Thread: Gunpowd3r and my partner's weight loss diary

As soon as the weight comes off, you'll find that it's easier and not crave as much as time goes on. You have to do what works for you, if you feel low between 3-6pm, keep the bar for around then, and maybe have a coke/dr pepper zero on hand. I find this helps me when others are snacking etc. I was really bad for snacking before this diet, particularly evening munching! But don't do it now, and the only thing I am now craving, is normal meals, so not snacky crap that I'd want to graze on like before. The cravings prob won't completely grow, I've had ups and downs and if you read my diary today you will see that.

Do whats right for you, make the diet work for you, from a seemingly rigid plan, it can be quite flexible x

Thanks Tara, BG, LadyFelsham and Frannie

It helps reading the other diaries as you are all different in your losses,approach and way you cope with cravings etc....

Have just finished 2 of your diaries BG can't find a start one when you began?


Anyway this is day 5 woooo almost at a close.


Day 4 seemed to be a small turnaround, not so many cravings for both of us and not so much hunger, OH did 4 packs wooo but....he cannot live without the 100g of protein(chicken breast) each night with evening meal so far it isn't harming losses he weighed in this morning at 9lb's off and has survived since 6.30am this morning on 2 shakes and has'nt felt hungry or craved as bad, is still dark pink on ketostix and freezing so defo in ketosis lol

Yesterday i had my usual 4 packs and struggled as usual with the water(so hard when ketosis makes everything have a yuk mettalic type taste). It got to around 3pm and i thought i would take the dog out for a walk to break the craving habit , it worked although to be honest i am craving toast, cheese, cheese sarnie and cheese toastie so bad.....i won't have any i am determined there is none in and i won't buy any


Today i had a crispy vanilla shake for ahem brekkie(at 1pm) then nothing till dinner at 5.30pm WOW i didn't have a tummy grumble or anything was happy to wait for my dinner Struggled with water had 3 bottles then a redbush tea, dr pepper zero x 2 glasses and a normal tea.

Gonna have a tea with my milk allowance and my bar around 8pm so got to fit some water in before then lol it has to be done though.

Had no water flavourings or bouillon for 2 days.

OH is saving his bar for 8pm also he might get away with 4 packs again today but then he has the meal with veg and chicken but then he is losing ok(i feel if i cut the chicken out he would not cope, as it seems to keep him sane all day the thought of the chicken with the meal lol).

Dinner tonight was spag bol with garlic mushrooms added in, roasted pepper and shallots with broccoli for me and salad for OH( i struggled half way through and left some broccoli)!!


My losses so far are 7lbs(only weighing once a day in morning after first pee).

I will have had 3 packs:

Crispy vanilla -1pm
spag bol, mushrooms,broccoli,tiny bit of salad and 100g chicken breast -5.30pm
lemon bar --8pm

OH
caramel shake --9am
strawberry shake --1pm
spag bol, n veg 100g chicken breast.
Not sure which bar --8pm

I will carry on with reading the diaries here , i just cannot express how motivational they are!!! Taking me ages to get through them all though lol stop writing for a bit to i catch up hehe.

Good luck to everyone

Gosh my replies are long winded hehe

I didn't have a starting diary. When I first went on S&S there was no section for it here (there were about 4 of us doing it I think. Phoenix and I are still around). Then we got a section of our own under the VLCD section and I started to do a diary after I came back from my first break when I had a holiday. Now we have a proper grown up sub forum .

The lemon bar is nice (well I think so). I like it the same as the tuffa bar but it's very different in taste and texture. Hope you like it. If your OH can't cope without the protein perhaps he should do 4 packs and the protein as a regular thing? I think that 5 packs plus protein and veggies would be getting up towards a LCD level rather than a VLCD and although he would probably still loose the losses may not be as good overall. Although annoyingly men always lose loads more than us women! We had a guy on here before Xmas and he lost crazy amounts in a short space of time but took a break and hasn't been seen since.

Oh, and cheese toasties are the work of the devil by the way

Ahhh that explains me not being able to find your start diary lol, still very interesting reading, you have done so well on your journey!!! I cannot believe how much you have lost, i only hope my OH is as strong and does the same.

We have a planned break for his birthday as it's good friday and then be off easter weekend(easter dinner will be steak and veg as low carb as possible).Then on easter monday right back into it lol.

Yea i was thinking of dropping him down to 4 a day as the plan was 5 a day till ketosis and he could manage on 4, well i say i was thinking of dropping him down he has actually dropped himself down lol, and agrees the 5th pack should be dropped as he is coping on 4.So i guess we will see how it goes with him he has no TOTM to worry about like us women lol

God just downed 2x 250ml glasses of water actually easier to drink from a glass than a bottle hmmmm

You're doing great, I find it really helps to have a neb on peoples diaries too. I was inspired by a girls exante diary, I was coming back on minimins to carry on with slimming world, but stumbled onto the exante forums somehow and got reading, this led to reading more and more on vlcd's and thought what the hell, I'll go for it! Wasn't planning on starting vlcd until beginning of feb but after lurking on here and talking with a colleague at work, I started half way through jan. I was trying to order with exante, but the site was down, so went for s&s and I'm now so glad I did! x

Hmm this might not be good to share but you know one thing that is a sure fire way to turn me off eating food and making me feel totally un-hungry.............

A dirty long hair omg yuk yuk yuk just the thought of a hair in a sandwhich makes me feel like gagging, lol i was just thinking of something to make me switch off incase i felt like caving for a craving

ie: just imagine that cheese toastie is full of someones long hairs

Thanks Tara i can't even remember way back in sept why i decided on vlcd and slim &save i think it has something to do with seeing it on ebay when i was having a huge clearout and searched for protein shakes and of course S&S came up and the feedback got me v interested.Oh yes think it's coming back to me now

On with the water 3rd glass now

some men have a real hang up about needing MEAT! try telling him you were wrong about the packs being soy ..??

Haha good one! He is a red meat man loves his steak so it might work lol

Day 6 today it feels like such a long week god knows why but it is getting easier(dare i say lol).

I did 3 packs yesterday and was proud of myself so said right 3 today? ok then

Got up wasn't hungry but boy oh boy was my mouth like a sewer ahhhhh a dry one at that am not complaining(doesn't sound like it eh) it keeps me positive about ketosis lol.

Managed to down around 2 l of water by the glass in better time than yesterday, got hungry around 12 so had brek a yummy yummy crispy nutty choc lol so loving them.

I kept myself busy and was ok until around 3pm i felt a rumble in my stomach but i lasted till 6pm when i started dins, had the lovely chilli with extra chilli again loads a mushrooms and salad with my 100g chicken.God i struggled half way through but finished the pack as i know i need to finish at least that, the dog had the end chunk of my chicken.

Only problem i am really getting is after dinner i get wind wind wind all night and it aint silent but it's violent . It must be the veg fgs i am like this now till i go to bed then ok in the morning....i will put it down to veg and my ibs lol.

Not feeling like my bar tonight have a hankering for a warm caramel shake with coffee.

Had a lemon bar last night yuk yuk i just cant get into them

I am thinking of doing a ticker but not for me for OH, where do i go to sort one or do i just do a search on here?

I think my weight loss is boring compared to his lol. I have basically 2 stone to get down for health reasons and this will take me to 11 stone.

My OH start weight was 21 st 8lbs, so his weight loss should be a bit more exciting than my chugging along drops lool

He weighed this morning and rather irritatingly he has lost a whopping 12lbs!!!! The analyser scale now says 2% fat is lost as well i am so so proud of him.

WI officially wed morning, day 7 tomorrow, let's see if i can do 3 again and OH 4 packs.

Oh btw i am Lee

the fat loss is fab as that is proper loss not just water!

yes, dodgy tummy here too!!!! hoping it'll settle down over time or no going to the office for me!

I think the ticker instructions are in the blue 'tutorials' link at the top. You can probably do 2 tickers - one for him and one for you. The tickers are the same length so as he has more to lose a pound is less distance on his ticker than yours so you'll look like you are losing at a reasonable rate compared to his ticker I think .

12lbs is a great loss so far. Blokes definitely have it easy on this diet

Tried my tickers let's see if it worked lol

YAY!

Tickers looking good!