Quick Diet Poll!

Doug Lerner said:

1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

At least 4 times. Once when I was a teenager, once when I started grad
school, once about 20 years ago, once about 5 years ago...

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

Weight Watchers, Atkins, low-fat, low-calorie, low-glycemic-index...

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

In my dreams: 113 lb. What I would settle for: 70 lb.

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

Just counting my major diets, about 350 lb. If I added in all my diet
false starts where I lost maybe 10 lb and then went off my diet -
probably another 200 lb or more!

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

Yes.

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

Low calorie using low carb to help control appetite enough to make low
calorie work...

With exercise thrown in...

doug

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1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

Once, when I was a stupid teenager

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

Low everything!

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

7 Kg left

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

No idea.

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

I was a Physics major, I'm a firm believer in the laws of thermodynamics.

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

No diet. It has to be a WOE that I can continue with for the rest of my
life. I quite like the Polymeal idea currently on alt.support.diabetes (I
think!), which does good things for cardiovascular risk, as well as being
all my favourite foods. Today I tried to make my usual lunch, and knew that
it's a valid WOE when my teenage daughter nicked everything off my plate,
because it tasted so good : )

Nicky.

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HbA1c 10.5/6.4/<6 Weight 95/79/72
1g Metformin, 75ug Thyroxine
T2 DX 05/2004

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1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

Once

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

low carb, low fat

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

50 but I'd settle for 30

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

?????????????

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

yes

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

low carb

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1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

Twice, at least.

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

Low fat, low cal(1000 cals a day), portion control, WW.

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

Starting out, 60+ pounds. I am 10-15 pounds to my goal now.

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

Oh, gawd, at least 200. In my life I have been 145-256 and everywhere in
between.

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

Yes. If I were to get down to 145, I am sure if I would continually eat
over 1600 cals a day, I would have a hard time maintaining, unless I
implemented a serious exercise regime. Now, without consciously counting
calories, I average 1400 cals a day (I log everything in fitday, so that is
how I know)

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

LC, because I don't have that constant *need* to eat like I did doing LF or
just not dieting at all.

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Lisa
208/159.5/145-150
High weight in 2004: 228
Low-carb since June 2004

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1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

None. I gained a lot of weight as a result of an endocrine disorder and I was
unable to lose any of it until I went on medication. Once I went on medication
and started losing the weight, I also started low-carbing.

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

Low-fat. VERY low-fat. 80% carb, 10% protein, 10% fat. Never lost any weight.

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

I could stand to lose 5 pounds, but I am at an acceptable BF% (22%)

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

Don't know.

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

Not sure. I maintain on 2,000+ calories a day so it really isn't an issue.

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

Paleo low-carb seems to be the most healthful diet for ME.

Robyn

Doug Lerner said:

1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

3x

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

Atkin's, sugar busters.

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

45+ lbs.

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

70~ish lbs.

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

yes

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

Modified low carb

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Lurker

Miracle of medicine.
http://www.jamesrobert.us

Doug Lerner said:

1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

Once

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

Only one. 2PDiet

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

3 pounds tops

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

40

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

No

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

The Simple Two Pound Diet

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1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

twice

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

low-fat, Jenny Craig

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

100-110

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

41lbs

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

I dont know..

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

Atkins

Glitter Girl

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1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

(1) I have dieted twice. First, back in the 80s, when I started gaining
weight. I went on a low-fat diet and exercized like crazy. My staples were
beans, rice, and spinach, and I rode a bicycle everwhere. I kept gaining
weight, and gave up.

(2) The aforementioned low-fat, which definitely didn't work. Twenty years
later I learned about the Atkins diet, and tried it.

(3) I have lost about 40 pounds, and am at the weight now I was at when I
first started dieting. I would like to lose another fifteen pounds, and I
know these will be the hardest. It will put me back to my high-school
weight.

(4) I have lost 40 pounds in the last 8 months on Atkins. I have never been
able to lose weight before.

(5) Calories count, although that's a simple answer to a complex question.
The best way I can think of to describe it, as I see it, is that although
more calories mean more food energy to be either burned or stored, it does
appear that people who have a diet lower in carbs spend more calories
burning the food they eat. That is under the Atkins "metabolic advantage".
I don't know why that is, but apparently it's true.

(6) Low carb dieting is the only one that has allowed me to reverse my
weight gain. I'm not trying to push it, but I will be honest. Since I
started low-carbing via Atkins last April, I have lost 40 pounds, have a lot
more energy, and have been told I look ten years younger.

Although I think the human body is more complex than any of us realize, I
think there are some fundamentals. The human body is a carb-burning
machine. If you eat more than your body needs, the excess is stored as fat.
If you eat less, your body turns to that fat.

(7) Okay, I know there was no (7). You should have asked what role exercise
plays in a diet. The answer is, plenty. It's not just for weight control,
it's for energy, and that amounts to quality of life. And that's what we're
wanting to achieve, right?

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1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

First try now.

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

None.

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

0-8 lb to finish current weightloss.

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

45 lb since 11/2003.

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

Yes.

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

No grains, no sugars, unlimited veggies, reasonable amount of rest.

Mirek

Doug Lerner said:

1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

None.

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

None.

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

3 lbs. ;-)

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

132 lbs.

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

Maybe more so as you approach your goal weight.

Moderating fat intake is the easiest way to moderate calorie intake. I
don't count calories by any means but I have a very good idea of how much
I can eat every day.

That said, I was definitely losing weight while in ketosis on a fairly
high calorie diet for a couple of years. I stayed on induction for quite
a while. I have also been losing relatively slowly, 3-4 lbs. a month, but
that's fine with me.

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

LC is the ticket for me because of issues with wheat and sugar.

Since I never bought the 'all you can eat' thing with Atkins that a lot of
people fall for if they haven't read the book, I've never thought that the
need for moderation (aka not overeating) was any big surprise.

Besides, with my upbringing, the idea of eating a lot more calories than
the body is actually going to use, and, you should pardon the expression,
pissing them away, is wasteful of God's bounty. Wish I'd come to this
clever insight before the pounds started piling on.

Dan
325/193/190
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes

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1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of your
weight?

Maybe once, but it would have been a long time ago.

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight
Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

Low-cal, low-fat; Weight Watchers

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

None. I'm on maintenance

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4. How much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

Probably close to 100 lbs.

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

Yes.

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for you?

Calorie-counting moderate-carb.

Doug Lerner said:

1. How many times have you dieted, lost and regained all or most of

your

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weight?

dieted - twice
lost and regained all or most - zero
lost and kept off - once

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2. Which diets have you tried before? (Atkins, other low-carb, Weight

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Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie)

low-calorie and low-carb

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3. How much weight do you want to lose now?

zero

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4. Do much total weight have you lost on diets in your lifetime? 🙂

20 lbs.

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5. Do you believe that regardless of your diet that calories count?

no.

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6. Which diet do you think has the best chances of succeeding for

you?
the one that has actually succeeded in the real world - low-carb

TC