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I've been on the CD since April 8th and I don't really get a chance to post here very often although I do try to take a look every now and then to see how everyone is doing. I just want you all to know that I don't know what weight I am any more because I've stopped weighing myself. The...

Hey Stush, think I've spoken to you before about this! I'm the girl who goes between SS and SS+ all the time - it hasn't made any difference to me. When I feel I need it I have a SS+ day and then when I dont I drop it back down. Have never come out of ketosis. My body's starting to get wise to...

I went to Thailand a couple of years back - oh my GOD I loved it. To be honest I think us Brits can get a bit snobbish about things like the cleanliness of foreign countries because yes you had a few dirty places there ( like the UK - just go to my local hospital :) )but most Thai people have...

Just texted her - what she did was she went travelling so she had a month off anyway - and she actually went around Bangkok visiting them and making sure the place was clean, the surgeon was capable etc. That might be an idea for you....if you're going to Thailand anyway, you may as well spend...

This might fill some of you with horror - but I was talking to someone who had gone to thailand for a boob job. She said that with the exchange rate the price was stupidly low, the service was amazing and she got a holiday out of it as well. Flights are a bit pricey - 600 pounds or so - and you...

Ah thanks amethyst! You've not done too badly yourself....................

Hello I've been on CD SS / SS+ for 10 weeks exactly and have gone from 15 st 8 to 11 st 13 in this time. IMy target at the moment is 11 st so I have less that 14 lbs to go. I am starting to have some problems though. Up til now it's been plain sailing and I've never felt hungry or anything...

I've just been to my GP to ask for a tummy tuck. I've got to have lost 5 stones, kept the weight off for 6 months and not be wanting any more kiddiewinkies. My target weight is currently 11 stones, which would mean I have lost 4 stones and 8 pounds. I might have to lose an extra half stone to...

hello I've just been to my GP for the same reason! He knows I'm on CD and I haven't had a problem with hair shedding until the past couple of weeks - I am less than a stone away from target. He has recommended me to take an iron and folic acid supplement because hair loss and hair thinning is...

Here you go, look at this - Gallstones - symptoms, treatment, causes and surgery removal operation it will tell you everything luvvie! XX

the fact they want a tummy tuck or some skin tightening surgery to their GP? I have booked myself in with mine to discuss the fact I've lost all this weight and have changed my lifestyle but am finding it impossible to get rid of my mummy tummy. No amount of crunches are making it any better...

Hello lovey! I would go and see your GP. Gallstones are really common in women who are overweight, who have been pregnant or who have been dieting ( every woman I know then! :) ) most people don't know they have them - until they hurt! I didn't know I had them until my last C section when...

Hello All I will say to you is you are so not the only one in this situation. I've been doing the diet for 9 weeks now and it's the healthiest I have ever felt in about 9 years! Dealing with 2 issues is hard, yes, but not dealing with them is disastrous in the long run. I personally felt that...

Is it really bad? For the first time in 9 weeks I have a craving for chocolate and I am thinking that another malt toffee bar would be lush! Not if it makes me ill though............the first bar was eaten at 5.30am so 12.5 hours ago..........

I did, but it came back with a vengeance last night...............and I've lost 3 stones 4 ish pounds.........maybe it's a kind of plateau! :p

Ahh, I think you may have answered my question. I never drank fizzy drinks, tea or coffee before starting CD, but now I have a cup of black coffee in the morning and another one in the evening because the caffeine helps me to *ahem* go to the toilet..........so maybe that's the prob! xx

Why oh why do you only lose hair on your head? I would love it if I lost a few from my pits, my legs, or even better my chin.............:eek: :D

Their teeth are a wee bit less white the longer you are on CD? I don't care, it's nothing a bit of bleach won't fix, but my teeth seem to be turning yellow!:confused: I brush them 3 times a day so it's not my hygiene regime that's the problem before you ask he he he..............

Hello! All I want to say to you is that you seem like you are in the right frame of mind to do really well on CD so don't worry too much about whether the weight will come back. The way I see it is CD puts you on the starting block to change your life, and if you do change your diet and...

You go get your confidence back girlie! I was in exactly the same situation as you, except I put on 6 stones with my daughter because of pre eclampsia and drank another stone and a half of vino on through sheer desolation. Funnily enough once I had gotten rid of the ugly 16 stone weight around...

You are so pretty anyway god knows what you're going to look like at the end! I may have to keep my other half indoors with girls like you on the loose!:D

Told ya! :D :D :D You're well on your way now - ooh isn't it exciting?!?!?! XX

Nope. I lose weight quicker when I add a meal every now and then. Weird but true! And they don't match my CDC's - he uses........wait for it............Weightwatchers! I think his scales are out anyway - they have to be because about 75 women use them! You can't tell me that they've not been...

9 weeks tomorrow! Whoo hoo! :rolleyes::D That's really strange, I really did test them out properly ( ie played with them for a whole week and took them to every room in my house ) AND if you get on the scales then straight back on them it flashes the same weight as the first time as if to say...

meant to say that I started this on 8th April so it will be 9 weeks tomorrow......

Well I started eating them in week 4 - only because I see my CDC every 4 weeks. I've lost 3 stones and a few pounds to date. So I don't think it has made a difference, no.

Oh that will go away any day now. It took me 5 days exactly - felt dead on day 5, went to bed early and bang! woke up on day 6 bright as a daisy and not hungry in the slightest!

Oh my god they are the BEST frickin things Ive ever stood on. Did you get the ones which tell you your BMI, water,fat etc? Can't remember what model but I did a test on all my house floors ( carpet and tiles and wood ) and the reading was the same regardless. It has a child mode and you can...

Hello I only eat the chocolate, toffee and peanut ones. The consistency of the choc and toffee is lovely - like a fudge bar. Doesn't quite taste the same as a fudge but i love them. They're covered in real chocolate as well! The peanut bar, I'm not so keen on but it keep variety, that's got...

Ah but we're all gorgeous. It just takes some of us a little bit of work and a little bit of time to believe it.:D

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I add a meal when I don't lose and it always works. My GP says there is deffo something in the thinking. I would stay on SS only if it meant I lost weight because the no food thing does not bother me - I get a varied taste of things by eating different products. It's just a brucie bonus that I...

Oh and step away from the chips - you don't even want to know how much I laughed after seeing that - it was quite embarrassing.........:D

Thanks Karen O. I've just sat down and thought about the previous post - and I'm a bit narked now. Surely if what I did was a surefire indication of an eating disorder, then everyone on the CD is suffering from one as well? I mean, we've all decided that conventional food abstinence is the best...

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Really? I thought it was just paranoid-at-being-called-a-bad-cook behaviour. Never had an eating disorder in my life. Always had a balanced healthy diet and never really had a negative body image, even when weighing in at 17 stone! It was the alcohol which got me - now that's a different story...

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Hello Have you been measuring your waist, bust, hips etc? I went through a week like that at the beginning of starting SS - I was totally devastated - but then I noticed that my trousers were falling down. Turns out I was still losing fat and retaining water.......... Another thing I do is...

Well done!!!! It's amazing when you see what you can achieve isn't it? Not long til you reach your goal methinks! :D

So. It's summer fair season and my daughter's is at the end of June. I usually bake a few cakes for the cake stall and a few rolls for the barbie. The difference this year being that I can't actually taste any of my creations - and that is really bad, especially if you are giving them to a...

Mommysue do you not sleep? I went to bed last night - I just couldn't keep my eyes open - and here you are posting threads into the wee small hours!!!!:eek::D

I was going to say - jeepers you're looking good for your age he he! It's all about the babyweight and 4 bottles of wine a night for me. I had alcohol issues and the heaviest I have been is 17.5 stone. I'm only 5ft 6! I like to blame my ex for the drinking and I left him 3.5 years ago - and...

I must admit, I twist the truth a bit when people ask me how I'm doing it - mainly because the people who I have told are filled with horror and think that I am going to die of starvation or rickets or something. I just say I eat less and move more. Which is more or less what I am doing, isn't...

Mommysue I answered you on the other thread.......d'oh! :0)

You lot are as mad as a bag o' cats! I know........I got my pictures up! Thanks for your help!My brain is seriously mince though - I left the fridge door open all day and when I went to shut it I realised I had put the dishwasher tablets in there?!?!?!?! Hopefully will be back to work soon...

Ah thanks mommy! I have lost exactly 3 stones 1 lb in 7 weeks and 6 days - started the diet 8 weeks ago tomorrow and started at 15 st 8. Am now 12 st 7!

Hahaha! Whatever happened to being young and carefree, eating lots of kebabs and sleeping all day? I think I'll need a bit of the Priory after finishing this diet due to withdrawal!

Just posted on the water thread and like I said on that reading what I wrote back makes me look like I have OCD :D. Another very weird thing I do is I try to make sure I eat the CD product with the most calories first so I have the whole day to burn it off: 2 litres of water from 5.30am Brek...

I do six - 2 before brekkie ( between 5.30 am and 7.30) 2 before lunch (between 8 and 12.30) and 2 before dinner ( between 1pm and 6). That way I stop at about 6 ish, have a cup of coffee before bed and I'm not up all night peeing like a copper's horse - I carry a litre of water...

If only everything was that bloody simple! Ah go on, humour me, Brucie! :0)

Whoo hoo! A whole new world..... Thanks very much! I always wondered what that CP thingie was for.........:brainfart:

Can anyone tell me in simple step by step instructions how to attach one of your photos to your profile name at the left of your comment? I've been out of work with my baby son and my computer skills have totally deserted me.......I have a mummy tummy and a porridge brain!:p

It's really strange, but I can hand on my heart say that I haven't been hungry for 8 weeks. I still can't believe it works! :0) And I will be honest, I have not stuck to the SS totally, mainly because I find I burn off more calories and lose more weight when I add a meal every few...

Just found this little nuggett in a medical journal the other half has lying around: Most medical resources regard ketosis as a physiological state associated with chronic starvation. And this from Wikepedia ( I've seen this on the Cambridge website as well ) The Cambridge Diet is a...

Spot on! And in far less words than me! :0) I do love a waffle ( not the cakeage he he )

Hello I thought you did go into starvation mode on CD - that this is what ketosis is.......when your body uses its store of energy ( ie fat composed of stored carbohydrate that's been converted to glycogen and water ). Your body is naturally wired to take all your energy from any food you have...

Susan, you're an SE girl like me! :)

Ahh thanks..........I just can't believe I didn't do this diet years ago. I tried and failed at so many others and for years I felt so so bad about myself.....and yes, it has been a sacrifice, but what is a few months in a life that hopefully will be around for tens of years? A tiny little...

Ok these are my before and during photos - I started this 8 weeks ago at 15 st 8lb. I'm now 12 st 8lb.....want to get between 10.5 and 11 st hopefully........... the before photos aren't very good, that's because I banned cameras in my house until recently owing to my fatness :D

Yep, dancing, I meant you...:D I wouldn't go that far. I mean, you look really really good. I am my own worst enemy at the moment - I find it hard to appreciate just how much I have lost and get very frustrated at the wobbly bits still there. I am impatient! Then I look at photos like yours...

Jeepers! I've just looked at your photos - look at you!!!!!! You have done amazingly.......I hope to be like you one day :0) It's funny - I cut my hair really short and dyed it like yours the minute I felt better about myself......the way this is going I could have a candy floss pink buzz cut...

[ I don't think you would want to lose any faster than what you already are. Make sence? You know what, a small part of me was thinking that - I'm lucky because the dreaded skin hangy thing seems to have sorted itself out now - was terrible to begin with but I think the 5 litres of water a...

Hello! I started CD on 8th April and weighed in at 15.8. My councillor comes every 4 weeks ( he's a mobile one god bless 'im! :0) ) so I've had 2 weigh ins. My last one was yesterday ( Saturday ) and I weighed in at 12 8! Amazing - 3 stones in 8 weeks!! :D:D:eek: I have a little problem...

Better still, I'll add you as a mate to my facebook page. I'm always on there!!!! Don't be scared when a ginger girl asks you to be mates.........................:D

I asked that one a couple of days ago! Fancy it? I'm 15.8 and would love to do it in 3 months!

I am officially thick as I should have been able to work that one out. I'll blame the Sole Source brain fuzzies today! XX

Oh dear luvvie! I ate a pack of sugar free mentos once - let's just say that, um, no one could use the toilet that night. Except me! Must be the artificial sweetener..........:sick0019::sign0137:

Time4ME - wonderful name, I'm always wanting some of that!! -what does the STS and AAM mean on your loss record? I'm very nosey you see!!!!! :chores016: I love this smilie!!!!!

ROFL well hopefully I will have more willpower and eat them all at once once I have reached my goal!!!!!!!!!! :D

I don't know if this will help anyone, but I do something to keep me on track and wanted to share it with all you lovely ladies / men!!! I have a house filled with choccy loving crisp crunchers and I was really struggling with them eating all this stuff in front of me - until Friday night...

I've just taken a wee neb at your ticker Frejja - well done for nearly getting there! How long did it take you? What is your secret!!!!

Don't worry about it luvvie! I am sooooo used to people taking what I say the wrong way, if I had a pound for every time someone said they were offended I would be rich! Although I would prefer Euros these days, seeing as the pound is worth not a lot at the mo :D I'm just wired this way. It...

I'm from LIVVIE!!!! But I live in London now.........:D

Hi Wenjay, Sorry I've offended you but why do you find that offensive? The reason I posted this to begin with is that the buddy system got me through my problem 3 years ago. Speaking from an alkie's perspective, I don't mind being called an alkie. So unless you yourself are an alkie, like me...

Ah just got back from a day's outing to B and Q - nearly passed out with all the excitement / exertion! Thanks to all of you for replying and I will be on this forum daily you mark my words!!!! Just having my chicken and mushroom soup about hours late and man, I can feeeeel it!!! Porgeous, Oh...

Hello! I'm new to this forum (bloody excellent by the way, especially the before and after piccies - that WILL be me if I ever get the guts together to actually take a photo below the chin :)) and I thought I would write a post asking if any of the newbies like me, or even the returners...

Me too! Hello! I'm on day 4 of SS + and I was wondering the same thing too....I've read on some threads that the skimmed milk takes you out of ketosis ????????? I'm currently doing 3 - 4 packets plus less than 200 mls of milk (just for the tea / coffee ) and drinking 4 litres of water and so...

Hello I'm Chebs and I just turned 30. I am mum to three kids, one aged 9, one aged 1 and one aged 40.:D I was very ill with my first daughter and as a result of pre eclampsia went from 10 st to 17 and never really had a chance in hell of losing weight as I was so depressed after a traumatic...