[jsissom]

I'm sorry, but this is something a non-overweight person would say.

I've been overweight my whole life. I talked to my doctor. One said (yes he literally said this) Follow the SELAP diet. When I asked what he meant he said "Stop Eating Like a Pig". That was his advice. Another doctor said to get surgery.

I finally found another doctor that helped. He put me on a 1,000 calorie a day diet. Tons of people told me it was unhealthy, but I lost weight - 50 lbs. The information out there for dieting is so bad. I had people tell me that if I ate 1,000 calories a day, I would gain weight because of a slow metabolism. These were "professional" people. I've never heard of people who stop eating in food strikes in prisons get to the point where they weighed so much they can't leave their cell!

Unfortunately I couldn't keep that extremely low calorie diet up for the long term and when trying to increase it, I've now gained 25 of it back but it's been a year so I consider it somewhat of a success.

I'm glad to read about something that works for someone. The doctors you mention are pretty clueless in my opinion.

[tekalon]

I'm 4'11, so really short and overweight. I tried to keep to the 1200 calories that everyone says is the minimum, but I can't, it's often too much food for me and never really saw much in weight loss. I've been trying to go closer to 600-1000 and have seen much more results and feel healthier.

[jsissom]

Watch out, you'll gain a ton of weight on a diet like that! :)

The problem with the diet thing is that everyone is different. If you have found something that works for you, that's great!

[billbrown]

I've found the No-S Diet to be fairly maintainable over the years: "No Snacks, no Sweets, no Seconds except on days that start with S"

http://www.nosdiet.com/