Evenin' all!
Well, there's not much to report tonight really, even though I didn't have time to post yesterday either. Except that I can't believe how quickly 10 days have gone. 9 more lots of them and I will have done 100 days and be at goal (hopefully, and maybe even before). Can't get over how good this diet is, and so glad that I have spent the past 10 days detoxing and burning fat rather than being unhealthy and puttimg on weight!
I have a new diet buddy who I chat with on MSN messenger. We have agreed that when we reach our target we will have a day of shopping, then dinner and a club :-) my idea of heaven. Of course we will have to eat healthily.... anyway that is also helping me, we share tips, encourage one another and answer each others questions if poss. Today we worked out that to get to goal will probably only take us 13 weeks as long as our weightloss is the average 3lbs, and as we are at exactly the same point in our journeys we are hoping that our losses are similar to those of others, and we lose a good chunk in the first 4 weeks before it goes down to 3lb-ish. Having said that I would be more than happy with a 3lb loss its just I want to get to target ASAP and am impatient!
Loving the CD, although struggling with the bars and have decided to have a week off them. The tetra packs have been a Godsend and am intending to have 2 a day for the next week.
My only problem is drinking the water- I dont drink enough normally so drinking enough on the diet is proving something of a challenge... but I am trying I promise! Just hope it doesn't affect my losses too much... will find out on Friday when I have my CD WI.
Til soon my dears
xxx
Wednesday 28 February 2007
Monday 26 February 2007
Day 8- WI and vitals
Hey all,
Sorry for not posting yesterday, I had a busy morning and went for a walk with the wrinklies in the afternoon. All was going well.... until the moment I walked through the front door after the walk and felt really very sick. I had a glass of water and that didnt help so took myself off to bed for a few hours. Woke up at 6.30pm still feeling vile so I watched Bridget Jones on tv and went back to sleep again about midnight. I can only blame the grim combo of vanilla and choc shakes with coffee I had just before the walk for my predicament as I can't think what else it could have been!
Anyway, feeling mostly better this morning, and I have quit LL which I started last Mon I thought I should do my own WI and measurements to make sure I keep the chart going of my progress. Measured in the same places as my LLC to make sure they are consistent. Here goes:
Lbs lost in a week: 10
Cms lost from bust: 5
Cms lost from waist: 3
Cms lost from hips: 7
I knew I wasnt imagining that my hipster jeans kept falling down. Am now wearing my belt super tight to hold them up but the material bags and looks silly. Prob is I do have a few smaller pairs but they arent hipsters and my belly is too big to wear them still. Lol! Never mind hopefully it won't be long :-)
Got a busy few days ahead and staying at a friends to get an assignment done so may not get the opportunity to post. Speak soon
xx
Sorry for not posting yesterday, I had a busy morning and went for a walk with the wrinklies in the afternoon. All was going well.... until the moment I walked through the front door after the walk and felt really very sick. I had a glass of water and that didnt help so took myself off to bed for a few hours. Woke up at 6.30pm still feeling vile so I watched Bridget Jones on tv and went back to sleep again about midnight. I can only blame the grim combo of vanilla and choc shakes with coffee I had just before the walk for my predicament as I can't think what else it could have been!
Anyway, feeling mostly better this morning, and I have quit LL which I started last Mon I thought I should do my own WI and measurements to make sure I keep the chart going of my progress. Measured in the same places as my LLC to make sure they are consistent. Here goes:
Lbs lost in a week: 10
Cms lost from bust: 5
Cms lost from waist: 3
Cms lost from hips: 7
I knew I wasnt imagining that my hipster jeans kept falling down. Am now wearing my belt super tight to hold them up but the material bags and looks silly. Prob is I do have a few smaller pairs but they arent hipsters and my belly is too big to wear them still. Lol! Never mind hopefully it won't be long :-)
Got a busy few days ahead and staying at a friends to get an assignment done so may not get the opportunity to post. Speak soon
xx
Saturday 24 February 2007
Day 6- much better
Hurrah, tummy is fine today!
Didn't get up during the night at all and slept right through til 10am :-) all now seems to be well in the loo department, which is excellent.
Have been on my first CD day today, althought have to do 2 more days of LL to finish off my packs which I should have collected yesterday but couldn't for obvious reasons! Not looking forward to going back as LL is disgusting compared with CD, which I am LOVING by the way! Had a hot choc for breakfast as I knew that that would be ok (as its the only thing on LL i really like), then a choc orange bar- which I cut half off and made into cookies. They were delicious, although I have realised that if they burn from the inside even a little it makes them VERY chewy! I kept the other half in the fridge for this evening and ate it with a glass of water with my family whilst they were eating their evening dinner.
Tried making ice cream-had the tetra in the fridge since last night and put in the freezer for over an hour, but it was still VERY liquid, cold liquid granted, but DEFINITELY not ice cream! Oh well, it was still yummy. I think me and Cambridge are gonna be firm friends. I was even saying to my mum I'll have to be careful making it into conventional type foods, as the main reason I'm doing this is to have some time off from food so that my attitudes towards it can change.
Anyway, weighed myself this morning, same time as I have done my other WI's, and was down 10lb- now bang on 14st, which is excellent! Thats another 3lb over-night, so hoping tonight and tomorrow will be the same, so that my end of week weight will be over a stone :-) that would be amazing!!
Wish me luck, night night xx
Didn't get up during the night at all and slept right through til 10am :-) all now seems to be well in the loo department, which is excellent.
Have been on my first CD day today, althought have to do 2 more days of LL to finish off my packs which I should have collected yesterday but couldn't for obvious reasons! Not looking forward to going back as LL is disgusting compared with CD, which I am LOVING by the way! Had a hot choc for breakfast as I knew that that would be ok (as its the only thing on LL i really like), then a choc orange bar- which I cut half off and made into cookies. They were delicious, although I have realised that if they burn from the inside even a little it makes them VERY chewy! I kept the other half in the fridge for this evening and ate it with a glass of water with my family whilst they were eating their evening dinner.
Tried making ice cream-had the tetra in the fridge since last night and put in the freezer for over an hour, but it was still VERY liquid, cold liquid granted, but DEFINITELY not ice cream! Oh well, it was still yummy. I think me and Cambridge are gonna be firm friends. I was even saying to my mum I'll have to be careful making it into conventional type foods, as the main reason I'm doing this is to have some time off from food so that my attitudes towards it can change.
Anyway, weighed myself this morning, same time as I have done my other WI's, and was down 10lb- now bang on 14st, which is excellent! Thats another 3lb over-night, so hoping tonight and tomorrow will be the same, so that my end of week weight will be over a stone :-) that would be amazing!!
Wish me luck, night night xx
Friday 23 February 2007
Day 5- not happy now
Well all has changed over the last 3 hours. My tummy started gurgling uncontrollably and then I had to rush to the loo.... well you can imagine what happened next! Have been twice in an hour and don't know what to do.
My counsellor said to let it sort itself out as its probably a sort of final detox and is a side effect of starting a VLCD, but she doesnt warn people routinely about it as its not that common. Trust me to be the uncommon one! Lol. Oh well at least apart from my rumbling belly and skanky gut I'm feeling good, not hungry! Need to have a shake really, have still only managed 1 of 4 today, in fact will do that now.
Seeing LLC on Sunday instead for weigh-in and have told her I'm switching, she was really nice and said I can always come back if it doesnt work out. So no weigh-in tonight, although I expect I will be down another 1/2 a lb with all this yuckiness going on! I hope so, at least then it will have been worthwhile!
See you later x
My counsellor said to let it sort itself out as its probably a sort of final detox and is a side effect of starting a VLCD, but she doesnt warn people routinely about it as its not that common. Trust me to be the uncommon one! Lol. Oh well at least apart from my rumbling belly and skanky gut I'm feeling good, not hungry! Need to have a shake really, have still only managed 1 of 4 today, in fact will do that now.
Seeing LLC on Sunday instead for weigh-in and have told her I'm switching, she was really nice and said I can always come back if it doesnt work out. So no weigh-in tonight, although I expect I will be down another 1/2 a lb with all this yuckiness going on! I hope so, at least then it will have been worthwhile!
See you later x
Day 5- stop-in day
Today has been brilliant!!
Its only 3pm but already my day is going brilliantly. I met my CDC this morning and she was absolutely lovely- really friendly, and I think I am going to get on with her much better than my LL lady. I was given my foodpacks and so I am now all set to start the CD on Monday (day 8). So, Nikki is a happy girl!
Also, when my CDC came over this morning she weighed me on her scales which she assured me are ultra-accurate and so I can take that weight as truth- and I had dropped 6 3/4 lb!! Thats nearly 7lb in 4 days :-). I can't wait to see what the total weightloss will be this week- especially as I've been on TOTM, if my loss is still good then I will be happy. Bearing in mind that 4 days is just over half a week, if my weight loss continues in this way for today and the next 2 days, by the end of this first week I could expect to lose maybe 13lb (7lb over 4 days + 6lb over 3 days estimation). This will be my challenge! I can't wait til Monday to see the results... mind you I won't be having an official weigh-in and it will be using my mums bathroom scales which may not be so accurate. But it will be a good indicator.
Happy happy happy..... ALSO to make my day even better I was told by my CDC I could have a glass of Coke Zero if I wanted, although I need to keep an eye on my ketosis levels to make sure it doesnt affect it. If it doesnt I can consider as much as a pint a day :D which is EXCELLENT for me as I LOVE diet coke and miss it more than i miss food :-) yipppeeeee
I'm so glad I'm on this diet, its the best decision I ever made- even if I do struggle to get all the water in I think it should get easier.
Will let you kn0w my official LL weightloss tonight for the 5 days when I get back.
xxxx
Its only 3pm but already my day is going brilliantly. I met my CDC this morning and she was absolutely lovely- really friendly, and I think I am going to get on with her much better than my LL lady. I was given my foodpacks and so I am now all set to start the CD on Monday (day 8). So, Nikki is a happy girl!
Also, when my CDC came over this morning she weighed me on her scales which she assured me are ultra-accurate and so I can take that weight as truth- and I had dropped 6 3/4 lb!! Thats nearly 7lb in 4 days :-). I can't wait to see what the total weightloss will be this week- especially as I've been on TOTM, if my loss is still good then I will be happy. Bearing in mind that 4 days is just over half a week, if my weight loss continues in this way for today and the next 2 days, by the end of this first week I could expect to lose maybe 13lb (7lb over 4 days + 6lb over 3 days estimation). This will be my challenge! I can't wait til Monday to see the results... mind you I won't be having an official weigh-in and it will be using my mums bathroom scales which may not be so accurate. But it will be a good indicator.
Happy happy happy..... ALSO to make my day even better I was told by my CDC I could have a glass of Coke Zero if I wanted, although I need to keep an eye on my ketosis levels to make sure it doesnt affect it. If it doesnt I can consider as much as a pint a day :D which is EXCELLENT for me as I LOVE diet coke and miss it more than i miss food :-) yipppeeeee
I'm so glad I'm on this diet, its the best decision I ever made- even if I do struggle to get all the water in I think it should get easier.
Will let you kn0w my official LL weightloss tonight for the 5 days when I get back.
xxxx
Thursday 22 February 2007
Day 4- I'm good!
Good evening!
I'm very positive today, have managed to sit and watch my friend eat my favourite panini and went for a drink at the Students Union with my friends who all had snakebite. Not me, a pint of water was my tipple of choice. I really wish I could have diet coke, I miss that more than the food itself, but I know it always makes me hungry so best to avoid it completely.
My new CDC is coming over tomorrow morning to give me a weeks supply of foodpacks- I'm having 1 bar, at least 1 tetra and 1 shake/soup, so I know I will enjoy 2 of the 3 (im not sure how the shakes will work for me yet but I know I will like the bars and tetras.) So looking forward to being able to enjoy the packs instead of dreading them.
On a more negative note, have been really struggling the past 2 days to get my 4 packs and 4l of water in. I have been so busy I haven't had time to drink as much as I would have liked, although I have still drunk the 2l that is supposed to be the amount your body should ideally have a day. The sachets are so vile I think for the sake of missing out on vits and mins for a few days it is better to avoid the sachets I can't stand and not vomit!! That would do more harm than good. Obv I couldn't do this long-term but I dont have the option to swap (as my counsellor is the other side of the county and I can only get to her at weekends when I go back to stay with my parents), so it seems to be my only option. Despite not having all my foodpacks, I feel amazingly good and have not struggled with actual hunger- only a bit of mental desire to eat. Started bars today and glad! It tasted so good compared with to the sachets, I actually let my OH try some :-)
Anyhow, sorry for the long post. I'm sure my belly feels a bit smaller.. hope I have lost a good amount this week. Got my stop-in tomorrow evening so will have an idea of what the total will be this week then.
Will let you know how it goes,
xx
I'm very positive today, have managed to sit and watch my friend eat my favourite panini and went for a drink at the Students Union with my friends who all had snakebite. Not me, a pint of water was my tipple of choice. I really wish I could have diet coke, I miss that more than the food itself, but I know it always makes me hungry so best to avoid it completely.
My new CDC is coming over tomorrow morning to give me a weeks supply of foodpacks- I'm having 1 bar, at least 1 tetra and 1 shake/soup, so I know I will enjoy 2 of the 3 (im not sure how the shakes will work for me yet but I know I will like the bars and tetras.) So looking forward to being able to enjoy the packs instead of dreading them.
On a more negative note, have been really struggling the past 2 days to get my 4 packs and 4l of water in. I have been so busy I haven't had time to drink as much as I would have liked, although I have still drunk the 2l that is supposed to be the amount your body should ideally have a day. The sachets are so vile I think for the sake of missing out on vits and mins for a few days it is better to avoid the sachets I can't stand and not vomit!! That would do more harm than good. Obv I couldn't do this long-term but I dont have the option to swap (as my counsellor is the other side of the county and I can only get to her at weekends when I go back to stay with my parents), so it seems to be my only option. Despite not having all my foodpacks, I feel amazingly good and have not struggled with actual hunger- only a bit of mental desire to eat. Started bars today and glad! It tasted so good compared with to the sachets, I actually let my OH try some :-)
Anyhow, sorry for the long post. I'm sure my belly feels a bit smaller.. hope I have lost a good amount this week. Got my stop-in tomorrow evening so will have an idea of what the total will be this week then.
Will let you know how it goes,
xx
Wednesday 21 February 2007
Day 3- A decision has been made!
Hi all,
Well I got on the scales today as couldn't resist seeing if this crazy diet works.... 4lb off- in 2 1/2 days! I'm impressed guys! Feeling good although missing food a little. Went out to the cinema this evening and at the complex I was thinking, isn't our culture really food focussed. You can't get away from the stuff. You go out to eat, you go to work and there's a vending machine, you go the cinema and there's snacks. Its ridiculous.
Anyway I have made the decision to move to the Cambridge Diet officially and have arrange for my new counsellor to come to see me on Friday (Day 5) to give me my stuff. I am going to see LL through to day 7 (seeing as I have paid for it) and go to my stop-in on Day 5 and not say anything. I will then phone my counsellor and tell her that I'm leaving and then I plan to start the CD on Monday (day 8). My counsellor is really lovely and has lost a lot of weight on CD herself. She should give me a lot of support, and an added bonus is she doesnt charge extra for the tetra packs (cartons for those of you on LL which are banana or choc flavour and normally cost about 30p per item more) or for the bars. I'm getting some mix-a-mousse and some water flavourings as I will be in my second week of ketosis- even though its only my first official week on CD. I will also eat every 5 weeks with the add-a-meal thing that CD recommend. I am now seeing 4 weeks (altho it will have been 5 including LL) as a mini-goal which should make the journey more manageable.
I'm loving that I have lost 4 lb already and its definitely a motivator to keep me on track, so glad I said no to that HobNob biscuit today :-)
Hope you're all doing well!
x
Well I got on the scales today as couldn't resist seeing if this crazy diet works.... 4lb off- in 2 1/2 days! I'm impressed guys! Feeling good although missing food a little. Went out to the cinema this evening and at the complex I was thinking, isn't our culture really food focussed. You can't get away from the stuff. You go out to eat, you go to work and there's a vending machine, you go the cinema and there's snacks. Its ridiculous.
Anyway I have made the decision to move to the Cambridge Diet officially and have arrange for my new counsellor to come to see me on Friday (Day 5) to give me my stuff. I am going to see LL through to day 7 (seeing as I have paid for it) and go to my stop-in on Day 5 and not say anything. I will then phone my counsellor and tell her that I'm leaving and then I plan to start the CD on Monday (day 8). My counsellor is really lovely and has lost a lot of weight on CD herself. She should give me a lot of support, and an added bonus is she doesnt charge extra for the tetra packs (cartons for those of you on LL which are banana or choc flavour and normally cost about 30p per item more) or for the bars. I'm getting some mix-a-mousse and some water flavourings as I will be in my second week of ketosis- even though its only my first official week on CD. I will also eat every 5 weeks with the add-a-meal thing that CD recommend. I am now seeing 4 weeks (altho it will have been 5 including LL) as a mini-goal which should make the journey more manageable.
I'm loving that I have lost 4 lb already and its definitely a motivator to keep me on track, so glad I said no to that HobNob biscuit today :-)
Hope you're all doing well!
x
Tuesday 20 February 2007
Day 2- how do you do this for 100 days?
Hi all,
Got off to an ok start today. Woke up and didn't feel hungry but had my raspberry shake and a black tea (tea first to wake me up) but the shake made me feel like i wanted to be sick. I actually held my nose to take away the yucky powder taste. Hoped my veg soup at lunch would be better. Morning went quickly as I had lectures, and drank my 2l of water that I took with me.
However, it then came to be time for my second nutrition fix of the day- and I was reluctant... I can honestly say I have never hated a food as much as I hated that soup. It was foul, disgusting, cringe-worthy. And I normally like vegetable soup! I tried to use half the pack to make crisps but it didnt work and i ended up with a load of soggy, gunky, powdery tasting blobs! Yuck! I didnt want to but I HAD to throw it away, so I had a 1/4 of a multivitamin tablet to try and replace some of the lost nutrients. I also had a mint hot chocolate which was yummmmmmmm.... made it with peppermint tea. So that made me feel slightly more chirpy. I can see myself living of the chocolate and chicken flavours - plus the bars when I'm finally allowed them!
I dont honestly know how I'm supposed to ingest all this disgusting stuff, Im gonna take it to my LLC on Friday and ask her advice. Maybe she has some suggestions. I would rather have nothing at all but I know I need the nutrition so for now will try and carry on, think positive and imagine how worth it it will all be when I'm slim!
Job interview tomorrow, feeling positive about that and it will take the days focus off food (or lack off). Still dont feel hungry or crave anything, feel good in myself too despite it being TOTM! Even watched my bf eat yummy sausages a min ago and didnt try and eat them!
Love y'all. Speak soon, hope it gets easier!
xx
Got off to an ok start today. Woke up and didn't feel hungry but had my raspberry shake and a black tea (tea first to wake me up) but the shake made me feel like i wanted to be sick. I actually held my nose to take away the yucky powder taste. Hoped my veg soup at lunch would be better. Morning went quickly as I had lectures, and drank my 2l of water that I took with me.
However, it then came to be time for my second nutrition fix of the day- and I was reluctant... I can honestly say I have never hated a food as much as I hated that soup. It was foul, disgusting, cringe-worthy. And I normally like vegetable soup! I tried to use half the pack to make crisps but it didnt work and i ended up with a load of soggy, gunky, powdery tasting blobs! Yuck! I didnt want to but I HAD to throw it away, so I had a 1/4 of a multivitamin tablet to try and replace some of the lost nutrients. I also had a mint hot chocolate which was yummmmmmmm.... made it with peppermint tea. So that made me feel slightly more chirpy. I can see myself living of the chocolate and chicken flavours - plus the bars when I'm finally allowed them!
I dont honestly know how I'm supposed to ingest all this disgusting stuff, Im gonna take it to my LLC on Friday and ask her advice. Maybe she has some suggestions. I would rather have nothing at all but I know I need the nutrition so for now will try and carry on, think positive and imagine how worth it it will all be when I'm slim!
Job interview tomorrow, feeling positive about that and it will take the days focus off food (or lack off). Still dont feel hungry or crave anything, feel good in myself too despite it being TOTM! Even watched my bf eat yummy sausages a min ago and didnt try and eat them!
Love y'all. Speak soon, hope it gets easier!
xx
Monday 19 February 2007
Day 1- have done a day...
..Just 99 to go! Lol!
No, actually its been quite good, I haven't felt hungry although my tummy has been rumbling lots and I've been to the loo about 10 times at least. Have drunk my 4 litres of water now (9pm) so hoping that I won't need to get up during the night!
Thai Chilli soup is DISGUSTING, Veg soup is not bad at all, vanilla is ok as long as you don't water it down too much, and hot choc is yummy! Hot choc mixed with vanilla and a bit of coffee could be verrrry good indeed- gonna try that out when I cant handle doing the flavours as they are any more, hopefully that wont be for a while.
Feel quite full actually although a bit tired, but it has been a busy day i suppose. Its my totm starting today, so I'm thinking maybe my withdrawal and entering ketosis grumbles might get lost in the tummy pains and headaches, so it will be like I never get them...
Hope you're not too bored with reading this :-)
Update you soon, altho maybe not tomorrow! Gonna be busy this week xx
No, actually its been quite good, I haven't felt hungry although my tummy has been rumbling lots and I've been to the loo about 10 times at least. Have drunk my 4 litres of water now (9pm) so hoping that I won't need to get up during the night!
Thai Chilli soup is DISGUSTING, Veg soup is not bad at all, vanilla is ok as long as you don't water it down too much, and hot choc is yummy! Hot choc mixed with vanilla and a bit of coffee could be verrrry good indeed- gonna try that out when I cant handle doing the flavours as they are any more, hopefully that wont be for a while.
Feel quite full actually although a bit tired, but it has been a busy day i suppose. Its my totm starting today, so I'm thinking maybe my withdrawal and entering ketosis grumbles might get lost in the tummy pains and headaches, so it will be like I never get them...
Hope you're not too bored with reading this :-)
Update you soon, altho maybe not tomorrow! Gonna be busy this week xx
Day 1- first day of 100!
Well, today's the day. I was really worried that I wasn't going to get my doctor's permission to start LL but I needn't have worried, he was really enthusiastic and even asked me to keep him informed of my progress so he could see if it is worth referring patients onto!! Excellent!
As a Christian, I went to church last night- its the first time I have been in AGES! Very weirdly it was a healing service, and I know some people may be sceptical about this, as I was, but I can honestly say that I felt a presence and I felt the urge to ask someone to pray for me about this journey I am about to start. I was worrying about how extreme LL is and concerned that it wouldn't work. The lady who prayed for me asked God that if this is not his plan for me that the doctor should not let me on the programme as a sign that its not what he wants, and that if the doctor approved it that I should go ahead with his blessing. And he did, so I am going ahead feeling totally at peace and happy that I am doing the right thing. To those of you who don't believe in God then this may sound like a load of crap to you, but to me this meant a lot!
Its weird how things in my life get me down, but then all of a sudden good things happen all at once and change me and my life. For example, on Saturday I got the overwhelming urge to go on the Internet and look at diets, and the first thing I found was the CD which led me to the LL plan when I googled it. I felt straight away that LL is for me and will change my life, so I took the first big step and phoned Debbie my LLC, who told me that its really strange I rang cos she has a new group starting today, so I should come along to the introduction tomorrow (ie now yesterday), which I did, and got my GPs approval today. Its like it was a perfectly formed plan that I didn't even know about! AND I have a job interview on Wednesday for when I leave uni in May, and things generally are just looking peachy right now. I just hope I get the job- I have a good feeling about it. Will keep you posted.
Enough for now, I'm just doing this to pass the time til 10am for the meeting as am so excited I needed a distraction. But now its 20 past 9 so not too long to go. I will update you later and let you know how the meeting went, and how I'm getting on with the plan!
See you later :) xx
As a Christian, I went to church last night- its the first time I have been in AGES! Very weirdly it was a healing service, and I know some people may be sceptical about this, as I was, but I can honestly say that I felt a presence and I felt the urge to ask someone to pray for me about this journey I am about to start. I was worrying about how extreme LL is and concerned that it wouldn't work. The lady who prayed for me asked God that if this is not his plan for me that the doctor should not let me on the programme as a sign that its not what he wants, and that if the doctor approved it that I should go ahead with his blessing. And he did, so I am going ahead feeling totally at peace and happy that I am doing the right thing. To those of you who don't believe in God then this may sound like a load of crap to you, but to me this meant a lot!
Its weird how things in my life get me down, but then all of a sudden good things happen all at once and change me and my life. For example, on Saturday I got the overwhelming urge to go on the Internet and look at diets, and the first thing I found was the CD which led me to the LL plan when I googled it. I felt straight away that LL is for me and will change my life, so I took the first big step and phoned Debbie my LLC, who told me that its really strange I rang cos she has a new group starting today, so I should come along to the introduction tomorrow (ie now yesterday), which I did, and got my GPs approval today. Its like it was a perfectly formed plan that I didn't even know about! AND I have a job interview on Wednesday for when I leave uni in May, and things generally are just looking peachy right now. I just hope I get the job- I have a good feeling about it. Will keep you posted.
Enough for now, I'm just doing this to pass the time til 10am for the meeting as am so excited I needed a distraction. But now its 20 past 9 so not too long to go. I will update you later and let you know how the meeting went, and how I'm getting on with the plan!
See you later :) xx
Sunday 18 February 2007
Day 0- continued
...just got back from eating my Sunday Roast. It was delicious and I made sure to eat it slowly and enjoy all the flavours! I really am going to miss it- ah well, some changes need to be made so it starts here.
It was my little brothers 18th on Thursday and he had a chocolate birthday cake today. Normally I would have passed but I thought I would allow myself a last taste of choc before I start tomorrow. I only had a little slice and it was well worth the calories. I now feel ready to stop eating conventional foods and can't wait to get my food packs tomorrow. However, I am really going to miss the drinking of coffee (white and one- cant stand strong sugarless coffee), the diet coke, and the alcohol. I live a very sociable lifestyle so there are going to have to be some changes in the way I spend my time to begin with- I'm hoping once I get into it I will be able to start going out etc again without the temptations...
Oh well, enough for today. I shall try and post a photo of me every other week so you can see the changes in my figure as time progresses. For me this was a big incentive to start LL as I have seen hundreds of before and after pics and the differences are amazing. I hope to be another addition to the list!
See you tomorrow,
Nikki x
It was my little brothers 18th on Thursday and he had a chocolate birthday cake today. Normally I would have passed but I thought I would allow myself a last taste of choc before I start tomorrow. I only had a little slice and it was well worth the calories. I now feel ready to stop eating conventional foods and can't wait to get my food packs tomorrow. However, I am really going to miss the drinking of coffee (white and one- cant stand strong sugarless coffee), the diet coke, and the alcohol. I live a very sociable lifestyle so there are going to have to be some changes in the way I spend my time to begin with- I'm hoping once I get into it I will be able to start going out etc again without the temptations...
Oh well, enough for today. I shall try and post a photo of me every other week so you can see the changes in my figure as time progresses. For me this was a big incentive to start LL as I have seen hundreds of before and after pics and the differences are amazing. I hope to be another addition to the list!
See you tomorrow,
Nikki x
Day 0 - Starting LL tomorrow
Hey hey, this is my first EVER blog post related to Lighter Life. First I feel that I must introduce myself for those of you who want to know who I am! Here goes:
I am a 21 year old student from Dorset who has battled with her weight since her early teens. I think I have a somewhat unhealthy approach to food- I see it as a reward, a treat, something to look forward to, and I believe this is largely to blame for my slowly but surely increasing weight. When I was little I always thought I was fat but I actually was normal- and I think in some way this led me to have a weird eating disorder where instead of going the sad (but often common) way of becoming anorexic I actually started to overeat! Not bingeing or anything but I thought "Well, if I'm fat when I'm normal, I may as well eat whatever I want as it won't make any difference!"
How wrong I was! I look back at photos of me when I was 15 and I looked amazing then, I don't know what was going on in my head. So now I need to undo the damage, and fast! I want to be a healthy and normal weight before I go travelling in July, and according to the LLC it should be fine!
So, off to the meeting tomorrow (providing I can see my doctor in the morning!) Will let you know how I get on!
Off for my last Sunday roast now! And I intend to savour every taste!
xxx
I am a 21 year old student from Dorset who has battled with her weight since her early teens. I think I have a somewhat unhealthy approach to food- I see it as a reward, a treat, something to look forward to, and I believe this is largely to blame for my slowly but surely increasing weight. When I was little I always thought I was fat but I actually was normal- and I think in some way this led me to have a weird eating disorder where instead of going the sad (but often common) way of becoming anorexic I actually started to overeat! Not bingeing or anything but I thought "Well, if I'm fat when I'm normal, I may as well eat whatever I want as it won't make any difference!"
How wrong I was! I look back at photos of me when I was 15 and I looked amazing then, I don't know what was going on in my head. So now I need to undo the damage, and fast! I want to be a healthy and normal weight before I go travelling in July, and according to the LLC it should be fine!
So, off to the meeting tomorrow (providing I can see my doctor in the morning!) Will let you know how I get on!
Off for my last Sunday roast now! And I intend to savour every taste!
xxx
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