Thread: AJ's LL Management Journey!

Yes they are, Skinny and they refuse to take any money for doing it, too! I has been a really cheap Friday lunchtime for quite a while!

Hi Aj

I can't wait to login in the morning and read your posts, it's so exciting...

Please keep as all informed on how you are doing and feeling......

and congrats for being so strong, I can't wait to be like you xxxxx

Thanks a million Tootsie! That's made my day!

Well, I went to the pub at lunchtime today and ordered a chicken salad. I'd already spoken to one of the kitchen staff earlier in the week to find out what I could order, so they were expecting me.

Well, my eyes nearly popped out when they brought the plate to the table. Half, yes half a spring chicken, loads of salad, coleslaw, cheese, a whole egg, pineapple, gherkins and beetroot.

I may need a doggy bag, I said tentatively. Oh no problem, said the waitress, and bustled off.

This will be a test, I thought. As it turned out though I picked at the chicken and lettuce, eating slowly and chatting between bites. I ate half the egg white (allowed), but stopped eating when I started feeling full. I drank some water.

I sat and thought about the past while I ate. What would I have done a few short months ago when faced with that plate. Ate it all up, even the gherkins. I may even have felt that I had 'earned' a pudding, after all I had had a salad, hadn't I? Would I have been hungry by then? Oh no, absolutely not.

There were two polystyrene containers to take away! My son has just polished off the chicken and half the salad, he says he'll finish it off after football!

No bloating today. Felt fine. I presume that it was just an initial side effect of eating after not doing so for so long.

Bye for now. I may post later.

Just wanted to say that i'm really enjoying this thread. I'm on LL and hope to go onto Management in 3 weeks. It's great to get an idea of what to expect.
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I'm really enjoying it too! Can't quite imagine it ever being me....

It's my pleasure Fallenangel and Gaijingirl, I decided to do it because I hadn't read anything like it anywhere else.

Well, today (Sat) after I'd taken my daughter and her friend to South Queensferry for extra ballet lesson (exam soon), we went straight to town (Falkirk) to do some shopping.

I honestly only meant to get a couple of things from Tesco (get my excuses in quickly), but happened to pass a shop which had a great sale on. I just popped in to have a browse - and ended up buying a trouser suit and an evening dress. Oh dear, how did THAT happen!

They only had two suits left, a size 12 and a 16 at 75% off. Obviously, the 16 would be TOO BIG, so I said, "It's a pity you don't have a 14, this is a lovely suit". "Oh," she said, "I know it's a 12 but it is a generous cut". "Oh well, I'll try it on", said me. Well blow me if it didn't fit perfectly - not tight anywhere!

On the way to pay for it I spotted some evening dresses which were also 75% reduced. On impulse I decided to try a selection of them on. Well, I got 14's because they were all fitted dresses. They all fitted beautifully. I chose just one to buy (see, I can be strict with myself). It is really flattering, I can't wait to wear it on holiday!

Anyway, I asked my daughter to take my picture wearing both new items and I will try to put them on the site.

On another matter, I was flicking though my "Route to Management" book and came to week 4. There was a section on "Being a skilled Weight Holder". What does it mean, I wondered. Well I read on and found out it means maintaining your weight when you finally achieved your goal. I've never been able to do it. No, let me correct myself, I have never actually tried to do it! Yet.

I have been thinking about what it means for me all day, and thought I'd discuss it with you all when I next posted. Have any of you tried or been successful at weight maintaining in the past?

One of my colleagues occasionally comes to work complaining that her skirts are too tight and for two weeks she stops eating chocolate at coffee breaks/lunch breaks, stops the alcohol and, if she's going to have any snacks, chooses fruit. Then after a couple of weeks she's back to normal again. She doesn't got back to eating too much chocolate but does have it occasionally.

That sounds like a really healthy way to maintain weight, rather than letting it all pile regardless. I would like to believe that I will be able to follow her example once at the end of the 12 weeks, once I am 100% on real food again.

Oh yes, I almost forgot I bought a paid of evening shoes in another sale. They are gorgeous and only a tenner!

Oh yes, and a pair of combat type trousers (size 14) - but they were from the Barnados shop. See, I just don't have any informal trousers to wear!

That's all. Honestly. Really. Truthfully.

Hi AJ
u look fabulous in your new clothes well done on the weight loss u reallu are an insipiration. You sound like an LLC in the making

Thanks for your comments Nce1, I notice that your have 'stolen' my Connect4 Crown (probably while I was sleeping!) It was a total fluke that I'd won it in the first place though, because I ended up getting three connect fours in a row at the same time! How did that happen? Have you been playing that Patience Delux - a real ***** of a game!

Last night I had a piece of salmon (again, this time I wrapped it in tinfoil, sprinkled with lime juice and black pepper, and roasted in the oven), and placed it on a selection of green leaves (lambs lettuce, spinach and watercress) with a dressing of balsamic vinegar, lime and lemon. Am I making you feel hungry? God,it was lovely. I didn't finish the salmon again. Stopped when I felt full. Ate slowly. Savoured every bite.

I forgot to mention that every morning I do 10 mins on my Lateral Thigh Trainer (LTT), I get up a bit earlier to do this and intend it to be a daily workout. It is great because I can fit it in easily and it doesn't require special clothes (just trainers), trips to the gym, or arranging babysitting. It raises the heart rate, loosens the joints, and sets me up for the day. At this time I am not planning anything else. Whatever exercise I do, will have to be absorbed into my daily life so that it becomes 'invisible'. It has to be easy and achievable, so that I don't have an excuse to stop doing it and so start to put on weight again.

Tonight I am doing Salad Nicoise from my Route to Management recipe book. Salad leaves, tuna, cooked egg white, fat free dressing or a marinade, dill.

Bye for now ...

Well done AmandaJayne on your Management Diary Journey, you are following in the same diligent way you wrote your weight loss diary.

We can all learn so much from your journey as you are an inspiration to us all here.

Management is the great unknown for most of us but is I believe it to be one of the most important parts of the process and needs to be emphasized more in order to stabilize the weight.

I have put your before and after photos up on the inspirational thread, I hope you don't mind?

http://www.minimins.com/success-stor...tml#post129352


Love Mini xxx

Are you kidding, Mini!

I wouldn't have had a clue how to do it myself! Thank you so much for doing this. It is so thoughtful of you. While we are on the subject, thanks for all your other posts, not just to me, but to everyone else. They are always a pleasure to read!

MINI FOR PRIME MINISTER!

Hello... just continuing our conversation from the before and after pictures' thread...

in response to your question "When are you moving to management?":

Got a ways to go - I'm feeling a bit fed up today with all of this. I want to go out to dinner with my boyfriend and eat some "real" food! I keep feeling more hungry recently too and I don't know why?? (petulant child I suppose!)

I've been thinking I'd like to get down to 10 stone and then start management but that's still 3 months away if I continue at a stone per month. My counsellor isn't very keen for me to start management at 11 stone (which is what I originally suggested and which is at the top of my BMI). I also have this idea in my head that I want to be able to wear a bikini. Last time I was 11 stone I wouldn't wear a bikini - I was too flabby. This time round I'll be too flabby even if I'm 6 stone 'cos of all the loose skin - but even if it's a bloody tankini I'd like to, just once in my life, not hit the beach wearing a black, low legged, corseted swimsuit...

TBH... I'm just tired today, I'll be ok tomorrow after a sleep.

I was quite encouraged to see that someone else on management carried on losing - 11lbs I think they said. I have always assumed that I'll put on weight when I start management.

Anyway, this is why I'm enjoying your management thread so much..

Hia Hun,

Just out of interest, how tall are you?

Originally, I had decided to start management at the end of February (I don't know why), but when I broached the subject with my counsellor, she said I could start straight away! Well, virtually. I actually started four days later, attending my first Managment meeting on a Tuesday.

My BMI was still 26.9 and I wasn't at the goal weight I had chosen, but it didn't matter.

I am still intending to lose some more and get to at least 10.13. But I will be flexible.

How long have you been doing the Development now? How many are left of your group?

I'm 5'6". My group fell apart after Xmas - only two of us went back and the other one had eaten over Xmas - although she did so consciously and went straight back on and is very committed. i've joined a "refreshers" group as there were no suitable developers groups for me to join. TBH.. my LL journey has been a bit mad and I haven't really had the programme fully - haven't seen all the CDs - didn't get the exercise DVD or ball etc. We never work from the book or do any of the homework etc.

That being said, my counsellor is very good and we do work quite hard in other ways. So I like going to her. She's very supportive and calls me quite often etc. i really like the girls in my refreshers class and feel like i can empathise with them as I've yo-yoed my entire life so the things they say really resonate with me.

My WI is tomorrow and class so hopefully i'll be feeling a bit more motivated after that. It's just beginning to feel like quite a long time now. But I do know that this feeling will pass. Sometimes though I feel I'm wishing my life away with this - "I can't wait until I'm "normal" type feeling".

Amandajayne

I am a way off starting management but am reading your thread with interest. I have a question what does it suggest for vegetarians to eat as their protein?

I was thinking of quorn but my LLC said its a No No

Jo

Hi AJ
i have a Lateral thigh trainer as well its very good but as im on day 4 im steering clear at the mo because i get dizzy.

Although my housework has been stepped up - diversion tatics- everything is sparklin lol