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Originally Posted by Katcal
Diets are evil, any that involve dehydrated food doubly so. I hope you have a doctor following your progress jaccairn, and not one that makes any money from the stuff you have to buy, because 5 months of that kind of diet is an enormous amount of time (and probably money). I'm sorry if this doesn't sound supportive, but having seen a lot of people get really messed up thanks to some of the crazy and/or expensive diets out there, and I have been myself too, so just be careful, ok ? :oops:
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Oh yes. We had to go to our doctor's and get a medical form filled in with blood pressure checks, which then had to be approved by the company's doctors, before we were allowed to join. Followed by blood pressure checks every four weeks whilst we were on the diet. We also had to attend weekly councelling sessions - small groups of same-sex people, the same each week- for the initial 14 week periods, followed by regular meeting with those looking to continue. They won't let you continue unless you keep attending. These look at identifying our attitudes to food, why we eat, when, what triggers overeating.
It's not the cheapest diet around but I haven't been buying any normal food or snacks and it's surprising how how much this can mount up to normally. It's called LighterLife (
LighterLife - Home) if you're curious. It's british based only so comes under the british food regulations which are a bit stricter than some other countries.