Starting Tomorrow!! eeek!

Hi everyone,

I am new to this so bear with me! I am starting the Exante diet tomorrow (monday) and am very excited/nervous/anxious amongst other things!! I have done a VLCD before and loved the way it made me feel when the weight was dropping off and the compliments started coming in. I was loosing weight for my wedding which was this year in April, but in January I came off the diet and before i knew it id gained 2 stone again without realising and ended up being a fat bride
I am ok with some of my wedding pics but i think a lot of the time i am just convincing myself that i am happy with the pics. I know i wouldve been so much more confident and happy on the day if i was thin. I was wearing a hideously uncomfortable corset and my dress didnt fit right and i had a keyhole style shrug on which showed off my back fat horribly and i pity everyone who had to stare at it while my husband and i were taking our vows!

We are hoping to go to the states towards the end of next year and I do NOT want to be the fat person trying to fit my ass into the seat and I would be absolutely be mortified if i needed to get one of those seatbelt extender thingies!! So i aim to be on target for then.

Another motivational point is this: I want to be able to keep up with my kids and husband when we go on walks. Its horrible to fall so far behind them and come up with crappy excuses as to why i am so far behind. We ended up at the beach last time and I was so nackered i collapsed onto the sand to lie down while darling hubby played with the girls. I want to play too!! And climbing back up the sand dunes whilst nackered and heaving my heavy legs/body out of the sand as i was sinking was awful. Never again!

Anyhow, tomorrow is the big day! I am worried i will talk myself out of it! I have placed pics of myself in the kitchen of when i was thin (when i was about 19!!) as inspiration and i am going to print out some fat pics of me too and stick them all over the kitchen! I have some exante products that I brought when i was thinking about starting before but i havent got any bars so will need to get some.

Any help/advice/kicks up the backside are very very welcome! I MUST NOT GET DISCOURAGED!!!!

Wish me luck!

Hey WBSM!!

Welcome hunny!!

Sounds like you've got some great motivating reasons to do this, right there!! That's the key, just keep them in mind and you'll succeed!!

The most important thing to remember is that this plan WILL work. There is no way it can fail if you stick to it 100%. And that's easy, just don't eat anything which doesn't come out of one of the funny little Exante packs. That's my rule and it works. No ifs and no buts... It seems like a big task ahead, but the big losses are there waiting for you, and I guarantee that whilst you're having your up days, and possible down days, some times the scales will show your losses, sometimes they won't... but none of that matters, coz all you gotta do is stick to plan and the rest will take care of itself. You WILL lose, you WILL get slim, you WILL be able to run and play with your kids, and you WILL be able to very easily fit into the plane seat!! Hey, you may even sit down and put the seat belt on to find that you have to really tighten it coz the person who sat there before you was bigger than you! That happened to me after losing 72lbs on Lighter Life a year ago... and it was the most amazing feeling, especially after I'd been spilling over into the seat next when I went away, the year before!!

So, just stick with us on here... remember how bad it feels when you wake in the morning, and then suddenly remember you cheated the night before and are back out of Ketosis again for 4 days! And keep looking at your skinny pics... and you'll be at goal before you know it!! Woo!!! I'm so excited for you already...

xxx