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Doing this to look better for myself and be more confident going out. Everything that comes up my first thought is what will I wear. I hate people seeing me like this and keep imagining what they must be saying about me.

I feel for you! I did this last year as well, earlier in year than you. Lost 4 stone with it, but towards the end was starting to struggle and had a few hiccups, then just gave up and ate and ate and ate - and I've put the majority of it back on - and put it on very fast. Aside from feeling...

I think most people on here can identify with what you're saying! I did LT a few years back - very successfully. But I had personal tragedy a few months after finishing - up to then I'd been great about getting back to my target immediately after a holiday/weekend away etc. Anyway this...

Glad someone else has these! I can't remember most of them, but latest one was me devouring choc biscuits. And that feeling of annoyance/disappointment etc is very vivid.

Don't be disappointed in yourself! This needs you to be 100% focused. If you hadnt' come off it for your family issues, you'd find yourself half doing it and being upset at the lack of progress. Now you've started again, just look to the next week and how much you'll have lost be end of that...

I don't eat the soup as I hated it!! What I did find made it some bit less awful was to mix it with cold water and heat it in microwave - but I gave up on it after a week or two. There are a couple of things you can do. First of all, you are allowed some sweetner - don't know what as I never...

I never feel the cold but I have been frozen with a few weeks - what I notice is once I drink water, I practically start shivering!!! What I find helps is warm drinks - I made the mistake a few weeks back of drinking coffee all day - and it had a double-whammy - I couldn't sleep and I was...

Hope it's going okay with you. Another tip for the hunger pangs is fizzy water, just seems to fill up better than still. I find coffee great as well, but coffee doesnt' agree with everyone and it may keep you awake at night. All the hard work is so worth it when something that usedn't to now...

Well week over and at WI today, down 10lbs!! So that was the 9 I put on plus 1 extra. I was so hoping to be back to where I'd left off, to exceed it by 1 was more than a dream come true. It also means that I can on holiday and enjoy it and then deal with the aftermath - ok in this case the...

Best of luck with this. It is hard, but focus on each day on its own and get through that day - then you'll be at first WI and you'll have a weightloss superior to anything you could have with other diets! That'll motivate you for the next week and so on. After a short time, you'll feel your...

All going well so far. Day 5 now and been 100% all that time. At my usual daily weigh-in lark and can see that I've dropped off most of what I put on! Emmie, I know 2 stone in 4 weeks sounds huge - and it is!! But calculate your own - you lost over 1.5 stone in 4 weeks - also impressive -...

I have mine at breakfast, lunch and dinner time. I do that to try to get my head into those meal-times for afterwards - as I never had breakfast!!! Hear you on the food!! I didn't mind so much people eating around me as the ads on TV - almost every ad mentions food or use food to advertise...

Great to read that other people have let weight rule their life in the same way - misery loves company!! I hate going anyway when I'm overweight -don't even want to go somewhere that I wouldn't meet anyone - in fact I got to the point at one stage that I hated getting up as I'd have to figure...

Back at it today! That blip a few weeks ago led to a bad run-in to my holidays - always knew I'd need to refeed for them, but I ended up binging a week early and even though I did get back on track, it was only for a few days, when I was off again. Eventually realised I was going on holidays...

Well bit of slip-up! I had a dinner with my family last night - planned a while back and knew I had to go and knew I'd have to eat - that was okay as I had decided to have something small and just forget about it. But suppliers on-site yesterday and they wanted to go for lunch - hoped they'd...

I exercise about 5 days a week - well I walk those days, but I walk very quickly for approx 30-40 minutes and if its a weekend maybe up to an hour. I find I have plenty energy to do this. I've ordered the 30-day shred and I hope to be able to at least do level 1 of it - reading the level 2...

When I first mentioned doing this, my OH was worried that I'd be sick etc. I got the DVD and got him to sit through it and it did alleviate some of his worry. He didn't try to stop me doing it and he was great as I started loosing weight. My OH is quite a tactless individual and usually...

Wow - that's great news! I have a pair that are closing, but snug, but I hope by next week that I'll be able to wear them with a long top! It's amazing that it all changes so fast. My MIL got me top for my birthday - it's a 12, but very loose and baggy, haven't tried it on yet, but must -...

I don't play sport, but I walk regularly. The first week I was doing LT, I didn't walk at all as I found I didn't have any energy and I was afraid of lightness in head etc - I actually didn't get any at all and my pharmacist told me I should be exercising!! Since then, I've walked most days...

I found days 5 & 6 so hard and all that kept me going was getting to 1st WI - that motivated me for quite a few days!!! I still struggle on the day before my WI - I'm practically fantastising about food and can almost taste it!! But once I get to my WI and see the numbers and get told how much...

Best of luck with it! I haven't told anyone I'm doing this bar my OH. And that's how it will stay and even when people ask how I lost the weight, all they'll get is strict eating and exercise. As far as I'm concerned this is for me and I think it works for me and I don't want to be listening...

From what I've been told zero drinks are out - that's what my starter pack info says. LT drinks, tea, coffee, no milk and any herbal teas that are made from a leaf - that's it - oh and some kind of artificial sweetner - don't know about that as I don't use it.

Give it a little longer, it really does work. Some weeks are slower than others and there's no explaining what does or doesn't impact on it. For me, I have great weeks and then the week after TOTM my weight loss is shockingly low - its happened twice now!! Most people have that drop in the...

Well the jeans did tie. Couldn't really go out in them yet, but another week or two and they'll be fine! Need to go adjusting buttons in my work pants now - it's hanging off me - when its just out of the wash, the first day is fine, but the next day after that..... I've a long cardigan on...

So here I am again on Monday and 2lbs down. Mixture of things. TOTM seems to affect my weight-loss - which it never did before! But I think what affected me most this past week was a lunch I had out. One of those situations where I hadn't any choice - business lunch and no time to think of a...

Well another WI on Saturday and down 8lbs!!! Could hardly believe my eyes. I've been walking regularly the past 2 weeks, but even allowing for that, I've lost 15lbs in 2 weeks - and weeks into the program. TOTM now and that hit me badly last time out with a very low loss, so expecting same...

WI on Saturday and down 7lbs - but in my heart of hearts know its not a true 7lbs and worried that next week will be nothing or very low!! I was at my parents Friday night and didn't take shakes with me, so didn't have my breakfast shake. Planned on getting to pharmacy early, but got delayed...

Best of luck with it. In a few weeks you'll see such a change in yourself - I think that's the best thing about LT! I did this before and what I found is that I was alot thinner at a higher weight than I'd ever been before. For various (work & personal) reasons, I put back on the weight...

Focus on your wedding for the moment and then focus on the long-term when you get back. Once you get to your wedding the size you want to be, that'll motivate you more to deal with the long-term. I find myself thinking too far ahead so often and then depressing myself - now I'm focusing on my...

Found yesterday so hard - no idea why, but having cravings all day - could practically imagine myself chewing on a nice crusty slice of bread! But didn't do it!! Went home last night to find Jaffa cakes up on table - assume OH came in, grabbed a few and took off for gym! I find that so...

Weigh-in on Saturday and down 5lbs - so that's 2 stone gone! Very motivated by that, but then have the night-time horrors of thinking of the long road ahead!!! But then remind myself that it's 6 weeks to my holidays and that needs to be my mini-goal and I'll see a huge difference by then and...

My pharmacist said between 2 and 4, but not more than 4. I think that includes any tea or coffee. I took a flapjack as a sample (yeuck) and she told me to remember to drink some extra water as I would be replacing my shake with a flapjack. I tend to drink about 3 litres in the day and then...

Survived last night and pancakes! I LOVE pancakes - oh cooks them for Shrove Tues as he's just much better at cooking than me - but every so often during the year, I'd make some for my breakfast - I'm not as fussy about my cooking!!!! So last night was hard. Doggy sat next to cooker with big...

managed it too - although hubby cooked them - he always does, much better at it than me. Hardest thing was the first one - you know the one that's never quite right. Well he decided to let that one up on the counter as he proceeded to cook the other perfect ones and eat them!! I decided to...

I am a serial weigher - first thing every morning!! And no point in telling myself I shouldn't - I will and I do!!! Suzanne, this happens. What I've noticed is that in any given week, I'm the same for 3 or 4 days at a time and then maybe a lb or 2 drop in one day - not sure why, but the drop...

I've had this too on and off since I started. For some reason though its only at weekends - can't fathom as do the very same thing every day. First time it happened was horrible - as had a distance to a bathroom!! For me it only started after I started taking Fibre Clear - but I take it every...

Yesterday seemed easier than last number of days - no reason that I can think of! No cravings for anything. glad I have those days, it's the easy days make the hard ones possible!! Great reading other diaries and seeing everyone struggling with the same issues - knowing you're not alone...

I divide up what I need over the day. With my breakfast shake, I drink 2 pints of warm water - half tap water, half boiled water - much easier to drink first thing. That's 1 litre done. I keep a pint glass on my desk and at times during the day, I go fill it and drink it - I can get through 3...

Weigh-in on Saturday and down 3lbs. So now over 1.5 stone in 3 weeks. Delighted with Saturday as any loss was going to take me to that 1.5 and that was my target. Found Friday and Saturday very hard - craving stuff! Expecting that it would have got easier by now, but I seem to hit days when...

Okay mixing with coffee not a good idea! Well not the way I tried to do it with my shaker - ended up with sticky coffee mixture all over me and the result was horrible too! Think need to leave this treat for the weekend and do properly. Loads of energy again, but I'm sleeping way more than...

I promised myself not to be fat & 40 and didn't quite get there. Okay I was a very fit 40 as I joined a gym training program with a diet program attached last year and I worked very hard at it - for 3 months and then couldn't get back onto the eating plan - but stayed at the fitness side for...

By the way, I never told anyone I was doing it, other than my husband - and I never told anyone afterwards how I lost the weight - but that's just me. If you do go down that route, remember you're going to have to be inventive with excuses about days out and meeting for lunch and calling to...

Best of luck with it. I found the first few days very hard, I started on a Sunday and that night I was wishing I'd waited until Monday as I smelt my husband's lovely dinner!!! But there would have been something else on Monday..... On Wednesday, I'd have fought with myself - day 4 for me...

Hi there! Just a little ahead of you. On day 12. Just back from 2nd weigh-in - had to weigh-in early last week due to plans for Sat and same this week, next week back to Sats and from there on. I was climbing the walls yesterday thinking of food - no idea where it came from and was totally...

I'm in week 2 and suddenly finding it very hard again. By the end of last week, I seemed to have my energy back and it motivated me and kept me going! But yesterday and today, while I have energy, my motivation isn't as good. I'm not stuggling to the point where I'm in danger of giving up, I...

I think its hard when there is food around! My husband got a takeaway last night and the smell was difficult!! But you survived and so did I!! And it'll be worth it in another few weeks! I'm not a fan of the soup, although I found it best mixed in cold water and heated in microwave. I've...

Hope this motivates you - just back from my first weigh-in and down 13lbs!! Couldn't beleive it, and neither could she - the 2 of us were counting on our fingers to confirm!!! Okay so maybe a pound or even 2 could be allocated to different clothes - but even so!!!! Started on Sunday and I'd...

Started this on Sunday, so on day 4 now. I did this before a few years back, got great results and then had a personal knock-back, followed by Christmas, followed by a very busy and rough year at work. I have tried so many other things in the intervening time, but nothing else works. Got some...

It really is worth it! I remember feeling terrible on day 2 - headaches were the worst for me. I expected that after day 3 I'd be fine, but I found day 4 and 5 much harder. But once that's over, it is doable. Yes, it needs willpower and it's hard to see people eating nice food - in fact...

I tried to use hot water with the chocolate shake - yeuck. But I later tried to make it up with cold water and then heat in microwave - this is lovely. Think I've got it down to an art now - I had a few where it was just too hot. I've tried the vanilla with the coffee as well - can't ever...

If you put them on a skewer (metal) in oven they cook much faster - think the skewer transfers heat to inside of potato. When I do them in microwave, I wrap loosely in kitchen paper first - not sure what the logic is, read it somewhere - remember to do it but not why.

I'm not sure what my plans are for next few months. I had some things planned before I started this, which had me doing refeed last week. I was away for weekend and managed to control myself, stayed same at WI this week. Still doing week of refeed this week, wedding on Friday, hoping to...

I've done LT TFR for about 8 weeks, am now in 2nd week of refeed and then plan to do maintainance to loose some more. I weigh myself every day! On former diets, I would have weighed often, but not that often. I would always have weighed myself on the day of an official WI, so that I could...

This is a great thread! Love to see people's stories. Little bit younger, at 38, but have spent my whole life trying to loose weight - was first taken to a dietician at 10! It worked, but I wish I could have stuck to it - as I wish I could have stuck to all the other ones. And I also wish I...

Last week I was disappointed with me WI. I was down 2lbs, but had been down 4 or 5 every other week. I went back over the week in my head and had to admit that I hadn't drank as much water as I should. I was drinking peppermint tea for a few weeks and counting that as well as water. But then...

DrDrew, only read your post now - had replied after reading first few pages! Had to reply when I read yours. You sound like I am/was. I have tried everything - and most of them more than once. I was successful to a point with lots of them. I lost weight with CD about 20 years ago, but didn't...

This is a fantastic thread - like many more wish I'd found it when I was starting off. Read so much stuff about it and so much negative stuff as well. I was seriously worried about the hair loss - had told myself I would stop if that happened - my crowning glory!!! I found the dvd from the...

New to this site, hi everyone. 7 weeks into this and down 2 stone, 8 lbs. The first week is rough, but it does get better - I found the hunger disappeared after week 1 - my pharmacist said day 3 or so, but I was ravenous on day 4. Day 2 I felt horrible - headache all day & night. I felt weak...

Hi, new to this site, but doing LT with 7 weeks now, down 2 stone, 8 lbs. When I decided to do this, I was a bit worried about the cost of it, as I never had any money spare at the end of the month and suddenly I was planning to spend all of this extra. However, I notice that now I don't...