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Can you be more specific? What about carbs, sugars & alcohol?

Yes, but take it with the disclaimer that this diet might be unsafe for some people. I was 30 and about 100 pounds overweight when I started my first diet, and I was down to about 60 pounds overweight when I started the drastic one.

I decided to keep calories between 800-900 per day. I started with a two day fast. I drank some water and diet soda those two days. On the third day, I probably had around 600 calories. I didn't care much where the calories came from, since that was the only thing I was eating that day. I think I had a fish sandwich and some fries.

After that, I kept it pegged between 800-900 calories for months. On a typical day, I had nothing for breakfast, a ham sandwich (low calorie bread, one slice of ham, and nonfat cheese) for lunch, and a lean cuisine for dinner with possibly a few slices of bread. I only avoided high fat stuff because it was high calorie. Ever week or two, I would have McDonalds or fast food or something. Usually on those days I would still keep it below 1,000 calories, and I still lost weight. Alcohol : I stuck to vodka. 50 calories per ounce. Yes, I did a bit of drinking.

Excercise? I sing in a band that is fairly high energy about once a week. That was about all of the excercise I got, but it was pretty intense. After I dropped the weight, I started doing a lot of situps to try and tone my shrunken stomach. I do 400 a day several times a week now.

So I started at 267, lost 40 over the course of about 7 or 8 months on a normal diet, and then I started the drastic diet and lost 60 in about 5 months. I'm around 167 now (about 5'11 or 6'0").

The negative aspect is that my metabolism is still kind of screwed up. If I top 1,500 or so calories in a day, I start to gain, so I am still eating really light. I weigh myself every day. I probably don't get enough to eat by anyone's standards right now, but I will never let myself get overweight again.

The diet was a little extreme, I admit. But I tried everything else, and I couldn't stick to it because my body would just adjust and I would stop losing weight. Please don't start a really intense low calorie diet if you think you might experience health problems. I wouldn't want my experience to cause a negative consequence for anyone else.