Thread: Do you think the diet killed her ?

Bride-to-be crash diet death - eating just 530 calories a day for 11 weeks | Mail Online


Bride-to-be died after losing 3st in 11 weeks on crash diet... eating just 530 calories a day

Im hoping NOT!
Just started LT again and im quite worried.

They can't say if it was down to the diet LL .
They can't prove that .
but you have to say how many people who have done LL, which is alot and nothing wrong .
this one I guess is up to us what we feel and think about VLCD

If you do the diet as instructed it is safe. If you think you'll lose more by having less or not drinking the water as directed you could make yourself ill or even worse. If you have an undiagnosed health condition anything could happen as it could in other situations.
That's why LL make you get signed info from your GP at regular intervals.
It has saved my life.

Most diets have scare stories attached to them, I know, I did Atkins.

I suspect this poor woman either wasn't following instructions or she had an undiagnosed heart problem

She had heart arrythmia. She could have died going to the gym.

perhaps she did what that other lady did. Drink too much too quickley, and overloaded her system.
What ever the reason my thoughts are with her freinds and family.

poor lady =(
But i hate how newspapers always try to pass blame on something or someone. No one seems to think of what would have happened if she kept gaining weight instead of loosing it.

I would die going to the gym! heart problem or no !!!!

5iuoiuiou

Urgh this is really grim. I know how she felt I hate being a big bird!

However 530 calories a day is insane! I love my food and I could never do a diet like that, I would go nuts! hehe. The problem with these very low calorie types of diet is they can cause your body to eat away at muscle so this diet could have been affecting her heart. I tried to do a 1200 calorie diet at 18 stone ish and I got told off by my Doctor who said it was way too drastic seeing as my body was used to 2300+ calories a day. She sent me to a nutritionist who would reduce my calorie intake a little a month so I could adjust and my body would be ok. I lost 3 stone this way! But then I fell in love and ate takeaway and watched films, damnit! ha.


I know a lot of people, especially the media, love saying how bad certain diets are. So I don't really think people should blame the diet seeing as it works for thousands of people. For example I am on an Atkins type diet and people always say 'how can eating fat make you lose weight and be healthy'. It gets really annoying after a while!

Originally Posted by LynseyLou

5iuoiuiou

OMG! That's exactly what I was thinking! Wonder what the science is behind it though

Originally Posted by Chillimango

. The problem with these very low calorie types of diet is they can cause your body to eat away at muscle

Not all of them, but this lady appeared to have underlying problems that may or may not have been sparked off by the diet, or might have happened for other reasons. The coroner didn't blame the diet

Originally Posted by LynseyLou
5iuoiuiou

Erm... lost in translation for me I'm afraid.

Its such a short time frame to loose such a lot of weight, you would have thought it would have had positive effects on the body, not this drastic kind.

It does make you think twice - I certainly am now with the predicament I am in.

I think that the Daily Mail is a horrible rag (not a newspaper) that tries to scare everybody about everything. It's really sad that this women died, but I honestly think they are trying to make everybody think it was the diet when the liklihood is she had an undiagnosed heart condition.

Also, as the others have said, the risk of being obese and continuing to gain weight is higher than the risk of doing a VLCD.

It's so sad that she died, but I don't think the diet was to blame.