Alright, I know a lot of you do different things with your diet, like the Swank diet.

What would any of you recommend for a diet. I need to lose weight and figure that while I'm at it I should also work on cutting out things that could be making me feel poor.

I would love all the input I could get on this. No, I don't expect this to cure my MS (or anything else I have for that matter) I just want to see if it can help me feel a little better.

Weight Watchers has a great plan, and if you dont/cant leave home, you can do it online. its simple, it makes sense, its easy to follow, and it has reasonable expectations from you.

Lets say all food has a point value Fruit is zero, most veggies are zero, and lets say a steak 2oz is 4 points. Milk (skim) 8oz is 2 a mixed vege dish is zero, and that bread roll is costing 2 points. you just used 8 points for one meal. Most of us have about 26 to 30 points per day. now if you want to add more points, you can exercise and add or you can take away from the weekly pile. You get extra points each week so you never ever feel deprived or cornered by the diet.

Weightwatchers.com will have all the info. My niece just started it and is thrilled. I am a long time planner, and love it. It doesnt matter if I eat at McDonalds or cook everything from scratch. As long as I have the points to afford the food, I can have it. I always save points twice a week for an ice cream treat. Since I make most of my meals from scratch I have to look up alot of ingredients, but once I write them down, I dont have to look it up again.

What is good is that it got me to think before I grabbed a cookie, or cracker for a snack. I will grab an orange or banana now as they are free from points.

HUGE support for this system and its very highly rated around the USA with good success rates, and message boards for every type of desire. Even 2 MS and losing weight boards.

Let us know. ((hugs))

by the way for every 5% of the weight you take off, your joints will thank you. your energy should pick up, and you will feel better about things.

I did weight watchers before, with great success lost 30 lbs in six months.

I just can't afford to do it unfortunately.

I did the Swank diet for a while but my craving for red meat got the best of me. I did feel better on it. If you decide to do the Swank diet, I could see how you could lose weight with it too.

I have heard great things about WW. I know several people who have done well on it and have been able to keep the weight off. It does seem to be nutritionally sound, which is a huge plus.

Good luck! I hope you find a diet that is right for you.

Good luck NM... I always had luck with the very very low fat diet and eating less.

I'd like to lose a little weight. I'm now pleasingly plump (yeah right). But eating is one of the few pleasures in life for me, so as long as the Doc tells me I'm healthy and not suffering side effects, I'm not worried.

Being my age amd having MS is enough suffering....I'm not going to starve too.

I'm not on any certain diet. I just try to watch my sugar intake and I don't eat anything with high fructose corn syrup in it. I tried eating all organic but that quickly became too expensive. Now, I just try and eat lots of fruit and veggies and drink lots of water.

I have lost the weight I needed to loose. I had to, because my ankles couldn't support me at 192 on a 5' 1" frame. I had lived my life heavy. I now am at 132.
I started little changes, NO soda, not the diet kind either, gave up oils and fats in cooking. No fast food. I went from there. Small changes in daily habits helps alot. I eat oatmeal, steel cut variety as much as I can. I eat alot of fruit and apples every day if I can. I also love dried mango by sunsweet. It takes the edge off of wanting to snak. No chips, or fried and that kind of stuff. My weight did come down over the course of one year.
Personally I think it is in your desire to loose. I had pain as a motivating factor, which really does work. I couldn't afford weight watchers, and all those programs, so I decided to do it on my own. I had tried all my life and failed time and time again. This time, I won't gain it back. Have been stable now four years. My fear of not walking well, BP, and general health were bad, and that motivated me. If you need any receipe ideas I have them. I eat mexican and fresh foods as much as possible. Little fat, chicken and fish. You can do this if I can. I am 60 years old, it is better late then never. I wish you all the best. ginnie