Diet Testimonials

Thanks to everyone that has sent me their messages! 

The Lunch Box Diet has shaped the lives of many people lots have shared their comments by emailing us. If you'd like to be seen on this page and you've got a story that you think would help other dieters please email us at support@thelunchboxdiet.com.

Asian Lunch Box Diet Delight

I must say that everything in my lunch box is always fresh & home made because the items in it are exactly the same as the ones I prepare for my sons to take to school. I'm very fussy about what goes into my kids' bodies & because i started them young, my boys are used to having steamed veges & at least 2 types of fruit in their lunch box & therefore it's a breeze for them to reach the '5 a day fruit & veg' suggested by experts. Believe it or not, my eldest (who's 5) came home with a painting entitled 'My favourite foods' & he had drawn carrots, broccoli & spinach!!! Yay! Looks like I'm doing something right, eh?

ann soraya shahrin, asia
 

Gemma Produces Healthy Baby

Hi Simon

I was using the lunchbox diet for about a fortnight before finding out that I was pregnant, but in that time I'd already lost 5lbs.

Since being pregnant I have stuck with the basic principles of the diet apart from to use a slightly larger box and to add more starchy carbs into the lunchbox to keep my energy levels up. My consultant said that the principles of the diet were healthy and therefore ok to stick with for the time being as long as I didn't actively try to lose weight.

As a result, at six months pregnant I've only put on the 5lbs that I lost originally, which I am really pleased about. I'm hoping that once the baby arrives and everything is settled I'll be able to go back onto the lunchbox diet properly and lose a lot more weight (I needed to lose about 5 stone when I started).

I've also thoroughly enjoyed trying tons of new vegetables that I would never have considered in the past - so thanks for that as well. I'm still going to the gym regularly and feel as though I have tons of energy, and have honestly never felt better. A far cry from my first pregnancy with 3 stone weight gain and hardly being bothered to move at all.

Thanks

Gemma

Lunch Box Diet satisfies sheffield family!

Dear lunch box team
 

Just to let you know about my initial resuts on the lunch box diet after only 5 days.  I have lost 3lbs, my skin is improved, my eyes are clear and bright and I have bags more energy.
 
I have found the diet extremely easy to follow even though I have a really complicated lifestyle.   I live in Sheffield and work in Liverpool so travel a great deal.  I live with my husband in Sheffield who does 90% of the cooking at the week-ends and during the week with a friend who does 100% of the cooking so it is difficult for me to be in total control of what I eat.  They are both wonderful cooks but not necessarily aware of the nutritional content and value of food so will add cream, cook with sauces from jars (sugar and salt heavy) and pile up a huge plate as though they are feeding a marching army not just one little woman.
 
Anyway the introduction of the lunch box diet is beginning to satisfy all 3 of us.  My husband who judges the size of portions in relation to weight loss is coming to terms with it.  He tends to think that a huge plate of salad greens is equal in weight loss dietry value to the same sized plate of say a pasta dish, potatoes and meat or rice and curry etc.  Alan on the other hand is a meat and 2 veg man and will pile up the plate with a mountain of mashed potatoes, meat and carrots in order to make certain that I am not underfed. 
 
Alan has been getting a kick out of preparing the lunch box, cutting up all kinds of crazy vegetables and making a really colourful box for me to take to work pluss he can pack as much as he likes into the box to satisfy his need to feed me.  My husband can watch me eat the same sized portions in his eyes that are actually much smaller to me because I am filling the plate with salad not high carb stuff.

Hazel Howden-Leach, Sheffield, UK

 

My confidence is up again in years thanks to the lunch box diet!

"I started on the lunchbox diet about 3 months ago. It was very easy to implement and I started to notice changes straight away. I have had no problems fitting the changes to my diet into my work and home life. Since changing the way that I eat during the day I have much more energy and am no longer tired in the afternoon. In the time that I have been on the diet I have dropped a dress size and am well on the way to going down another size. My self confidence is higher than it has been for years as I feel so much better about the way I look and it is good when friends and colleagues comment on the difference they see in me"

Wendy Smith , Exeter, UK (See Wendy on the BBC TV News talking about the diet here)

"A rather revolutionary way to eat" 

Hi Simon I just wanted to let you know that I've done a week on the diet now and can hardly believe the progress i have made! Not only am i NEVER hungry anymore but my jeans fit me again! I haven't worn them since I put on a stone after my honeymoon at the end of last year and then what with Christmas too I still had the weight to shift. I am amazed that in only a week my jeans fit me again, I have clearly lost a few pounds (not sure how many, I am due to check tomorrow). Admittedly I have been to the gym 5 days out of 7 this week (I normally go just 3 times a week) but since i started on the diet and stopped drinking alcholo I feel so much more energetic. 

I have also stopped drinking tea and coffee and now instead drink green tea and lots more water. I think this lunchbox idea is a rather revolutionary way to eat, especially with me an office worker and always having the conundrum of what to eat during the day, usually opting for a subway sandwaich or a jacket potato. Doing it this way is totally sustainable - I can see me taking this up as a long-term, lifestyle way of eating during the day as opposed to having 3 meals during the day with huge blood-sguar level lows and highs from the pasta and carbs I used to eat.

Now I hardly need ANY carbs! If I do I have a small amount of brown pasta with my evening meal or instead I eat sweet potato). (I have totally given up bread by the way). I am never full as you explained, but always satisfied :-) So just wanted to thank you for your wonderful ideas and inspiration, I am over the moon with my progress to date :-) So thank you again,

All the best, Tamsin  

Feeling great after 7days

Hi Simon,

I just wanted to let you know that I've done a week on the diet now and can hardly believe the progress i have made! Not only am i NEVER hungry anymore but my jeans fit me again! I haven't worn them since I put on a stone after my honeymoon at the end of last year and then what with Christmas too I still had the weight to shift. I am amazed that in only a week my jeans fit me again, I have clearly lost a few pounds (not sure how many, I am due to check tomorrow). Admittedly I have been to the gym 5 days out of 7 this week (I normally go just 3 times a week) but since i started on the diet and stopped drinking alcholo I feel so much more energetic. I have also stopped drinking tea and coffee and now instead drink green tea and lots more water.

I think this lunchbox idea is a rather revolutionary way to eat, especially with me an office worker and always having the conundrum of what to eat during the day, usually opting for a subway sandwaich or a jacket potato.
Doing it this way is totally sustainable - I can see me taking this up as a long-term, lifestyle way of eating during the day as opposed to having 3 meals during the day with huge blood-sguar level lows and highs from the pasta and carbs I used to eat. Now I hardly need ANY carbs! If I do I have a small amount of brown pasta with my evening meal or instead I eat sweet potato). (I have totally given up bread by the way).
I am never full as you explained, but always satisfied :-) So just wanted to thank you for your wonderful ideas and inspiration, I am over the moon with my progress to date :-) So thank you again.

All the best, Tamsin

Avoiding the mental stress of other diet plans

Simon Lovell has done it - devised a simple, concise, easy-to-follow eating plan, which takes the stress out of weight loss, banishes conventional dieting, controls blood sugar levels, gives you more energy, is complimentary to varying exercise levels, fits in with lifestyle and most importantly The Lunch Box Diet is maintainable for ever.

I suffered with weight increase over the last couple of years.  Despite regularly exercising, I struggled to control the increase and was in a cycle of being on and off a diet.  The diet caused weight loss, but it was not maintainable and more weight went back on.  It seemed so personally destructive and mentally exhausting.  I continued to exercise and kept fairly fit, but did not lose weight in the long-term.  I was also suffering with blood sugar swings, often leaving me feeling very low and unable to concentrate by 10am, even after a substantial low GI breakfast.  I also suffered with lack of energy, making exercise particularly hard and not at all rewarding. 

Simon introduced me to The Lunch Box Diet and I was not convinced that it would be applicable or helpful for me, but I was wrong and have seen numerous changes. 

Very quickly I found that my blood sugar levels were no longer a daily problem - my GP had been unable to help me with this and I had also been extremely dedicated and careful about eating low GI foods and eating regularly too, with no subsequent benefit.  I had got to the stage where I was unable to go for a run without taking a sports glucose drink with me.  However the regime of The Lunch Box diet has completely eradicated this problem and I now never give the possibility of losing energy and focus a second thought.  I am able to exercise hard without feeling that I may suddenly reach a point where I can't go on.  Keeping a steady blood sugar has the benefit too of reducing cravings and of not feeling the urge to reach for a biscuit to pick you up. 

Another significant benefit for me of being on The Lunchbox Diet, is not continually fighting hunger, as most diets require one to do.  That induces a constant mental stress of trying to avoid food, deprivation waiting until the next meal.  I have found that this diet makes me more balanced around food, it eases the pressure.  It is just simple, fill your box with the specified foods (making it ones which you appeal to you), then just pick away from it whenever you want.  Nibble when you are hungy, no need to fight the hunger and get into a mind-set of self control being the only option.  No denying yourself food until the specified time on the clock, just nibble away and keep on an even keel.  By the time you get to your evening meal you won't be starving and inclined to over-eat, you will feel balanced and able to eat sensibly and naturally. The Lunch-box Diet has psychologically evened me out around food.  Diets screw up your metabolism and all your natural mechanisms and thought-processes around food choices, it becomes a mind-field to know what or what not to eat, a constant battle of deprivation.  Simon's diet will balance all that out again and get you back on track to sensible, straight-forward eating.  You won't need to stress about it anymore, just prepare your lunchbox and take it from there and see what happens.

Every day we have different energy requirements and feel hungy at different times of the day.  This diet is adaptable to your energy demands and to the amount of exercise you undertake each day, just vary the amount of carbohydrate in your lunchbox accordingly.  In the past I have found it very difficult to juggle my diet with my running schedule, however you with this diet you learn to adjust your carbohydrate intake.  Once you have made up your box, the food is there ready and waiting, if you are hungry by 10am take a nibble, if you are not, then wait until you are.  It is so simple, no laborious daily meal plans, no tedious and destructive calorie counting, just make up your box according to your individual tastes and it fits in with your life easily.  Your 'diet' is so easily transportable too.  A box of food and a fork is all you need to take with you when you are away from home.  Once you have made up your box first thing in the morning, that is it, your food is sorted until your evening meal.

Over time I have seen gradual, but consistent weight loss, without really feeling that I am on a diet or trying too hard.  It feels safe to have lost the weight, without feeling that it will easily be put back on.  It feels a very natural and easy way of eating, with the benefit of weight loss too.  I also feel more energised, healthy and able to exercise hard again.  Not many diets make you feel like that, however the Lunchbox Diet really has changed things for me.   

Helen Simmonds, England

Great results in 4 weeks!

"Hi Si

Just to say I will have been on your diet for 4 weeks next Monday and I think it's great!!

Managed to get down from 8 stone 9.6 lbs to 8 stone 2.4lbs and 2" off my waist (32" to 30") in that time, so I'm really pleased. Thanks. That weight has really been sticking since I retired last year.

Determined to keep it off and I've found diet really easy to stick to, as the lunchbox is always there and you don't have to think once it's sorted out in the morning. Think only let down is the dreaded alcohol - interesting - 2 cans of Magners cider puts on 1 lb!!! Should I switch to West Country English instead of the Irish - don't suppose you can guarantee it won't have the same result!!!!!!!!

Thanks again Simon - intending keeping on it as I really do think it does you good."

Gaye Hill - Buckinghamshire, UK

More mind power for students

"I think the lunch box diet is great for people on the go who want to eat healthy food but don't have time to cook. I find the diet keeps my energy levels steady and I never get tired after eating. I like the way you only have to prepare food once a day as it saves me a lot of time. As a student it helps with my concentration and as long as I have the box next to me I can study for long periods. "

Rupert Rutland, Exeter, UK