I'm another person who does a variety of things. In the last few months I've tried
- Zero Carbing - which wasn't for me (missed the veg),
- the Newcastle Diet for 10 weeks (lost 21 lbs and can tolerate more carbs than I used to - will re-visit this)
- intermittant fasting - okay but my body got used to it
- one meal a day - okay but my body got used to it
- low carb - which is my go-to way of eating - I follow a low carb way of eating while doing everything else.
If you want to lose weight then definitely do some research on the Newcastle Diet.
My next experiment will be with a two week on / two week off approach (as recommended recently in a blog entry by Jason Fung). The two weeks off will be just low carb but the two weeks on will be low carb plus calorie restriction. Apparently it stops your body adjusting to whatever diet you are using at the time.
We'll see!