Lighter life diet any good?

Question

any sucess stories? any info apreiciated.

Answer 1

VLCD (Very low calorie diets) like Lighter-life have been used by Doctors managing obesity since the 1970s, it's not a new 'fad' diet'. These diets are NOT designed for people who only have one or two stone to lose. These diets are generally designed for people with a BMI of 35+ Who are obese. This diet aims to help people who are this overweight, look at their unhealthy 'addiction' to food. This diet allows them to take food out of the equation (replace it with meal replacement packs) and then re-introduce food back into their diet on a healthy controlled level once weight loss has been achieved. I don't agree with diet pills and fad diets, I agree 100% with Dr Franks basic healthy eating and vigorous exercise method. HOWEVER, I do feel feel VLCD's do have a place in the treatment of severe obese people. It will not burn heart muscle or otherwise essential muscle, if this was the case the diet wouldn't have a license in this country and NICE would not have approved it.

It's simple, why would the body burn heart muscle when it has storage fat to burn? If it did burn essential muscle, many people would have died of the this diet. MILLIONS of people world wide have done this diet. On the lighter-life diet only ONE woman has died and the coroner concluded the cause of her death was NOT as a result of the Ligherlife diet. The water is not replacing food. it's simply replacing the water that one absorbs from food that you aren't getting on meal replacement diets. Your not actually restricting your body of food, your just forcing your body to take the food from a different source (your storage fat)

The only time your body will burn heart muscle is when someone like me who is approx 6 stone went on this diet, and this would happen because there simply would not be enough storage fat for the body to burn up and it would look towards muscle. The diets are ONLY for people who have 3 or 4 or more stone to lose and this diet is monitored.

I know many Dr's at work who have done this diet. It is not unsafe as long as you drink the water and have all your meal packs.

The effectiveness of this diet is however another story, if you come off this diet and put the same food back in your mouth that you were eating before (the same quantity) you will get fat again, it isn't the diet putting food back in your mouth, it's the person. No one can blame a diet for them getting fat.

The only downside is the 'ketosis breath' and your body goes into famine mode, so you may find your hair stops  growing...this will of course return to normal when you finish the diet.

If I were you, unless your VERY obese, consider a healthy reduced calorie diet and vigorous exercise. It really is the best way.