Hi everyone, this is my first time on the forum, great to see so many people doing well on LT, normally all I hear is people slating it. Well I started it last August and have lost 7 and a half stone at this stage, still have 1 and half stone to go. Unlike most people on here (from the posts that I've read at any rate) I only do TFR for two weeks at a time. Every time I've done it for two weeks I've lost a stone. I then do the re-feed and then maintenance for a few weeks and then back to the TFR. I find that for me, this has been the best approach. It's meant that I've been able to keep the weight off after going back eating but obviously I've completely changed my eating habits. As for side effects, thankfully I've been ok. The first time I did the TFR I got pretty bad mouth ulcers after a week and had to get antibiotics but the doctor said it was just that the TFR was such a shock to my system. Makes sense, considering I went from a few thousand calories a day to a few hundred! Have had no further problems since then. I'd recommend it to anyone who has a serious amount of weight to lose, in fact a few of my friends have also gone on it after they saw the results I got and are doing great on it as well.