Has anyone tried this diet program called Strip That Fat? I found this blog while surfing the internet the other day and wonder if anyone tried this program? Im thinking about purchasing it but want to hear if someone had some experience with it.

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Why not try following the nutritional and exercise advice from the appropriate sections of the forum. We have excellent sticky threads.

That is what the vast majority of us here do - and we have excellent results with this approach.

As Omega said, most of us here don't recommend "diets". Losing weight is about adjusting your long term diet - in the terms of what you eat as a lifestyle - rather than "going on a diet".

Eating healthier foods in reasonable amounts and exercise - it's really the only way to achieve sustainable weight loss.

The sticky posts in the forums here are a great resource for more information.

Absolutely Kara - the problem with "going on a diet" is that at the end people have no idea how to construct meals such that they do not gain everything that they have lost.

Learning to build a truly balanced diet at an appropriate calorie level is an art which many people believe they understand until they see what quantity of each nutrient they consume. People learn this only by closely monitoring how things pan out (and not just counting calories or eating something because a piece of paper or a computer program says eat this today). The ideal opportunity to learn this is when you need to lose weight and therefore have an incentive to record everything that you eat.

Hi Garret
I have tried strip the fat program and it has worked for me so far, in fact i am still following the guidelines set out by the diet program.

I also agree what is being said here as well the only way to lose weight is to follow a well balanced healthy diet and proper exercise program i think thats the reason the strip the fat worked for me

well in the past, i tried sticking to a balance diet and i did lose about 20 lbs, but after that i just got tired of it and gain it all back and more. i tried getting back on it but didn't stay as long as i had before.

The biggest problem with these programs is not losing weight while following them. If the calories are limited you will lose weight following anything.

But by definition you "are on a diet". It is a temporary change which you do not anticipate following for ever.

The biggest problem (assuming that you can stick to "someone else's rules" and get all the way through to your eventual goal without slipping, feeling bad and abandoning it) is that you are left high and dry at the end.

Well ... hm. The thing is you have to make the commitment to be healthy and eat right.

This is something that I post here a lot - I'm sure people get tired of hearing me say it. But it really is at the heart of my philosophy about healthy eating.

There are things that we all do in life that we don't necessarily want to do all the time or that we get tired of. I'm tired of getting up at 6:30 every morning to go to work. Trust me, I'd much rather sleep in and get up around 10 a.m. But "getting tired" of going to work and jsut not doing it any more isn't an option. Not if I want to pay my bills.

I get tired of doing laundry, but deciding to just not do it any more isn't an option. Not unless I want to wear dirty, smelly clothes to work.

I get tired of paying my bills. Trust me, I could find MUCH more fun and interesting stuff to do with my money. But I like having a roof over my head and electricity and running water.

For me working out and eating healthy is that same kind of thing. Sure I get tired of it. There are days that I dont' want to go to the gym. There are days that I get home and think "god, it would be so much easier ot just order pizza". There are days that it's all just too much. But I do it anyway. Just like I get up in the morning when the alarm goes off and I do my laundry (3 loads last night - ick) and I pay my bills each month.

I've decided that being healthy is as important to me as having a job, paying my bills, and living a reasonably clean life. So I am committed to it.

Only you can make that commitment. If you choose not to, then you have ot live with the consequences.

The thing is - if you cannot stick to a balanced diet - why would you be able to stick to menus which are generated by a computer?

Then are you going to keep on generating computer menus for ever - and will you stick to them for ever?

Frankly - speaking as someone who is over 2.5 years into their project (started Feb07 and in maintenance now) - I know which I would find harder to stick to year in year out.

As Kara says - you need to make a commitment to the whole business of controlling weight. Nothing will work otherwise.

I think that if you are sticking to a very rigid diet then anyone will get sick of it after a few weeks or months. The idea is to find a program that also allows the nicer things in life now and again.

Being on a diet is not just about losing weight short term, it is also about altering the way you eat, so that every now and again you can order a pizza or have that extra helping of apple pie and custard.

Just because you follow a healthy eating plan does not mean you have too forgo the pleasures in life. In fact you have to allow yourself something nice now and again other wise you will fail in your weight loss goals.