So, who's lost weight? How much did you lose? And how?

[Modem Butterfly]

Looking for good diet advice! Or bad diet advice, for that matter. Just share!

[Technowitch]

1. Lost 20 lbs, 5 more to go to reach target

As for how? Watch what I eat. Keep dinner portions reasonably small. Avoid excessive alcohol. And get plenty of exercise.

[tsuki]

2. Gave up soft drinks, totally. Green tea and water only. Half a

pound a week.

[BigBearJohn]

3. Lost 5 lbs in 10 days just by eliminating potatoes, rice and bread

I eat plenty of "fibrous" vegetables and
skinless chicken and turkey and fish.

Plus I walk 30 mins a day, 5 days a week.

I HIGHLY recommend this website: http://www.hussman.org/fitness/index.htm

[purji]

4. 17 lbs in 3 months

I just stoped eating after 6:00pm.

[DoBotherMe]

5. Weight Watchers worked for me

I weighed about 15 pounds more than I wanted, so I joined the WW group at work. And I learned how to eat well by using the point system. I could have 2 cookies or six healthy meals in the day. I usually chose the meals. My 73 yo mom used the WW diet by reading some WW magazines that were laying around the lobby in her retirement complex. It's a really good program. D ; )

[Arugula Latte]

6. Well

it really is a case of: burn more calories than you take in. So just make little cutbacks, and up your burn rate every day. If you eat 250 calories fewer a day and burn 250 more than normal (which is not that hard to do, IMO), that's a deficit of 500 calories a day which would let you lose a sensible pound a week.

My problem was always I couldn't do consistent exercise. (I've never been severely overweight, just chubby in high school, fabulous in my 20s, and then 10 to 30 pounds overweight in my 30s (two babies and all...). There was always some excuse (it's rainy, I don't want to lug the kids to the gym and deal with childcare, I just took a shower and don't want to get sweaty, etc. etc.)

What finally worked for me was one day I put on a CD in my own living room and started shaking my booty. I can dance for about 45 minutes, get the ol' heartrate up, do some arm exercises with weights, and do some crunches. It's fun, it's free, and the weather and time constraints don't really apply. I've been doing it pretty consistently for awhile. (I got a hip-hop "dance party" CD with some classics like "You Can't Touch This," "Bust A Move" and, my personal favorite "I like BIG BUTTS and I Cannot Lie." I defy you NOT to dance to these songs (yeah, it's whitey hip-hop, but who cares, right? You're in the privacy of your own home).

Hope this helps. Good luck to you! :hi:

[Jesus Saves]

7. I've seen people I know lose lots of weight and slim down

through the Atkin's diet. I saw it with my own eyes. That diet works.

[quispquake]

8. Atkin's has worked wonders for me...

I'm down 67 pounds in 11 months...the main thing is to have a salad for lunch every day (and yes, I'm sick of salads, but it keeps me feeling even). I also take a carb-vitamin to make up for some of the vitamins I'm not eating.

I'm also exercising...I got a dog last year, and he & I walk 4-6 miles a day (yes, even through the Maine winter this year!).

So, diet and exercise...don't know why nobody ever mentioned that combination before :)

[wryter2000]

9. A few years back, I lost 75 pounds

I've put 5 back on, but what the heck...

Exercise, exercise, exercise. It raises your metabolism, not just while you're doing it but for a few hours after. Your heart rate should get up, but it shouldn't be anything punishing. Brisk walking is plenty of exercise.

I cut down on red meat and fat as much as possible and loaded up on veggies. Smaller portions -- half a baked potato with the fixings, rather than a whole potato. Also, I spoiled myself from time to time. If you don't, you'll go nuts and give up on dieting all together.

Weight Watcher diets are excellent. They publish the diets, so you don't have to go to meetings.

[JimmyJazz]

10. I've lost 15 since the beginning of the year, just by eating right

(the zone diet is an incredibly well balanced diet) and exercising regularly

[skybunny]

11. Brewer's Yeast Diet

A couple of years ago I lost over 40lbs by using Brewers Yeast twice a day. Instead of eating lunch, I would have 2 tablespoons of that stuff mixed with water and hour before lunch and an hour after I would normally have lunch. It tasted so bad I wouldn't eat until dinner. And, it was healthy.

[Ready4Change]

12. Dropped 25 pounds, with literally no effort.

Lost my job. That resulted in my no longer buying fast food lunches. A few months later I noticed pants were fitting looser and checked my weight. I'd lost about 15 lbs. A bit worried I might have some wasting disease I kept an eye on it, and it leveled off at about my high school weight.

Literally the only difference is that I'm not eating fast food lunches every day. I used to switch between McDonalds, Checkers, Popeyes, KFC, and Jerrys. (Jerrys not so bad, depending on what you order, imo.)

[teryang]

13. lost 19 pounds at work

just running around trying to keep up with everything. No time to snack. Missing lunch. etc. I couldn't believe it.

[librechik]

14. Gave up sugar and white bread.

Then had a bad set of holidays and an illness where I ballooned up on steroids. AAAARRRGH

Now I'm back on track--must lose 30 lbs!

[democrat in Tallahassee]

15. 85 pounds--weight watchers. about 2 years it took

[Lex]

16. What did you like best about Weight Watchers?

Did you attend the meetings?

[Palacsinta]

17. Atkins

20 pounds two years ago. Kept it off by watching carb intake. I eat just about everything now, but really limit bread, pasta etc. I replaced a lot of fruit with green vegetables. Never had a sweet tooth, so that hasn't been a problem. In my experience..... friends, relatives etc. either Atkins or Weight Watchers has worked best. Fastest, most dramatic results with Atkins.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. 43 lbs. Weight Watchers and Curves.

Count your points and it is easy.

[Skittles]

19. 15 lbs

getting back to my summer weight :)

no real trick - I just eat more fruits and vegetables and whole grain cereal, cut out the junk food, exercise an hour six times a week, eat only when I am hungry

DON'T go on any diet that limits your food groups.

[Nikia]

20. I am super model thin and am not happy

5'5" and 111 lb today at doctor. I go back in a few days for my physical with my doctor and talk about that among other things. I believe that I will gain weight if I could eat regularly again. Trust me, you don't want to give up eating regularly.
As far as healthy weight loss, a couple years ago, I went from 155lbs to 130 lbs by cutting down on fast food, working in a building with stairs, living in a house with stairs, and getting a dog who forced me to walk. Healthy weight loss over time does not require huge sacrafices and changes.

[Beaverhausen]

21. I lost 50 on Phen-Fen- and my heart is fine

I am so ultimately pissed that those bullshit lawsuits (they were bullshit!) made them take this wonder drug off the market.

It was willpower in a pill. It took me 5 1/2 months to lose the weight. I've kept most of it off although lately...

I have also had success with Weight Watchers which I think is the most sensible diet out there. I used what I learned from them when taking the phen-fen.

[Lost147]

22. 70lbs in 6 months

Reworking my diet to eat more frequent but smaller meals consisting of about 4 ounces of protein, a fist size worth of carbs, and vegetables and fruits through out the day along with about 100+fluid ounces of water a day. I eat about 2200-2500 calories a day, but I minimize empty calories. Cut way way down on the fat calories, increase the carb/protein calories.

Then of course came the even more important excersize routine, 3 days running 3 days lifting 1 day off. Through this you gain muscle as well so you actaully keep the weight off.

I lost 70 pounds in 6 months, I still have 30 or so more to go, it will put me at a nice clean 190lbs as a 6'3 male.

You can never DIET or go on some 3 months weight loss plan, very rarely do people ever keep the weight off. You gotta change your life style forever! not just go on some diet.

which reminds me, I need to go for another run tonight because I couldn't get to the gym for a lower body workout before it closed :(

[KitchenWitch]

23. I lost 20 lbs, without even knowing it this past year

I do not own a scale. I figured I may have lost 5 but I have lost 20. I lost it due to stress, my DD has had a very rough go of it this past year with her asthma.

[Left Is Write]

24. I lost 25 pounds last year, starting in March and hitting goal

the second week of July.

How? Reduced calorie diet and lots and lots of exercise. How do I maintain? Reasonable food choices, moderation in diet, and lots and lots of exercise.