weight but you can if you want to.

kiger- can you just walk into boots and buy it over the counter? what does it involve? shakes, bars, soups?  thank you..

OK, my update is......................1 stone in total in 5 weeks now

Well done Jolene that is great

Well lost the plot this weekend, and gained 1 1/2 pounds, oh well I have been very good since the new year, and this is only my second backsliding week with a gain.

Total lost 1 1/2 stones, another 5 to go.

Never mind Barbara, a little slip is allowed once in a while, otherwise it gets boring! I set myself a goal to lose a stone before I allowed myself any wine, so luckily, managed it in time for my 40th this weekend! then it's back down to the nitty gritty

Yep Ms saintly since yesterday, LOL :D

3 lb this week...21 in total.

oh well done will have to keep each other from slipping, hey :D

tessisbest- no you cant get it from boots its only from pharmacys as they moniter your blood pressure and things. have a search on the net for there website that should explain alot more to you if your serious about going on it.its shakes on lipotrim with two different flapjacks and chicken soup.good luck

Good idea Barbara...will keep my beady eye in you LOL

OOh you related to Superman, with the x-ray vision, LOL :D

Whey   hey..........now lost 19 1/2lbs.
I want to stay at 11 + stones as I dont like skinny!
Now only got to do another 5-6...
Karen

ASA.....Yes, I have used the Micro Diet (in the 80's) and the cambridge diet, again in the 80's but this one is still going.
You do have to be careful when you are at your target weight with what you eat to mantain that weight, and there is a great risk of putting the weight back on as fast as you lost it if you don't keep a rigid eye on what you eat. In my case, the weight came back to an extent quite quickly on 1.000 calls a day but I came straight off the liquid onto food. I 'yo yo'd' with my weight, using the diet between weight gains, which did me no good at all. When you are on the liquids, about 440 calls a day or thereabouts, your body can think it is in starvation mode and hangs onto everything it gets, so once you give it more food it holds onto it....well at least that what happened to me. However, I see now that there is far more support for this system of weight loss, and weight loss is monitored and in stages, so you lose a certain ammount of weight, then intoduce 'real' food and slowly reach your target, a far eaiser and more natural way which allows your body to adjust to whats happening. Of course, its then what I think is the hardest part of dieting, maintainence! if you slip into your old ways that put the weight on, then of course, whatever plan you took to get there, you will put weight back on. So a good, nutritious eating plan needs to be sorted out for when goal weight is reached, along with exercise. Liquids are a speedy way to lose weight, but if you have a lot to lose remember the skin that has stretched when you were fat also needs time to shrink back, a fast huge weight loss may well leave extra skin folds that you won't like whatever weight you come down to, a slower rate with exercise will help the skin to pull back to the shrinking shape. Think of those that have gastric surgery and lose many stones, they always need surgery to cut the loose skin away.

If I were to go the drinks way again, I would sign up to the total plan and keep going to the counciler. Unless you buy it off ebay thats the only way you can get it. Lighter Life do a similar system, with plenty of help and support. Both will advise you should you have a medical problem, or if you are on medication which means you should not use this method. The advisors are exceptionally helpful online and phone before you start any of these. Whatever you chose....good luck!

found a chemist which does the lipotrim, going on saturday cant WEIGHT!!!!!

Arf arf....all puns intended... 

good for you teesisbest,PM me when you have been to your 1st weigh in. the first week is the hardest,i will give you some tips
good luck

OOh you related to Superman, with the x-ray vision, LOL :D

No B....just a huge pair of binoculars!!!

Ah you didn't notice it was this bit I was refering to: will keep my beady eye in you

LOL...must learn to check my spelling

now been told the pharmacist wont be there sat so i will try and go monday if i cant (dut to shifts at work) it will have to be thurs/friday. just had a chicken tikka special from chip shop i feek like this weekend will be like the last supper/tea/breakfast. but cant wait to start.

OK, back on track here 2.5lbs in the last 2 weeks! 1.5lbs 'til I reach my 10% target which will hopefully be next weeks weigh-in ........how's everyone else doing?

Well done to you Jolene. That is nice steady weight loss, the best way to do it.
I am now 20lbs lighter!!  
Delighted with it as have only another 3 to 5 to get to goal, which I think makes me gold.
I am very determined to keep it in check this time.
Karen

>I am very determined to keep it in check this time.

Me too .........................mind you, I said that last time but TBH, I'm finding WW a better diet than SW, so I'm hoping it will be easier to stick with after goal

LOL............just back from weekly weigh in.....1/2lb on!!!!!
Karen

I,m of to SW for my weigh in in half an hour had a little hiccup with a bag of mini toblerones at the weekend but been okay since then so might just get away with it.

Well on Friday morning I was 14st 8lb, which is 30lbs lost since new year.  just another 4st and a few pounds to go, LOL.

>just another 4st and a few pounds to go

You CAN do it Barbara ....keep at it!

Ideally, I'd like to shift another 2 1/2 stone ASAP!!!

Just had a sneaky early weigh this morning and I am 14st 5lb.

I'm hoping with a steadier slower weight loss this time and acceptance that I will always have to carefully monitor what I eat once I reach goal is the only way I will be able to keep it off this time.

I calculated that the weight I put on over the time I put it on equated to overeating by about 200 calories a day, that is about two slices of bread.  Your appetite and bodily needs only need be out of sync a bit for huge amounts of weight gain over time.

When thin people look at overweight/obese people they do assume that they all are really greedy.

I also wonder when the NHS or whoever last calculated what the calorie needs of average people are.

I am pretty sure from knowing how many points people are on for maintenance that it is nowhere near 200 calories a day more like 1700 for women at most.  I know that personally I would gain weight on 2000 calories, as I did when I religiously weighed and counted everything when I dieted in the 80's.

As a dog owner I do walk (pedometer confirms) at least 3 miles each day, more in good weather.

I remember seeing somewhere that the average adult these days gets less than half hour of real activity a week!

Jolene if you lost another 2 1/2 stone you would be a skeleton!! - well with a skin covering.

Lorri

Must admit the WW pointing suits me best as I can eat what I want rather than have to have something I might not want or like.  As long as you get enough calcium and your five a day then you can choose to spend your points how you wish.

hehe.............no I won't Lorri .............I'll just look a bit more like you ..............I just tried my jeans on and they still don't fit

Totally agree about the points system, if I record the points it helps to be able to have whatever you want, and that is just right for me. As I really am "a little of what you fancy does you good" type.

Karen

core plan for me - lost 3lbs in the first week! you get 21 points for the week to use on goody stuff.

think it just makes me cut out all the 'extras' in between meals

I'm following the points plan too ATM, I may swap to the core plan if I get stuck, just to change things around a bit

Lorri, my BMI is currently 28 ......to lose another 35lbs brings it down to a BMI of 22 (which is still nearly a stone heavier than I ever was before kiddies!) .........I've never been a skinny minnie

Maintained this week now I weigh eleven stone four I,d like to be about eleven stone but two years ago I was sixteen stone two so I,m not complaining

Not far to go then Pavlova

Thanks
I,ve been down to ten stone ten last summer but feel happier about eleven stone just need to lose the few pounds I put on after losing Inga (I.m afraid I hit the chocolate for a few weeks).

Must admit that was when things really went to pot for me after loosing the second of my girls just two and a half months after her Mum.  After the weight started going up I just caved in.

Woo hoo!!!! have reached my 10% goal tonight, I lost another 2lbs   one more lb and I drop another BMI!

Hey congrats to you!!
I am considering not going to tonights weigh in as feel as though I have put it on this week.
Nothing to do with the nigella lawson recipe choclate muffin made by sons girlfriend this week!    Nor the CHinese take away......

Karen

Hey Karen you there
Don.t you dare miss class get yourself there and face the music like the rest of us.I,m going tonight its been so hot in the kitchen at work today I,ve been drinking water none stop and now I feel all bloated tonight I,ll probably leak like a sieve thats after aI,ve been for my weigh in of course.
I,ve had a giant bar of milky bar this weekend so as you can see my signature is tatally true.

Okay....considering myself told...will report back tomorrow probably....

KAren

Well I'm the heaviest I've ever been, just about 12 stone.  Really disappointed with myself but just can't be bothered doing anything about it!

DOH!
I knew it.... a big push this week another 1//2lb on.
At least I went along and feel better so thanks for the shove.......
Karen 

Pst I think the Bank Holiday did for a few of us.

I weighed in as the same as last time, but that was two weeks ago, and I had lost last week when weighing at home, but then put it back on in before weighing in.

I'd love to be 12 stone already, will probably take me another 5 months before I am that again.

Well I was doing really well then we started house hunting.......I have put on nearly 9llbs!!!!

Today will be the start for me again, I am stopping weight watchers as even the shame of the scales didn't help and I happily paid my money week after week and kept gaining! (rolleyes)

Now that house is nearly sorted life should be a bit calmer

My loss is at 9lbs now - but in the grand scheme of things that isnt very much at all   still at this rate another 3 years and I should reach goal

never mind - I will get there - now I wonder how many of you will still be dieting in that time - or will you all be off in your size zero minnies ?????? 

Start Weight 19st 5lb
Current Weight 18st 10lb

> never mind - I will get there - now I wonder how many of you will still be dieting in that time - or will you all be off in your size zero minnies ?????? 
>

LOL I wish!!!!!!!!!!

Never appreciated being skinny before I had children