the best diet to follow or just healthy eating what do people think?

[mummyreds67]

[AZTECCHIC]

The 5:2 diet is good.

[gettingfitnow]

I'm just eating clean (as little processed food as possible) and doing 5 meals a day. I've been eating lots of fruit and vegetables.

[Penel]

Eat real, not processed, food (buy a cook book if necessary). Find some exercise you enjoy.

[Prin]

What ever you chose it has to be something that you can sustain for life, so if it's a diet so be it I do a type of diet based on restricting calories like the 5:2 It suits me have been on it for a year and 4 months. It does involve healthy eating not all but most of the time, and thinking about what I am eating and how many calories it has

[ceejayblue]

I am a T2 diabetic and I count calories and have reduced my carbs to 150g-195g a day (to include for 3 meals + snacks if needed). I do not believe in faddy diets, which people stick to for awhile and then give up or ones which say remove certain food groups from your diet. In my honest opinion, if you stick to a healthy, varied diet, exercise in some way (doesn't have to be at a gym - walking is fine). Its all about portion size, I still eat the odd bit of cake or a biscuit, I have fish and chips but I remove the batter and only have quarter (or less) portion of chips. OK, it might take me longer to lose weight than those who rush to lose 2lbs or more a week, but I feel better for it. I do have weeks and sometimes months when I find things very hard, like now when my OH has got lots of health issues, including Prostate cancer and other things, and I comfort eat.

The 5:2 diet actually only redistributes the no. of calories you have over a different timescale, so if normally you would have 1500 cals a day you would have 500 cals on 2 days a week and then share the balance of 2000 cals between the other 5 days, still all adds up to the same total per week.

For me the low carb high fat diet is a no, because I have stomach problems - gallstones, hiatus hernia. This means I need to keep to a low fat diet to avoid complications with the gallstones. Also, this diet includes increased protein and this also has an adverse affect on my tummy so its not something I follow and my DSN and GP have agreed that I should avoid it, although lowering my carbs the way I have is fine.

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Hi mummyreds67,

There goes THAT D-word again!

My advice is a healthy, sensible, nutritious eating regime.

One that will allow your body to normalise it's fat percentage / weight ~(i.e. lose excess weight) and one that will work with your lifestyle to keep you at a healthy weight for the rest of your life (after you have got to a healthy and appropriate weight).

[cazzajane]

Healthy eating all the way. A diet is a short term fix, it doesn't train the brain to realise that you have to eat healthily for the rest of your life or you will go 'back' to your former eating regime that put you in this position in the first place. And that is the good old yo-yo experience .. not good.

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I follow the weight watchers plan.

It's very flexible and I can fit in to my busy lifestyle.

Personally, I need the discipline of a weekly weigh in!

I lost 5 stone on the old weight watchers points plan but have put it back on over the last 11 years.

I am hoping to be as successful again this time.

Good luck. X