The Carpenter Diet

[EllieSkele]

Hi there,
I recently read in a magazine about the carpenter diet..
It wasnt an advertisement, but a story about a couple that lost 15 stone in 15 weeks using this diet.
I've read its all soups, shakes and water. But does anyone know much else about it?
Like.. are there special shakes and soups.. or is it just your own soups and shakes?
Going on holiday in octor.. would love to lose 3 stone...

[4getmenot]

My blokes a carpenter and it hasnt worked for him

[4getmenot]

Sorry cant find much on carpenter diet on net but it sounds alot like the cambridge diet that shakes, soups etc

[craft1948]

I went to an introductory meeting for the LighterLife diet last night. This was the diet plan followed by Laurence Lewellyn-Bowens wife in which she shed 5 stone in a few months. This is a specialist food diet consisting of shakes, soups, and snack bars which you buy from the company, and which including weekly meetings and 'counselling' sessions costs �66.00 per week. The foods are based on a starvation diet which years ago was exported to famine victims, the idea being there's not much calorific value but all the nutrients needed to stay healthy. A healthy diet for a woman is around 2000 calories per day - the LighterLife diet is 560 calories per day.
I decided not to join as I was very concerned about the amount of water you HAD to drink, approx 4 litres a day which I consider excessive.
As a short term crash diet this may work but does not make for a healthier long term lifestyle.

[4getmenot]

�66.00 a week!!! well they wernt wrong when they said you lose pounds. !!

[Velvetee]

It is not normal or safe to lose a stone per week. The safe level of weight loss is 1-3 pounds per week. I can only imagine it is some kind of starvation diet, where muscle mass is drastically lost.

If you lost a stone per week, you would end up looking like a saggy, shapeless deflated balloon, it's neither safe or possible.

[jno]

well, if it's the Karen Carpenter diet, I wouldn't bother.