Has anyone found a diet that actually works?

Smaller portions, and replacing sodas and juices with water and getting some exercise in the day will help you shed the pounds. Not easy to do but thats the only way it will work.

Psalm 139:14 (New Living Translation) 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. How beautiful and wonderful the body is! When we have our health we truly almost have everything. The challenge of weight maintainance is as complex as is the human body. I think it all starts in the mind. So we must have a picture of what we want to look like, as far as weight is concerned. Then we must work, and work hard, to make the picture, a reality. Cheer up, it can be done! You should eat the healthiest foods you can find. The most healthy foods are fruits and vegetables. So eat lots of them, fresh and raw, as mother nature produced them. Don't try to improve on mother nature, you can't. Exercise, even more important than waht we eat. Walking, simply the best exercise. Do lots of walking. Drink lots of pure water. Most of the time we are not hungry, we are thirsty. Wish you the best of success.

I think the only diet that works is a healthy diet.. fruit, fruit.. more fruit and veggies and whole grains and lean meats if you're not vegan.. I went on what I call a "cheap foods diet" - as I can't afford lots of different fruits.. so I always have lots of apples, oranges, and bananas heaped up in a big basket on the counter.. and grapes I pick at while I'm cooking... as I'm less hungry when the meal is ready.. and then I buy frozen veggies at the discount grocery store (where I get most of my groceries).. and buy the bags of salad, a bag of spinach, and also some fresh mushrooms at the same store, and I use a low fat dressing, and add an equal amount of water to the dressing! so I use less.. Then what is needed is to get a bit more exercise than usual.. They say if you fail on one day, don't try to starve yourself the next day, at it just sabotages you.. If the diet is too strict, we are gearing our self toward failure.. And we should try to pick an exercise, walking, dancing... that we enjoy. I agree with what others have said, it's a lifestyle change.. I prayed, and quietly and expectantly waited for the blessing, and now I'm somewhat shocked at how much I love my fruit and salads, whereas for years if I bought them, I never ended up eating them!! Good luck!

I have not found a diet that works and think diets don't work. I'm losing weight; however, I had to make a lifestyle change to be successful. One problem I found was how much food was high in fat and calories was in my house. It was time to donate all of the high fat and calories food to Food Share. This filled the trunk, so I managed to be a big help to Food Share. I found several jars of gravy, which is one way to add calories to a dish quickly. They are now gone. I'm no longer having that big serving of mashed potatoes and gravy. I found ice cream topping, which is really not good to eat when you want to reduce pounds. I'm no longer eating ice cream and that made a quick difference, as I was having a small dish of ice cream every evening. I'm now eating more fruit and vegetables each day. Each day I start with some fruit which helps me get a good start to the day. I'm no longer having that donut that just gives me a sugar high, which causes me to just feel hungry in an hour. My suggestion eat a good breakfast, so that you start the day feeling good. I found when I miss breakfast, then I'm more likely to eat the wrong foods the rest of the day.

Well i've been losing weight and I haven't been using any diet at all. What I have done is changed my lifestyle. I think that this is the first step because if you change your lifestyle there is no way that you will gain more weight with this new lifestyle that have gained. The good thing of what I have been doing is that I am eating in smaller portions and am still able to eat some of my favorite things like cookies and ice cream. But I do it in moderations. I exercise regularly but there are times when I'm swamped with stuff and don't do it. I haven't been losing weight like crazy, I'm taking it slow so that in the end it doesn't come back fast. But to seriously succeed you need to know that you want to do this and it's not only for a few months but for a lifetime. You need to changed your lifestyle and not even make it a huge change either. Good luck with this.

its best to make sure you workout every day. its best to do it 30 minutes after you wake up because your buring pure fat. I usually either briskly walk when I wake up or I take a morning jog depending whether or not im lazy that day lol. but the diet I would reccomend that hasant let me down yet is baked chicken and salad. I bought a lot of chicken and marinated it and baked it and after that I froze them. I usually ate 2 pieces with a huge salad to accompany them. that was the best diet I was ever on and it actually tasted good.

i am having some success with my latest diet but i have no willpower! I read 2 good books: potatoes not prozac and the good mood diet and both had some great tips on what to eat and what not to eat...

Atkins worked for me. I lost 13 pounds, but did gain most of it back eventually. I think that when ever you do any diet you have to do the maintenance plan afterwards, I have never did the maintenance part of the diet, and I think that is why I always end up gaining it back. Gaining it back is the worst part. It seems like it takes a month to lose 5 pounds, and 3 days to put it back on, so frustrating. I have been doing South Beach for 4 days now, the first three days were hard, today was not too bad. I will let everyone know how it goes.

I have read a few about the diets... "Dieting" is a fancy term given by corporate America to sell you more products. If you eat smaller portion meals and excerise you should notice a difference. Try not being so hard on yourself {causes stress, can cause weight gain} Grapefruits {organic} are great meals for breakfast and help shed pounds. eat as many as you want.