I went on this diet just before i fell pregnant with my first baby and lost 10kg in just over 8 weeks. Fantastic. Coupled with exercise i found this the most effective way to loose weight. The shakes are a bit hit and miss with the flavours, so i'd suggest sticking to the flavours that are usually coupled with milk normally, like chocolate, espresso, etc. The other's are too sweet for me. I'm back on the diet now after finishing breast feeding (it's not suitbale whilst doing so) and have lost over 5kg in the first 4 weeks. This time around i have found it a bit more difficult not to "cheat" as i had a good old time over christmas and during my pregnancy. I have found that my body works better without loads of bread, rice pasta and potatoes. It is a little difficult in the first weeks, but so long as you keep up a good amount of exercise, the weight just drops off. Again i say the key is to keep exercising. I dont miss the cakes too much, but risotto i miss so after the first 10 weeks i'll go on to the maintenance prgram and indulge every now and then, whilst still exercsing. Great for the motivation when you see the kg dropping off!!! SHops here i come! :)

I tried TF in a desperate bid to lose weight.



Unfortunately, the diet is not only very difficult to follow, but quite unhealthy.



The way it works, is to trick your body into believing it's starving - thus "eating" the fat your body already has. To do this, you have to live on practically no carbs, and VERY low calories... how can that be healthy?



You have to avoid breads, potato, corn, pasta, biscuits, cakes, chocolate (most things with sugar or wheat pretty much), then you also have to avoid cheese, milk yoghurt, etc etc.



So what DO you eat? Pretty much nothing.



Either artificially sweetened low-carb products (which, if you eat more than a tiny amount, give you extremely bad wind pain), 2 pieces of "allowed" fruit (some fruits are out), 2.5 cups of "allowed" veges, and a palm-sized piece of lean meat.



Oh - and the disgusting shakes. They say to water them down by 200mL - but gross. I made it 300mL to make it bearable... but even then it wasn't exactly appetising.



The fact that you can hardly eat anything, coupled with the fact that the weight will come back on if you don't stick to their "maintenance" diet after you've lost your desired about of weight... well, it's really just an unhealthy waste of time and money.



Oh - and if you screw up and eat a piece of chocolate or something? Well - you're stuffed for about 2-3 days before your body starts to believe it's starving again... and if your body believes it's starving (which, with this diet, it is, mildly) but then recieves the tiniest amount of food, it will take AS MUCH FAT from that food as it can, because it's not sure how long it will be before it gets some food again.



Don't bother with this one.

I Went on this after the birth of my first child, i lost 25 kgs on this diet in just under 12 weeks, The first few days are hell because u body is so used to having carbs so it craves them but after the first few days it eases up, Its a good diet if u want a quick weight loss i lost 7kgs the first week, u always lose lots in the first couple of weeks then i found it slowed down to 2-3kgs a week after for me. would not recomend it for long term though