Cambridge Programmes and Products

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Using the Diet

The Cambridge Diet is a flexible product that can be used as the Sole Source of nutrition for fast, predictable weight loss with nutritional assurance; with conventional food for more gradual weight loss; or with food for weight maintenance or nutritional supplementation

Sole Source of Nutrition

If you decide to use the Cambridge Diet as the sole source of nutrition, it is essential to take no fewer than three full portions [Note 1, Note 2], and to drink at least 2.3 litres (4 pints) of calorie-free liquid each day [Note 3] in addition to the water used to mix your Cambridge meals.

You are allowed to follow the Sole Source programme for a maximum of four weeks at a time [Note 4]

Notes

1. To be sure of obtaining your complete nutritional requirements, you should take four portions if you are a woman over 173cm (5ft 8in) tall or a man.
2. A portion can be a drink or soup sachet, a ready-to-drink tetra brik, or a Cambridge bar. No more than one meal per day should be a bar.
3. Water, black coffee or tea; add a further 200ml (qtr pint) for each tetra brik or meal bar you use instead of a sachet
4. Your Counsellor will advise you how to proceed if you have further weight to lose or if you are ready to maintain your new target weight

With Conventional Food

Part of the attraction of The Cambridge Diet is that it is part of a flexible range of programmes which allows it to be used with conventional food in a series of Steps (790 kcal, 1000 kcal, 1200 kcal or 1500 kcal). These help the user to stabilise after weight loss and to gradually increase the intake of conventional food and move back to a normal eating pattern. These steps are also important if you begin with the Sole Source programme: once you have reached BMI 25, you move up to Step 1 - 790 Calories.
You may also use The Cambridge Diet together with conventional food to lose weight more gradually,
In any of these cases, you should follow the eating advice which your Counsellor will give you.