Lighter Life Review

Joining Fee:

The Lighter Life diet is one of the most expensive diet plans on the market today. The Lighter Life plan costs around £66 per week, which pays for a weekly counseling session and all of your weekly food packs.

Features:

Diet features:
- This diet plan is one of the most extreme plans we have come across.
- Lighter Life is a very low-calorie diet combined with a counseling service.
- Users are not allowed to eat anything other than calorie-controlled food packs.
- Food packs are delivered to your home - choose from shakes, soups, mousses or snack bars, providing around 500 calories a day.
- The diet introduces a state of ketosis in the dieter, making the body burn fat.

Fitness features:
- Because the diet is based upon a strict calorie controlled diet, users should be careful when engaging in exercise. If you already exercise quite regularly, we recommend that you seek advice from a medical professional before combining your exercise routine with the WonderSlim diet. As such, no exercise and fitness guidance is offered on the Lighter Life program.

Expert Advice:
- Every user of the Lighter Life plan is paired up with a personal weight management counselor who guides you through the process.

Community Support:
- Weekly counseling meetings take place in your local area, supporting you as you follow the Lighter Life plan.
- The Lighter Life website also hosts weight loss forums and discussion boards where followers of the Lighter Life plan can discuss their experiences with each other.
- All users can consult their Weight Loss Counselor for guidance throughout their membership.

Help Files / Technical Support:
- A set of Frequently Asked Questions lets users (and prospective users) get any of their questions answered.
- Users can call for assistance using a dedicated user helpline.
- All users can consult their Weight Loss Counselor for guidance throughout their membership.

Extras:
- Lighter Life Magazine, distributed to all Lighter Life subscribers.
- Lighter Life Newsletter, delivered by email to each member.
- View Lighter Life success stories (and pictures), showing how other members have succeeded in their weight loss.

Editor's Verdict:

Lighter Life is one of the newer additions to the vast and growing dieting market. Lighter Life is a particularly extreme diet, based on a very low calorie diet (VCLD) delivered only through food packs that contain specifically determined nutritional content. The Lighter Life plan has attracted media attention in the UK recently after it was revealed that Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen (the wife of the famous interior designer and television presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen) had lost 5 stone in just 5 months following the Lighter Life diet. Whilst she denies being a spokeswoman for the Lighter Life diet, and suggests that while the diet had been successful, it was difficult and she often felt hungry, her success has prompted many more to take up the diet. Presently, more than 15,000 followers in the UK are on the Lighter Life diet, which was founded in 1996.

Lighter Life is far from an easy fix to weight loss. In order to be successful, dieters have to follow the diet plan strictly, eating only the food packs that are provided by Lighter Life. Dieters following the Lighter Life plan aren't however, able to eat a single thing outside of the food packs, even fruit and vegetables. The food packs are specially designed for Lighter Life, meeting all relevant government health guidelines, and come in a range of styles and flavors. Users can choose from vanilla, raspberry, chocolate or caramel shakes or mousses; mushroom, chicken, thai chili or vegetable soup; or nut crunch, fruit, lemon or toffee snack bars. Users eat three food packs per day, delivering the correct number of calories each day, until they reach their target weight. Users must consult their doctor before beginning the Lighter Life program. The plan is recommended only for those who have a BMI of more than 29 and more than 3 stone to lose, and users must maintain contact with their GP every four weeks to ensure they remain healthy and the very low calorie diet is not adversely affecting their health. Users are also encouraged to drink 4 liters of water per day, consumed sensibly over the day, to combat the negative effects of a low calorie diet.

One of the more unique elements of the Lighter Life diet plan is the way in which the plan couples the low calorie plan with group counseling at local weight loss meetings. Users are constantly guided by their weight loss management counselor to ensure they are in good health. Not only are users encouraged to attend weekly meetings to discuss their experiences of the Lighter Life diet, the program also involves psychological guidance in order to determine the particular causes of overeating in each case and address them so that weight loss from the program can be sustained after the end of the food pack stage of the diet. Finally, when users start eating regular food, their counselors ensure that they manage the transition in order to prevent rapid weight gain.

The Lighter Life program is one of the most expensive we have reviewed, at around £70 per week. While the Lighter Life program undoubtedly provides for rapid results, whereby dieters lose vast quantities of weight in a very short period, we're not sure how far the plan translates into sustainable, long-term weight loss. Rapid diets, such as Lighter Life, which are successful in the short term, may result in dieters rapidly gaining weight after the conclusion of the main part of the diet, even with the continuing support of employees of the program. Some medical practitioners have questioned the health value of such programs. Whilst weight loss counselors carefully manage the program, our advice would be to carefully consider all of the strengths and weaknesses of any very low calorie diet and be sure to consult a medical professional before embarking on anything.

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