09/08/2009 06:23
Day 22
hello everyone - i hope you re ll well.
Its been extreemlybusy this week, now i m back at work full time. Yesterday for
Up at 6am, exercise with Davina DVD, shower, girls up, pack up for girls, coffee for me, breakfast shake.
8am - take girls to school - computer club -then on to work. 3 seperate meetings back to back, then interviewing for a deputy centre manager. No time for lunch.
6.15 leave work, 6.50 arrive home. Check emails.
Teatime shake - then help my daughter with a speech she needs to do for school.
Girls showered - then cuddles before they go to bed.
Tidy round - fll into bed bout 10.15pm
Oh this cosmopolitan life - just chaos really.
Woke up at 4am thinking bout what i have to do for work tody - how sad!!
anyway the diet - last week was hard. The shakes re getting very monotonous - and my legs have ballooned up with being back at work. also think i am due on - so i feel very bloated - which probably explains the small weight loss this week.
ONLY 3 LBS......
I havent cheated at all. Last Saturday was tough - it was my graduation day. Its taken me 40 years to get this - n i couldn't even celebrate with meal and a drink - which felt bloody unfair. and now only 5lbs off......
I will see what kind of loss i get this week - and may have to change my diet.....
08/31/2009 12:24
Day 14 - Bank Holiday Monday
Hiya - Ive had a lovely weekend. Its been great having Brooke, my grandaughter - but pretty exhausting. Ive been getting things ready for my daughters going back to school on Wednesday.
AAAh work tommorow. i have to prepare a presentation on emotional intelligence. I'd better get me books out!
No one has really noticed my weight loss yet - except my husband. Last night we were having a cuddle and he said i seemed curvier, smaller somehow. I do love him - he's never ever complained about my weight and has always said he loves me for who i am am - not what i was, or who i could be. I was a LOT smaller when we got together.
08/29/2009 12:57
Day 12
Day 12- official weigh in - 2 days early because of Bank holiday - i decided to go early rather than late.
Anyway - another 7lb loss - fantastic - thats 1 stone 9lbs in total.
I have really struggled at times this week. Usually my husband cooks through the week because i dont get in from work till 6.30pm. Then i cook Fri, Sat and Sun. ( I know - hes an absoloute star isnt he.) But this week because ive been off - ive cooked all week - which has really been a test. I dont know how long i will be able to keep up this liquid diet!
Yesterday we went to the cinema - and because i ahve always asociated sweets and a meal either before or after that left me feeling like there was something missing. I suppose this is symptomatic of my love affair with food being forced to end suddenly. I felt terribly angy and irritable - and very empty!
Today is another day though - and hubby cooking tonight, thank goodness - so i will shut myself away in aother room while they have their meal.
My grandaugher - Brooke is coming over to sleep tonight - so i will probably be too busy to think too much about food. I tell you what i do fancy and am missing - a large glass of wine!!!!
08/27/2009 13:52
Day 10
Another day done and dusted!
The scales show another loss the morning - but im going to try really hard to stop looking every day - so no more updates till my official weigh in. Unfortunately thats Monday - which is a Bank Holiday - so i will have to change the day - to Tuesday.
Did some of Davina's DVD yesterday - crikey its tough. I enjoy the arms section - but had to use tins of tomatoes instead of weights! I WILL continue and do it every other day though.
The rest of the day was rather boring really - housework and getting school uniform ready - i did do my measurements, which shows an incredible 6.5inch loss off my calfs in one week. That accounts for the big loss i suppose.
08/25/2009 10:36
Day 8
Unofficially the scales show another 2lb loss - fabulous. I somehow feel lighter, squashier, if that makes sense!
I've been advised against strenuous exercise - because of doing a VLCD - but will now start doing a DVD every other day so that i dont lose muscle instead of fat.
I've decided on a short term goal - i want to lose another 2 stone by my niece's christening on the 28th September. Aim high - eeh!
Can i just say i have already heard a hundred times that VLCD's are great to lose weight fast - but that you put all the weight back on as soon as you start eating normally. Well i have had weight issues all my life and i feel ALL diets are the same - if you dont change what you consider eating normally is - then the weight returns. No diet is a CURE for overeating. So please no messages warning me about this fact. I am an intelligent adult who knows the pros and cons, the dangers and the highlights of yo yo dieting. If life is like a box of chocolates - then i have BEEN a compulsive shopper on and after many a healthy eating programmes! If they HAD been successful in the longer term - i wouldn't be here now.
Diatribe over - sorry about that.
Onwards now with Day 8.
To contend with today: my twins had a friend sleepover last night and have been promised bowling and a McDonalds today.
Shakes at the ready - literally Choc shake in my bag, water bottle ready, and willpower bolstered by another good weigh in - i can do this...
08/24/2009 12:27
Day 7 - Official weigh in
Hi there - just got back from the pharmacy - and i am chuffed that the chemists scales are not too different to mine after all. 1 stone 2 pounds lost. I'm absoloutely bloody exstatic.
I am convinced an awful lot of this is water - in fact i can see the decrease in the size of my legs - which are normally terrribly swollen due to the lymphoedema.
I know the weight loss cant possibly contiue at this rate - but i am going to wallow in my success for a day or two. Its certainly very motivational.
Its quite strange really but i am almost finding it easier to have the shakes and no solid food than when i have previously cut down on regular diets. I suppose this is evidence of my addiction to food.
Had my mother in law around for tea last night and made a cheese and onion quiche and salad for tea - it looked and smelled fabulous. I just got on with the washing up while they were eating and then joined then for coffee afterwards.
Heres to week two then!
08/21/2009 19:24
Week One - Living on motivation
This is my first week - and indeed my first atempt with a very low calorie diet - Lipotrim.
Before i have always thought - i love food too much - i couldnt cope living on drinks - i have no will power.
Basically i feel things have got so bad with back pain and my other health problems - i have primary lymphoedema, that i HAVE to do take drastic measures to get rid of this constant pain.
Day 1 was very tough - thought about food all day - but still felt incredibly motivated. I had the Chicken soup for lunch - which i felt was disgusting. It made me gag. I felt worried that this may not be a good omen. For tea i made the shake into a mousse - thinking that less quantity would be easier to stomach. No - it was vile. I really began to doubt whether i wpould be able to cope if i couldnt keep down the shakes.
Day 2 - i tried a spoon of coffee and a sweetener in the vanilla shake and it was fine - a breakthrough. Then later i had another shake made with the full quantity of water. Again fine. I felt fabulous - amazingly no hunger - and i was probably doing more exercise than normal - with the extra trips to the loo - with all the water i had drunk.
I almost felt scared - i may actually be able to do this!!
I'm now on day 4 - i actually feel great - less bloated - lighter somehow - and WHERE HAS THIS WILLPOWER COME FROM??
A bit of a headache today - i must need more water - but otherwise great.
Looking forward to my weigh in on Monday.
But yesterday he sat in front of me with fish and chips - which smelt wonderful. My resolve stayed firm though. I think he is testing me. After he'd finished he came over to me and grinned, kissed me and said how well i am doing. I know how much he loves me which is important, and although he has never commented on my weight gain, i think he worries about my health - particularly after i was turned down for life insurance earlier this year - which was a wake up call for both of us.