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How many fad diets have you tried (in your lifetime)?

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dwitt

I usually loose and then gain back the weight. The truth for me is cut volume back. To date that has been the most successful. Just eat smaller portions. This way I need not try and fail to eat different food items.

Don't believe in fad diets. Just time and money wasters!

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Colours23

I don't have that problem as I can't eat anything much. No appetite.

One look at the horror of the skeletal concentration camp victims says everything about body weight. Those poor people had no choice but to lose weight as a consequence of insufficient food quantity and quality. To my mind the key to losing excess weight is the opposite to gaining excess weight, based on the concentration camp victims, but not to such a horrendous extreme. Just eat less is the answer. "How?" you ask. My best answer to that is to follow the regime taken by a friend of mine. She threw out full size dinner plates and bought medium size plates. Meals were sized to fit the smaller plates. She had a sweet tooth and liked to snack on Mars Bars, so she cut them into quarters, ate one quarter a day and kept the rest in the fridge. With this new way of eating she was still able to enjoy all the foods that she liked, and soon got used to eating smaller quantities as her stomach became smaller. She lost a very noticeable amount of weight in 2 months! Try it!

Endless diets. Every time the newest comes out I try it and usually fail within about 6 weeks or less on some. You have to make lifestyle changes but the weight comes off slowly as you reeducate yourself and I. The past I've been too impatient. I like the nhs 12 week plan.