What is your favourite diet?

I put on most my weight in carbs too, which is why I have a bit of a belly. But carbs are just so nice and I find it difficult to cook a meal without them ... bread, rice, pasta, potato etc.

you can replace the bread and rice and pasta for the brown wholemeal varieties these are still much better and cut down the portions rather than cut them out. x

Yeah, my boyfriend is on one of them, not as though it is much of a dietary change for him since he constantly ate high protein foods to begin with lol. I love chicken other than that I am not a huge lover of any other protein foods, unfortunately I go for carbs oops.

I am assuming that you eat a lot of rice then, I love rice, but I have more bread in my diet, so if I was to do a low carb diet, the first thing I would cut out is the bread. I am currently trying the Special K diet, I don't know how much weight I have lost because I am not checking until the end of the two weeks, but I am not snacking anymore and I feel full from less food, which was my main problem. So hopefully once I stop the diet, I will still be eating less quantities of food, because before I used to have huge portions and feel the need to snack constantly and the only thing stopping me was will power.

she stops eating after six. so before six in the evening she will eat her dinner. that would be rice and something that goes with rice. we are rice people. diets are not easy so you have to work hard to get what you want. she eats everything she likes to eat but up to 6pm only.

I tried that, but it was really hard since I don't get that hungry before 6 and then get really hungry at 6.

Does that mean she only eats after 6 or doesn't eat anything after 6. I get the most hungry at night, so it would be difficult to not eat after 6.

I tend not to yo yo much, once my weight is down it tends to stay there, this is the first time that I have gained weight that was not proportional to my height, so I am trying to diet to get it down and then maintain it.

If you don't believe in diets then you don't believe in diets, since diets are just what you eat. It can be broken down into a healthy diet, unhealthy diet, restricted diet etc. But I agree that fad diets aren't for live long weight lose, however if you bought a dress for a wedding etc and you find that you have gained weight and the dress no long fits, would you go on a fad diet or spend more money on a new dress. I had this problem with prom and since I had go the dress resized to fit me, I could not return it, so unless I want to waste over a 100 pound then I fad diet was the only option.

I really want to start exercising soon. I need to go to a gym to do it otherwise I get distracted, so I will probably end up waiting until I have another job, so that I can fund going.

I didn't actually loose much on it, if I remember correctly I lost 1 pound, but the heavier you are the more you will loose as with all diets.

That sounds really useful. My main problem is portion size. I eat quickly, so I can eat a lot before realising that I am full and when I get full I get completely bloated for this reason.