Casting my eyes over the BBC’s web site this morning I was struck by one of the item’s entitled “All diets ‘have similar results'”.

Which as you can imagine rather surprised me. But James Gallagher argues “The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analysed data from 48 separate trials.

The Canadian team concluded that sticking to a diet was more important than the diet itself.

Obesity experts said all diets cut calories to a similar level, which may explain the results.

Diets go in and out of fashion on a regular basis, with a current debate around the relative benefits of low carb and low fat diets.”

Now my question to my readers is which diets have you used and how successful were they?

Firstly it would be great if you could take part in the poll below.

Secondly it would be great if you could use the comments box to share you story of the success (or otherwise) of the diet.

Thanks very much in advance!