Anyone tempted to want to go on diets? (ex. Special K, Nutrisystem, weight watchers, etc)

You see all the ads on TVs and magazines and it seems almost magical and wonderful all these diets sound. Plus easy to. Personally I'd love to just go on something liek Nutrisystem and lose weight like that. I've already tried the Speical K diet but i find myself hungry and its not really working. Im stuck at 120 lbs! but anyway does anyone else think this too?

I've been tempted to try the special K diet, but I researched it, and the whole key to it is portion control, and selling you their porducts. Just google a search for "does the special K diet work" and you can find all the nutritional secrets for it.

If I remember correctly the thing that works for the special K diet is that it keep you at about 1500 calories per day. Most people use more than that just sustaing life.

Good luck!

Honestly i've tried the special k diet before, and occasionaly have the special k cereals once in awhile still. For me personally, it worked only for a little bit at losing the weight. I lost about 5 pounds while on it. But afterwards i maintained my weight. But im not on the special k diet and im just on a healthy diet, eating alot of fruits and veggies and no red meat.

Something like the special k diet is designed for you to have a balanced portion control like klcqtee said. If you'd like to try something like the special k diet, you have to have a lot of self motivation to stick with it. And exercise too.

I did the special k diet for a couple months actually. Though it's more of a preparation for you to start a real diet. It teaches you portion control and how to stay within a certain calorie amount.

I lost 7 pounds on it I think. But I wasn't motivated to actually diet after that so it wasn't a big deal.

I've just recently started on the special k diet last week and already i find myself feeling less and less hungry throughout the day - until around 5 in the evening (after having 2 servings of special k cereal through the day) i don't feel hungry at all. after that to tide myself over till dinner i usually eat like a banana or other filling fruits and then i eat a medium-sized dinner with fruits/baby carrots after if I'm still hungry. along with exercise i think this is a good way for me to start off a healthy lifestyle. now if only i could get less tempted when i see junk food at parties!

I don't really consider Weight Watchers a diet...I'm on it now ^0^ I lost about 50 pounds a while ago doing it, but I quit because I thought of it as a diet, and went back to my regular eating habits when I got to 108 pounds. I've gotten back up to 115, so I've decided to go back to counting Points again, and then just keep doing it. I've entered in my foods on Calorie Count after counting them in Points all day, and Weight Watchers gets me right up there with the goal they give me, too. And 20 points is a lot easier to keep track of mentally all day than calories. I mustly just use calorie count as a way to keep track of the whole calories in versus calories out thing and make sure I'm creating a good deficit. Since my program is a few years old, I'm getting the new one from 2009 in a few days for my birthday (as long as I share it with my mom :P).

It works for me...but I hear a ton of people trashing Weight Watchers because it didn't work for them. (usually because they cheated on their diets :P). I actually heard my friend's mom tell me Weight Watchers was a horrible way to lose weight because it was basically starvation, since "if you eat two peices of cake, you can't have anything else for that day. Your points are gone unless you work out."

...since when have you been able to eat two peices of cake plus everything else you had that day and lose weight?

Sorry...I ramble 

I have been on weightwatchers... I would eat 20 points a day. I lost weight rapidly. I think I lost 7 pounds in one week. But I always felt so tired. So i decided to count the calories I would consume in a day... and some days it wasn't even 900 cals. So i got spooked and felt bad that I was practically starving myself.  So, then I did my own thing, where I mized weight watchers and calorie counting together.  The minimum calories in a day was 1200 and max. points was 25.  Within those guidliens I lost a lot! (and felt good) but then I started binging again... and the whole thing went south.

Wow, seriously o.O I've never had an energy problem, but then again, I tweaked things a little bit and cut out refined grains and most simple carbs, and, of course, quite a bit of processed food.

Isn't it crazy how you just can't push  yourself out of the habit of choosing high fiber foods because you're used to doing it anyways to push the Points values of things down? xD

hahah! i know

i have tried the special k thing for 2 months and it taste horrible and its soggy and its not that good, but yes i have been tempted to but i think its all a load of bull because they only way you can lose wait is cardio

carriewill--

i disagree. sure, cardio helps... but it is only a factor of weight loss.  everything plays into it.

I never lost anything on the Special K diet, but it's delicious and good for you, so I still eat it for breakfast.

My grandma went on Nutrisystem and lost like, 60 lbs. Insane. I've always wanted to do it but it's not cheap.

i have tried to use special k and it sucks and u dont lose weight and it does taste very nasty and it is soggy. i kind of agree with you.

do you know anything or know how to lose weight because i want to lose weight for high school.

do you know how to lose weight because i want to lose weight before i go back to school.

manage your calories. make sure you aren't overeating.

and put in an exercise program that involves cardio and weight lifting and you'll definitely lose weight and be healthier.

No money no buying those diets thats my problem.

The best thing, in my opinion - is not to "diet" per-say, but to "re-vamp your eating habbits" I say this for two reasons,

1: because when you real your goal weight and come off your diet, returning to your non-diet ways will result in weight gain, which means you go back to your diet and so forth = yo-yo dieting = bad for you.

and 2: a year or so ago my parents to me to both a dietician and a nutritionist. Now, one put me on a low GI diet and the other low fat... I don't know whether or not you know this, but just about the only thing these two disciplines agree on is - don't eat hot chips or white bread!!! And this was not helpful, so in retalliation I stopped eating altogether, which developed into annorexia, which is not positive either.

Weight Watchers and Calorie Counting both sound good, because they both opperate on an "only put in what you put out" theory, which makes sense to me! (I say sound good 'cause I'm new to this)

Now, what I *think* my original point was: that you don't need to diet, you just need to make good choices, and only put into your body what you will exercise off within your day... Be sensible, and goodness will it take will power! (which I seriously lack... hence counting calories!)

Good luck! xx

Special K and Slim Fast products are nothing but sugary diet foods; read the lables, they hide sugar in them by "sugar stacking". Anything that ends in -ose is sugar.

Nutrisystem is high in sodium, and very very low in calores; about 850 a day, that is not enough for good nutriton, and it doesn't supply enough vitamins and minerals.