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Jubbly · 18th October, 2006

Hi Coley, WOW you are a busy person - studying, CDC, looking at flats, working too?? How long is your dissertation? I did a 20,000 one last year for my MSc and I loved it but think I would have struggled to do it without bags and bags of pick and mix to munch in the library!! Fingers crossed for the nice flat. We lived in some shocking places at uni - trust me, it can't be worse than my second year house where the ceiling fell down in the living room on the first day!!

Diet going er, kind of OK. Still sticking to my half way between AAM and 790 thing most days but did have a chicken breast with a smear of pesto and a tiny sliver of cheese in it last night, wrapped in 2 bits of streaky bacon with asparagus (which had a spray of oil on it). I know - lots of bad things. But I DIDN'T have the potatoes, wine or birthday cake and I had cooked the whole thing for my boyfriend's mum so think I deserved it!! Weigh in tomorrow and really hoping I've lost minimum 2lbs to take me into the 9s but not very hopeful. Need to be more disciplined - was so good when I started this and felt v smug.

How's everyone else doing?

dizzy-n-mizzy · 18th October, 2006

Hi Jubbly sounds like you did a fab job of cooking the meal and not eating too much. Sure it won't do any harm. I'm back on track now and down to 11/10 this morning so my hiccup last week is well behind me.

Coley I too lived in some appauling accommodation in my student days. I lived with my current hubby in the later years
and we had a attic flat it was the nicest of the student places we had but one day we came home to find a smelly, drunk old lady sitting on the doorstep we had to give her a drink and find her son which wasn't easy and he was alcoholic too before we could get in our own flat.

Glad we roughed it though as all part of our interesting past experiences.

Even gladder we survived though!

Dizzy x

Maintainer · 18th October, 2006

hi guys,

I'm not strictly speaking in the diet game any more, but well remember that last stone... how could anyone forget how much more difficult it is to lose weight when the compliments are flooding in, clothes are fitting, and the old demons are still lurking and tempting us.

I've been maintaining now (not a VLCD loss) for almost 3 years and I still can't take my eye off the ball.

For the last stone, I pretty much continued as I had previously (planning meals for the entire week, only buying THOSE food stuffs so that there was no room for "error", mentally dividing my plate into three portions - one quarter for protein, one quarter for carbs, and one half for veg or salad) BUT any week I didn't lose, I would then tweak something. Often I found one week I didn't lose, then the next week lost double... or, by looking back on my meal plans, realised that some "extras" had crept in, or often just by cutting down on (or cutting out completely) bread, pasta, rice etc for one week would start off the weight loss again.

Now, in maintenance, I eat pretty much this way still weekdays, giving me freedom at the weekends (often taken too literally, I grant you).

If I can help in any way, please don't hesitate to ask. I can only imagine how hard it must be to reintroduce food after a VLCD, so imagine some issues are different, but the end result has to be the same - no more dieting EVER!

Good luck to you all

Cheb · 18th October, 2006

Hi

I'm feeling back on track, not quite back down to within a stone of my goal but it's getting closer, 22lb to go to target. Hoping I can get there by December ready to stabilise in time for Christmas.

How is everyone else getting on?

dizzy-n-mizzy · 18th October, 2006

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Originally Posted by Maintainer

If I can help in any way, please don't hesitate to ask. I can only imagine how hard it must be to reintroduce food after a VLCD, so imagine some issues are different, but the end result has to be the same - no more dieting EVER!

Good luck to you all

Thanks for the offer! It is great to have living proof that we can get there and maintain. I agree that we need to get organised and keep eye on the ball. Not easy but important!

I'm sure you will be able to continue to give us sound advice for the last stone and beyond and am certainly looking forward to that very much!

Thanks again

Dizzy x

**MandyB2** · 18th October, 2006

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Originally Posted by dizzy-n-mizzy

Thanks for the offer! It is great to have living proof that we can get there and maintain. I agree that we need to get organised and keep eye on the ball. Not easy but important!

I'm sure you will be able to continue to keep us sound advice for the last stone and beyond and am certainly looking forward to that very much!

Thanks again

Dizzy x

I second that Dizzy

All help at this stage of the game is very welcome... thanks Maintainer.. you're a star

Coley · 18th October, 2006

Morning all!! Just logging in before my day of hell!!! Have to read a gazzillion papers and the plumbers coming out to fix the fecken leak so lots of nice banging to accompany my nice reading and I have to whip up a powerpoint presentation and come up with a proper title for my disseration. It's going to be something along the lines of Puncutation and Intonation - the effects of spillover.....and something which I haven't decided yet on eye movement. All very boring I'm afraid. I get to play with eye trackers which my uni is famous for in Psychology land. Must not forget....have uber huge order coming in today....poor delivery man is in his 60's and looks like he dies everytime he comes to deliver stuff for me.....eek! poor man. Has to be done though. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. My mum starts ib Cambridge today...she has been Atkins for years so I have every faith she can stick at this (I tried Atkins before LL and CD and I couldn't handle it!) and she'll do fabby.

Jubbly - I have no idea how long my disseration is.....I think it might be 10 000, but it could be 100 000 for all I know. Wasn't going to do 4th year, didn't think I'd be able to handle this disseration lark and really wanted to run off to Glasgow with my boyfriend. It's all a bit sad really, he's there, I'm here, we used to live together but now obviously we can't. I see him once a week. It's rather depressing. Boo. Only another...em....goodness knows how many years. I'm wanting to do Social Work after this so will have to see where he is and how all my clients are and how things are going to work out.

Boo!!! Anyway, your dinner doesn't sound too naughty to me...only a little tiny bit of naughtyness....I wouldn't worry too much. We can't be perfect all the time eh?

I think you get a gold star for not munching all the norty foods!!!

My flat is ok...it's a bit studenty....but it's not exactly the best place to look professional with my clients, although a lot of them appear to be students anyway, I seem to attract that demographic, but I'd like it to seem that I'm not a disorganised mess in an itty bittie little flat. Plus, I'd like to start having groups and at the moment I don't have the space so fingers crossed for pretty new flat!!

Dizzy - hrm....gotta love the smelly drunk people. I'm never drunk....nope nope. lol

well, I've never fell asleep on the ground from being so drunk!! put it that way! I wish I was back living with Gavin, it's weird living on your own after living with someone for a year. Was horrible moving out, felt like I was being chucked out of my own home and felt like 2 steps back in our relationship but in the land of rational Nicole, I know it's not like that really because he had to rent his flat out and get another place in Glasgow for work. You make it sound like your flats in student days were plagued with the black death and cholera!!!

hee hee. well done for surviving them!

Maintainer - gee whizz. I am rather worried about this maintaining lark. Losing weight is fine, but keeping it off is the hard bit. Have seen your piccies and you look fab! My plan is to sign up to the tesco ediets after I've finished stabilisation and go on their GI diet plan. They make menus up for you and shopping lists so I can just shop on line and get it sorted that way.

Cheb - hey hun!! not far off now are you really?? You'll be whizzing along in time for christmas no bother at all!!

Mandyb2 - morning!! how we doing today?

Have just got my massive delivery of stuff.....so have to go put that away....just waiting for my pretty pretty shoes http://www.schuhstore.co.uk/images/p...020m3_exlg.jpg

thats them there.....come on shoes!! will check in with you guys later, possibly when I'm hyterical because I can't do my work and it's all going wrong!!!

Keep at it girlies!!

Jubbly · 18th October, 2006

Coley - don't stress too much over your dissertation, they usually kind of come together eventually. Should be 10,000 words for a bachelors degree, not 100,000!!!! I finished my BSc dissertation at 8000 words and it was on unusual views deficit in neuropsychology - v,v, boring so I sympathise with you there. Changed field to criminology for my postgrad degree and loved it cos I could write about paedophiles and stuff... You seem a very dedicated person doing all that stuff - when I was at uni all I did was sleep, listen to metal, get stoned and drink a lot of snakebite and black, oh and study - so I'm sure you'll be fine.

Coley · 18th October, 2006

AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!! stupid presentation!! it's all complicated and powerpoint slides are all too small and it's taken me allllllll daaaaaayyyyyyyy and it's nowhere near finished and I haven't had time for reading my stuff for my dissertation, never mind class tomorrow......aaaaaaaargh!! not enough hours in the day!

I'm going to have to do one of those horrible all night thingies without nice munchies and without any pro plus!!!!

I HATE UNI. Anyone who says students are slackers I'll shoot the lot of you!!!

Jubbly · 19th October, 2006

Coley - hope your presentation went OK. Let us know how it went today (or have you got it this afternoon??). At the end of the day, presentations are worth hardly any of your final degree classification. I also had to pull an all nighter for mine, did a rubbish job of (but I'm sure you won't) and still got a 2:1 so it wasn't that important in the grand scheme of things. Plus it was only about minutes or something so probably not worth the stress I put myself through!!

How's your mum doing on CD?? MY mum wants me to be a CDC so she can start on it for cut prices (and to think she was slagging it off when I started)!!

How the rest of you guys doing?? My weigh in tonight so I will see if that stuff I had on Tuesday made much difference. Ketostix showed somewhere between beige and v light pink last night so something must have almost knocked me out but can't think what.

dizzy-n-mizzy · 19th October, 2006

Hi all,

I had a bit of a mishap last night with a jar of pickled red cabbage. My pee may be pink soon but the ketostix won't. I saw you could have pickled cabbage on 790 plan but temptation got the better of me and I ate practically the whole jar. (I love vinegary things!) I really need to get menus planned and get organised. I can't seem to let myself be spontaneous around food. My belly was grumbling last night but so far no problems but as we have visiters from Canada tomorrow I am really hoping I have no embarrassing problems to come! Anyway don't feel to bad about it. I am considering this period of introducing foods to be a learning curve. I am prepared to take as long as it takes. I guess it will probably be forever. I am naturally a disorganised person so it's tricky.

Hope you are all doing better than me.

Dizzy x

Coley · 19th October, 2006

Hello troops!! I am back home after a bit of a stressful morning and a slip!!

I was walking myself into Uni to see about this stupid presentation, I have to do it on Monday, but supposed to be prepared buy now!! So....was walking myself into town on the way to Uni and I heard and saw 2 people getting hit by a taxi. Horrible horrible noise. One of them was conscious, not the other one. Of course everyone went rushing up to them called an ambulance etc etc....but I was right there and stood in a daze. It was the daft peoples fault, they were right next to the crossing and it wasn't their turn to cross and they didn't look but still....not nice....all blood and on the road. I wasn't any use and I was late for my lecturer so off I went into Uni. Spent ages waiting for him to be available and spent 20 mins going through my presentation which we cut in half. (should really be modifying that just now.....but procrastinating) So that was good...feeling a bit calmer about that now. (got to bed about 2am btw....couldn't be doing an all nighter last night).

I prosponed my dissertation meeting till Monday which isn't really more time as I work on the weekend but it gives me a few extra hours. Decided to skip my lecture this afternoon, we have a hand out already and the lecturer just reads it word for word so I wandered home, picking up a first aid kit and some lipstick for halloween.

Suddenly felt awful sorry for myself and decided to buy some dried mango! great idea!! So that has now disappeared into my tummy. woops...citric acid and all that. So thats that and it's done and I'm not going to feel bad about it....there are worse things than eating dried mango aren't there?!!! erm......carbs? So....naughty blip, but carrying on like it didn't happen. Bought me 2 DJ Yoda albums (I really wanted Imogen Heap but stupid man in Virgin told me it wasn't out till Feb....totally lying. I can buy it on play .com now!!) so anyway....I am just putting them on my computer now.....happy days! DJ Yoda always makes me feel happy....I saw him live when I was in Freshers week in 1st year.

Jubbly - it's day 2 for my mum....she wouldn't take it without paying me for it! she's my mmmmuuuuumm, but she was ademant it is a business and she isn't expecting things for free. Guess thats me told. You don't argue with mum. Presentation will be fine....bu the evil thing is everyone evaluates it and then we are videoed and we watch it back.....all bad!! Good luck for the weigh in!! you'll be fine!

Dizzy - falling into all this food!! what are we like? I love vinegar stuff......yum....must not think of salt and vinegar anything....or pickled stuff....ah dear.

Right...I must go and do some more on this presentation so that it gets somewhere near up to scratch!

Toodles for now guys!!

Maintainer · 19th October, 2006

Coley - what a horrid experience. Those poor people.

Dizzy - pickled red cabbage?! Whatever next! That's the first time I've heard of anyone OD'ing on something like that... haaaaa! (Sorry but that tickled me - particularly as you have guests coming, and fear the side effects!)

See how my plan, plan, plan again idea can work? If you *know* exactly what you're eating for the next meal, and only have those ingredients at your disposal, it makes things so much easier... and it has to be even more true when reintroducing food after a VLCD... it must be like being let loose in a shop after hours with everything available to you!

Coley · 19th October, 2006

Poor people....hope the unconscious one is ok!! Red cabbage.....wasn't really reading properly before...hee hee...really could have been worse though eh??

Got a new flat!!! 2 mins from the one I'm in now but much nicer and no scary windows!! yey!! at least something is going right now!

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Jubbly Addicted to MiniMins Jubbly's Profile Albums Jubbly's Photo Gallery Join Date: 14th September, 2006 Location: Woodbridge, Suffolk Posts: 213 My Mood: Rep Power: 6 Diet: Cambridge	Hi Coley, WOW you are a busy person - studying, CDC, looking at flats, working too?? How long is your dissertation? I did a 20,000 one last year for my MSc and I loved it but think I would have struggled to do it without bags and bags of pick and mix to munch in the library!! Fingers crossed for the nice flat. We lived in some shocking places at uni - trust me, it can't be worse than my second year house where the ceiling fell down in the living room on the first day!! Diet going er, kind of OK. Still sticking to my half way between AAM and 790 thing most days but did have a chicken breast with a smear of pesto and a tiny sliver of cheese in it last night, wrapped in 2 bits of streaky bacon with asparagus (which had a spray of oil on it). I know - lots of bad things. But I DIDN'T have the potatoes, wine or birthday cake and I had cooked the whole thing for my boyfriend's mum so think I deserved it!! Weigh in tomorrow and really hoping I've lost minimum 2lbs to take me into the 9s but not very hopeful. Need to be more disciplined - was so good when I started this and felt v smug. How's everyone else doing? __________________

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dizzy-n-mizzy Not dieting ATM! dizzy-n-mizzy's Profile Albums dizzy-n-mizzy's Photo Gallery Join Date: 18th September, 2006 Location: Essex Posts: 3,934 My Mood: Rep Power: 58 Diet: Together we lost 8 stone on CD.	Hi Jubbly sounds like you did a fab job of cooking the meal and not eating too much. Sure it won't do any harm. I'm back on track now and down to 11/10 this morning so my hiccup last week is well behind me. Coley I too lived in some appauling accommodation in my student days. I lived with my current hubby in the later years and we had a attic flat it was the nicest of the student places we had but one day we came home to find a smelly, drunk old lady sitting on the doorstep we had to give her a drink and find her son which wasn't easy and he was alcoholic too before we could get in our own flat. Glad we roughed it though as all part of our interesting past experiences. Even gladder we survived though! Dizzy x __________________ I can now run non-stop at 10 kph for 30 minutes (5 km)!

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Maintainer Wannabe Healthy Eater Maintainer's Profile Albums Maintainer's Photo Gallery Join Date: 3rd October, 2006 Location: France Posts: 701 My Mood: Rep Power: 16	hi guys, I'm not strictly speaking in the diet game any more, but well remember that last stone... how could anyone forget how much more difficult it is to lose weight when the compliments are flooding in, clothes are fitting, and the old demons are still lurking and tempting us. I've been maintaining now (not a VLCD loss) for almost 3 years and I still can't take my eye off the ball. For the last stone, I pretty much continued as I had previously (planning meals for the entire week, only buying THOSE food stuffs so that there was no room for "error", mentally dividing my plate into three portions - one quarter for protein, one quarter for carbs, and one half for veg or salad) BUT any week I didn't lose, I would then tweak something. Often I found one week I didn't lose, then the next week lost double... or, by looking back on my meal plans, realised that some "extras" had crept in, or often just by cutting down on (or cutting out completely) bread, pasta, rice etc for one week would start off the weight loss again. Now, in maintenance, I eat pretty much this way still weekdays, giving me freedom at the weekends (often taken too literally, I grant you). If I can help in any way, please don't hesitate to ask. I can only imagine how hard it must be to reintroduce food after a VLCD, so imagine some issues are different, but the end result has to be the same - no more dieting EVER! Good luck to you all __________________ Joanne Start weight: 141K (March 2002) Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003) Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+ Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K. 23/10/08: 66.8K

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Cheb Needs a life Cheb's Profile Albums Cheb's Photo Gallery Tournaments Won: 11 Join Date: 22nd July, 2006 Location: South East Coast Posts: 1,940 My Mood: Rep Power: 36 Diet: Cambridge Diet (SSing)	Hi I'm feeling back on track, not quite back down to within a stone of my goal but it's getting closer, 22lb to go to target. Hoping I can get there by December ready to stabilise in time for Christmas. How is everyone else getting on? __________________

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Coley CDC Coley's Profile Albums Coley's Photo Gallery Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: 20th September, 2006 Location: Dundee, Scotland Posts: 1,848 My Mood: Rep Power: 34 Diet: Cambridge	Morning all!! Just logging in before my day of hell!!! Have to read a gazzillion papers and the plumbers coming out to fix the fecken leak so lots of nice banging to accompany my nice reading and I have to whip up a powerpoint presentation and come up with a proper title for my disseration. It's going to be something along the lines of Puncutation and Intonation - the effects of spillover.....and something which I haven't decided yet on eye movement. All very boring I'm afraid. I get to play with eye trackers which my uni is famous for in Psychology land. Must not forget....have uber huge order coming in today....poor delivery man is in his 60's and looks like he dies everytime he comes to deliver stuff for me.....eek! poor man. Has to be done though. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. My mum starts ib Cambridge today...she has been Atkins for years so I have every faith she can stick at this (I tried Atkins before LL and CD and I couldn't handle it!) and she'll do fabby. Jubbly - I have no idea how long my disseration is.....I think it might be 10 000, but it could be 100 000 for all I know. Wasn't going to do 4th year, didn't think I'd be able to handle this disseration lark and really wanted to run off to Glasgow with my boyfriend. It's all a bit sad really, he's there, I'm here, we used to live together but now obviously we can't. I see him once a week. It's rather depressing. Boo. Only another...em....goodness knows how many years. I'm wanting to do Social Work after this so will have to see where he is and how all my clients are and how things are going to work out. Boo!!! Anyway, your dinner doesn't sound too naughty to me...only a little tiny bit of naughtyness....I wouldn't worry too much. We can't be perfect all the time eh? I think you get a gold star for not munching all the norty foods!!! My flat is ok...it's a bit studenty....but it's not exactly the best place to look professional with my clients, although a lot of them appear to be students anyway, I seem to attract that demographic, but I'd like it to seem that I'm not a disorganised mess in an itty bittie little flat. Plus, I'd like to start having groups and at the moment I don't have the space so fingers crossed for pretty new flat!! Dizzy - hrm....gotta love the smelly drunk people. I'm never drunk....nope nope. lolwell, I've never fell asleep on the ground from being so drunk!! put it that way! I wish I was back living with Gavin, it's weird living on your own after living with someone for a year. Was horrible moving out, felt like I was being chucked out of my own home and felt like 2 steps back in our relationship but in the land of rational Nicole, I know it's not like that really because he had to rent his flat out and get another place in Glasgow for work. You make it sound like your flats in student days were plagued with the black death and cholera!!! hee hee. well done for surviving them! Maintainer - gee whizz. I am rather worried about this maintaining lark. Losing weight is fine, but keeping it off is the hard bit. Have seen your piccies and you look fab! My plan is to sign up to the tesco ediets after I've finished stabilisation and go on their GI diet plan. They make menus up for you and shopping lists so I can just shop on line and get it sorted that way. Cheb - hey hun!! not far off now are you really?? You'll be whizzing along in time for christmas no bother at all!! Mandyb2 - morning!! how we doing today? Have just got my massive delivery of stuff.....so have to go put that away....just waiting for my pretty pretty shoes http://www.schuhstore.co.uk/images/p...020m3_exlg.jpg thats them there.....come on shoes!! will check in with you guys later, possibly when I'm hyterical because I can't do my work and it's all going wrong!!! Keep at it girlies!! __________________ The Last Stone Mission! If you fancy sponsoring me for the Moonwalk in aid of Breast Cancer Research, here's the link! https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/coley7916

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Jubbly Addicted to MiniMins Jubbly's Profile Albums Jubbly's Photo Gallery Join Date: 14th September, 2006 Location: Woodbridge, Suffolk Posts: 213 My Mood: Rep Power: 6 Diet: Cambridge	Coley - don't stress too much over your dissertation, they usually kind of come together eventually. Should be 10,000 words for a bachelors degree, not 100,000!!!! I finished my BSc dissertation at 8000 words and it was on unusual views deficit in neuropsychology - v,v, boring so I sympathise with you there. Changed field to criminology for my postgrad degree and loved it cos I could write about paedophiles and stuff... You seem a very dedicated person doing all that stuff - when I was at uni all I did was sleep, listen to metal, get stoned and drink a lot of snakebite and black, oh and study - so I'm sure you'll be fine. __________________

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Coley CDC Coley's Profile Albums Coley's Photo Gallery Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: 20th September, 2006 Location: Dundee, Scotland Posts: 1,848 My Mood: Rep Power: 34 Diet: Cambridge	AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!! stupid presentation!! it's all complicated and powerpoint slides are all too small and it's taken me allllllll daaaaaayyyyyyyy and it's nowhere near finished and I haven't had time for reading my stuff for my dissertation, never mind class tomorrow......aaaaaaaargh!! not enough hours in the day! I'm going to have to do one of those horrible all night thingies without nice munchies and without any pro plus!!!! I HATE UNI. Anyone who says students are slackers I'll shoot the lot of you!!! __________________ The Last Stone Mission! If you fancy sponsoring me for the Moonwalk in aid of Breast Cancer Research, here's the link! https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/coley7916

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Jubbly Addicted to MiniMins Jubbly's Profile Albums Jubbly's Photo Gallery Join Date: 14th September, 2006 Location: Woodbridge, Suffolk Posts: 213 My Mood: Rep Power: 6 Diet: Cambridge	Coley - hope your presentation went OK. Let us know how it went today (or have you got it this afternoon??). At the end of the day, presentations are worth hardly any of your final degree classification. I also had to pull an all nighter for mine, did a rubbish job of (but I'm sure you won't) and still got a 2:1 so it wasn't that important in the grand scheme of things. Plus it was only about minutes or something so probably not worth the stress I put myself through!! How's your mum doing on CD?? MY mum wants me to be a CDC so she can start on it for cut prices (and to think she was slagging it off when I started)!! How the rest of you guys doing?? My weigh in tonight so I will see if that stuff I had on Tuesday made much difference. Ketostix showed somewhere between beige and v light pink last night so something must have almost knocked me out but can't think what. __________________

19th October, 2006	#41 (permalink)
dizzy-n-mizzy Not dieting ATM! dizzy-n-mizzy's Profile Albums dizzy-n-mizzy's Photo Gallery Join Date: 18th September, 2006 Location: Essex Posts: 3,934 My Mood: Rep Power: 58 Diet: Together we lost 8 stone on CD.	Hi all, I had a bit of a mishap last night with a jar of pickled red cabbage. My pee may be pink soon but the ketostix won't. I saw you could have pickled cabbage on 790 plan but temptation got the better of me and I ate practically the whole jar. (I love vinegary things!) I really need to get menus planned and get organised. I can't seem to let myself be spontaneous around food. My belly was grumbling last night but so far no problems but as we have visiters from Canada tomorrow I am really hoping I have no embarrassing problems to come! Anyway don't feel to bad about it. I am considering this period of introducing foods to be a learning curve. I am prepared to take as long as it takes. I guess it will probably be forever. I am naturally a disorganised person so it's tricky. Hope you are all doing better than me. Dizzy x __________________ I can now run non-stop at 10 kph for 30 minutes (5 km)!

19th October, 2006	#42 (permalink)
Coley CDC Coley's Profile Albums Coley's Photo Gallery Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: 20th September, 2006 Location: Dundee, Scotland Posts: 1,848 My Mood: Rep Power: 34 Diet: Cambridge	Hello troops!! I am back home after a bit of a stressful morning and a slip!! I was walking myself into Uni to see about this stupid presentation, I have to do it on Monday, but supposed to be prepared buy now!! So....was walking myself into town on the way to Uni and I heard and saw 2 people getting hit by a taxi. Horrible horrible noise. One of them was conscious, not the other one. Of course everyone went rushing up to them called an ambulance etc etc....but I was right there and stood in a daze. It was the daft peoples fault, they were right next to the crossing and it wasn't their turn to cross and they didn't look but still....not nice....all blood and on the road. I wasn't any use and I was late for my lecturer so off I went into Uni. Spent ages waiting for him to be available and spent 20 mins going through my presentation which we cut in half. (should really be modifying that just now.....but procrastinating) So that was good...feeling a bit calmer about that now. (got to bed about 2am btw....couldn't be doing an all nighter last night). I prosponed my dissertation meeting till Monday which isn't really more time as I work on the weekend but it gives me a few extra hours. Decided to skip my lecture this afternoon, we have a hand out already and the lecturer just reads it word for word so I wandered home, picking up a first aid kit and some lipstick for halloween. Suddenly felt awful sorry for myself and decided to buy some dried mango! great idea!! So that has now disappeared into my tummy. woops...citric acid and all that. So thats that and it's done and I'm not going to feel bad about it....there are worse things than eating dried mango aren't there?!!! erm......carbs? So....naughty blip, but carrying on like it didn't happen. Bought me 2 DJ Yoda albums (I really wanted Imogen Heap but stupid man in Virgin told me it wasn't out till Feb....totally lying. I can buy it on play .com now!!) so anyway....I am just putting them on my computer now.....happy days! DJ Yoda always makes me feel happy....I saw him live when I was in Freshers week in 1st year. Jubbly - it's day 2 for my mum....she wouldn't take it without paying me for it! she's my mmmmuuuuumm, but she was ademant it is a business and she isn't expecting things for free. Guess thats me told. You don't argue with mum. Presentation will be fine....bu the evil thing is everyone evaluates it and then we are videoed and we watch it back.....all bad!! Good luck for the weigh in!! you'll be fine! Dizzy - falling into all this food!! what are we like? I love vinegar stuff......yum....must not think of salt and vinegar anything....or pickled stuff....ah dear. Right...I must go and do some more on this presentation so that it gets somewhere near up to scratch! Toodles for now guys!! __________________ The Last Stone Mission! If you fancy sponsoring me for the Moonwalk in aid of Breast Cancer Research, here's the link! https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/coley7916

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Maintainer Wannabe Healthy Eater Maintainer's Profile Albums Maintainer's Photo Gallery Join Date: 3rd October, 2006 Location: France Posts: 701 My Mood: Rep Power: 16	Coley - what a horrid experience. Those poor people. Dizzy - pickled red cabbage?! Whatever next! That's the first time I've heard of anyone OD'ing on something like that... haaaaa! (Sorry but that tickled me - particularly as you have guests coming, and fear the side effects!) See how my plan, plan, plan again idea can work? If you know exactly what you're eating for the next meal, and only have those ingredients at your disposal, it makes things so much easier... and it has to be even more true when reintroducing food after a VLCD... it must be like being let loose in a shop after hours with everything available to you! __________________ Joanne Start weight: 141K (March 2002) Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003) Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+ Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K. 23/10/08: 66.8K

19th October, 2006	#44 (permalink)
Coley CDC Coley's Profile Albums Coley's Photo Gallery Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: 20th September, 2006 Location: Dundee, Scotland Posts: 1,848 My Mood: Rep Power: 34 Diet: Cambridge	Poor people....hope the unconscious one is ok!! Red cabbage.....wasn't really reading properly before...hee hee...really could have been worse though eh?? Got a new flat!!! 2 mins from the one I'm in now but much nicer and no scary windows!! yey!! at least something is going right now! __________________ The