Has anyone had success using the CSIRO diet?

[Ginger]

hello, i absolutely hate dieting. hate it. can't do it.
i'm someone who needs real food. i cannot do restrictive shake diets etc.
a friend of mine who is a nutritionalist has suggested i lossley try the CSIRO diet. she reckons it is one of the only commercial type diets that achieves long-term results and is manageable.
has anyone tried this diet and had success? any tips or suggestions for me?
TIA

[butterfly_warrior]

We did have success... We didn't stick with it, though and DH has put all of his weight back on, but it certainly did work, and it certainly did seem like you were eating real food - and it was yummy.

For me - I don't cope with the diets that are "eat this at this meal" for any length of time - so I actually did better on a plan where I was set free to eat what I wanted when I wanted and I just had to keep the amounts of carbs, fat and protein within certain levels (as well as over all kilojoules). It turned out to be very similar, but I enjoyed being a bit more free, if that makes any sense.

BW

[misty]

come along to weight watchers, we eat real food.

[Ginger]

i thought about going to weight watchers....
i would have to do it behind dh's back though as he thinks it's a waste of money to sit around talking about how fat you are
does it cost much to join?

[Winter]

yep, I had success with the CSIRO diet. I need to get back onto it actually. I didn't follow the diet to the letter ie the menu plans, I just used their check sheet of what you were allowed each day and ticked them off as I had them.

[Ginger]

that's exactly what i'm thinking of doing Winter.

[Pandora]

It's the diet my trainer recommends.
A guy I worked with lost >30kg on it.
The biggest drawback for me is the expense - some of the ingredients are very pricey if you had to buy most of it.

[mrswright]

Both DH and I have had success with CSIRO, losing about 1kg a week as long as we stuck with it. We haven't done it for a long time because we're vegetarian now (well I am, and I'm the cook, so that basically means DH is too!) and the recipes are so meat heavy it's easier for me to use WW meals if we want to lighten up. I'd recommend getting both cookbooks if you can, the recipes in the first one were quite expensive if you bought every single ingredient (as others have said) but they took that feedback on board and the second one has some cheaper meals and staples that weren't in the first (like pasta, which made me happy, life without pasta is hardly worth living in my books!) We didn't have a recipe we didn't like. Good luck!