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I'd like to join too - although hard to set a target as I'm due to finish 100%-ing mid April (set myself a time not weight target for stopping this time!) & then I'm thinking of switching to an alternate day fasting or 5:2 WOE type refeed and for maintenance. So... 5lbs? Clinquant 8lbs to...

Posted on another forum to another ?start hungry baby milk dilemma recently... Not sure how old your baby is but if not close to weaning onto solids age & a potential argument for hungry baby for any other reasons but otherwise I'd say the same: "For what it's worth - I've stuck with the first...

Thinking I might need a new smaller (eternity) ring to go behind the others to stop any slipping... :p

Hmm, I'm having trouble falling asleep lately too (& can't blame the baby because she's usually asleep by 8.30pm!) although don't remember this from when I've done VLCDs before (twice). Don't think I'd take anything for it though - just forced myself to wake early this morning, trying to...

Well, it was 2 but then +1 more with all the sitting-in-doors + comfort food & I wasn't quite at target :o - so wanting 3.5 off from my post birth highest! Yummy mummy is indeed the target... :D Plenty of them around where I am - though my NCT group are pretty supportive - we had a night out...

Congratulations again! I'm back too! :wave_cry: So, the week after baby I was 'only' about 2 stone up from the TTC weight - but then too much time sat down with baby/comfort eating one handed & another stone on, doh. Now she's nearly 8 months & I restarted once she was 6 months - slightly...

Weighing in a day early as planned long-anniversary-weekend-off starts tomorrow! (Going to Paris & not eating any carbs?! :break_diet:) Lyndzi76 (7lb lost, 5lb to go) Dolly Rocker (3lb lost, 9lb to go) Dropandgimme85 (0lb lost, 14lbs to go) Pinkandfluffy (0lb lost, 14lbs to go) Sammy33...

Lyndzi76 (7lb lost, 5lb to go) Dolly Rocker (3lb lost, 9lb to go) Dropandgimme85 (0lb lost, 14lbs to go) Pinkandfluffy (0lb lost, 14lbs to go) Sammy33 (3lb lost, 7lbs to go) Clinquant (12.5lb lost, 1.5lbs to go) Fran81 (11.5lbs lost, 2.5lbs to go) Tracyx (14lbs lost, 0lbs to go) Mellissa...

So 14lbs in 4 weeks..? On what other diet would you achieve that?! Perhaps half a stone a week was a little unrealistic..? :p

Lyndzi76 (4lb lost, 8lb to go) Dolly Rocker (3lb lost, 9lb to go) Dropandgimme85 (0lb lost, 14lbs to go) Pinkandfluffy (0lb lost, 14lbs to go) Sammy33 (3lb lost, 7lbs to go) Clinquant (8.5lb lost, 5.5lbs to go) Fran81 (8lbs lost, 6lbs to go) Tracyx (11lbs lost, 3lbs to go) Mellissa (0lbs...

Lyndzi76 (0lb lost, 12lb to go) Dolly Rocker (2lb lost, 10lb to go) dropandgimme85 (0lb lost, 14lbs to go) Pinkandfluffy (0lb lost, 14lbs to go) Sammy33 (3lb lost, 7lbs to go) Clinquant (4lb lost, 10lbs to go) Fran81 (5lbs lost, 9lbs to go) Tracyx (8lbs lost, 6lbs to go) mellissa (0lbs lost, 14...

I didn't bother to take painkillers in with me (though stocked up with easy to take paracetamol for early labour at home) with the thought process that regular prescriptions are usually given on time (heaven help anyone disturbing the drug round!) so if I needed quick access to anything on top...

Cutting it fine to join the November party! I am a restarter (pretty successful with S&S 2 years ago in the run up to TTC - now need to shift the baby/sitting-on-the-sofa-breastfeeding-with-cake weight!) & so aiming for an ambitious 14lb. :wave_cry: Lyndzi76 (0lb lost, 12lb to go) Dolly...

If you want to try & BF then great hubby is pro it - but should be support, not pressure! I think, tbh, every newborn wants to be fed 2-3 hourly or if they don't (like mine) there's probably a reason (jaundice sleepiness in her case) & you're advised to wake them up every 3 hours to feed...

Yeah, as MrsLmc says - expressing is a huge faff & way more time consuming. & I think if you do it exclusively then your supply is likely to dwindle more than if breast feeding directly & you'll need to spend quite a chunk of extra time pumping - they say a baby is about 1oz more efficient...

Good to hear the update, Violetfire! Also, the thread bump (ho, ho) reminded me of my post in here... I am pregnant too! :D Approximately 7/40 - have a private early scan booked for later in the week. Came off the diet after reaching one of my targets & a big social occasion 6 or so...

I'm having similar problems! Was on Slim & Save as low carb works for me... But now I'm 6/40, first pregnancy & the only thing settling the nausea is CARBS, CARBS, CARBS. Damn. :o

I've been pondering the same & when to up the calories (especially now BMI reached one of my mental targets) but have rationalized to myself that with implantation being week 4 (from LMP!) & then placental transfer week 4-5 that i'll continue on the diet but POAS 2 weeks post predicted ovulation...

Congratulations! & start taking folic acid if you haven'talready! :D Add me to the list of people who will hopefully be posting the same in coming months... :p

Hope you find something that suits you better! Toodle pip.

Ditto - my tummy rumbles away but I'm not feeling hungry with it... so I just interpret it as a processing noise & continue. :D Like pain I think 'hunger' is a percept really i.e. in part it is your body feeding (ho ho) something back to you but how you interpret it has a huge mental/emotional...

I don't know...I've always done it as a 'deviation' - a shake bar for breakfast, soup poppadum lunch & shake-brownie/souffle/cookie etc. for a treat if not a meal. My lifestyle & taste buds wouldn't be able to handle all the liquid meals otherwise! :p

I've had some time off - a Hen do weekend too because alcohol was definitely going to be a feature (along with plenty of cake etc.)... & some single days when visiting in-law-family where I gave into the food-as-socializing thing. Getting back onto it wasn't a big problem for me as it's a...

I'm 5'6 & a smidgen... My target is 147lb (10st 7lbs) as that's the lowest adult weight I remember weighing myself at & felt slim/healthy enough then! It was a size 10 on top, 12 on the bottoms & 26/27 inch waist. Realistically once I was last 155lb ish (11 stone BMI just under 25) I felt...

Well done! I'm enjoying BMI group milestones too... (Normal is now tantalizingly close!)

Twice a day in PJs + empty-bladdered in our bathroom. :D Sunday is the 'official' weekly weight though!

I had a bit of a weekend blip too - arrived too early at my sister-in-laws - had planned to miss lunch with 'work' commitments... & they had saved a slice of homemade (by another S-I-L) pavlova for me (despite DH protesting not to) & sat me down & served it to me. I ate some of it. :o...

I agree - American portion sizes seem crazy! We never did our usual 3 courses each thing as it was way too much - lots of sharing! But psychologically I think that is good. I was lucky with the lack of all inclusive-ness/still rubbish exchange rate helped keep me away from too many edible...

Bump! So how did all the holiday-ers go? I've just got back & have to admit that my Atkins-esque intentions slightly failed in the land of (potential trigger - scroll over for words!) breakfasts of waffles, pancakes & french toast with fruit and sides of tricoloured potatoes and a food court...

How is it going so far..? Think about where you've drifted before & how you can make this time different. I am due to restart at the end of the week after 3 weeks off - combination of dreading it (lack of food freedoms) & looking forward to it (as I know there will be results!) :D

Agree with what people say about salt being related to cramp so I'd give those things a try. I had awful cramps midway through working on a tropical island (& sweating a lot!) for a month that disappeared once I started adding a little salt to my food. Potassium I'd be more reluctant to mess...

Waist measurements are used for some things like cardiovascular risk already. People over 40 not on disease registers all ready are invited to have health checks that look at CV risk - but people need to want to have them done or be open to the idea if they're invited when they go to their...

I don't think it's 'GPs' who are on that bandwagon but some of them. I've never heard of patients being encouraged to go an operative route unless it's absolutely last resort. Loads of complications, expensive & as you say - doesn't address the underlying cause. Hmm, I think that's probably...

Oh no, that's really tough. I think I'd be tempted the same way in an all-inclusive (never been on one) but would need to try & give myself tough love ;)... & tell myself that it's not worth it against the money I've spent on S&S, new clothes/donating the old ones & my health, that you can...

My clothes help remind me of the changes! Have the same Primark (work!) trousers in 4 different sizes now - the largest is way too big (& I'm keeping them as permanent warning/the slim in big trousers photo!), size down are definitely need a belt now, aiming to start on the second smallest...

I'm listening too - we go away this Saturday! & I don't have a plan just yet... Dinner out with colleagues tomorrow though so maybe I should start to switch to Atkins-like eating which was my plan for the holiday.

Trim T -7lbs Emily -14lbs (3.5 lost ~10.5lbs to go) Starsy - 14lbs BordersGirl - 7lb LauraZee - 12lbs (6lb lost, 6lb to go) Welshtigger-14lbs (12.5lbs lost ~ 1.5lbs to go) Pippin27 - 14lbs (10lbs lost, 4lbs to go) Weasey - 11lbs (5 lb lost, 6 lb to go) Fizzyfluff - 14lbs (3lbs lost~...

No way I'd be able to go to lunchtime without anything! My midweek routine is... Breakfast approx 8am (on the Tube :p ) a frozen shake bar Lunch approx 1pm poppadums from a shake sometimes with some ham or chicken meat Afternoon snack/way home treat sometimes a bar or cookie Dinner between...

I suspect the mechanism is reducing fat & giving a hormone surge because of that or you weren't having regular periods before as you were along a PCOS spectrum which is also resolving with fat loss - both should settle. If it's a nightmare and there wasn't a reason why you weren't on a...

Similar - yes, BMI is not perfect - but I'm not an elite athelete, body builder or a man etc... so it's good enough for me! :p & i find that a number on the scales does not lie - whereas for me, a clothes size can depending where you shop or how tight you wear it etc. :o I also think that in...

I couldn't eat mine (from the sample pack!) either so had to make a cookie instead to get the taste away. :D

Not 100% for me this week, whoops. Back on the wagon for a fortnight big pre-holiday-push... Trim T -7lbs Emily -14lbs (3.5 lost ~10.5lbs to go) Starsy - 14lbs BordersGirl - 7lb LauraZee - 12lbs (0lb lost, 12lb to go) Welshtigger-14lbs (9.5lbs lost ~ 4.5lbs to go) Pippin27 - 14lbs (7lbs...

Did she explain the rationale behind that..? I'd be tempted to continue & did through a horrible cold (but the lozenges were having an impact on ketosis I think!) with advice like people have given for antibiotics + anti-inflammatories with food packs etc. & if anything the food packs seem...

I like to microwave mine for around 30 seconds to make it all warm & brownie/fudge like... roll on bank Holiday breakfast! :D

I love the choco-crispie pudding too - it's my weekend breakfast treat! :D

My 3rd week has been a bit rubbish too... -2.6lbs (Week 1 6lb & Week 2 4.4lb) :( But as people have said all you can do is keep on it & take a longer term view. & see if there's anything you could change? I stayed in ketosis but may have overdone the protein when I didn't have a pack...

Well done, some good losses! Slooow week for me -2.6lbs. Stayed in ketosis but perhaps had some extra protein when working later than planned & getting closer to my more natural weight set-point so maybe things will start to slow. :( Fingers crossed for next week!

Me too.. But currently on Slim & Save VLCD - have found I can make a very chocolatey souffle/brownie type thing with one of the packs that satisfies my cravings - but trying to restrict myself as it just tastes too good. :D

I had a really difficult job to think of 'treats' for upcoming events or even loosing weight (!) that weren't food/alcohol related..! Which in part made me realize my mindset was a bit wrong. So eventually I've settled on: - Clothes shopping - even wandering around clothes shops makes me want...

Maybe you need to assess yours too? Saying I seem like someone who would easily choose to have have an abortion & that a child wouldn't be a 'blessing and a miracle' for me isn't exactly all cuddles & rainbows either. I was clearly talking about myself - sharing my rule for my pre-TTC weight...

I'm not trying to uninvitedly scare people when they haven't asked for my advice - the 'motivational stories' examples were suggestions to think of if people did want motivating thoughts in loosing weight (which the premise of the thread suggests they might) & things that have scared me - but...

Lucky you - hope it continues to go smoothly. ... but as I said as a modifiable 'risk factor' it's not something I could let myself intentionally do. :)

I'm similar to both of you. Have made myself a rule that we cannot start TTC until my BMI is <25. & again not so much a fertility thing but my job has scared me stupid about all the things that can go wrong in foetal development, pregnancy & childbirth - so it seems inappropriate for me to...

& husband is definitely doing all the food shopping now on - muhaha.

My men's 5 a day month arrived today too (just had the samples till now) - & I have organization envy for lots of people here. Our kitchen is too small still! Plenty of room in the fridge but not sure that would work so well for my packs (!) So mine is a bit haphazard all the same packs...

We are dinner twins - I am eating that right now too! Yum. :D

Happy Birthday! Visualize yourself enjoying next year's happy in your body. :p

Ah, I (I say I, I mean DH as he had greater culinary skills than me ;) ) make a sort of paste with approx 4tsp water & a soup, then smear it fairly finely over greaseproof paper (have experimented with different shapes - actually best to make a sort of square horseshoe otherwise the middle gets...

Starting soon! Mine will finish slightly early (26th May) as going on The Big Holiday & don't plan to take scales... :p Trim T -7lbs Emily -14lbs Starsy - 14lbs BordersGirl - 7lb LauraZee - 12lbs (0lb lost, 12lb to go) Welshtigger-14lbs (0lbs lost ~ 14lbs to go) Pippin276 - 14lbs...

I did Lighter Life Light Summer 2009 - got down to target but then gradually put it (& more :o ) back on, although with a few periods of strict crashing back down to an intermediate zone (Bridesmaiding x2 + getting married). One thing I noticed was as the weight started going back on I stopped...

Yep, I second this. I'm only just coming to the end of my sample taster pack... but remember from my Lighter Life Lite days all sorts of tricks with the foodpacks to mix things up a bit - it's mostly the samey texture I can't stand after a while! The thread Spandex mentioned is also...

I am a (twice!) daily weigher too. I find it interesting & motivating to keep close track on things! :p Thinking about longer term maintenance have realized that I probably need to weigh myself regularly (thinking once a week?) in future as the scales don't lie - whereas I can fool myself with...

Thanks for the recipe - going to give this one a try tonight for something to crunch at the cinema!

Not Lyndzi (obviously!) - but I did something similar but for even longer before... a good few weeks of reducing carbs & upping my protein/vegetables/dairy before starting (during which I actually lost about 2lb a week) & I think it does help ease you in - makes sense physiologically & I dind't...

I'm on week 2 at the moment too & -3.6 lbs so far (2 days to go) but a definite slow compared to week 1... But as people say, the first is likely to be the quickest with the water loss but if you keep at it you have to loose weight - even if your body manages to do some weird holding...

Ditto! Last week was the first for me - one of my bosses (who had been away over Easter) looked at me funny & asked if I had lost weight. :D