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Hi Everyone! I am in Australia and have been doing a bit of research about prescription medicines for fighting obesity. Today I went to see my GP to discuss the options to find that Xenical is no longer available here. D'oh! I had wondered why I had problems finding any current local info...

Hi Princess! Wow! I am very late to this very loooooong thread, so do I have it correct: you are on target to have lost an amazing 6 stone in 12 mths?!? Congratulations!!! Way back at the start of your diary, you described your plan as being Xenical & Slimfast. I am trying to read through...

Hello! A little background: I started out using the warm water/rehab pool at my local council fitness centre and rediscovered a long lost enjoyment of being in the water. Persistant problems with my lower back, an old rotator cuff injury and weight-related occasional problems with my feet make...

Hi Everyone: On this my slow build up to my Last Chance Diet Saloon I have decided that documenting things in all it's fatty glory is my only way to make myself accountable. I would also like a permanent record of changes, as in the past I have found any success seems to allow me to forget my...

Well KT: It is definately a great AN inspiring start! I can't wait to see your next weigh in results! I have bought the Fast Diet book yesterday and am looking at it seriously as my last great weight loss hope.....that I am talking myself into starting when this current heatwave is over.....45...

Hey KT: What a fabulous start! Has it sunk in yet? Are you taking your measurements too, as a kind of 'back up' for when you doubt the scales next time? Still, yours is a really great result that has got me wondering what is the average or even the most weight following an ADF plan can be...

Okay, I am sure it has been discussed here a kazillion times before, but I need advice on the merits of going SS or SS+. Nearing the end of Week 1 of CWP on SS, I am now looking ahead. Although I understand the losses of the first week are the bestest ever and that I will never again have...

Hi Marikak: Day 2 is tough...it will be better tomorrow. I like the sound of your App. What is it called? 50 x

Exactly! Although peeps say that it is never as good a loss beyond the 1st week, it sure is a great kick-start! Fingers crossed for everyone else having their 1st weigh-in! 50 x

This huge board sure does take some navigation.....really hard to get about...it so BIG! 50 x

Hey Lime! My 1st weigh in is Thursday arvo! Gotta admire you & all others CWPers who have to prepare and handle food for others while doing a VLCD.....I feel quite lazy - no food prep & no eating near me! Best luck for your weigh in! 50 x

Oh My Goodness!!! Scots!!!!!! How are you!!!!!!!! Oh dear...hoping you are okay! 50 x

Woot woot! Vicky! EXCELLENT result......how do you feel about that success?! 50 x

Hey Kinjeet: What happened on the weekend? I think the thought of having to restart might help keep me on the straight & narrow! How are you going now? 50 x

Oh! That is just plain cruel of Grandma to torture you with a kazillion cupcakes! Giving those cupcake eaters the Skunk Eye is bound to have helped make those tasty treats twice as heavy & therefore TWICE the calories! *humpf!* take THAT non-VLCDers!! Suffer in your jocks! As I have got a Day...

Aw! I needed someone to LIKE me today! Had a very stressful work day with a bit of (what I term) a bully....so came home and had bit of a cry and now just feel exhaustipated!! Bookworm you and I are made for each other....I am a LIBRARIAN!!! LOL!!! I do...I love it here already! I don't like...

Hi BessieB (Double B?): I am alive at the end of Day 4...thank you for asking! Each day I have had some level of headache...I have a looooong history of migraine & headache...and completely blame this on my decision to get reacquainted with my food enemy ("fooenemy"?) chocolate in recent...

Hiya Lolly! Ahhhh! Soooo how is your triumphant return going? I am losing track tonight after a BAD day (work stress) but I think I have just made it through Day 4! 'Cos I am a newbie, I have a seriously limited signature allowance......I had wanted to have a goal of making each of these 1st...

Hey Lucy: I have done Day 3 and still ALIVE! How are you? I understand that nervous feeling...... 50 x

Hey Chezz: Wow...you have already brought your BMI down over 10 points! That is a brilliant effort! PLUS you have done 41 days straight of the belly blasting walk! In my eyes you have this race won already! I look forward to learning more about your efforts! 50 x

Wow Gemjar! Congratulations! Not only on your brilliant efforts, but also for your MASSIVE loss! How proud do you feel with yourself for sticking to plan? Wow...wow...wow! I am in Australia. We don't have the full range of CWP products here, nor do we have Slim & Save as far as I am...

As I said, I am going for 'one day at a time', then maybe 5% at a time. From there I need a general direction to aim for though...not suggesting having one HUGE goal from the outset at all! 50 x

Hi Chezz: Oh yes...I understand it is about small goals, hence my 'Survive Day 1', 'Survive Day 2' etc plan. But I do also need an overall goal - with as many mini-goals as possible along the way. That's the way it is or me...I HAVE to have a direction (other than downwards on the scales) to...

Hi xMariex: Hello & nice to meet you! News of your amazing success is tempered by the fact you have also had to contend with cancer. You have my greatest admiration....I look forward to learning more of your story! Illness has often been (for me) the very thing that has led me to thinking...

Hey Laura! How did you go...did the headaches stay away? I hope so! I felt okay for the 1st half of Day 2, but reverted to feeling not so great for 2nd half! Still adjusting to the water....think my filter needs replacing...or my sense of taste has gone a bit off! 50 x

Hi Shazzy! Wow...you are another success story! Yes...these early days....ughhh! I don't understand this whole sugar thing: have grappled with it for years! I used to dose myself up on chocolate as as soon as I stopped wolfing it down the headaches began, so it was like a drug. Stopping was...

Hi Quiff! Wow...a stone gone in 3 weeks? Hmmm...am on standby for the er....*problem*. Not a chewy fan & thankfully I do not have to eat with anyone EVER....DP has even started eating away from me to help in these early days! Still working on some real goals though.... 50 x

Thanks Chlo: I've done the ice each time....definately works for me! Yes....doing distractionary things in the evening. Am turning off from any tv food! Definately hoping this feeling of blergh is going to pass....roll on Day 3! Thanks & hope to speak again! 50 x

Life changing? That is just what I need!! Less sobbing at my own reflection would be great too.....not being afraid of mirrors would be a start too! You think you have a problem in the form of tree-trunk legs? I have a tree-trunk head! Definately keeping SS+ in reserve. For now I have to...

LOL! I realise now it must be a local expression as in "shove that in your cake hole!" There is of course a savoury version in the form of "pie hole"! Note to self: remember you are talking internationally here! Head down you say? *Rubs chins* that sounds good! You gals sound like great fun...

Hi BW: This forum does seem very welcoming, although I do find the navigation nigh on impossible! If I don't make it back here, just assume I am lost here somewhere! Wow...thinking of goal weight? How/when will you decide that? I am in Australia, & did a VLCD briefly a few years ago in the...

Wow! Great work for 8 wks! 50 x

Okay...... At the risk of getting ahead of myself.....so please excuse me for asking: Going on from my original post - what is possible in 6 months?* *Yes, allowing for individual variation, gender, adherence to the plan etc. I NEED to know the possibilities of what can be achieved on...

Oh! It has taken me weeks to find this particular section of MiniMins! I need to be HERE! Hello! I am on Day 2 of CWP for the 1st time. My immediate goals are to last these early days.....then to head for the first 5% which is 15lbs. This is bit of a last chance saloon for me, so for that...

Hi Tanya: I am in my 2nd day of CWP and have a similar start BMI to yours! Thought I'd say hello! 50 x

Hi Emz: Again...thanks to those who have taken time out to post here. It has made Day 1 so much easier knowing I am not alone! Ditto to what you say about letting it get this far. Ugh! Had a real case of that today. Caught a glimpse of myself while out. *sob!* I've noted that a number of...

Fantastico! Bookworm, I can't tell you how heartened I was to wake today on Day 1 to find this string of responses all containing great advice! You made me larf...."carb fuelled life"!!! You know me TOO well! Walking distance of a loo??? I am an old woman...that is how I live already...

Howdy! Even though I live in a metric world & have known for ages I was over 130kgs, converting my start weight to metric tonight for this board has startled me! 300 pounds! THREE HUNDRED POUNDS! I need to get serious about losing weight & stop telling myself "it is okay" that things "aren't...

Hi Jade: Just wanted to say "Hello" & welcome! 50 x

Wow! Down 2st + in 8 weeks! Great effort! 50 x

Hi Jc! I am not finding it yet, as I begin SS tomorrow. I am battening down the hatches for headaches, grumpiness & general misery! You say the hunger pangs stop?? When did that happen for you? You have had that burst of energy it seems, with waking early etc??? Sounds good! 50 x

Hi Jodie: I don't know the answer to this. I am starting tomorrow & will also be on the 4 items a day. My CWP lady told me an interesting one: whereby one of her clients halved the shakes powder to begin with & made smaller shakes with half the water to get 'more' shakes. I am looking out for...

Hi Laura! I am starting too....okay not a restart....but I am encouraged by the fact that I read of peeps who see to be able to get back into CWP easily after their programme has been interupted. I start tomorrow, so a day behind you - but with a kazillion more tonnes to lose! 50 x

LOL! You are funny Cas! 50 x

This forum is so huge....I am a newbie starting CWP for the 1st time tomorrow. Challenges look to be a great way to join in and give & receive plenty of support. Can anyone join in at any time? Will there be a new one starting any time soon? Lost in Mini Mins here! 50 x

Hi Charley! I have a similar amount to lose & am starting CWP for the first time ever tomorrow....I will be keeping a watch on how you are going! 50 x

I like that "100%"....it shows in your results! You are going to do this really really well! I just *knows* it! 50 x

Oh Boy! You said it!!! I live exactly like this! (I am a day or so away from my first appointment!) You are so right...the 'pain' of getting used to this plan surely cannot be any worse than living like this day after day after day..... Enjoy your lifechanging experience! 50 x

Hi BessieB! Wow! 8 st in 5.5 months? Is that a record, I wonder? May you avoid some of life's curved balls for a while and continue to avoid surgery! You did so well before...you CAN do it again! Hello & nice to 'meet' you! I am about to start CWP & believe my BMI mid 40's. Glad to hear...

Hi Vignette! I am new too...not even started...still another 24hrs plus til 1st appointment. Nervous...excited....among all sorts of other emotions, but like you am looking to this board to find people in similar situations to share this crazy ride with. May we all come out the other end as...

Wow! 9lbs!!! Great effort! Congratulations! Inspiring stuff! 50 x

Wow! There's an 'energy burst'? I am about to start and was worried it would be all headaches and other miseries for some time! You sound wonderfully deterimined....I predict you will succeed and then some! Best wishes! 50 x

Hi R! Nice to meet someone who has only just started. Hoola hooping? That sounds like fun! 4 lbs in 2 wks? That sounds great to me, especially seeing, as you say, you weren't doing enough water plus had a few ss+ meals. I like your advice about focus....I will take that on. Part of my...

Thank you so much Jules! You have offered a lot of great advice here.....yes I had wondered about the 'wot to do in public' thing & thankfully for some months I can avoid this issue - so that is one pressure off! 3 stones in 12 weeks? Congratulations! Great job! I hope is all okay after your...

Wow Louise! First of all, congratulations on your upcoming wedding...and WOW 3 st 6lbs! As I am in Australia, I have to convert all these stones and pounds into metric and work that out to be about 22 kilos.....and that is brilliant! ...and your BMI has come down 10 points! Woot! That is...

Thanks Chlo for taking the time to reply! It DOES sound good. I just need that kind of vision of what is possible - or has been for others - to help get myself motivated. This forum is so huge....I am finding it rather overwhelming. I keep heading off to explore, but get sidetracked in all the...

Hi Everyone! I've been reading through this forum, but there is so much interesting information I keep getting distracted from my purpose! Understanding that everyone is different...blah...blah and all that....what would be the average expectations of weight loss a gal might have while in the...

Hello! Wow....just trying to navigate my way through this forum is overwhelming! Looks like there are plenty of good experiences and case histories to study! Excuse me for barging in! I am in Australia & after a long and arduous battle with my weight I thought I was winning, when just over 2...

Hello! Excuse me for barging in! I am in Australia & after a long and arduous battle with my weight I thought I was winning, when just over 2 years tragedy struck and my response was to return to my old emotional eating habits. Same old story, you know the one! I still want to try to do...