From your own experience what diet has worked 4 u?

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the reason i asked is...

A:in case someone else would like to know the options out there.
B:just to know if there's another diet that might be easier or just more interesting to try.

i generally cut calories (to apprx. 1200/day[give or take a few hundred]) and run at least one mile a day monday through friday then on the weekends i party as usual which includes a fare share of beer and the occasional doobie. that keeps me at about 185-190 and farely cut.(just so you know i'm 6'1")

your input would be greatly appreciated!

Weight Watchers

All those weight watchers and jenny craigs and stuff will definately help you loose weight BUT as soon as you get off of the plan, you gain it right back - ie the seesaw syndrome.

Well i kinda turned into a straight up fatty about a year ago. Where all I did was sit on my ass n down junk food, ended up gaining 20lbs. Well starting in July to now, I have taken off 30 lbs. My diet consists of three 500 calorie meals and two 300 calorie snacks. Thats about 2100 calories and I exercise frequently. I tend to focus on vegetables and fruits instead of breads and pastas when it comes to my carbs. I'm 6'1" and i weigh 188.

Not going to say your not doing the right thing croix but isn't 1200 a day basically starving yourself which would force your body to "eat" your muscle mass?

You have an extremely unhealthy diet. You don't get enough calories during the week and you get a whole bunch of calories from beer on the weekend. You need to eat more during the week since you're obviously starving yourself. Your metabolism must be awful by eating so little and you'll probably have greater problems keeping off weight when you get older (leading to increased risk of heart problems).

You should really try to eat more than that and balance your diet. Being cut isn't necessarily healthy. As a matter of fact, many of the celebrities who are cut are unhealthy since they don't get proper nutrition in their diets. The only healthy way to get cut is to do it with a diet that is healthy and gets all the nutrients it needs as well as enough calories for the body to keep an active metabolism - in other words it has to come mostly from exercise.

Weight Watchers works. It not like a diet really, you can eat whatever you want, you make your own meals. It's completely different than Jenny Craig.

If it's something that permanently changes your eating habits for the better, then it's a good thing.

well i counted these past few days that it's more on the average of 1500-2000 cal./a day, (depending what i eat for supper) so nix the 1200. but, just like most people i love my breads and pastas and i generally cook at home cos the media scares me away from fast food. and for breakfast and lunch i have a protien mix that i get at gnc the dr help me find. and yeah i take my share of vitimans i just didn't add that in my original post cos i figured most everyone takes, at least, a flintstone or something everyday. oh and sunday dinners are a big thing around here so i know with breakfast and dinner i have at least 2100 cals. friday and saturday me and the woman tend to go out and eat before we go out. so no tellin how many cals i get during the weekend i dont count... and i sure dont exercise. well sometimes me and the gf rollerblade around a local lake. it's about 9.75 miles. but i dont make it a habit to do that...

Using almost lethal amounts of crystal meth. LOL, j/k I need to gain weight.

There are a whole bunch of diets that work. You can lose the weight.. but the trouble is keeping it off.. what you need to do is make a lifestyle change! Change your eatting habits.. change the way you would regularily eat.. works for me!