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I'm paying £5750 for a Full Abdominoplasty in SE England.

Spooky! was posting an update as you replied! The surgeon was really nice, was impressed with my weightloss and was shocked to discover it was done without surgical intervention.

Day 173 Been to see the Plastic Surgeon today; he said I was a good candidate for an abdominoplasty/tummy tuck. But now I have a new challenge, starting tomorrow I have to stop smoking. The Dr will not operate unless I have been smoke free for 6 weeks, which I knew. It's a great motivator...

Day 172!!!! Hmmm, guess it's been a while since I updated this!! ;) Well, I'm still on track to reach my original target in a week or so having lost just shy of 6 stone. This diet has been my saviour. Tomorrow I'm off to see a plastic surgeon to discuss options for removing my excess tummy...

Wow! You have done so great so far! You CAN do this! What are you binging on? I know it sounds obvious, but can you not remove these temptations from your home? Why not write down all the reasons you are doing this diet and how great you are going to feel when you reach target. Pop these...

Day 47! Thought I better post an update on here, it's good to look back on this for motivation and I've been pretty poor on keeping this up to date. I'm been on the diet now with only a couple of hiccups (Office drinks and meal, and a small weekend city break). So far I have lost about 2st...

They are filling this way, this is now the only way I make shakes and being a male I have 4 a day. Having found they make me hungry quicker, definitely more satisfying. I put coffee in the strawberry shake this morning at that was pretty good too. The smoothie maker I bought last week is this...

Well, just back from dinner. Had the chicken caesar salad and despite me asking for the dressing separate it came well coated in the stuff. I ate everything but the croutons (ok, I had two!). Hoping it won't kick me out of Ketosis and affect my weight loss too much this week. Does anyone know...

Please please please be careful with that drug, I started using that when it very first came out and I experienced severe mood swings, was incredibly irritable and experienced uncharatersistic bouts of anger. When I was on an online forum for smoking cessation support I saw reference to...

I had a blow out the night before I started CD (chinese takeaway), pretty sure it slows the entry into Ketosis and also makes it more challenging. I would opt for a low carb blow out!

Good luck!

Cheers for the support ladies! I will keep you posted. I'm trying not to pin my hopes on this too much, as my boss doesn't know the real reason why I am meeting him. My current job has me working in North Africa for 7 weeks in every 10 and isn't exactly compatible with CD or any healthy eating...

I'm loving Banana shakes, blended with ice in my smoothie maker. Vanilla with a spoonful of coffee, ice and blended is like a trip to Starbucks. Had the mint choc chip bar the other day and that was really nice, had a peanut fudge (I think) bar yesterday and was not impressed.

Warning, this post contains graphic food descriptions! :D Just spoken with my old boss and he has decided where we are going, so as I'm now in damage limitation mode I've got the menu for the Pub Restaurant where we will be going so I can choose in advance! Narrowed the choices to the 3...

Thanks for the advice, I'll check out that link. I think you are right about not referring to it as cheating; mentally I don't want to use it as an excuse to hop off this train. I'm going to be gutted if I don't see a loss at the end of this week but it's something I have to do.

Tomorrow night I'm going out to dinner with my old boss in the hope of winning back my old job which I quit just over a year ago and since found out the grass wasn't greener on the other side. I don't want to tell him what I'm doing diet wise and can get away with drinking as I'm driving. So...

I changed last week, only saw my 1st consultant once and realised pretty quickly that she wasn't going to be someone I would get any support from. New consultant is aces! Really pleased I made the switch. I wouldn't feel guilty, your reason (location) is perfectly fine and it's only business...

Cheers ladies! Good luck with your first weigh ins!!

Day 7: 1st week done! Weigh in yesterday and lost 10lbs! So so so so happy!! It's been a looooong week, went to the Drs on Wednesday to get my CD form signed and at the same time get checked over; turns out I have a sinus infection and have been running a fever. On antibiotics now and still...

Wow! Seriously impressive, my weigh in is Friday, I'd be ecstatic with a loss like that. Long may it continue!!

Day 4: Another day done. Working from home today and been quite busy so haven't thought or missed food much today..... Until tonight, my Dad (whom I live with) cooked Sausages and Mash for tea and the smell of the succulent sausages sizzling on the grill had my tummy rumbling but I resisted and...

Cheers for the advice, I'm definitely drinking enough water; at this rate I could lose weight just by the amount of exercise I get running to the toilet every half hour!

Day three: Well, almost another day punched out, I'm working from home this week so I thought it was going to be really hard today. I woke up this morning thinking about food (lots!) but once I'd had a shake I was rolling, not really thought about food much at all. Managing to drink lots of...

Ha ha!! Unfortunately when I work away it is in Libya so not much chance of picking up some designer threads there!! ;)

End of day 2 update; bit of a headache and I just turned a ketostik a nice purple tinge! Surprised i've gone into ketosis this quick, was negative this morning. Hoping tomorrow i'm high on ketones!!

Ok, so end of day 2 and i'm feeling pretty good, a sense of satisfaction and achievement. Have resisted a number of temptations this weekend and it wasn't that hard. I had a bit of a mental breakthrough earlier, I was for some time considering weight loss surgery and today it dawned on me...

Thanks! I only go with a small suitcase normally so I should be fine with 1 big one. Great!

I'm on day 2 of CD and so far it's going well. I'm considering a switch to Exante, for a few reasons; firstly I'm not impressed with the CD Counsellor and secondly I work abroad alot and need to bulk buy 6/7weeks supply which the counsellor isn't keen on suppling. Does anyone know how much a...

Wow, great losses Steve. Really encouraging, I've started this morning. My stats are pretty similar to yours, so it's great to see this diet working so well for you. Good luck with the rest of your goals!

Thanks Sarah & Katie, I'll do that. I think I probably will change, I'm not confident with her advice and I wouldn't feel comfortable in calling upon her. I'm not going to do this "Step 2", I would happily have gone to see my GP to get his approval. I can't see that it would have been an...

I'm glad you've not heard of that either, I must say I wasn't overly impressed with the consultation. I'd read a lot of information and I left feeling a bit confused. Rightly or wrongly I plan to go SS on my own, I don't understand why I would pay £56 per week for a low calorie diet when I...

Hello! Today I am starting CD for the first time, I'm a 30 yr old male, 5'9" weighing 20.5st. Initially I've set myself a target weight of 14st, but more importantly than numbers I want to feel comfortable with the way I look and feel. I've tried various diets, (atkins, WW, Slimming...