First and foremost: Amazing loss Charise!!! WAY TO GO!!!
Great stories everyone!!!!
Bonnie – my mother and I have a very dysfunctional love-hate relationship and she is very very sick. Breast cancer -removed and in remission for now-, diabetes, her heart is bad, she is 149 kg -was before I started her on a modified version of CD-; chronic pain, a nasty depression and neurosis that make her impossible to get along with and is completely in my care. I love her with all my heart though and want nothing more than to help her restore some of her health and live the hopefully many years she has left -she's only 58!-
Katya – your PhD?!? You sound SO much younger!!!
Elizabeth – Beautiful story hon! Cheers for sharing it all!
Viki – you guys sound like you love animals, that's so neat...
Trying to put it in short...
CD is only part of how I plan to change my life. I stopped smoking last year, I intend to start learning about nutrition, I have started exercising, all in all I want a new, healthy and sustainable lifestyle. This time I know I am going to lose them all (bar health alarms) and then work on keeping them off. Since the goal is to get pregnant relatively right after I lose the weight, I recognize I may have to restart CD after I am done breast feeding but I intend to find a diet/maintenance program to use during pregnancy as well!
It's not for vanity I am doing this (oh maybe a little) as I do not look my weight but much slimmer but I'm doing this partly for IVF (after 2 years of heart wrecking trying for a baby, and an unsuccessful IVF try, we know that my mister is sterile and we need a procedure called ICSI to ever have children, hence my BMI needs to be under 30 for us to be accepted for the NHS goes) but partly because it's time I changed my life. I have done greatly education wise, have raised my brother, am currently taking care of my very sick mother quite well career wise -I'm a the director of sales of a software company- and I dare say my love life is thankfully in order.
So in the grand scheme of things, what's left is kids and myself. Given a choice maybe I would have done children and then self improvement but since a slimmer me is required to get them I'll do it this time around. It's late (I'll be 31 this year, ol' biological clock ticking like mad) and this is the type of things I ought to have done in my 20s but sod it, better late than never, right?
These last few days the scales have moved awfully slow... I'm most worried about some health calamity -high blood pressure, fainting, etc- and not being able to keep this for the full 12 weeks than anything other but on the plus side I have measured myself and my arms, ankles, thighs and neck of all things LOL are the smallest of my adult life!
Where are you sarah, naomi and blush? Still with us or are we back to 6 in this team?
I'm so happy 
Mid week I'd put on 2lbs and then over the last couple of days it dropped off..... despite a couple of slices of ham one afternoon!! I know I shouldn't have and I don't even like ham that much but I was desperate and I thought if I was gonna eat something then ham wouldn't be too bad in the great scheme of things!!!
