LL STARTERS IN JANUARY 2007

[NowOrNever]

Would just like to say........

Thank you to all of you who have joined this thread so far - isn't it just GREAT to know we have all this support?

Hope we can all stick together through the coming months - and anybody out there just reading these posts and thinking about VLCDs, COME ON AND JOIN IN!

What a team we have so far.......

Ann2shoes

tootsie

Mini (good advice about head not believing body losing weight - Counsellor said same thing)

Elsa (thanks for wishing me luck with Doc - saw her today and going to pick up form tomorrow - no charge! - Doc seemed happy I was going on diet)

Lisaloooo

Yorkiegirl (don't worry - 11th Jan be here soon!)

Pixie

Kitty


Hope I haven't missed anybody out - sorry if I have.

What a fantastic 2007 we are all going to have!

WE CAN DO IT ! ! ! !

Helen xxx

[Pixie]

Pixie,

Just read your post. So sorry to hear about your collapse. Do you think it was the diet?

Fantastic news about your stone weight loss in ten days tho! Well done.

Good luck with restart today - keep us all posted with your progress.

Helen x

Hi Helen,

I have no idea!
I think it may have been the fact I was in a burning hot ward and didn't get the chance to sit down all day plus I hadnt slept the night before cos the idiots in the rooms above ours in the hotel were thumping around all night!
GRRR!
I had just observed a pretty gross endoscopy as well (tube up the patients bum!) with lots of poo which made me think of the chocolate foodpacks!
So I was exhausted boiling and bothered and I just hit the deck!
I'll have to see how it goes...My GP is ok with me going back on it he just advised me to take it easy.
Ive just eaten a foodpack and TBH it tasted like cardboard after being able to eat normal food for a couple of days but I felt this way the first time around and soon got used to it!
How much weight do you want to lose?
I want to lose about another 3st 12 (provided the last 3 days havent seen me pile anything back on!)

Pix x

[mindless]

Hi NowOrNever,

I am due to start LL on 8 Jan (my counsellor didn't want to face getting a bunch of blocks to turn out on a Holiday day), so like you am facing January with high levels of expectation and nervousness.

There sure seems a lot of support around here although mostly it is you good ladies who seem able to be open where blokes tend not to be so able to be.

Not sure how anyone else feels but to me, Serial dieting is almost an addiction in itself - last year it was GI Diet and mega -exercise regime (lost 4.5 stone and put 3.5 back on - top attender at the Gym 3 months in a row - nearly bloody killed me), year before was Atkins (lost 3 stone and put 4 back on), year before Slimming World - cannot remember the numbers but + equalled - !!!!. and so on

Never got to the issue, which is inside my head. I think we all know what healthy eating is and nothing infuriated me more than the slimbos in my family saying 'just eat in moderation'.

Anyhow, here I am (feeling a little selfish about my problems which makes me feel guilty - pass the crisps to make me feel better) sitting at a massive 348 lbs (24st 12lb) with a target weight of 200lbs (14st 4lb).

Cannot remember being under 20st for so long, that I chose my target 'cos its a round (pardon the pun) number - should be 12st 7lb fro my height but hey, I reckon if I can lose 10st 8lb, I'll worry about the other couple of stone then!.

God, it seems a million miles away - every time I say it or write it down, I feel like not even starting becuse I have never, I mean never, stuck to anything to get even close.

So I think ladies and gents, whilst I will do my best to help others and support them through their difficult times via this forum, I may be leaning (from time to time abd never with my full weight - promise) on your shoulders as well.

So heres to a Christmas that allows us to be relaxed and focused on the challenge ahead - I know that no hopers like me can achieve startling results (my cousin Julie lost 6 stone and is now a size 11 - her joke, half size 10, half size 12 - her husband is adamant that its a top half 10 as he sighs wistfully at memories) - so heres to startling success to us all.

Good luck (we will need it)

Mindless

[mindless]

By the way kind people, how do you put one of these ticker type things into your posts?

Not relevant for me at present, but I would hope it would be in the new year

cheers for any help/advice

[Pixie]

Hi Mindless go to tickerfactory.com and make one then paste it on to your signature!
You can always do it now in anticipation of the countdown!

[sonkie]

My advice to future lipotrimmers, the drinks take at least a week to get used too, and is best to use really cold water, i fill an old 2 litre bottle with water and keep it in the fridge. The flavours for the drinks are strawberry, chocolate and vanilla, with a chicken soup. They have 2 flavours of flapjack but to me they both taste the same. I personally cant stand the vanilla drink or the flapjacks.
My favourite is the chicken soup as hot as I can stand it.

Anyway after the first week it does get better and you do not feel hungry in the slightest. I am amazed at the weight loss, I have lost 2st 9lbs in 4 weeks.

Sonkie

[NowOrNever]

Hi Pixie,

Really laughed about your choc pack comparison! I will make mental note to myself - not to pick up any choc foodpacks next week!

Sounds like you were having a very bad day when you collapsed, with everything. So - hope your ok this time and that it was not the diet, as I think it would be a great shame for you to have to stop now as you are doing so well. Congrats on losing your first stone. You do feel different already?

I want to lost 5 stone, maybe a little more if needed. I am a bit of a shorty (just over 5ft) so medical charts say I should weigh about the same as two sheets of paper and an envelope! We'll see.

Keep eating the cardboard!

Helen x

[Pixie]

Hi Pixie,

Really laughed about your choc pack comparison! I will make mental note to myself - not to pick up any choc foodpacks next week!

Sounds like you were having a very bad day when you collapsed, with everything. So - hope your ok this time and that it was not the diet, as I think it would be a great shame for you to have to stop now as you are doing so well. Congrats on losing your first stone. You do feel different already?

I want to lost 5 stone, maybe a little more if needed. I am a bit of a shorty (just over 5ft) so medical charts say I should weigh about the same as two sheets of paper and an envelope! We'll see.

Keep eating the cardboard!

Helen x

Im not so tall myself about 5ft 4?
I wanna ideally lose 5st altogether....So hopefully around 4st left to lose but if I lost slightly less I would be ok with it!

TBH the choc foodpacks are the only ones I can stand as I think the soups are powdery hell even in a blender.
The savory drinks are ok tho.. a bit like a veggies stock cube in water mmmm.
Expensive tho I think they are 6 quid for 14.... n u can have 2 per day so thats an extra 6 quid a week!

[mindless]

Hi Mindless go to tickerfactory.com and make one then paste it on to your signature!
You can always do it now in anticipation of the countdown!

Hi Pixie,

Tried what you said but keep getting Invalid File - am a bit if a technophobe I'm afraid

cheers

Mindless

[Pixie]

Hi Pixie,

Tried what you said but keep getting Invalid File - am a bit if a technophobe I'm afraid

cheers

Mindless

What do u want it to look like?

[mindless]

What do u want it to look like?

something like yours - only 0 to 148 pounds with a seashore background and a hawaiin girl in grass skirt as the slider - so nothing fancy and just a dream for me!!!

[Pixie]

something like yours - only 0 to 148 pounds with a seashore background and a hawaiin girl in grass skirt as the slider - so nothing fancy and just a dream for me!!!

Ohhh I just tried to do it but it wont let me do another one without changing my own!
Are you ok designing it?
If so then design it get the link then go to the
User control panel then edit signature and paste in the link from the ticker factory into the white signature box its the BB link you need one I think..

[mindless]

by jingo - if this comes out the way I hope - then I've got it

was pasting it in the wrong part of the signature page (dashed confusing with that bit that starts http://www.)

anyhow - here goes

[mindless]

as Robert the Bruce said - try, try and try again

[mindless]

and now the correct way around - one hopes

Thanks for your help Pixie