Thread: 2012's hopeful diary

Not very busy round here is it? Is that cos this diet just doesn't work I wonder!!??

Still I have started it....

Target:
DD: 500kcals
UD: 2000 kcals

Yesterday was a DD: 2 slimfast drinks and some rhubarb stewed down in orange juice = 570kcals
Today I have had ham and cheddar snack, starbucks panini and muffin and will be having more rhubarb later = 1660 kcals

2 days = 2230kcals .... too low. I need another 270kcals today.... hot chocolate for supper = 3tsp hot choc, 1 tsp cocoa powder, cup of semi skimmed - 271kcals!! Yay!!

Mini target 1 = 8lbs by 23rd April
Mini target 2 = 199lbs by May 7th(ish) - anywhere in there will be fine!

How's it going?

I wrote you a long pm last night, only to realise that I couldn't send it because you've only got a couple of posts (at least, I think that must be why!). All I wanted to say was that it does work! I probably shouldn't write this here but I found another forum that's bursting at the seams with very happy JUDDDers, most of which are delirious with joy at having found a plan that means they can eat their favourite foods every other day. So anyway, that's how I know it works!

I'm giving it a go as well (having tried every other diet under the sun). I'm on my second DD (so day 4 now!) and finding it pretty easy going - p'raps not surprising that I should, having previously been able to do the Cambridge diet for weeks on end. I don't know if I've lost any pounds yet because I'm steering clear of the scales. I know what my starting weight was though on 1 April (15st 9lbs ) and I'm planning to weigh in on 1 May to see how I'm doing. I gather that the scales are likely to do all sorts of bouncing around so it's not easy to tell how you're doing on a day to day basis!

Hope it's all still going well for you x

Hi there. It's a pity this forum is so quiet but I can assure you both that JUDDD DOES work - if you can steel yourself to stick to the down days!

I've lost 1 stone 4lbs on it so far and hoping to lose another 6 stones (!)

Good luck to you both x

Hello all im Danii and currently on the exante diet (VLCD) i restarted yet again on saturday i think i always will on these diets. Any way its my restart's weigh in tomorrow the scales have dropped but im struggling with being 100% on just 3 shakes.
So I have been reading previous posts on here.. and most say looks interesting but can i ask :

how many calories do u eat on your UP days? (can u eat less than 2000cals)?

Do u exercise on your UP days? if not do u think this would help?

silly question sorry But is this plan safe?? why i ask is changing calories each day sounds scary to me and the thoughts of gaining weight.

Thank you and good luck...to all of you

Well, where have I been?

I fell off and then got started again. It's been a month of consistent JUDDD, just 2 - 3 Down Days a week and I have lost 15lbs. How happy am I?

Even better the Horizon programme has made it much more easy to discuss it without people thinking I have lost my marbles!

So here I am at 209lbs aiming for Onederland in 3 weeks. All is well and I am feeling good.

Welcome back chick x

16 lost : 51 to goal

I am a serial dieter, i have never been bigger than a size 14 trouser in all my life BUT I have lost and gained my excess weight more times than I care to remember, earlier this year I started Dukan for the second time because it was the one plan that I found easier to stick to out of them all. Fast forward to last Monday and Michael's program and everything clicked in my head> I want to stress out that I have moved almost instantly because of the health benefits highlighted in the program, i can loose weight doing whatever plan I choose i proved it and I've done for years (any diet works if you stick to it) what i always found hard was maintaining and knocking my binge ing on the head and who knows maybe I will never be cured of that( i am 38 so it might never happen) but I am ok with that. However I do believe that this is something I could be able to do for the rest of my life to manage my weight and improve my health. I DO NOT expect it to be easy but I know it would work. My grandma fasted every single Friday of her life for religious reasons she died at 82 being totally independent until her last week and was never overweight or had to watch what she eat. This is why the program struck such a cord with me, I had all this in front of me and I never, never really thought it to be something that she did, I thought she was just a lucky lady and never gained weight. I was also fascinated by how Michael cut his risk of cancer and heart disease by 50% in 5 weeks!!! that's what's more important than loosing my extra weight as fast as possible. I have 5 kg to go but I am happy with myself I am in size 10 bottoms and size 8 tops and the I can wait for as long as it takes me to loose those extra kilos but I accept that is a choice I can afford to take. I would say be prepared to embrace this plan and stop agonizing over those numbers on the scale. Listen to your body be sensible and nourish it with nice wholesome food not processed pretend and your body will thank you and reward you. Give it all you've got for at least 2 months and see where it will take you. Off my soap box now and may the JUDDD plan treat you well

I've been more fortunate in that I have never really tried dieting properly before so I haven't yo yo'd, I just never really cared as I was fit. I was an aerobics instructor teaching 15 - 20 classes a week, not cissy ones either. I was 14.5 stones but looked less as I was a toned big girl

But I got ill. I already had CFS, which made instructing a necessity, if I stopped I got really tired. But then I also got anaemic, the sort you need injections for, and I could not exercise at all, or I fell asleep literally for days at a time. Fortunately I had a good doctor who helped me understand what was happening and I am now more able deal with that. But it still means that my body does not have enough oxygen to support proper cardio exercise. Fortunately I am also a Boxercise instructor and have a heavy bag in the garden. So now I have lost a bit of weight I will return to kicking and punching that!

I have also started the couch to 5K programme. To my embarrassment I couldn't do more than 2 of the 6 jog/runs. That is how much fitness I have lost! Still I have given myself 3 weeks to be able to complete week 1 of the programme. Hopefully by the New Year I will have regained some aerobic fitness and then I can train for a 10K race perhaps.

Goal for the week: Water..... get it right!

Originally Posted by 2012willdoit

So here I am at 209lbs aiming for Onederland in 3 weeks. All is well and I am feeling good.

Onederland! Love it

P x

I am so bad at this diary thing!

I stalled but am hopeful for tomorrow's weigh in.

I met the water goal. That has made things much easier. I just need to keep it up when works starts properly again - I am an FE lecturer.

I wasn't going to do a DD today, husband is still at home and we usually sit and eat properly. But he had remembered and so I didn't get breakfast in bed!!! I can easily make it a Medium Day and still eat with him.

Weigh in tomorrow, before I attacke the big black bag, just like my new avatar, but rounder and shorter

Hi there

We have similar profiles - similar weight, work in education...I'll be interested to read your diary and find out how you get on!

Have you stated c25k yet? I run and find it helps keep me sane - I ran a half marathon a few years ago and am slowly creeping back towards that distance - managing 10k at the moment!

All the best for WI!

Hi MissHap.

I really am bad at this diary lark, I have a sad blog too!

I did start c25k but, stupidly, didn't check my trainers first. I was horribly overly ambitious and tried actually running the fast periods.

Well, I died a death and kernackered my left knee - ACL strain.

I am starting again tomorrow with a new pair of now worn in trainers and a message to myself - speed walk the fast bits!

It sounds like a cop out but I am actually physiologically banjaxed by CFS, which means I need a really slow reintorduction to exercise. I also have 14 syllables worth of anaemia which means my red blood cells cannot carry their full load of oxygen... so that needs a slow build up too! I am determined to get more aerobically fit as, before the anaemia kicked in I was an aerobics instructor and taught 12 - 15 classes a week! It kept the CFS at bay!

I know now I will never run a 5K, but it is possible I could speed walk one!

Tomorrow morning I start again, running in the morning and kickboxing in the evening. 45 minutes of exercise....

Oh I am growing a yen for some pizza
Oh I am growing a yen for some pizza
Oh I am growing a yen for some pizza
Oh I am growing a yen for some pizza
Oh I am growing a yen for some pizza


Good job my chicken and chips arrives soon

Tomorrow morning won't rememebr the pizza feelinig - and if I do I'll eat it on Wednesday!

Oh but I really am growing a yen for some pizza!

I have had a week of registering students. 7 hours a day of scanning paperwork, phoning kids/parents, dealing with disappointment and guess what?

No, I didn't completely fall off, hardly at all!

Most lost was 2lbs but only 1 seems to be permanent. So I must remember to change my ticker!

So.... maybe I will manage this throughout the year after all!

You are gpoing to have to excuse me....