cornwall - 12:33 pm on Jan 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

by cutting my calorie intake down to around 1000 - 1200 a day.

Realistically you will never succeed in doing that for a year.

If I were you I would try more for 1500 to 1700 a day, and changing your diet to a "long term" healthy option.

Forget the fancy diets (grapefruit or protein only or...) and get onto a healthy choice of foods for the long term.

Yes, if you want curries make your own curries from raw original materials - you know what has gone into them that way.

The secret is as much in keeping quality up, as keeping quantity down. And like it or not, you need to change your diet to something that is not just for 2009, but for the next "n" years!