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that is a real shame, address the issues and then maybe find a new counsellor, there are other ways and means

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Funkylady789

Hi John,

Congratulations for losing so much weight. I use to be really active, working out at the gym regularly, doing exercise classes and then I broke up with my boyfriend, the gym closed down and I put on nearly 6 stone. I feel so uncomfortable in my clothes, it is the heaviest I have been since having my son 8 years ago. I am desperate to lose this weight now. I went for a free consultation with a counseller at Lighter Life but the food they provide in that programme appear to be mostly shakes and soups and are charging £66 per week. I have just read the Go Lower programme and it seems much better, providing proper food and much cheaper do you recommend this as it sounds much more appealing. I would love to know your views.

Take care

Barbara

Lou1973

Hi Barbara - hope you don't mind me jumping in to answer your question.

I have tried a diet like lighter life called cambridge diet where you have shake or soup 3 times a day. There are many people on here who do it successfully but it definately isn't for me long term - i feel deprived all the time and crave something to eat. If I'm honest i struggle to get beyond day 3!!

Three months ago i joined Go Lower and am 2 and a half stone down - the food tastes lovely, there are options if you want to eat out with friends/family, you can still drink (althou I haven't) and I haven't felt deprived at all (except xmas but i just came off it for 2 days lol).

It's basically high protein low carb where they deliver the food to you and i'm so grateful i found it. Not only do i think it's been great for losing weight I think it's going to be great for maintaining my weight lose as it will be no problem just jumping back onto it for a couple of weeks if i've put on a few pounds.

It's not cheap but I highly recommend it and the weight loses are pretty impressive - a lot of people are averaging 12-14lb a month - not as fast as LL but for me easier to sustain

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Funkylady789

Hi Lou, thanks very much for your views on using Go Lower. It is great to hear from other people who have been using the Go Lower products to hear their honest views. Congratulations on your weight loss. I definitely am going to give it go, I have tried the other diets which just consist of soups and shakes etc and have felt so hungry and end up cheating so the food choices seems really good on Go Lower. I know it will be expensive but it will give me the incentive to keep it up and not to cheat. I am determine to lose my excess weight before the summer.

Thank you very much and will keep you posted on my progress

Regards

Barbara

Lou1973

so glad you're going to give it a go. Just one word of warning which I didn't realise at the time of ordering - if you are signing up for a programme longer the 28 days make sure they are totally clear what you recieve and when. I signed up for the 12 week programme thinking i'd get 12 weeks of food but actually I got 8 weeks of food then only half the food for 2 weeks then none of the lunches or dinners for the final 2 weeks (they call this transition when they encourage you to start cooking for yourself). Which is fine if i'd known this up front but i'd worked my finances out on not having to buy main meals for 12 weeks not 9 weeks!!

Just make sure they give you all the info upfront

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bigbum09

Hi Funkylady and Lou, I have just joined the go lower diet too. I have tried meal replacement but shakes just are not for me. Go lower seems much more my style and the meals sound awesome. I have just signed up for a 16 week programme so fingers crossed.
Lou you have done amazing, well done!! I'm hoping I can have the same story as you. Any tips for success?
Funkylady have you signed up yet?
Here's hoping it all works. Xx

Lou1973

hi both - i use the go lower forum under the same user name if you ever log onto that one.

If you do you'll see that I was really good up until xmas - didn't drink, hardly had any of the snacks and found it embarrassingly easy.

Struggled a little more this year with a couple of big nite out but still managed to lose 9lb so far this year and have about 7 to 11lbs to get to goal so almost there.

My tip for success is not to break the diet - once you're in ketosis it really is easy and you don't get hungry which makes it pretty easy to stick to - it's only head hunger that causes the cravings not real ones.

I'm in those amazing last stages where everyone is commenting, i can get back into my small clothes and life is just fabulous - if i could bottle it and share the feeling i really would because it's so motivating to get the results. Every day it seems like someone else notices and comments

stick at it and let me know how you get on - any help I can give you just pm me on this site or emai me on the go lower one

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Hello, Well my box has just arrived nice and prompt and I have just ripped into the granola straight away (even though I have already had toast - let it be said in public, my last piece) and had it with some plain yogurt and a couple of blueberries (37p in asda!! Bargain!), it was so tasty.
Going to have pea & ham soup for lunch and chicken, leeks and cream for dinner with broccoli. I'm feeling super confident that this is the plan for me, all the meals sound really good and way fancier than anything I would ever cook (or order in ) for myself.
Lou you are my inspiration, here's hoping for the comments coming in soon. Xx

Lou1973

great way to start - how did you find the meals? - i love them and like you i really enjoy the breakfast - i always have with rasp and single cream (not sure if your "supposed" to but I figure it's low in carb so it's ok) - it's such a treat every morning

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Morning, I thought the pea & ham soup was ok and the chicken, leeks and cream was so good, added a little salt and pepper to my own taste but so impressed, I was half expecting it to be like a frozen ready meal with fake style meat but it was a proper good bit of chicken.
Yum, I might try the cream on the breakfast, it sounds lush, I would imagine you are allowed if there is cream in some of the meals. Just had it breakfast just now, I would happily just eat it all day!! Going to go for the mushroom soup today for lunch and beef bourginon (sp??) for dinner, going to try and make the celeriac mash recipe from the go lower website to go with it. Hopefully it is a good replacement to potatoes, they are one of my major downfalls...mmm chips, crisps, mash, roasted, how am i going to cope??! Xx

bigbum09

Just had the mushroom soup & a 1/2 bag of smokey bacon crunch (quite like massive quavers). Thought the soup was quite good and mixed with the smokey crunch I am totally stuffed. Going to have the rest of the crunch later on today, thought I would stay away from the nut bars today, the one I had yesterday gave me terrible wind, thankfully the bf was out. Go Lower advised to have probiotics to help as my body adjusts to the fibre. Xx

Lou1973

glad you are enjoying the meals - must admit the mushroom soup is my least favourite soup and the beef bouriginon is my least fav main meal so great that you like them both.

I bought some of the new meals off the site today so I'm looking forward to trying them over the next few days

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Mmmm, I know, I still have loads of new meals to try, really looking forward to once I get the Curry.
I thought the beef bourginon was pretty good and my celeriac mash was a total success and great for mopping up all the sauce in the meal.
I'm going to have the broccoli and cheese soup today and going for the chicken fricassee for tea with half a portion of asparaus and half a portion of baby corn.
I woke up this morning with a background headache so fingers crossed I am going into ketosis. I had the terrible munchies last night, just kept pacing backwards and forwards to the kitchen and picking up the chocolate brazils and putting them down, opening the fridge and shutting it, it went on for about 2 hours but I managed to not have anything. I wasn't hungry at all, its just trying to break the habbit of a lifetime!! Note to self, watching masterchef whilst doing this may not be the best idea, all those puddings!! I'm like John Torrode, loves the pud! Oh well, only another couple of days and I can have a chocolatey treat, !! Xx

bigbum09

Wow, feel so much better today, yesterday was quite trying with the headache and feeling sick. I ended up having my tea (chicken fricassee - YUM!!!) and having a bath and going to bed at about 8 o'clock and slept right through to half 7 this morn.
I've treated myself to cream with the breakfast today, sooooo goood. I think I might occasionally have scrambled eggs for breakfast and have the breakfast with cream and strawberries as a pudding. Do you think this would be ok? Xx

Lou1973

i don't see why not as it's all protein

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