LED's Beck Diet Solution Diary!

Well, I'm back, again, after a few more months of faff... this time armed both with my trusty Beck Diet Solution and also the Workbook to go with it! I used the book alongside Exante in 2011 and lost around 4 stone - unfortunately fell spectacularly off the wagon and am back more or less where I started now. A few restarts along the way, but never started a new diary and never made it past a week or two! So this time round I'm starting a new diary to give myself a boost and a bit of extra commitment. My plan is to use this to work through the Beck steps, keep myself motivated and chart my success!

So, day 4 today, have been having a mix of S&S packs, Exante shakes and protein/ veg meals... haven't really be taking it 100% seriously and have had a few slips already, so this diary is to focus my mind! Am planning to do 8 weeks to begin with, with the aim of losing 2.5 stone to get back to the weight I was before I had my DS... then it's time to start TTC a little brother or sister for him Hoping this will give me the motivation I need!

So, step 1 of Beck - review my motivation for losing weight!
- Most importantly, I want to get pregnant easily, have a healthy pregnancy and not have all the added complications of having a BMI 30+! Also last pregnancy I had SPD which I'm sure my weight didn't help with, so hoping to minimise that if I can
- DS is nearly three and a really active boy - losing weight means I'll be able to keep up with him, chase him around, go down slides and through the soft-play tunnels without getting out of puff! At the moment even getting up off the floor is a struggle!
- Feel, look and dress younger - middle age is a long way away but it doesn't feel it sometimes!
- Make my family proud - I never wanted to be the "fat mum" whose kids get teased... have a year til DS starts school so time to get on with it!

OK, that's Beck Step 1 done, with a list to re-read daily and add to whenever I think of more reasons I want to lose weight. Plan for today - shake for breakfast (with coffee, yum), porridge for lunch, chilli and broccoli for dinner, choc shake with peppermint tea (double yum!) for afters. 30 min walk with DH and DS this afternoon, lots of water and an early night... mega-motivated today!

Hi LED

Sounds like you're heading into the right from of mind and getting into the zone so I'm sure you'll do great. I need to start the Beck book again, never manage to get past the first week or so!

Hi Caz
I know what you mean - I've read the whole book but haven't ever made myself do all the steps - tend to just pick out the bits I like and ignore some of the harder bits! This time will try really hard to do everything it sets out, hence this diary to keep me on track!

So... step 2 - choose a diet! OK, I am ignoring Beck at this point because she says its got to be 1200+ cals, etc, etc, but other than that I'm trying! My primary diet is S&S (with leftover Exante packs thrown into the mix), and I'll have 2 back-up diets: low carb for if I'm having a day where I can't do S&S for any reason, and Slimming World as my secondary diet, which I'm planning to do when I stop S&S. Have chosen Slimming World because you can carry on when pregnant... fingers crossed!

So, yesterday didn't go amazingly well... long day at work and didn't take enough food, ended up on the brink of a migraine so pulled into a service station and got some cooked chicken with mayo dip - overall not the end of the world as low carb, but not as low cal as it should have been! Have been jumping on the scales every morning before breakfast and its frustrating not to see the pounds drop - at the moment I seem to be on target for my lowest ever first week loss, boo! Still, today is going great, two shakes so far and a walk with DS to feed the ducks (spring finally on the way, yay!) so maybe that big first-week loss is just around the corner

Anyway, Beck steps so far 1) reading motivation to lose weight everyday (tick!) and 2) have chosen my diet and back-up diet (tick!) so time for step 3: sit down to eat... and that means everything! This is one of the steps I've sort of ignored in the past (let's face it, when you're on a 600cal diet it seems like standing up to drink a shake really isn't going to make any difference!) but this time round I'm serious about doing the plan properly, so from now on, no nibbles of chicken standing next to the fridge, or tastes of DS's pasta sauce when I'm serving dinner! All food will be planned out, served up and eaten sitting down - no excuses!

There - I'm being good - please please please let the scales go down a few pounds by morning!

Hya I'm trying to complete s&s with the help if the beck diet aswell but I downloaded the book I think I should of bought it so I could do the activities aswell in the book.

It's day 1 for me and I have sort of strayed off plan by having a bar which wasn't on my food plan for today but still have a pack to go yet.

Hi Shadow, nice to see another S&S/Beck follower! I know Noodles is too and she's doing amazingly
Personally I don't like writing in books so it wouldn't make much difference to me, usually I have a nice notebook that I write diet things it, but thought since I spend most of my life online I might try putting it here instead!
Hope day 1 went well, having an "offplan" bar certainly isn't the worst of things!

I'm on day 7 now, and think I'm properly back in ketosis. Lost 2lbs overnight, have made today my weigh-in day as I'm usually at work on a Thurs... 6lbs for my first week which isn't amazing, but then again I haven't been perfect all week and it certainly isn't a bad start! Hoping for another good one (4-5lbs?) this week, and am going to work harder at not having any slips.

So, yesterday ate everything sat down, will do so again today (about to make a shake for breakfast), have reviewed my motivation, and good to go! Beck step 4: congratulate yourself on every little achievement... this I'm pretty good at already but must give myself credit for starting the day with a pint of water instead of a coffee!

Onwards and inwards...

Another day pretty much 100% on plan... one advantage of Exante over Slim & Save was that I knew exactly what "on-plan" was - no fooling myself with a few extra olives when the plan = 3 shakes and water! My logging everything on myfitnesspal though and not over 700 cals for today, so the extra olive or two shouldn't matter! Had zero noodles with salmon for dinner, noticed stomach rumbling and feeling hungry straight after, weird since it was physically much larger a meal than usual! Think that for me the zero noodles are a bit of a trigger, so will lay off for a few days, then try once more as an experiment. If they are, will have to hide them away as use as part of the next phase of my diet (Slimming world).

Anyway, Beck Step 5 = eat slowly and mindfully! I am so so bad at this, I almost go into a trance whatever I'm eating and the individual mouthfuls barely register... this step is going to take work! But maybe it'll be the secret to me maintaining this time, so work at it I will! Today I ate everything sat down, and can giuve myself credit for remembering to do that! Last half a shake in a min and then off to bed with my rumbling tum!