Just peaking in Girls for inspiration. I am on day 8....lost 10 pounds so far. No REAL cheating but i have been having some Coke, the one without the citric acid. Haven't noticed my uniform is looser and no one has said WOW!!!!, YOU'VE LOST WEIGHT ( Hahaha)
OK! Tomorrow I start...again. I had forgotten how supportive the folk on here are. I used to spend allllllllllllllll my spare time on here then sort of drifted away.
I will report back tomorrow evening x
Mine stayed at the 36G they have always been so now i look like a bigger Jordan...and i remember why i wanted to get fatter in the first place. To avoid the sexual attention from men
I find it easier to get more room temp water down though. The ice cold stuff makes me gasp for air. Straws are handy too tough.
There are many types of Green Tea, including diet ones. I get mine from the Chinese supermarkets.
well, i have lied abut being on the CD. I didn't want to hear others Values, attitudes and beliefs about it......i just wanted to do it. It must hav been much harder for Fern. I don't ever watch her shows but i fully understand the mindset of a fatty.
I used to be a size 6 and am now a 5. My daughter went from a 10 to an 8 which of course has made it soooooooooooooo much easier for her to get shoes to fit.
There are not enough words of appreciation to say WELL DONE. You must be feeling just fantastic. How waonderful and what a gtreat summer ahead you have x
Hey, het , hey, You have NOT failed, banish that word, you just made a wrong choice. You can easily lose a stone beofre your hol...head down, eye on the prize. You looking fab on your holiday.
u have NOT Fu**ed up t all. you made a slihght mistake and you are still doing really well. It is a learning curve for all of us so you just keep going on your journey. x
They are not scary pictures, they are great pictures. They are showing you determination, bravery, committment....and results. Good for you and keep going xx
No no no treats! It does get easier and I laughed when you said,"Do the flavours get better the hungrier you get" LOLOLOL You could well be right there. Great that you quickly hopped back on the wagon. After day 4 it is MUCH easier so, head down and keep your eye on the prize. Good luck.
Try "NEW LOOK".....you will be surprised. They have some lovely short-ish dresses in that you could wear alone or over trousers with wedges and a matching bag.
Definately NO "Primark", acrylic, plastic shoes, Very high heeled shoes as the streets are VERY uneven in Manchester.
Those scarves...
Mine kind of sagged a bit at first after the initial weight loss but then seemed to fill out again to the 36G they were before. They look ok now but i was worried for a while when they went scrawny.
i think age and genetics play a part too. As Porgeous says, ity's not perfect but it is livable with and i have grown quite fond of my scrawny neck. I was using Clarins stuff which helped a bit but have moved over to Boots Time Delay which i found to be brilliant x
i have had 3 c sections in 3 years and had that hangy over tummy thing but with the weight loss it has pretty much gone on its own. A bit wrinkly, but ok. I haven't EVER done any excercise.
I went onto Boots. Had a look at all the sales advisers until I found one i like the look of (if you know what I mean) Then i said to her, "I want to look like you" Soooooooooooooooo I am now wearing Lancome flash bronzer and it looks great. Not at all orange, more that red/tan look you get when...
i wear Crocs all the time for work. They are so light and don't make my feet smell. I love them. The other day i got a pair of "Alice" ones too. Try to get the Crocs shiner stuff if you can, it keeps them really shiny.
Three years though is admirable. It's the keeping it off that is hard!!! (Don't we know it?) What I mean is, for an advert, I thought they may have chosen a "better" candidate. She isn't fat, per se. but for someone who is extolling the wonders of the diet I think she is a bit hefty. There are...
TRUE...first few days are really, really hard and u can well feel pleased with yourself if u get through those as many fail! I had long baths and went to bed and read and found that this helped me. As i felt my rib bones appear...NOTHING felt better. You can do it. x
I have been using the Boots Time Delay stuff for a month and i would say it has helped quite a bit. Course, skin with no elasticity is just that but i do think it has helped a bit.
It works! After about 6 weeks though you need to ask for further thearapy, Preferably Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This medication was made to get u to the point where you could engage in some more interactive stuff.
If u r low u won't be able to stick to a diet anyway so better to get ur...
It really does get better. Keep telling yourself, "Oh no, I don't eat food" Pretty much as you would say, "Oh, no I don't drink bleach" I did this until i got into the habit of not eating and was able to address the way i use food in my life. You are doing well, keep going. x
Don't you think the girl still looks fat on it? I wonder if they tried to get the woman who is on the front cover of the LL magazine. She looks amazing. Maybe they thought people wouldn't believe the weightloss possible.
I notice too that the girl they chose is VERY pretty.
Hya Davis my husband, i will tell him to log in when he gets home later. He has lost so much weight he looks like a completely new person. You won't recognise him. I am VERY proud of him for his commintment and discipline.
God yes!! Over a car bonnet, during a photograph session at a wedding, carparks, in the back of cars before "dogging" became popular and many MANY times in the graveyard near to my house when i was shagging a milkman and mad on having affairs. (Previous marriage i may add. No indiscretions this...
Tiger Tiger is good but gets VERY hot.
The casino is nice. V upmarket and u have to register online 24 hours before u go. A good place to get dressed up for.
What are we looking for? Dancing? Food? Cocktails?Outside? Inside? Women mostly? Older/younger?
U can get an "ok" from your GP first. Better for the GP to make the decision. Course, if you get the wrong decision you can change GP's and i have known people to lie and say they are not on medication. This is not to be recommended.
When i am ill i only drink water anyway untill i am better. Had my gallbladder out and then only drank water for 5 days. I don't know why, it isn't a plan, it just feels like the right thing to do. Give my body a rest to recover itself. I am not saying this is the right thing to do at all, just...
I think the weight loss starts in the head and once u start thinking u can have coke it is a slipery slop. A change in the mind set. Best to stay strong and not deviate from the diet and water at all i have found.
I did that long ago and far away (1984). Went from Cambridge to high protein/low carbohydrate and still lost weight. You can get all the information you need online and if you are going to buy the book, I advise amazon. x
Come on. Take a day off and really spend some time thinking about what it is you want and then start with a vengeance. You have to get your head around it first and the rest will follow. As you say, you could have been at your goal weight now and the only thing that wasn't in place was your...
I fond the cooking thing ok. I don't cook but my husband does. It's all in the head. I just say to myself, "I don't eat food" as i would also say, "I don't drink gin".
Lots of places that wouldn't have been advisable to live in a few years ago are now completely regenerated and offer great opportunities for people just starting out. Come and have a look and see for yourself.
Annie (Bramhall, Stockport)
Girls, girls, girls.....GIVE UP THE SCALES. Put them in the bin. Once you have, there is no going back. Are your clothes getting looser? That's good enough.
When i do aam i always try to go Atkins. I have lost more than my ticker says but i don't know how much as I am not weighing, just going off looser clothes. Eating food other than fish, meat, etc. makes me want to eat more so i try to stick to just the protein...............and cabbage which i...
I felt sad for you when i read your post and then i saw your ticker.........getting married? Are you mad? Come on. Give yourself better, look after your self. You deserve it x
Yep! I had my gallbladder out 2 weeks ago. There were 2 stones THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. As I only started CD on 07/01/08 I fail to see how this can be the cause though of course it can have exacerbated it.
I have never eaten fatty foods and the consultant said he had removed hundreds over the...
Hmmm. Some of you girls are just not getting the fact that....men are not women! Most are not great at emotional support. That's why we have family and friends. It's quite a new phenomenon to assume that men can give us all we desire in a person, physically, emotionally and spiritually. It's an...
1.WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
No
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
This morning
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING
Oh yes, everyone does!
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE LUNCH MEAT?
Iberico Ham
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
Joel, Cleopatra Valentine and Rosanna Leighton
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON...
I do 13 and a half hour shifts. I have tried all ways of splitting the shakes and nothing helps. the ONLY thing that has helped me is to keep the water going every 30 minutes...EVEN IF YOU DON'T WANT IT. Just have some, that has helped. x Good luck and keep going.
i worked from 7 - 3 with 19 people with "very challenging behaviour", came home and stared into space till quarter past five. Logged on here. Had not a thing to eat or drink.
LIL K? My wedding ring has diamonds in it and when I had it made smaller the jeweller sorted it out. I don't know what he did but it was no problem to him.
NO NO NO I WILL NOT HAVE IT and you women with boy children should be ashamed of yourselves!!!!
Men are men, not women, that's the thing you have to grasp. They are not the same as us and if it wasn't for the sex we would ALL be lesbians. Men are not bad, they are just not women!
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Hmmmm Well i am using it but probably not as much as i should. My daughter had BIG surgery and used it on her scar and now has a very pale feint line where she was cut. Just the massaging may help. I wonder if there is research on it...i will go and have a look.
IT WILL HAPPEN! Try not to be a scale hopper. Keep your head down as they say and your eye onthe prize. Keep at it and the weight will definately go. How could it not?? Don't give up, you can do it, you ARE doing it.x
Don't worry about it. Don't worry about any of it. Look after your mental health doing anything you need to do to get through this rotten time. xx My thoughts are with you. Everything passes you know, just give it time.
Still in bed recuperating...got up and went for a walk today which was a mistake. Nearlt killed me. I want to go back to work on Monday though and get back to ssing so my weekend will be the psychological preparation for that.
Hmmm was that really all you could get?
Why have it anyway if it was so tiny? what was the point? And now you are angsting over it?
I sound harsh i know but a big part for us dieters is changing the way we think. You wouldn't find a thin, healthy person eating curry and chips at lunchtime!
We...
I would advise you to have nothing..just push the food around a bit. Honestly, no one will notice. OR....day you have the runs, that always shuts people up!
Oh nic. My detractors are LOVING this. I was doing really really well on ss CD then had to have my gallbladder out and yes. I know there is a link between VLCD and gallstones but these stones were the size of golfballs and clearly had not developed just since i was doing the diet. I am now holed...
I just have 3 and i am 5 8". I wouldn't say my CDC is rubbish but yes, i just go, pay, get the stuff and come away. That's all i want from him to be honest. Each to their own.
i recall being weighed and measured years ago in Junior school and the humiliation for the fatties. I thought they had stopped all that, like Nitty Nora and the school dentist.
i would get some lubricant..even soap would do. Go and sit on the lavatory with your feet up on a pile of books, knees bent lean forward, push the lubricant slightly into your anus and open your mouth wide. Now then...i KNOW this sounds bizarre, but it will work.
Oh yes, good luck with the interview and let us know how it goes. I have no interest in being a CDC but i am very interested in the criteria for becoming one. There seems to be such a difference between them.
i get bored with the rubbing! Presumably we need to be doing it a couple of times a day!
i do my neck with the Clarins Jeunesse De Cou and i really have noticed a difference there and am trying ( a bit) with the Bio oil everywhere else. It is expensive (ish) but really does last forever.
It will be very ineteresting to see what your weightloss is. I do know what you mean though. There always seems to be such a lot of food involved and even the diet drinks have stuff in them that isn't healthy. Works for millions though doesn't it so i can't wait to see how you do at weigh-in.
Daughter one of mine used that. She was hardly fat...weighed 10 stone and 5 8" but she got that book and has lost 10 pounds. She looks great on it too. Dead healthy, shiny hair and eats lots each day. Drfinately a lifestyle thing, more than a quick burst i would say.
Couldn't you just use cream?
I did hear lasering worked best on dark wiry hair. Is your facial hair like that? Is it just a little bit? As you said, it's a costly excercise. I had a friend who had it done and it really messed her skin (chin) leaving her scared but this was a few yaers ago. I...
When i started eating a bit ( after ssing on CD) i felt somehow "dirty" with processed stuff. Isn't that odd? I feel much better with just fruit/veg/cheese type food. I have to say, not healthier! LOL, just "better" in a way.
I found that having the bars made me think i could eat anything again so it was a struggle not to. When i get going again at the W/e i will stick to shakes
I was just wondering...can you do this diet without having any processed foods? I would think that would be healthier generally. I don't know anything about the diet though...just asking.
I only wash my hair every couple of weeks anyway ( i know, i know) but i think it looks better since being on the CD. Also my nails are growing better, not breaking at all. I think my skin looks grey though otherpeople say i look better. I quite liked a fat face. Fat face = no wrinkles. Now i...
£12 isnt a bad price to pay and i think that even if your arms are not miraculously cured, the thought of rubbing lovely smelling stuff into yourself is a good thing for self-esteem generally!
Hya,
Cholecystectomy done. Bruised from pillar to post. Lay up in bed recovering. BUT i am just eating homemade beautiful artichoke soup and waiting for the weekend to get going back on the CD.
Thankyou to EVERYONE who posts on this forum, it is people's comments,plans, goals and achievements...
One of my daughters is very hairy. Face, sides of face, neck. It just means she has to spend a bit longer in the bathroom each morning. Sometimes she shaves, sometimes she uses cream. She hates it of course...but that's life! I hate my nose. Worse things in the world to worry about than a bit of...
I look at it all over a 24 hour period. Sometimes i am up in the night a lot (don't ask!) and include that in my time to have the packs and the water. Didn't you feel a bit sick having them all together? It's a lot of nutrition all in one go.
i find it easy because food is not in the equation at all. Untill my operation next Thursday i am "cutting down" and i find that much, much harder than ssing
I am with porgeous here. The first week is the hardest. Wait till weigh in and see if that good news spurs you on. If you don't do it you will never know what could have been.x
I walked past Nando's the other day and would have LOVED to walk in but yes, i did feel smug walking past, walking to slimdon, not sitting there stuffing my face like a fatty. Every minute i don't each and every step i take is me getting nearer to my goal weight. I know the saying is done to...
I have a big bag full of takeawy menus and sometimes sit and read them....WHY? My husband is dieting (calorie counting) and is into sushi at the moment so we have lots of japanese menus around
I have taken to baking in a big way but much of it is getting thrown away as husband and daughters are dieting and son is far, far away. I can't seem to stop though.
Drinking more water make you lose more weight. Discuss. I don't think it does. I mean, clearly you need to drink sufficient but i don't think that drinking more = greater weight loss.
I didnt know that about quinoa, dancing, thanks. i will look into that. I'm not vegetarian but i don't like meat but lack of protein is a concern for me.
After my cholecystitis thingy a couple of weeks ago i am scheduled for the operation on the 10th April so not cding at the moment. I just wanted to post...not sure why...just to say, you know, i am with you all and will be back on the wagon straight after the surgery (yesssssssssssss i know the...
Many years ago (24) i did it 2 weeks after the birth of my son. Felt great, looked great. I don't think i thought to ask if it was ok at the time, just jumped in. Having an op next thursday and will be starting ss within 48 hours. I understand the nature of cd and the reasons why things are done...