Minimins CD 2008 - sign in thread

[ninababes]

Hi i'm Christina 24 from Wigan and a community psychiatric nurse and getting married to Ste on 5th July this year :-D

Started dieting with WW summer 07 weighing 20st 2lbs lost 11lbs then started CD on the 1200 plan due to being on lifelong warfarin on 4th August 2007 at a hefty 19st 5lbs and after a car accident last week i'm currently 17st 6lbs and want to be in the 12s and got lots of motivation as i get married in just under 6months!!!!!!

[Heaven can wait]

HI there Nina Babes ,
Special welcome to a fellow Wiganer! They dont call us 'Pie Eaters' for nothing do they eh?
Well I am Heaven can wait , and a bit of a battered veteran having joined minis in March last year at just over 19 stones feeling like I was doomed to being fat forever having tried and failed more times than I care to remember all through my adult life to lose weight and keep it off. I hit rock bottom this time last year when I realised (belatedly admitted) that the weight was actaully killing me , as I had high BP , Cloresterol and blood sugar , the holy trinity of heart disease and strokes.
I read that on average an Obese person (I was morbidly obese) dies 9 years earlier than a healthy weight person , and I thought .. well heaven can wait for me for another 9 years years because this is something I can try to change, because call me greedy , but I want those 9 years!
Anyhoo, In January I started to follow a heathy eating plan prescribed by my health centre , and shifted a stone by March TOO SLOW! something had to be done FAST, as I was not a well bear , peeeps. SO , I joined Lightlife in March and lost 4 stone 4lbs in 3 months , then went on to Cambridge and lost another 1 stone 7 lbs which was within 1 stone of my target weight. By summer , I could wear size 14 clothes for the first time since I was in my teens, and it was and still is fantastic! I look and feel better than I can remember. I have sold or given away all my size 20, 22 and 24 clothes most of which were black , and replaced them with a much more colourful and trendy size 14 wardrobe of clothes, and I still cant believe it really.
I would say to Nina babes you can easily lose your weight for the wedding < Cambridge has the technology you just need to stick to it and you are gona be the most slinky gorgeous bride on your wedding day with photos to cherish forever instead of cringe at becuase you look too fat!
I have relaxed a bit of the past few months , (holiday in Vegas , Christmas blah blah,) and have regained about half a stone so I now need to make 2008 the year I achieve my goal weight and shift this last stone and a half. This is definately the place to do it, so with each others help and support ,Im sure we will all meet our weight loss targets this year.
Good luck to everyone!
Love HCW

[mypartyiz]

My name is Zoë. I'm 19. I started CD on thurs 11th Jan after trying once before last spring. Only did it for a week, lost 8lbs, felt very sick and gave up.

Start weight 12st 8lbs
Height 5ft 5
BMI 29.3

Goal weight 9st 12lbs(or 10 stone)
Goal BMI 23

My mum is my CDC (FatFairNFourty(ish)) so there wil definitly be no cheating while she's about!

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[wannalose8stone]

hi Zoe, with Jenny as your mum and CDC you will have no problems sticking to it Im sure!

Just wanted to post on this thread again to say Ive finally got round to setting up an MSN account. Expose Email

[mintimperial]

mintimperial signing in!!

Lost 5 1/2 stone on cambridge in 2006, and just looked at the scales...

Ive put 2 stone back on!

Im a 28 year old guy so I hope losing this wont take too long!

Now weight 15 stone 5lbs and want to get down to 13 stone again!

[daisycharlie]

Hi there, I'm Nicky and just started Cambridge with our famous Diva as my counsellor.
I did LL 04/05 and lost about 5 1/2 stone and life has happened big time since then (married, separated, lost mum etc etc!!) and I'm back to start again with a vengeance.
My head is so back in the right place and looking forward to this new lifestyle and getting back into all those gorgeous clothes I've got stored away...
This place I'm sure will be a bit of a lifesaver and it's so good to be part of such a friendly kinda place.
Nxx

[Brightnbreezy]

Hi I'm Helen and I started CD almost exactly this time last year and I stuck to it for 2 months losing 25lbs... but then spring came and I allowed other things to get in the way and I stopped. If I am being honest even last year I wouldn't call myself angelic and often cheated on the diet then. I took it up again last week and am now 2 days into it. Last year, cos I cheated each week I never really got a chance to stop feeling hungry. My counsellor says that after 3 days the hunger is all in my head. Is he really telling the truth when he tells me that?!!! I need all the support I can get. It's my love of eating that has got me here. I am 5.6 and weigh 16stone 11lbs.

My ideal BMI weight is between 10.5 and 11.5 stone so I have a long journey ahead. Just need to get through the next few days if you have any hints and tips for abaiting hunger I'd welcome them. Absolutely determined not to give in this time!!! I can't fit into any of the clothes in my wardrobe! Good luck to everyone on CD!

[Ajax]

Hello All, I am Angela, and I am 32 years of age. I have a beautiful 3 year old daughter and am happily married. (10 years this year yikes!)

Having battled with loosing my Mum, Dad and Aunt all to Cancer, its now time to look after myself. I tried Cambridge last year and lost 3 stone quite easily, but more easily gained it back all plus about 3 pounds extra just for good measures.

I will be shedding 10 stone this year without a doubt. I have a few targets apart from the longterm healthy reasons and to have my daughter proud of me, not ashamed as she grows up.
My Sister is getting married on the 24th May and I am her Chief Bridesmaid, Even my dressmaker has challenged me to a discount off the dress and a clipping in the newspaper if I loose a lot by then!

In July my whole family is going to Egypt for a holiday, I am not going to let my weight stop me from enjoying myself, I WILL be a whole lot slimmer!!

Then My sister and I are off for a weekend in New York when I reach goal, spending money included for my new wadrobe, Can't bl**dy weight! Hopefully looking at Nov 2008.

And thats me!

[Eileen]

Hi im Eileen age 46 married with a 7 year old son.I started lighter life may last year & lost 5 stone, all of a sudden i decided too go it on my own with the promise to myself i would join slimming world if i started too gain.I did well for a few weeks then when christmas came i slightly went off track. It scared me so i thought i would join cd & get too my ideal weigh 8.12 i have 35 pounds too lose.I lost 12 this week so im really pleased with that.

[BIG BIRDY]

Hi, I am finding my way around this site, but there is just so much of it that I'm getting lost! I need to find out how to do one of those tracker thingies, but don't know where I put it!
I've started on CD ss yesterday. I did lipotrim 18m ago and lost over 3 st. I regained alot due to one thing and another, but have my brothers wedding as an added incentive to losing it all again! Everyone seems so motivated and successful at this. So far so good for me, BUT we are only on day "!

[becky85]

Hey guys newbie here too well im a week old and starting my cb diet this weekend wooohooooo

[ponypony]

About time I signed on!

I'm a 26year old veterinary Surgeon living in the North East. I live with my fabulous fiance, my two boys (cats, actually) Dave & Nelson, and our stooopid black lab, Grace. I also have a horse, Millie.

To quote bridget jones, 'I have always been just a little bit fat'. An active child (Pony mad) I always was chunkier than my siblings & they used to tease me. I grew up feeling fat, even though looking back I really don't think I was. At school, PE lessons became a nightmare for me. I didn't want other girls to see my 'awful' body when I was getting changed, and so the excuses started to come thick and fast why I couldn't partake. We also used to have humiliating fitness tests and caliper/scales sessions. So, I became less active, started studying like a demon for exams, and that's when the weight started piling on.

At university, I partied hard despite being on a tough course, and soon dancing at clubs, lack of sleep and walking everywhere left me fairly trim. At times I was ok with my weight, but still was a size 14, never anything below. And I was certainly heavier than I should've been, although I never weighed myself.

The last few years since graduating & leaving a hectic lifestyle at Glasgow uni have been very up and down for me. I've battled with financial problems and depression, plus long periods living apart from my fiance whom I met at university.

Last year I got a really good job for myself, and got engaged, and things started to be on the up - until I realised I weighed 13st 10lbs!! I started slimming world at this point and lost 10ish pounds I think.

My fiance moved down from Scotland last August and we started to plan our wedding, and that's when it dawned on me how fat i had become. All my 14 clothes were becoming very tight indeed, and so I knew desperate action was required!

I descovered minimins whilst on SW, and was browsing one day when I found the Lipotrim board. That lead to me trying LT (but HATING the flavours yuck!) and totally falling for the idea of a VLCD and ketosis.

And so started CD on 1st November at 12st 10lb, and here I am now exactly 2stone lighter, and thrilled to bits. I still have a long way to go (want to maintain between 9st & 9st 7lbs I think) but I think I'm going to feel FABULOUS at our wedding on 30th August this year (Good date that, huh tansy?).

Sorry if I've rambled on but that's my story!

[devilishandsweet]

Hi ya, My name is Claire and I come from Southampton. I work for my local government as a anti-social behavior officer (sounds interesting, but it's not!) lol.

I've not always been over weight, in fact I was a size 10 until the age of 19 and it all piled on from there, (I'm aged 24 now).

I used to be highly invovled in sports and even represented my county in netball, but unfortunalty I had to give up after I finished college due to full-time work etc

Anyway I stared off last week weighing at 25st 8lbs! I'm 24st 7lbs after my first week after losing 15lbs. I'm aiming to get to around 11-12st as I'm 5ft 10.

I got married last year to my husband Andy who is a great suppport, the only thing I regret is not losing the weight before I got married, but hey I can't change that now!

Since I've got bigger and bigger I've noticed how much smaller and smaller my confidence has become all because how society see's me. Well I don't want to be like this no more and I want to get back to my old self again!

[louisa26]

Hi as most of you know my name is louisa (lou). I am 27 and from Milton Keynes and married my husband Andy on 28th July last yr.

I started CD on 30th Dec, i was going to wait till the 1st but the time was just right and i was in the right frame of mind on the 30th so thought why wait 2 days.

Today is the start of week 4 for me and so far i have lost 16lbs and 4inches from my bust, waist and hips.

I am probably the biggest if not then one of the biggest members on the board right now at a starting weight of 31stones. I am at present 29stones 12lbs.

My first long time goal is to get down to 15stones and from there who knows. i really want to get down to a weight which is healthy for my height (5ft6) and a weight i feel comfortable with i am thinking around 10-11stones.

Reasons for doing it is to become healthier, enjoy more of my life, travel more and go on holiday and my biggest reason is to have a baby.

my msn messenger is: Expose Email
yahoo is: louisalevitt
you can find me on facebook under louisa levitt in the london network.
please feel free to add me to any of these or send me PM on here any time.

[louisa26]

Originally Posted by BIG BIRDY

Hi, I am finding my way around this site, but there is just so much of it that I'm getting lost! I need to find out how to do one of those tracker thingies, but don't know where I put it!
I've started on CD ss yesterday. I did lipotrim 18m ago and lost over 3 st. I regained alot due to one thing and another, but have my brothers wedding as an added incentive to losing it all again! Everyone seems so motivated and successful at this. So far so good for me, BUT we are only on day "!

hi bb for a tracker if you go to Weight Loss - Diet Ticker
or click on someone elses tracker it will take you to the site they got theirs. choose a style and a picture and fill in the information. then there will be codes.
not sure if you need to raise your 'reputation' on here till you can see it but you need a certain amount of rep points till you can go into your 'personal message icon' under your name on the top right hand side.
once inside you will see an icon on the left which says signiture. click it and it brings up a post paste the code in there. then everytime you post it will be under that.
to change it click on your tracker and it will ask you to type in your pin and you can change the existing information and repaste it into the signature box to update.
HTH