Andy Leeks did 10 diets in 50 days and found one that really worked

The final straw for me was when people at work started calling me 'Big Man' - I had to do something about my weight. Andy wondered if it be possible to lose weight by changing diet regularly - without losing interest I picked diets I hadn't previously tried. The ten diets in order were: the 5:2 diet; the Special K diet, where two out of three meals are replaced by Special K cereal or snack bars; following NHS guidance for a healthy diet; a juice fast; the high-fat, low-carb Atkins diet; a raw food diet; the baby food diet ; calorie counting using a mobile phone app; the grapefruit diet, which involves having either grapefruit or grapefruit juice before or after each meal, supposedly to boost fat-burning; and the cabbage soup diet. By day three of the raw food plan, my throat was worse and I couldn't taste anything I was worried I'd overdo it on the non-fasting days, as you can eat whatever you like. I spent the next two days in bed eating almost nothing - I lost 3 lb, although how much of this was down to illness rather than the diet is hard to say.