Has anyone tried the Paul McKenna diet thing?

[FSM with Cheddar]

"I agree with most things your say" : why thank you kind Sir.

The only reason I mention the diet is that it works very well for me.

Yeah not doubting it works, I just hate pseudo science that covers up the real reason why something is working.

[Ravello]

Any diet really is just about restricting what you're eating. Whether that be through volume or certain food types. Interestingly, Men's Fitness magazine trialled a diet which didn't allow you to eat food stuffs beginning with M or F, the guy doing that diet lost as much weight as some of the other guys doing more recognisable diets (such as Slim Fast etc.)

Ultimately with diets, the more you restrict yourself the quicker you are likely to lose weight, however, the harder it is to subsequently stick to that regime, and in some cases (particularly calorie controlled diets) the quicker you are likely to regain that weight when you stop.

As such, and as others have stated, eating sensibly and exercising is the best solution as this tends to be a lifestyle change, which, psychologically is less likely to be seen by yourself as a restriction and therefore more likely to work over the longer term. "Cheat Days" in modern diets work on a similar theory.

[pmeswani]

My new years resolution was to drop 2 stone, and I've been doing the Paul McKenna thing - eat only when you're hungry, eat what you like, eat very slowly, stop eating when you think you're full.

4 days in I'm amazed at how little I'm eating. Today I ate about half my lunch and realised I was full. All I need now is to stick with it....

Yep it works. I lost about 5 or 6 kg's with that show. Unfortunately I never kept it up. I'm on the chinese herbals which seems to be working well for me.

[ratewhore]

I agree that diets are not long term options. I'll also repeat what I said the other day in SallyAnne's diet thread:

It's not that hard Sal once you know what you shovel in your gob.

Go here and create an account.

Go here and work out your daily calorific requirement.

To lose weight, make sure you are taking in about 90% of your daily calorific needs, with a 20-40-40 split between fat, carbs and protein. Make sure you understand the difference between good fats and bad fats.

Take regular exercise.

Enjoy...

[Bagpuss]

Its sticking with it which is the difficult part! Which is why I like the slimming world diet (you can each as much as you like of certain foods : done eat meat and carbs on same day).

The Mrs is doing this diet and therefore I'm eating most of it too. It's not really like a diet, massive portions of veg, loads of nice recipes and appears to work.

[norrahe]

as long as the food is ok then a diet isn't too bad.

most of myfriends who have done ww and all that, have ended up bingeing as all they did all day was obsess about food, because that was what the diet focussed on mostly.

[DiscoStu]

as long as the food is ok then a diet isn't too bad.

most of myfriends who have done ww and all that, have ended up bingeing as all they did all day was obsess about food, because that was what the diet focussed on mostly.

This is what I like about the Paul McKenna plan. You don't obsess about anything because you're still allowed it. You just have to eat it slowly and stop once you're full

[d000hg]

This is what I like about the Paul McKenna plan. You don't obsess about anything because you're still allowed it. You just have to eat it slowly and stop once you're full

Even beer?

[Shimano105]

This is the same kind of thing:

http://www.nosdiet.com/

[BrilloPad]

Yeah not doubting it works, I just hate pseudo science that covers up the real reason why something is working.

too f**king right!