Losing weight really really quickly!!

[Goodsoulette]

What is the best way to crash diet for a month to 6 weeks. No lectures please, I just want to know the best way to diet heavily and get good weight loss in one month. My excercise regime is excellent, I do bucket loads of cardio and I generally eat very healthily.
Does anyone know the doctors diet that they give to people who need to shed a load before an operatin??

[enidblyton]

Dont no about the doctors diet but low carb diet always works for me

[fee-is-me]

Isn't the doc thing basically just 1000 kcals a day?

[Pippa68]

I thought that was cabbage soup...

[Dollie]

I agree with fee is me - I did this a few years back for my wedding - 1000 cals a day. Lost weight quickly. 1000 cals is adequate for short-term I think, as long as its healthy choices and not junk - and you have said that you do eat healthily - brill ! Also, is it the Cambridge diet they give to patients or is it the Scarsdale - can't remember sorry.

[crosso]

Yes, cabbage soup on one day, just small amounts of lean steak on another and nearly fasting on the next, then repeat the same. I think it was recommended by the American Cardiac Assoc but that was about 10 years ago and I don't think they recommend it any more (the Cardiac Diet). If you are doing lots of exercise you will feel ill and faint (sorry, I know you said no lectures). Good luck but I think enidblyton and the others are correct to say this diet isn't the best, especially if you don't actually need an op.

[Goodsoulette]

the cambridge diet sounds about right but I recognise the cabbage soup, steak thing and I think another day is just banans isnt it.

[crosso]

Yes, the banana thing is correct for the diet I'm thinking of...but would anyone actually be able to stand it for a whole week...I don't think I could!

[n00dles]

Shouldn't think it is the Scarsdale diet the doctors use...
Most don't like it, saying it is not good....
BUT it is the only diet that I have been successful on, although I don't lose it as quickly as the 'patients' mentioned in the book.

If you like, I can type u the basic menu, it is easy to follow?

[n00dles]

Forgot to say the Cambridge Diet originally was a formula you mixed with water and this replaced ALL meals...

Later on they bought out savoury mix (sorry original was sweet i.e. strawberry/vanilla/choccy) and then they introduced chewy bars...but I'm going back some time, so could all be different now...

Oh.. You used to only be able to get it through a rep, who would either deliver to you or you would go to the house to purchase it!

[jump79]

The Atkins diet gives fast results- esp. if you are exercising at the same time. I dont recommend using it for too long (longer than 1 or 2months), but its good for a speedy weight loss in the short term.

[ELVIS68]

I`ve got a diet which helps you lose a stone in 1 month,if you want I`ll email you it

[funkymoped]

water tablets..

[joko]

if you are on the pill, try out as many different brands as you can.

i have taken a few and one made me bloat up, the other made me gain actual weight as opposed to just bloat, but the other made it drop off. i had dianette but everyones is different so any one of them could have that effect.

could be worth a try

(i have pcos, so it could be related to that, but you never know)

[willa]

No lectures from this quarter at all - many of us, myself included, have needed to lose a lot fast. My pitfall was eating too little; after a great first week, I was eating only about 800 cal/day and my body thought I was starving, so it clung desperately to every morsel I ate and wouldn't shed more than a pound a week.

What worked the best for me was totally avoiding the BRPPs - bread, rice, potatoes and pasta. Complex carbs had to go. When I ate just lean protein (fish, chicken, turkey; no beef at all 'cuz of cholesterol concerns), vegetables, yogurt (for calcium) and low-glycemic fruits, I lost 4 pounds a week. I also greatly reduced my sodium intake. I guess my average daily intake was about 1200 calories total. But I didn't count calories - just measured portions. My husband did the same (about 1600 cal/day), and last year he lost 70 pounds and I lost 94.

We were also exercising 5 days/week, taking a daily multivitamin, drinking 8-10 glasses of water daily and didn't fast at all (to avoid that "body thinks we're starving" problem). We worked out this routine with a nutritionist and got lab tests (blood, cholesterol, etc.) every 3 months, so we knew we were healthy. And because we ate a variety of fruits/veggies/meats, we didn't go nuts from diet monotony. We ate like this for about 3 months, then gradually starting adding back small amounts of the BRPPs.

Of course, I realize you're not looking for a long-term plan like we were; I just wanted to let you know about the no-BRPP method. For us, shedding starchy carbs was definitely the key to kicking our metabolisms into high gear, so something similar might help you, too.

Remember also to vary your exercises and cardio work. Once your muscles get used to a routine, they don't work as hard. Realize, too, that a lot depends on what you weigh now - if you don't have a lot to lose, you just won't lose a lot. Good luck!

[Goodsoulette]

Thanks guys. Joko i do have PCOS hence spending at least 5 hours a week on the cross trainer and the same amount of time swimming. I dont have loads of weight to lose but I am a yoyo dieter, terrible I know and with a trip away in sight I want to be the skinniest I have been in my adult life.

[fee-is-me]

Lol... Alarm bells!

[Goodsoulette]

hehehe.... I know how it sounds but its not like that at all. I am not skinny now (at all)/

[fee-is-me]

Ah... alarm bells ringing SLIGHTLY quieter, then!

[PinkFizz]

fee-is-me/goodsoulette.

You know I posted on here about a month ago about the Lighterlife diet(very severe) well I started it yesterday!!

Wouldnt reccomed it for the faint hearted but 100% results guaranteed.

[beryllium]

Hi GS...... are you taking Metformin for PCOS? because that can cause weight probs round the tummy..... just a thought sweetie....

http://discoveryhealth.co.uk/forum3/topic.asp? TOPIC_ID=15093&FORUM_ID=9

dont know if the link will work now, since the changes lol....