I have been on loads of diets but the sad fact remains that whatever diet you are on you need to consume 3500 calories LESS than your body requires to lose 1lb of fat!!!!
For example - if you are doing CD and taking 3 packs plus 1 bar per day (like me

) that is 586 calories. The average woman is supposed to need 2000 calories per day to maintain her weight (more if you are very active less if you are hardly active at all (like me

))
I reckon my body needs 1900 per day to maintain my weight so if I am taking in 586 per day then that is a deficit of 1314 per day.
7 days in a week 7 x 1314 = 9198 divided by 3500 = 2.6 lbs per week.
That would be an average - some weeks more some weeks less. They reckon that you should lose 3 lbs per week average on CD and if you look at Flopsters figures she has lost 48 lbs over 16 weeks which is exactly 3 lbs per week!!!
Phew!!!!!
Hope this helps - if you havent died from boredom!!
Tasha
