How many diets have you tried? (NutriSystem, Slim Fast, Weight Watchers, system)

[DonJuanQuixote]

I've done around 7 or 8. I finally settled on one that made a lot more sense then the others. I was so focused on losing weight that I ignored my health. Losing weight and being healthy don't actually go hand-in-hand. There's a lot of harmful diets out there.

How about you? Which was the most successful?

[gentlearts]

I too have been on all the popular ones. They all work until you go off of them, and they are all expensive. The one that works for me is the one which costs me nothing. Atkins. The free website gives me all the information I need. I've been on it for 3 months and have lost some weight and gained some health benefits.
Diets I have been on:
Diet Center
Physicians Weight Loss
Weight Watchers, twice
Nutrisystem, twice
Jenny Craig, twice

[LoriBee62]

Medifast
Weight Watchers
Belviq
Wonderslim

As well as the "exercise it all off" method which gave me permanent plantar fasciitus, heel spurs and a torn miniscus.

Then I've done a whole slew of my own things like avoiding trigger foods, cutting carbs, things I wouldn't attribute to a "diet". It's taken a while, but I'm down 40 lbs from my high water mark and have yet to put back more than 5 lbs here or there. Have about 30 to go to goal.

ALL of the things I've tried caused me to learn something about myself, which is contributing to long-term success. So I am of the opinion that there is no such thing as a "diet fail".

[lubby]

Weight watchers on and off but rejoined in 2011 and still doing it
Slim Fast
Atkins but only for a couple of months.

[aneye4detail]

Not that many, because I am never ever willing to deprive myself. I've looked into a lot of them, and I have done Weight Watchers. And I did order Richard Simmons' Deal-A-Meal, lol.

At 48, I have finally learned that weight loss is about clean eating and moving your body. No magic tricks.

[maggie2101]

I've been on and off Weight Watchers since 1972. Back then I lost 120 lbs. Since then I have regained and lost hundreds of pounds.

I've also tried:
Atkins
South Beach
Grapefruit diet
Beverly Hills diet
and many others I can't recall

[Meyerland]

I have done slim fast in my twenties, south beach in my early thirties, and calorie counting.they all work. It's maintenance that's tricky. I yo yo the same ten to fifteen pounds.

[LoriBee62]

Originally Posted by Meyerland

they all work. It's maintenance that's tricky.

I think this is such a key point. If a person loses weight on a diet, the diet worked. If they gained the weight back, it was not the diet that failed. It was their devotion to making permanent lifestyle changes that failed. BIG difference.

The danger in not acknowledging this is that people fall into the false promise that if you "lose it the right way" you won't gain it back. That's just not true. I've never seen a correlation between how a person loses weight and their long-term success keeping it off. What guarantees long-term success is a "I'm never going back there" attitude, which you've got to maintain over the long-haul. Two different goals. Two different mind sets.

Just my theory, of course.

[marrychen]

I want to have a good healthy than losing weight instantly, so beside a suitable diet I do gyms in a years, now I have a nice shape and good healthy.

[McBain II]

Only three, really;

- Cyclical Ketogenic Diet

- Standard Ketogenic Diet

- Protein Sparing Modified Fast