Wedding Forum - Has anyone tried LIGHTERLIFE and any good...

no i've not tried it but would like to hear more hope some one on here can help

i havnt done it but i know a 4 people that have. 2 of my friends are on it at the moment. one of them was my ex boyfriend. he was on it when we were together and the results were amazing!! he lost so much weight and has kept it off.

It helps you lose weight and then teaches you to eat again.

my friend claire has been on it 4 weeks. she goes to her counsilling (sp) every saturday for 2 hours and this is meant to help you. it costs £68 a week but that is for all your food packs and everything. you can only drink water so if like her you like to go out and drink and buy your own food then the cost is worth it.

out of the people that i know that have done it they say the first 3 days are the hardest and once you have past them it is so easy!

my friend claire has already lost 1stone 12lb in 4 weeks!

the positives are you get support throughout when you are on the diet. you can phone your tutor at any time if you feel like you need to. you lose weight really easily. it is easy to follow. you still have loads of energy. my friend says she has more energy now than she did before and has even started zumba while on it!

negatives hard for first few days cant eat or drink anything.

obv there are move positives but because i havnt actually done it i dont know them all.

if you really want to lose weight and have tried other diets/ways then this really does work!

hope this has helped xx

my ex lost nearly 7 stone on it and it didnt take him long. my friend claire wans to lose 5 half stone andn has already done nearly 2! some people dont agree with it as they think it is unsafe to lose so much weight so quick but it is such a good diet and it really does work xx

I did lose about 3st with SW but reached the weight I am now last sept and it wouldn't budge, to add a little variety I started WW last sept and have lost 7lbs in 6months, which as been frustrating to say the least. I complete my tracker and food diarys for my personal trainer and dietician and overall I have a fairly healthy diet. I don't drink nor smoke and I do maintain excercise - infact have been training for race for life last month) so I know it isn't for the want of trying

I'm not against lighterlife but I'm not for it either..

My aunt and uncle have been on and off lighterlife for about 2 maybe 3 years now, they do amazing and loose weight and then as soon as food is introduced back into there diet they start putting back on, even when they are eating healthy!

But they do loose..

I'm desperate to loose weight and I'm trying everything at the moment and nothing seems to work, I think I've put on in the last couple of weeks when the 2 weeks before I had lost 4lb but I haven't done anything differently. If I was all for lighterlife I';d be the first to go on it but I'm really not sure about it and it's ALOT of money

ps hunny bunny sounds like you are doing everything you should be to be fit and healhy have you seen your GP to check theres nothing medical getting in the way of your weight loss? just a thought coz u seem to be doing everything right hun x x x

my friend was on this and she looks fantastic now. absolutely brilliant. Im interested in trying it as well

I'm not saying it's problem but I think it says alot when the founder of the diet doesn't practise what she preaches

i have never heard of it, anyone had good results from it :) x

Hi Kirst4Paul, yeah I've had all the blood tests, had those before I started on the 6 months of Xenical.

I'm not saying I'm 100% all of the time, but I do have a Ki Fit monitor - like a body bug - and it is very useful in telling me what calories I have burnt and what calories I have consumed. I can print these reposts of and thats what I take to the GP. Thier suggestion - perseverance! Just feels like thats what I've always done. I think I'm gonna spend a couple of hours googling it, some stories are very worrying.

Don't bother!! as soon as you come off it there is no maintenance plan, they say there is but it lasts for a week...thats no good! I know several people that have been on it and the same thing has happened to them all, When you lose weight you need to be doing it for good which means re-training your pallet. How can you re-train when your not eating?
I, like you am struggling to lose, also I have had xenical which constipated me and I am finding it hard to maintain let alone lose and with 5 stone to lose it shouldn't be this difficult! All bloods cam back as normal so there is no reason for the lack of loss other than food!
Write out your menu for the day and stick to it. If you are a calorie counter (like me) then make sure your calories are set right. The old rule of thumb used to be if you have more than 3 stone cals should be 1750 between 1-3 stone cals 1500 under 1 stone cals 1250.
There is a lot of talk about weather you should eat your exercise cals. Have a look on my wall and you will see the website I use, it's very very good and I am losing the weight now, but with just 14 weeks to the wedding I can opnly hope to lose another 1.5-2 stone but it's a loss all the same. xx

one tip i will give everyone who is struggling to lose weight is ask your doctor exactly how normal your thyroid levels are and if you are borderline normal i have underactive thyroid have spent years feeling tired putting on weight and feeling genrally crap i was borderline apperently for all that time although doc never told me till my thyroid has just about packed up so now on very high dosage of throxine but still convinced they havent got it right yet as like you hunny bunni i excercise for 1hour 6 days a week Zumba, im eating a ww diet and am well within my points and i keep putting on or staying the same its totally gutting as i wanted to be back at goal weight which i was preious to thyroid going kaput for wedding xxx

I'm back at the dietician next week so I'll check that, thank you leafy x

no problem i know how frustrating it is i also just keep in my head if i wasnt doing what i am now god knows how huge i would be xx

a couple of the girls in our class have struggled with the fruit they have gone back to pointing it have basically doubled the old points to calculate it roughly and include it in their daily points i do use the 49 but genrally only half of it and i never use my excersise points xx

I know it's difficult and everyone is different - I've lost a stone since September using the new propoints and eat loads of fruit, using all my points and the extra 49 each week ! But everyone is different...you'll get there x

Hi I am another advocat of WW - I don't think Lighterlife is a good solution to the problem, I've never done it but have heard reports of health issues, hair loss, and bad breath! Plus honestly, I think it would make me miserable, but that's just me.

I don't have that much to lose, maybe a stone, and I lost 6lb in 2 weeks doing the ww propoints, both weekends I had a takeaway and a bottle of wine! I do know everyone is different tho - but my advice would be to choose something that is sustainable in the long run and in 'real life' - because although you may see results at first and be really happy, it'll make you all the more frustrated when it goes back on x

i would love to know how you could feel you all on a £68 for a week. is that just you and h2b? xx

i normally spend £60 on the shop at the weekend but find myself going to the shop in the weeks. prob spend just over £70 a week!

Mrs Barker to be- you may well have expensive tastes their ;-) as it's me my fiancee and our two kids that I can feed for that, probably less without nappies, washing powder etc.etc. I just make sure I get whatever's on offer from our supermarket that's all.

:-)