What other diets have you tried?

[cristylp]

What are some of the ways you've tried to diet before and found that it didn't work in the long run before you came back to Atkins?

Brunch this morning was a juicy turkey burger with onion and cheddar on a flax bun and it tasted absolutely decadent! It got me thinking about how amazing it still seems to me that we can eat all this wonderful food and lose weight. It's a far cry from the old dieting days of nothing but rabbit food.

I think I've been on all of the diets known to man. The craziest one I tried was probably the one where you eat something different every day. One day is veggies, one day is fruit. One day was even 8 bananas and 8 glasses of skim milk. Guaranteed to lose 17 pounds in a week! Ask me if I lost that 17 pounds... LOL !

[Heidi3]

Re: What other diets have you tried?

I have tried.....

Weight Watchers (I paid to socialize I never really did follow it)

Low Calorie 800-1500 calories a day (this was what I did for years and years)

South Beach (I did this right before Atkins and found it complicated and it never clicked for me)

Fasting ( I would starve myself for a week at a time for a while ..that sucked and was very unhealthy)

low fat (worked but I was always hungry )

Speed (yup did that too you could buy diet pills over the counter when I lived in Panama ..so I did...)

breastfeeding babies (I highly advocate this great and healthy way to loose fat after giving birth!!!)

that is it I think ....

I love where I am now seriously I have never eaten better in my life!!!

[angelstar]

Re: What other diets have you tried?

Before Atkins I did:

Weight Watchers - points system
Slimming World - one of the cook books.....had green days and normal days...I cant remember what it was called!
Low Calorie - I did this first when I was 15.
Slim Fast - those lovely milkshakes....mmm!! (not)
Fasting - When I was 14 I would only eat 1 meal a day, dinner.

None of these gave me the results that Atkins gave me. I lost 10lbs in my first 2 weeks, it took me over a month to get that sort of weight loss in any of the other diets!

[Richt]

Re: What other diets have you tried?

I have tried and did have success with the following, but the weight didnt stay off for long as I got bored and couldnt stick to them

Weight Watchers
and
Rosemary Connely.

[G-Mom]

Re: What other diets have you tried?

breastfeeding babies (I highly advocate this great and healthy way to loose fat after giving birth!!!)

This just never worked for me, perhaps because I still ate like I was carrying triplets?! Sadly, this method isn't magic for everyone

I have been on Slim Fast, low-fat, and Shaklee Slim Plan. I actually did well on Shaklee, but only when they made the Slim Plan soups. I think a plan like that might have hope if a person can have a salty meal replacement. I took loads of Shaklee vitamins and exercised for a job and after work so I made it work.

I also tried Protein Power before Atkins but boy, was that complicated. They had this chart that was impossible to understand. It is very much like Atkins but you don't go as low on carbs. I never had real success until getting on Atkins. Whenever I fall off the wagon, I actually miss Atkins! I have never been on a diet I have missed before!

[dreamof145]

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OMG, do you really want to know? I was a fat baby, fat child, fat teen and now fat adult so I have 40+ years of diets....

WW, Aydes candies, cabbage soup, egg, mushroom, grapefruit, low-cal, Richard Simmons Deal a Meal, Jenny Craig, Susan Powter, 7 day fast, Mediterrean, Elaine Powers, Slim fast, Protein only, starvation & every diet pill that was ever on the market, and I'm sure many more plans...but I've lost track over the years. Most of them only lasted about 1 month at the most cause I was hungry and miserable.

[Heidi3]

Re: What other diets have you tried?

I really like this thread

it has been a long road for us to get to a place where we are eating great food and doing what is good for us instead of the reverse ...

deprivation is never the answer you know

although breastfeeding was fun for me and helped me loose wt so I don't really count that as a diet....G-mom I am sorry you did not loose when you were!!! I sure did!!!

[cristylp]

Re: What other diets have you tried?

OMG, do you really want to know? I was a fat baby, fat child, fat teen and now fat adult so I have 40+ years of diets....

WW, Aydes candies, cabbage soup, egg, mushroom, grapefruit, low-cal, Richard Simmons Deal a Meal, Jenny Craig, Susan Powter, 7 day fast, Mediterrean, Elaine Powers, Slim fast, Protein only, starvation & every diet pill that was ever on the market, and I'm sure many more plans...but I've lost track over the years. Most of them only lasted about 1 month at the most cause I was hungry and miserable.

OMG, dream... that sounds like me. I'd actually forgotten about some of those but I tried them too... the Ayds candies... Richard Simmons (I actually got a letter supposedly written by Richard one time)... diet pills (black beauties when they were legal which left me with a very clean house and a slimmer body, but I gained it all back when I stopped the pills.)

NOTHING has ever worked like Atkins.