Hi Snapples,
I've been on DC for around 3 weeks and I've lost half a stone (7lbs). I was stuck for the last 6 months so that's great - plus I've only got about another 2 stone to lose so I wouldn't expect to lose it very quickly now.
The food on DC is great, although you are topping up about 400-600 calories yourself so it's not quite the 'complete meal deal' they advertise.
I've done VLCs before but as you probably know going below 1200 calories means you're more likely to burn muscle than fat, which just leads to putting it back on as soon as you finish the diet. With DC I'm a little hungry in the afternoon but it's nowhere near as bad as with VLCs. And I use my calorie top up to add bread with the soup at lunch which helps.
The DC food is lovely. Pasta, cookies and popcorn and they call it a diet! I was a bit nervous at first because it's all packaged and lasts for months so I tried a weekly delivery fresh diet instead. The food was terrible, it cost 3x as much and I didn't lose any more weight - and put it straight back as I'd missed all the foods I like. Also I was having to cook everything myself. With DC the food doesn't have a lot of additives, just salt, it's just sealed right I guess. Actually it has none of the E numbers and chemicals found in the things I would have eaten before so I wish I'd not worried so much and had just given it a go.
I was also a bit nervous about buying a month's worth in case it was awful, but they now do a trial week so you can see how you get on with the food before you commit too much cash.
Fingers crossed I keep on losing - hopefully I will keep to it and be in the healthy weight range in 6 weeks.
