Have you been on a diet that has failed miserably?  Which one? What happened?
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Because I am recovering from anorexia and have issues with restrictive diets, all "diets" I have tired, I have failed.  Atkins I failed in a week because I couldn't handle the restrictions or the diarrhea.  Then I started eating three square meals with two snacks of controlled portions of whatever I want and I finally feel free of diets.  There is nothing I don't allow myself, I just have reasonable portions.  I eat lots of fruit, as many veggies as I can stand, and only whole grain bread products (I have grown to dislike refined white bread products).
224205
Well I have over the years tried them all but the only one I was able to stick to for a long time has been a low card diet. I lost 43 pounds in three months and it has been off for over four years now.\n\nI can find things to eat pretty much anywhere. Italian restaurants are tough but there is usually a grilled chicken salad or some such thing.
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Was not successful, for me.\n\n"Mindfulness Meditation worked (still works) for me !!!\nAuthor  Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD."!!!\n\nAnd I ate a good size healthy breakfast daily (still do),  a  moderate lunch and dinner.  Never eat after 5:30 PM.\nAnd always drink a Full 8 oz. glass of Water (not tap water) right before you eat lunch and dinner.  Keeps food consumption at a moderation.\nAnd lastly,  exercise every other day.\n20 to 30 min. of  Cardio.\n\nBe  Very  Patient  with  Yourself.  Be Kind to yourself  and  forgiving toward yourself also.\n\nExcellent Question.\n\nR.N. -  with  Masters  Degree.\n\nP.S. =  Diet pills are Not recommended.  They give most people the feeling that they are on Speed, or other recreational drugs.  And  I  know many people that are presently in  drug \nrehab. clinics because of there addiction to Diet Pills.
742898
Yes. It can be hard though. It's a lifetime thing. I tried in the short term to provide another support and stuffed myself with low-carb food but lost a ton of weight. Lots of cheese and meat, and a lot of the stuff that Dr. Atkins probably wouldn't recommend like bacon.
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I lost 53lbs in less than three months by drinking nothing else but bottled water, I ate three servings of dairy (yogurt, cheese, milk, etc..) I never ate after 8PM no matter what and instead of making my reg. size dinner plate in the evening I started making me a saucer of the same dinner I prepared for everyone else.. It really did work!! Good Luck.. I did also walk a half mile 3 days per week also.. keep me informed.. Hope it works for you the way it did for me!!!
454241
how are you dropping the pounds like crazy? what diet is it? and about the office job.. you're pretty much out of luck because im in the same position and i really don't know what you can do..
1091110
Not yet. If I keep eating the way I am, I will be. I blame my girl cuz she's a good cook, and she feeds me. I HATE cooking, I survived on candy bars and ice cream when we split up a while back, but I wasn't eating much, so I lost 30 lbs despite eating nothing but junk. Now she makes me homemade beans and tortillas, tri tip, good stuff. She always brings my food to me in the livingroom so I don't hafta get off my fat ass to eat. I gained all my weight back, and then some. I see 400 lbs in my future...
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Have you had any new diet changes in the past three weeks. or within the last few months. This could be even from years of esposure to the elements in the world today. I recommend going to the site below and clicking on digestive health. You can send me an email if you have any questions.\n\nwilliams0757@sbcglobal.net
513222
No, just the break up shitted on and heart left on the floor diet.  I lost 7 pounds and haven't gained it back, hehehe!!!
650526
Been there, done that ( a few times). You just have to get back on the horse and do it again. I let myself slip back into old eating habits and quit running. I decided in January to get back in shape (yet again), and signed up to run a half-marathon. It was hard, but the race is this weekend, and have lost over thirty pounds and I am fit and happy again ( and only about 10 pounds away from my goal weight, which will be the least I have been in over 20 years)
467634
Unfortunately, none were successful
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I had this problem, always was able to maintaine my weight.  I never over ate, but didn't watch what i ate, fluctuated up and down 5 pounds at most.   Wasn't active either due to being a heavy smoker.  \n\nWell i turned 21, winter came shortly after, I was always wearing 3 or 4 layers of clothes since i live in PA and its about a 20 min walk to classes.   Spring came and all of a sudden i realized i had a gut...gained 40 lbs and lost a little muscle.  \n\n\nMotivation.   Well instead of switching to bigger sized clothing, i stuck with the clothes that gave me man boobs and gut.  I became super self concious and was generally embarassed, always embarassed.  Even when i was in my apt alone, i could feel my stomache bulging out.  \n\nI'm a conservative person, but i'd reccomend wearing clothing a little skimpy, stuff that just makes you look horrible.  Rolls hanging out etc.  If you go to a party or something,  yeah wear nicer clothes, but the rest of the time, don't.  That will give you the motivation you need.   \n\nIt atleast worked for me.\nAlso...what i actually did.  \nWell i did cut a little bit of caliores.  I drank 4 liters of soda a day and just simply switched to more filling fruit juice (OJ with pulp) and water.  That cut nearly 2000 calories out of my daily diet.  Also, i didn't know this, but the sugar itself is somewhat addictive.  Your body gives you the urges of hunger when your sugar drops thats only cured by drinking more soda, but you don't realize this and just eat food.  \nI still drink soda now, 2 liters a week max.  \nTry to find something like that in your diet, something that you wont' entirely miss.\n\nI also did a little bit of strength training.  Being a woman, you won't have to worry about bulking out, since you don't have the hormones.  But get a dumbell, while watching tv just do some curls.  \nBasically if you are maintaining your weight....every lb of muscle you gain results in losing 6 lb of fat.  Every pound of muscle burns about 30 calories while fat burns about 5.  \n\nMy results were losing about 20 lbs in 6 months.
582013
I did the Atkins Diet for 1 1/2 years and lost 100 pounds.  The problem with the Atkins diet is that you have to stick to it exactly.  I went back to eating "normally" and the weight came back.  I missed things like bread and potatoes.  I got tired of eating meat and cheese and eggs all the time.  The diet does work but you have to be on it strictly.  I had regular lab tests done while on the diet and it was amazing.  My cholesterol went down over 80 points (I had a high cholesterol problem before the diet)  and my blood sugars were in the healthy range while eating the Atkins way.  The problem, for me, seems to be that his way of eating is not sustainable over a long period of time.
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Yes. i find that it is so hard to resist food, but if we each give each other moral support, it just might work! May i ask what diet you are on? or what you recomend? You may e-mail me at gavin_small2003@yahoo.com if you wish, its,up to you. Best wishes in keeping the self control(i'm trying to drink lots of water.
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Any diet will work, keep in mind the following before choosing your next diet:\n\nDiets and changing your eating to healthy food choices can work but because we know so little about ourselves and our relationship with food, it makes it difficult to win the battle. A lot of us have problems with dieting because we have a problem called "emotional eating" we eat to comfort ourselves during difficult, stressful, sad, etc times in our lives.\n\nYou may experience all those emotions during dieting as we continuously get on the scale hoping to see a big difference in numbers after dieting only for a day or two. Also what is stressful when dieting is that we try to lose a large number of weight in such a short period of time which in most cases is unreasonable. \n\nThis all brings about stress, discomfort and sadness. When we feel this way, we turn to our best friend for help and support which for many of us is food. The diet is now broken and we feel that we can't stick to diets. We then try fad diet after fad diet hoping to lose the original 20 pounds and now we may have as much as 30 pounds to lose because we continue to put on weight as we continue to break these fad diets by binging before starting our next diet. \n\nPlease learn about your relationship with food before your next diet so that you may achieve your goals. To help a little, keep in mind the following:\n\nYou already know how to lose weight. You know that if you eat less and exercise more eventually you’ll see the pounds come off. What’s getting in your way? Why do you usually regain the weight you lost? The answer to all these questions is the same “Emotional Eating.” Simply defined, emotional eating means you eat to satisfy emotional hunger; it means you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life; and it means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs. Whenever you reach for a boredom-breaking snack despite your commitment, or whenever you eat to quell anxiety, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you feel that sharp craving for your favorite food, that’s emotional eating. When we eat during these times while on a diet, we believe the diet doesn’t work or that we lack self control and then look for the quickest way to lose weight (fasting/diet pills, ect) after eating all we can since we already messed the diet day up. Read the information below but remember that emotional eating plays a big part in why we don’t continue dieting and why we regain lost weight and why we binge today and start a new diet tomorrow. Best of Luck.\n\nP.S. After learning about my relationship with food, I was able to drop my weight from 263 pounds down to 151 pounds which is a 112 pound weight lost.
712209
Yes I have gotten dehydrated a few times during the hot summer. Lose loads of weight. Can't eat.....I hate the heat.
350632
Hey, I'm on a 1200 calorie diet and it works amazing...if you are interested e-mail me @ m_misland@yahoo.ca and I will give you a site and $$ I highly recommend it! I lost 43 pounds in 2 months