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I'd go by what the doctor says. After all, she has done a five year medical degree, several months' electives and medical practice. You can truthfully sign your form saying you're not breastfeeding or pregnant. You can choose not to mention that you had a baby two months ago.

I've been sticking to CD properly, have not cheated and am half way through week 4. Had a great loss in weeks 1 and 2 (18lbs) but the scales crept up in week 3 and I ended up actually gaining 2lbs. I gave myself a talking to ... you know, "you cannot NOT lose weight on 500 cals a day", "it's...

Lilypop Hi Lilypop You are right, so right. Our bodies are a reflection of how we treat them. If we can treat them kindly, they'll reflect our treatment (I guess like our skin does) I'm sorry you can't accept your body as it is BUT just think, it carries you around despite the extra stonage...

Hi Lisa Marie I am really sorry to read that you are repulsed by your body and hope you can come to a sense of peace and acceptance of it before you lose weight. It's SO the media, in my opinion. Good luck with the CD!

More resources to help with maintenance .. This looks good too! Pete Cohen - Desperation Equation

Hi Soraya Some random thoughts: Paul McKenna and Susie Orbach ("Fat is a Feminist Issue") both have books that teach the self-same programme: how to eat when you're hungry, how to stop when you're full, etc. My aunt swears by it. Have you read "Fat is a Feminist Issue"? It's really...

Me too! But, it IS cold outside. We had snow on the beach in Cornwall! I have to keep nipping off for boiling hot showers.

Other people's attitudes Dancing - I agree completely. I just had a hard weekend - not because of dieting, but because of dealing with others' attitudes to my diet. I've had emotional blackmail and badgering from my father because I chose to attend a family meal out but didn't eat, and...

Cheers Debz32!

We're not our bodies! Thanks for the kudos and I hope I didn’t come across as criticising because that is not what I intended A couple of years ago I went on a kind of personal growth seminar and one of the sessions was about accepting your body. The first thing we did was to understand that...

The following "self-talks" have been keeping me on track I am very good at justifying why I should come off the wagon. Before (re)starting on the CD on 9 March, I wrote up all my justifications and then replied to myself with the truth about them. Here they are (this is long - I have lots of...

Jubbly - can't you train as a counsellor yourself? This would give you some motivation to stay on track, some extra earnings, and you'd get your diet at cost. Just a thought.

I often lurk and read people's posts and am always very interested to see people's (emoticon) reactions to their smaller weighloss three weeks or so into the CD. I think it's sad when people are disappointed when they "only" lose 2 or 3 lbs in their third week. If you take a bigger view of a...

Oooh, yes please I'd like to join this tough love group! I think the reason I keep falling off the wagon is because I don't believe I'll succeed. I can't face dieting because in some dim part of my brain I think it's for ever. But it's not! It's only for six months. How can I convince...

You can drink too much water, but it's hard Four or six litres is fine, but see the link for info on water intoxication ... Water Intoxication & Hyponatremia

I really like India and Neris's diet book and cookbook. I loved the food, stopped bingeing, lost all my food cravings and went bang into ketosis. Only trouble is that I didn't lose any weight on it. Here's my idea: I'm doing India and Neris until I'm in ketosis and lost the cravings and then...

Hi Mini Wow, you've lost 68 lbs - how have you done this? I am very, very impressed. I've had a CD pack this morning, made up into a muffin. Have had a coffee plus two mugs of honey and lemon, which is obviously not going to help the ketosis, but I am very unwell and I find the honey and...

There is one difference this time. I have given up the booze. I have always found it really, really hard to cut it out completely, and when I have a hard day at work (which is every day) or something to celebrate, or any old excuse, I crack open the wine and get stuck in. Well this time I'm...

Can't believe it's november since I last was on this site and since I last dieted. I put on loads of weight over Christmas and New Year and now it's nearly the end of January and I'm still gaining. But, the diet has to start again NOW.

Day 3 and I've done really well apart from the three slices of ham and packet of pork scratchings just now! In ketosis though. Oh when am I going to stick to this bloody diet.

Cheese and nuts I had most of a packed of Lidl macadamia nuts tonight and a bit of cheese. But no carbs. Onwards and upwards with day 3.

Day 2 (how DO I change the name of my thread??) back on SS and it all has gone fiiiine. I'm back into proper ketosis and of course I do feel hungry, but that's just the way my system works. I go into ketosis quickly and lose weight quickly, but I'm hungry every day. The good thing is that I'm...

Thanks Isis! Hugs Emma

Thanks Kirsten! Hugs Emma

Well it's the end of Sunday now and I have managed not to eat anything and not to drink anything I shouldn't have. I drank loads of water in the cinema and was right in the middle of a row and half way through thought, "oh I wish I hadn't had all that to drink". I just had to cross my legs and...

So, it's Sunday morning and I was on the wine last night and of course woke up feeling hung over. I had about ten macadamia nuts for breakfast. My day one ruined by 9:00 am. Actually, I've decided not to let that spoil the rest of the day and to get on the wagon so in fact my day one starts...

Hi Lottie I know! I used to think that too - till I listened to the words and realised that she's talking about both the hippies and punks - '77 and '68 when revolution was in the air - and comparing those times of upheaval with our dullard times. Tee hee. After I realised this I was free...

Hi Kirsten You look bloody fantastic - actually you look fantastic in both photos but fantasticissimo in the thinner one. I feel very spurred on to get on the wagon. Just settling down to a bottle of red wine at the moment :( But tomorrow will be back on SS. Hugs Emma

Being in ketosis AND hungry Hi Kirsten I love your diary - you are doing soooo well and you have a blinding figure. Wow! Anyway, I get hungry too. I don't mean the craving mouth-hunger when I'm wanting a binge, but the real, rumbling stomach-hunger. My counsellors have always looked at me...

Hi ladies I'm massively struggling with restarting. Had a choccy sachet this morning and then couldn't resist salami and nuts while out over lunchtime. God, I'm so pissed off iwth myself. I can't stick to the diet on my own time or on work time. I'm just out of control. Sigh. e x