Thread: Lanarkwitch's Epic Weight Loss Saga... War & Peace Style

Hello, I thought it was time to start a diary as I found it so helpful during my Exante/S & S sentence. Fortunately I was granted early parole from that one as it was messing with my eczema. But pretty successful, even though I felt awful for most of the time I was on it.

Looking back at my old diary it turned into a 100 page moan fest, so it will be interesting to see how this one goes!!

A brief history of me............ About 9 years ago I weighed over 24.5 stone and lost around 11.5 stone in 9 months by calorie counting and I maintained a weight of about 13.11 for several years until I moved to Abu Dhabi with my lovely DH, the Abu Dhabi stone turned into the Abu Dhabi 3 stone and I went on S & S/Exante to shift it, I got down to 13.4 ( I think on that plan).

I've been messing and I mean messing with various plans CC/SW/you name it, since about August as I really want to finally get all my lose skin removed and ideally I need to get another 2 stone off and get into the gym to get the ground work done. I gained on SW and CC I'm an angel in the week and then go drinking at the weekend, so any losses were straight back on and my weight it bobbling up ad down by as much as 10lbs a week. ( Can that be right?) I am sure that i have some sort of food intolerance, soy seems to be an issue but beyond that I've no idea what, so this diary will be a food diary as well which will hopefully let me get to the bottom of whats causing my issues.

Anyhoo, I got the JUDDD book a few months back and felt it could work for me, especially since in all honesty I am a going to drink and have a meal out at the weekend and no amount of saving syns or calories seems to be dealing with it.

I don't feel my usual...right this is is this diet will work scam going on here, I feel relieved about this woe. I know I will be hungry today, but it's not like a VLCD where I have to have willpower of steal for an indeterminate period, it really is just one day at a time.

Here is my plan: DD

Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Down	Up	Down	Up	Down	Int	Up

I am quite excited now, today is my first DD, lets see how it goes

Goodi luck :-) x

Had my first DD yesterday, definitely not going to use S & S packs I was really hungry especially around 4pm, but I got through it, drank loads of tea/coffee/water/coke zero and had a splitting headache all day. Total 431 cals

Woke up this morning not feeling hungry and the headache is gone, feel very refreshed and happy to report -2lbs, yaaaaaayyyy

Originally Posted by Lanarkwitch

Had my first DD yesterday, definitely not going to use S & S packs I was really hungry especially around 4pm, but I got through it, drank loads of tea/coffee/water/coke zero and had a splitting headache all day. Total 431 cals

Woke up this morning not feeling hungry and the headache is gone, feel very refreshed and happy to report -2lbs, yaaaaaayyyy

Well done with the DD and congratulations on a good kick start to the weight loss....the DD's do get easier, its just finding the foods or fluids that get you through it best for you!
Oh and I must say you have done an amazing job to lose so much weight already..the last 2 stone should be a breeze!

Originally Posted by JillyCornwall

Well done with the DD and congratulations on a good kick start to the weight loss....the DD's do get easier, its just finding the foods or fluids that get you through it best for you!
Oh and I must say you have done an amazing job to lose so much weight already..the last 2 stone should be a breeze!

Thanks Jilly, I've been stuck for a while with this last 2 stone so it's time to attack it before I turn 40 in March!!

I was fine on the DD I think I'll just not bother eating during the fast, the minute I started I was starving!

11.5 stone, thats insane, bloody kudos to you on that x

Read Eat Stop Eat yesterday, very informative little ebook and definitely worth a read.

Fasting today from 11am until 11am tomorrow, 24 hours is all thats required for optimum fat burning it seems

Hiya, sounds like you are doing great! Well done on your losses so far. Im fasting today too, till 6pm from 6pm yesterday, I find it easier to fast completely too.

Just about completed a 24 hour fast from 11am yesterday to 11am today, totally clean, no calories, found it tough, switching from 5pm to 5pm for the next one which will be Wednesday evening until Thursday evening to allow for weekend frolicking, I have lost about 4lbs. I am not saying a word about my first UP day after the 36 hour fast on Saturday.

Found it hard yesterday preparing dinner for DH and then his lunch for today, I think the secret is to make him things that I don't like LOL.

New scales arriving today, I have ones that do full kg's and I hate them as there is a big difference between 1 kg and the next!! So far so good.

New Plan for the next few days: this lets me go out for either lunch or dinner at the weekend and accommodates Thursday night drinkies, will be very pleased if I can pull this off

	Breakfast		Lunch	Cut Off 5pm	Dinner
Tue	Fast		Eat		Eat
Wed	Eat		Eat		Fast
Thu	Fast		Fast		Eat
Fri	Eat		Eat		Fast
Sat	Fast		Fast		Eat

Putting these here to look at when I find DD's tough!!

21.5 stone me and not my heaviest:



And me around the 14st mark, bit less now:

amazing before and after pics, keep up the good work x

Wow that's an amazing change. xx

You look incredible, very jealous of your gorgeous raven black hair xx

Wowsers :-) you have done really well!!! You look fab xxx