If you lost weight focusing mainly on diet, did you…

[Anonymous]

I’ve done every diet under the sun and lost weight. I like to mix it up.

No carb/Atkins lost weight felt the best and my stomach was flat this was my best diet

Weight watchers lost weight but plateau a lot, takes longer, feel healthy, sleep well but get hungry a lot

3 day Juice cleanse, I usually do this to start a diet it’s hard but then the diet seems like a piece of cake

Whole 30… this was great, I broke some bad habits like sweetener in my coffee … I only lost 10 lbs and then plateau but I never went back to sweetener

Noom… terrible didn’t lose weight

Intermittent fasting … sucks can’t work out in an without food, lost weight but I couldn’t do the window

[Anonymous]

Skip breakfast (or have a coffee, black). Salad with protein for lunch with 2 T salad dressing (salad is 100% veggies, no nuts/seeds, no pasta, no cheese, protein is either legumes or chicken or salmon - usually leftover from last night's dinner)

Dinner - protein and veggies only. No second helpings.

If at some point I'm still hungry, air popped popcorn, an apple, sometimes an apple with peanut butter.

[Anonymous]

With the caveat that it has always been within normal BMI range, when I want to lose 5-10 pounds I don't eat starchy foods other than at dinner, and I focus on high protein until dinner. Usually yogurt or cottage cheese with berries for breakfast, a salad with protein/egg scramble with veg/soup for lunch, and then whatever I want for dinner with some degree of portion control. If I do that, I can eat pretty much anything at dinner and be in a deficit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tracked calories and also tried to eat lower carb. Not no carb and I didn’t eliminate anything.

+1 Same.

[Anonymous]

Nope. I had lost weight eliminating things before but always gained it back. Have lost and maintained 100 pounds from portion control and logging food. I logged food for about 6 months until I had a good idea of what was in what, etc. It's been the first time in my life where I've been able to eat what I want, junk included, and not feel guilty about it.

[Anonymous]

I restrict carbs. Lost 35 pounds, have kept it off for 2 years. I’m still shocked when I look in the mirror and see a flat stomach!

[Anonymous]

No. When I diet I eat exactly the same things I eat when I am not dieting, just in lower quantities. I love sweets and I make sure I fit a treat into my macros daily even on a diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I restrict carbs. Lost 35 pounds, have kept it off for 2 years. I’m still shocked when I look in the mirror and see a flat stomach!

Carbs from any source or just processed/simple carbs (white rice, bread, potatoes)?

[Anonymous]

Calorie counting. Did not care what it was. However when you calorie count you figure out that some foods are very very “expensive” and I had to weigh if it was worth being famished 1hr later with hardly any calories left.

[Anonymous]

I went from 162 (January 1) to 140 (today, May 5th).

I did weight watchers and really stayed within my daily points - I did not use weekly points except maybe 2 or 3 times.

I do exercise a lot, but I didn't increase it when I decided to lose weight, so I credit the diet for the weight loss.

With that said, WW does steer you towards a diet very low in processed foods and simple cards because those things are so high in points. So I did really cut back on simple carbs and almost eliminated sugar entirely. But nothing was completely off the table - i.e. yeah, I had a cupcake on my birthday, and I do eat whole wheat bread and English muffins a few times a week.

[Anonymous]

I went from 256 to 154 across 2 years, which for me at 5 ft 7 is from morbidly obese to high normal.

I ate high protein, low-ish carb, and basically cut out most alcohol and most easy carbs like bread (except I ate toast with eggs a few times/week), potatoes, rice, pasta, etc. I cut out most fruits. I stuck to foods that I loved but that also fit the diet - lots of salmon, chicken, and roasted vegetables. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went from 165 to 145 in about five months without cutting entire food groups. I have generally just cut back on everything. I used to drink wine every day but now only on weekends. I used to have breakfast but now just lunch and dinner, and those portions are a lot smaller. I still do "splurge" on things like pizza, bagels, hamburgers, chocolate etc, but try to balance it out where if I do that one day I try to eat healthier on the several next days that follow.

This sounds too good to be true. Congrats

[Anonymous]

Low fat, low carb, no sugar

[Anonymous]

IF works for me - I eat my first meal around 1pm and then whatever I want until 9pm. It’s basically just cutting out breakfast (which I don’t really like anyways) and after dinner snacking (which is my kryptonite - I love dessert / cereal around 10pm and IF just makes the decision easy bc it’s “no”).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve done every diet under the sun and lost weight. I like to mix it up.

No carb/Atkins lost weight felt the best and my stomach was flat this was my best diet

Weight watchers lost weight but plateau a lot, takes longer, feel healthy, sleep well but get hungry a lot

3 day Juice cleanse, I usually do this to start a diet it’s hard but then the diet seems like a piece of cake

Whole 30… this was great, I broke some bad habits like sweetener in my coffee … I only lost 10 lbs and then plateau but I never went back to sweetener

Noom… terrible didn’t lose weight

Intermittent fasting … sucks can’t work out in an without food, lost weight but I couldn’t do the window

So basically nothing works, because of any of the approaches you used to lose weight actually owrked you would have been able to stick to them and kept the weight off.