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Hello This is my first day on Xenical, its been fine so far... :p Anyway about me... I am 22, female a size 24 hopping for a size 12 (I have my eye on a dress similar to the one in my signature). I have tried many diets before including Atkins, Weight watchers, Lighter life and Cambridge...

Hi all I am going to have to leave the group as I am stopping the diet until I move and have settled down. I will miss you all!

Congratualtions on the 13's! Debs....was 15,7.5....lost 4...now 15,3.5 Penny...was 13.7......lost 3....now 13.4. Julie....was 14.1.....lost 2....now 13.13 Ast......was 17.7.....lost 1....now 17.6

I cant take the stress of moving!:argh: Between packing my life in my suit case, being informed that the only room left is a box room, listening to my mum panic, weeks unless I change to a cdc down there, I just want to hide away. Also as a cheerleader in my local squad I am gong to be in the...

Hello No snow here but it is cold enough. Its december I am moving so no notice at all really and that was argued back from this weekend.

Debs hope you feel better soon! I got the news today that I am starting work on the 15th so I am moving on the 13th, this wont make dieting easy.

Hi everyone. I just got back from my weigh in, I have lost 5lbs this week :D. Which meens that I have reached the stone mark! :eek: Ast...19...loss 5...now 18. 7

Hi everyone, The job is as a nurse caring for people with severe learning disabilities in Hampshire. I was hoping to have a start date to tell you today but it probably wont happen for a while. Anyway I have good news, I have had all my food packs for the last 2 days! Also I went food shopping...

Hi Serena if you need to talk feel free to IM me. Good news on the job front, finally, the CRB check has come through so I should be starting by the begging of next year.

Hi Debs I am also having trouble getting the sakes down each day, two days ago it got to 9pm before I realised that I hadn't had any shakes.

Sorry I havent been around much, I have been trying to arange my move (quite unsusesfully). Deb well done with the senokot. I may have to get some my self. The biccys sound nice. I will get some bars next week. Hows everyone doing?

I know it is an odd time but I am going to add my weight loss anyway is 2lbs so its Penny...14......loss 5.....now 13.9 Ast...19...loss 2...now 18. 12

Hi all! Just a quick note to apologise for not being around much for the last few days. I have had a few ups and downs diet wise but I believe I am back on track.

Hi Welcome to minimins! :welcome: Good luck with your bypass!

Hi everyone! I have had a very lazy day today, I only woke up an hour ago. Penny what where you protesting?

Hi every one! To add my self to the list Andju..14,11....loss 4...now..14,7 Debs...16,7.5....loss 6.5...now 16,1 Angie...12,9.8....loss 4.8...now 12,5 Penny...14,3......loss 3.....now 14 Ast...19,6....loss 6...now 19

Hi Penny the rain forrest can have them back, if they want them now, the bag with them in had a hole and now they are all over the floor :sign0137:. Anyway, on to nicer matters, I believe that I may now be in ketosis as I have a horrible taste in my mouth which almost tastes like butter.

I am buying this dress when I am a size 12

Penny, I admire anyone who climbs mountains, as long as they don't expect me to. Debs, I don't mind listening to moaning but if you are coming down with a cold get loads of soft tissues, I've gone through two boxes of tissues and three rolls of toilet paper (used as tissues, just to clear that...

I sometimes think about ss+ but I know that my thoughts, at least for the moment, would run along the lines of how much chocolate could I have for 200 calories? :rolleyes:

Hi all. The second day went fine. I haven't cheated (although the bread did look tempting), I have had all my packs and I have had 3 liters of water. I still have this cold though but I am due to have the flu injection on Tuesday, would this be a bad idea if I still have the cold? On a plus note...

Hi penny35, thanks for asking. Its no where neer as bad as it was before, but I still dont want to do anything. Strangly enough drinking water helps, but dont tell my CDC, she would only tell me to drink more.

I am rewarding myself with Lily Lolo make up. I will buy three products per stone.

Hi everyone The diet is now started! I have developed a cold though, just to keep things interesting, and I was wondering if throat soothers where allowed?

Hope you had a great birthday!

:welcome: I just wanted to say good luck with your diet. also what do you mean by fancy stuff? Do you mean the stuff in the signatures? If you want a ticker or meez or something like that you can click on the link on someone else's post, then make your whatever it is then copy and paste the...

The doctor can give you estrogen tablets to stop it if it gets too bad.

Hi just thought i would say welcome to minimins and good luck with your weight loss.:welcome: I am also 22 and have at least 7 stone to lose and there are so many people here that if you want a question answering or just some support, someone will understand what you are going through. So good...

Good luck with your weight loss and the interview. Your weight shouldn't stop you from doing well, they let me become a nurse and I even got a job in nursing, both while weighing 19 stone!

Happy birthday!

Well done!

Hi everyone! Just wanted to say thanks for inviting me. I am 22, I live with my parents at the moment but will be moving as soon as the CRB check comes through (10 days they said, ha!). I will be restarting CD on either Thursday or Friday. If there is anything else you want to know feel free to ask.

Congratulations!

Hi I dont know if the offer is still open but i would like to join. My weigh in this week is on thursday so I will post by friday. The last time I was weighed I was 19st 9, so I have also to go.

I woul dbe interested if you still have space I will be starting in 2 days.

I think that I might pledge a stone, of course first i have to start...

I agree with Starlight, you just need a quick note to say that the days off where due to a skin reaction caused by the nature of the job.

Good luck with the diet! As for what you can expect to lose that usualy depends on a few things eg what you weigh, your gender, etc. I have known people to lose between 3lbs and 16lbs.

I was 18 stone. I remember because from the ages of 14 to 19 I weighed the same as my age. Some how I thought that was ok :confused: . I now weigh the same as I did at 19.

Welcome to minimins and congratulations for resisting temptation over the weekend!

Good luck with your weight loss!

Hope you feel better soon!

Hi Just wanted to say good luck on your future weight loss, and well done on your 2 stone loss!

Well done!!

Thanks everyone!:thankyou: I booked my appointment for the 6th of November at 1:30.:scale: I have set my goal, the image in my signature (I have seen a corset that would look perfect). I feel so exited!:gimi:

YAY! Well done!

I agree with Blonde logic. If you need to take the tablets then you must. In my opinion it is difficult to stay on a vlcd when you are ill anyway. Have a talk to your counselor about your options, possibly following one of the route to management plans?

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Hi I don't know if any one remembers me but I was on the Cambridge diet a few months ago. Only to fail spectacularly, try Weight Watchers fail at that and finally give up :banghead:. I have now decided to return to the Cambridge diet. I told my councilor that I would return to the Cambridge...

Hi I go on Wednesdays.

:sign0144: Just got here from the Cambridge forum as I have been struggling. I may have a hard time as I haven't eaten food in a while. I am looking forward to it! :gimi:

I have been struggling since I got back from holiday so I am taking my councillor's advice and leaving the diet for a while, I might be back, it depends on how this new diet goes, but at least I still have some good memories of the diet. Good luck to everyone! :wave_cry:

I think these evil devices where made for two reasons, 1- to make people stay awake when they need to get up early in the morning and need a good nights sleep, and, 2- to make me want to eat those jaffa cakes that are looking at me from the other side of the room. I would like to call for a...

I am back now! I stuck to the ss for the first week but then fell off the wagon... :( In the end I have put on 2lbs, not bad for a 2 week holiday!

I am 5 foot 6. I want to get down to 11 stone on CD, then I aim to try to lose weight by myself (using ww, sw or something along those lines) and get down to 9 stone 9 lbs.

I knew it was too obvious :o

I know number 3: he is playing monopoly... as for the rest :confused: I would say blue for 1 but it is too obvious so it must be something else. :confused: I am going to have to look it up!

zasxsxzatr ... try saying tat three times fast!

I think I voted for chocolate but after recently trying some I discovered that it tastes foul! :sign0137: So I would go for pies now! :p I always need something to crave. :rolleyes:

Well done!

You could stuff them with news paper.

Thanks every one! :grouphugg: I am going to La Palma. I have been busy weighing my tetras before deciding that I will take the powder so I have more weight left for shoes :D.

Good luck! I can't watch the show because I just look at the "fat" women and think that I could probably fit 2 or 3 of them in me!

I am going on holiday on Monday. I will be going for two weeks and attempting to ss for the whole time... I will need all the support I can get! What I am mostly worried about is that I wont be able to come on here if I need to. :gen157:

I can only speak from my experience of cambridge and lighter life, but in this case we have 500ish calories a day most of these are burned up on the day to day body works, e.g. breathing, meaning that the deficit must come from fat stores. On these diets you are expected to lose 3-4lbs a week...

:eek: :wow: I did 20 minutes and was exhausted.

They have many people to remove hairs and to arrange to have them airbrushed. I also have very dark hair... I think, I haven't seen it, on my head (baring eyebrows), since I was 10. My skin is very pale so hairs show even more. I can only last for more than 1 day when I wax... but I am also a...

I think if you drink about 17 litres a day something goes wrong with your electrolytes (or something to that effect) but your chances of drinking that much are slim.

I got my wii fit today! I have a wii fit age of 20 (I am 21 :D) I was exhausted after 7 minuets (according to the piggy) I love it! (I am lighter on this than I was when I had my weigh in this morning :D)

As for actual advice I keep a small supply at work (or in my handbag depending on where I am working) which means that even if I do forget I have that back up. It has rescued my diet quite a few times...

Oh well... just make sure you do start tomorrow, one day is nothing in the grand scheme of things... but two might be pushing it... :D Good luck on your diet!

When I was on lighterlife I lived of one large (all 4 food packs) muffin. I loved it... now I cant stand it :rolleyes:. I did lose a lot of weight them but now I am older (by 1 year :D) and wiser (I wish) I wouldn't recommend it as you denature some of the nutrients... and I would probably...

I used to love muffins but I have gone off them completely. I agree with what you said about the chocolate orange :sign0137:.

This web sit shows if they are in stock Wii Fit in stock checker amazon has them at the moment.

They may be tight but I am sitting down in size 18 trousers from Next! :bliss: :bliss: :bliss: I must have lost weight this week.

Thanks for the ideas descent! :D I think that I will get myself a nice book as a reward for when I hit the half stone mark (again :sigh: ). I am on the Cambridge diet Taz.

I have decided to start a scrapbook of my weight loss journey. I am hoping that there is someone out there who can tell me how to get started... :sign0009:. I am doing it as a way to help me stay on track and, when I am done, to make sure that I never get back to this point! Any advice would be...

I would check the protein and calorie levels, as well as the vitamins as the tetras are designed to give you 33% of your rda.

I would be quite happy with pluto or the moon. But I may have to cancel my visit to jupiter :p :D

Last night I went over to see my aunt and uncle and there kids. This is stressful enough in its self but, they when and offered around biscuits and cookies, now normally I wouldn't mind but they kept offering me the cookies and left the box next to me, I could smell them. They know that I am on...

Thanks for the support everyone. I am quite pleased, I got through yesterday and last night (the nights seem to be worse) without eating! Hopefully it is a sign of things to come!

Just reported 15 Lighter life listings... there is something strangely satisfying about that.

I have reported 2 Cambridge diet listings. But there is loads of Lighter Life stuff!

To say I had a bad week would be an understatement. I had an awful week! I some how managed to put 7lbs on. :cry: There was a good bit of this going on :eatdrink023::eatdrink051: I need a good kicking! ...there is nothing I can do about it now, but this week will be different!

I have my ticker set at 9 stone 9 I worked it out as being roughly in the middle of the BMI range (5' 6")but also my mum takes being thinner than me with great pleasure, if I get down to 9 stone 9 I will be thinner than she was since she was 20 :sign0151: (I know that it's not a nice thing to...

21... but can I use the system to be 12... I was a lot thinner at 12 :sigh: :D :p

I get (and have at the moment) a foul taste in my mouth! Like every thing with ketosis some do and some don't.

After the first few days you go into ketosis and wont feel hungry. Also the recommended amount of water means that you will be drinking too much to feel hungry. :D About the BMI thing as far as I am aware when you reach 25 you cannot SS but you could do one of the other plans. Some one with more...

I agree with Lighterlifeclaire as long as you listen to your body and drink a lot of water you should be fine.

Yes. But I was a boring old fart anyway! :D:p I have set myself a target of getting to goal by march next year so I figure that my social life can be none existent for a year while I focus on me.

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You need to unprotect the sheet. Then on the "lbs only" column next to the yellow columns you need to delete the formulae in the boxes (just go down pressing the del key). When you need the formula again click on the box above the box that hasn't got the formula in then click on the bottom...

I win! :D :confused: ...do I get a prize or something? :confused:

I agree with the people above I gave up last year after losing a lot of weight... I could kick my self for not carrying on! I would now be at my goal weight instead of having the shakes every day.

Well done for resisting the evil that is pizza! If you can do that you can do anything!

I'll give it a go... so far no problems :D.

Well today I have decided on my over all goal. I want to be 9 stone 9lb by this time next year :eek:. That's almost half of my start weight! :eek::eek: But I feel totally up for it! :D I just saw this guy and had to include him somewhere :sign0151: nothing to do with the post just the random...

You look completely different. Well done!

I am terrible at this time! Today I have frozen a tetra making it really hard to eat. I've been working on this one for half an hour. :)

If there is a CEA out there I would join. I am even addicted to the chocolate food packs!

I'm glad someone else is on the fibresure capsules. I was a bit worried about the effects on ketosis. May I recommend to anyone who is going to start taking the fibre supplements to start off slowly, the first time I took them I exploded not very nice :sign0137:.

Congratulations! I cant wait to see the pics. Hearing stories like yours gives the me hope!

Hi You can develop water intoxication... but a healthy adult can usually drink up to 15 litres a day, as long as it is spread out. :p Some how I think that that may be difficult unless you drink constantly. :D So you should be able to drink as much as you are able.

I can only echo the psyllium husks, wonderful things! You do need to drink extra with the tetras though but 4 litres should cover that... Good luck with what ever you chose.

I am going on holiday for 2 weeks in May. I am trying to decide what to do regarding the diet during this time. :devilangel: I could go ss but I have already paid for half board. The other choices are that I could increase my calorie intake, to one of the other stages... or I could eat...

Lisa Marie if you look on this page you should be able to find one for your daughter to go to. Squads in Britain - Select by Region

Good luck Wenjay! It will surprise you how fast the weight comes off.

I know people who have lost a lot of weight and they tend to look younger when they get slimmer! But that is no reason not to pamper your self with expensive things!

I've got 7 stone to go. It seems almost dizzying. But I have decided that I will give this my all!

That is the best attitude to have. You cant change what has happened but you can make choices for the future! Next time you feel like cheating remember how you felt at the weigh in, that is what I do!

I also used to gag on the packs. I used to make a chocolate muffin. How I just have the tetra bricks.

I use nair. Use it only for the minimum time to begin with (if that), until you get used to it. Then use moisturiser.

Another student nurse here. I find it hard when everyone else is eating, even though it is only hospital food! Otherwise I am fine.

Congratulations!!!

Thanks for the idea Irene I will give it a go! Sounds good Hotstuff! These things are easier when you know that someone else is going through the same thing. Well done on the weight loss so far!

WOW :worthy::worthy::worthy:

I agree that they probably feel threatened by you losing weight. They could also feel that you are not that much heaver than them and if you feel the need to lose weight where does that leave them? I have a friend who is like this, it is really strange as I am a size 20 and she is a 12...

Thanks for the tip! I really struggle with the water, but I am willing to give anything a go.

Some stretches should help. I have also heard good things about bio oil. Others may be able to suggest more. Good luck with losing the 10 stone!

Hi Irene I am on the Cambridge diet and struggling with the water.

Congratulations!

I agree with Heffa. They only have to ask. :)

I cant stand cheese but for some reason when I am on this diet. Which seems a bit odd to me.

Well done! I cant wait to find my mojo. 5 litres.. now I am very impressed! I am struggling to get through 3

I went to cheerleading practice today. My arms are killing me!

I must stop laughing. I've been getting some odd looks.

I've lost a Chihuahua. :) A newborn calf and an average human brain to go! Some how that sounds easier :sigh:

When there is food in the house I have had to hide in my bedroom! I am so impressed!

I got weighed today I have lost 5lbs! I am on my way!

When I was on the diet previously I couldn't have survived without the water flavourings. There are two, one is summer fruit flavour and one is orange. I would say that they are an acquired taste and it takes some practice to get the right amount. I did not notice any slowing to my weight loss...

I want to lose at least 7 stone. I don't care how long it takes I just cant stand being the weight I am now (and for a :party0011: it looks strange when you are a bit on the large side). The need to lose weight hit me when the stables that I normally go to for horse riding said that the...

Hello I'm Helen and I am 21. Don't let my join date fool you, :sign0144:, I am in the first week of my diet. I joined when I was doing the lighter life diet. Unfortunately there was a death in the family that threw me off course. But no one who is left in my family is due to die any time soon. I...