Thread: 120lbs to shed with Alizonne tightening

AliGal- your doing so well! Keep it up hun!!

Thanks so much for your PM, unfortunately I can't send one back :S I don't think Iv posted enough

Well done Ali - keep at it! xx

think you need to make 50 posts, in order to send private messages, i might be wrong though

Originally Posted by mrtc

think you need to make 50 posts, in order to send private messages, i might be wrong though

Ahh that'll be why then!
I think I need to get posting

On track at 8 weeks, with nearly 3 stone lost. Over 3 stone lost including some weight loss before I started Alizonne.

OMG .....here I am matter of factly posting that I've lost 39lbs in 8 weeks. And it's not been hard. Just a matter of doing what they say, being conscious of prior bad habits and refusing to bend to temptations. I had thought I was slowing up but then got a great result on a good result this past 2 weeks. Deeply content about that.

I'm wondering what size I will be 3 months when our step daughter is marrying. I won't be able to shop until a week or so before we go. Right now the weight is coming really fast off my belly - where the ultrasound paddles 'melt' the fat. The longish tunic styles I have fall much better now. Some weight is also coming off all over. Right now people who know I'm doing Alizonne see an amazing change. No comments from others yet.

What is strange is that I am not ecstatic. However I think that's good. I can't sustain ecstasy from now until August!! I am quietly pleased with myself. And remain certain that I will get to goal and keep it off.

My main learning this past 2 months is that this is just the start. Keeping it off is the real work - learning a new normal to keep steady. Alizonne keep monitoring us - a new medgem with the BMR (basal metabolic rate ie how many calories to stay at goal) when we get to goal so I will know how much I can eat and monthly visits for 12 months, with advice as needed. People who don't phase off properly or keep up that monthly WI don't seem to do as well at staying at goal as those that do.

I'm feeling more comfortable clearing clothes out of my cupboard. Now I don't have a flat in town, I am combining 2 wardrobes - from my work/weekday flat and weekend/country/gardening clothes. The 28s and 26s are now going, plus anything I don't love. What's the point in wearing clothes I don't love love love.... So I'm blessing others courtesy of my local Sue Ryder (who can giftaid the donations - so an extra win). Some of my working wardrobe and other clothes were getting worn so are going for fabric recycling. I've also got rid of some work shoes as well as I am don't need so many pairs.

I also am shopping my wardrobe much more frequently - wanting avoid slimming right through clothes I'd like to wear. I have maybe 8 things I will wear that have been lurking around my wardrobe for some years. One of my favourites is a 1960s silk dress that I bought in a 2nd hand store at university (30 years ago!) and always kept. Getting into that will be very very satisfying.

I've found some 'slightly tight' bras so that's good as they are no longer tight. I am just on the border of being able to wear my lovely range of blue, green and turquoise 42DDD s from Lane Bryant bought during work trips to the US.

I haven't yet decided how to manage the bras whilst I continue to shed the lbs. A good bra is so important to a good line. So I expect I'll just have to buy a couple of bras as I go down and also have some of those stretch bra tops for days I am at home walking the dog.

Well I guess that was more info than most of you needed!

Have a great Saturday night/ Sunday!

Ali

Well done Ali! I found that people who knew I was doing the diet noticed before I got to 3 stone but others who didn't took over 3 stone and some nearer 4 stone before they noticed. I know what you mean about the wardrobe. I have things in the wardrobe still with their tags on that I never wore because they got too big before I got round to wearing them and things that I just didn't like that much so didn't bother wearing again on the way back down, plus some things that I bought 'to slim into' years ago, and then of course never did, but am able to wear now . I must get round to charity shopping some soon but I have a lot of wardrobes so there is still plenty of room and I've just moved things around. I really should bite the bullet and get rid. I did shift a bin liner of stuff the other day. Made the OH take it to the supermarket and put it in the Salvation Army container they have outside.

I've bought a few bras on the way down but have only gone down in terms of the numerical measurement as I'm still the same cup size sadly. I have some nice bras from when I got to goal before that I hope will fit again but I intend to have a professional fitting when I finally make it to goal plus I'm even considering a reduction! I still haven't found a stretch bra top that I can actually get into (maybe they don't do them for my cup size) and would quite like one for slopping around at home days. Where did you get yours from?

Thank you, BG. I'd heard the 4 stones is often the point at which people notice. I've got another 7-8 stones to go - so 1/3 of the way.

I haven't bought a bra top yet ...saw some in our local (very small) Boots. I have enough to get on with at the mo.

I'm sorry that you don't enjoy your cup size! I am hoping to keep most of mine.....always liked a good cleavage.

Now, BG: I am going to talk tough to you. You are my role model in may ways.....but you are not living up to it right now.....by still having clothes you have slimmed out of still in yr house. It's great your DH did a Salvation army bin run.

Please bite the bullet on the rest. Chuck them out next weekend! Or just put by the front or back door and ask your DH to do it if you can't do it. I have this strong feeling that it's essential to staying at goal.

Have a lovely day tomorrow,

Ali

I did the chucking thing last time I did a VLCD and over the years ended up buying new things in all of the sizes again. I suppose in the back of my mind I'm thinking I may need them again, much as I don't want to. I think the first step is to chuck all of the things I don't love to ease myself into chucking the things I always liked wearing . Next weekend will be to sort out the 'keep for now' from the 'chuck it now' I think.

I am like BG, a gal who likes to monitor at home - and this am I was down a lb so that makes the nice 40lbs on Alizonne. Yea!

Well done on the 40lbs - not far away from 3 stone . I managed to do some sorting today and have about 50 items bagged up and ready to chuck . Still got a bit of a way to go before I send the most beloved items on their final journey (well out of my house anyway!) but getting there at least.

A shake or sachet ommlette for breakfast is second nature now. I did egg and baked beans on toast for DH this am without a prob. now sitting at my desk with my water and off to start work.

Have a great day fellow vlcd-ers.

Ali

You have a great day too!

I do beans on toast for the kids once a week or so, very odd not to have some. I had 200g beans on 2 slices wholemeal toast every day for over 10 months! Was pretty much the only low Gi lunch I liked

Are the omelettes nice? We don't get them!

The ommlettes are not recognisably ommlettes - ie if you offered me a two or three egg ommlette, I'd choose that over the sachet.

However in the way of vlcd, I have grown to like them. We have 3 sorts - fines herbes, smoked bacon (no so not bacony - more just savoury!) and cheese. They come as powder and you mix with water.

I spray a non stick pan and 'fry'. I don't care for the herb one. I like the bacon one with fresh herbs, spring onion tops and maybe some stir fried veg such as grated or finely chopped courgettes from my 200g restricted veg allowance for supper. I serve them for supper with broccoli or some other free veg.

My new discovery is to mix the cheese ommlette sachet with a cheese sachet. The cheese is sheep's cheese - made up it's like a very mild low fat boursin. The resulting thinnish pancakes are not omlettes and are not very cheesy - but are really nice and even brown a little. Good for a cold day like today.

Day 66 and still on track.

Ali

Oh good you are finding 'recipes' for the packs, I think I have almost everything slightly different to the instructions. Meals I alwasy add more water and herbs, dry garlic, sometimes mustard seeds. Shakes I do hot, all thick with ice in a blender, or as a little bowl of mush! Bars I chop up, soup is less water and added herbs etc. Turning into a gourmet!

66 days is frankly an amazing achievement. I'm on day 36ish and can't believe I've lasted this long!

As you may know, I weigh daily when at home. I amend my profile here when I am down a pound or two. I also WI officially regularly. The day sometimes varies due to work. This week I lost just over 2lbs.

I found myself having that 'only a kg' moment. And then I acknowledged that I had lost 2.2lbs without having any hunger, and that it's the cumulative 4 week result that matters. Three more pounds and I'll be 17 something. I can't remember the last time I was 17 something. One more lb and it'll be 3 stone in 9 weeks.

So onwards and downwards!

Ali