Hi Everyone 
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I thought setting up something like this would be great for helping me get through the first day, first week and beyond!
My background of dieting.
I used to be a Slimming World 'healthy eater' as they say. I found the plan fab at the time, in total over 2 years up and down I lost 4.7 stone after starting around 19.7 and having no self confidence. I still keep a picture of myself on the fridge at my heaviest. Slimming World did help me change my life, it gave me a super amount of self belief and confidence.
I enjoyed my meals, enjoyed the plan, enjoyed my syns. It didn't give me much education in portion size but it took a lot of my weight off. Then around sept/oct 2010 I completely lost interest. I changed my group to see if that made a difference but it didn't. Now although I wasn't going off plan with slimming world to much I was no longer enjoying my food and maintained my weight for weeks, then slowly began to put on.
Because I had lost interest I left my group and tried to do something on my own. It was a bad decision as we were coming up to Christmas and I new I would start to comfort eat! It was pretty bad timing, some of my family still say to me "why did you leave, you were doing so well?" and to be honest I can't really answer. Something changed in my head and I was so bored of it at the time. I was also planning a wedding, had just ordered my wedding dress and you'd think it would spur me on to stick with it but i'd had enough it was just so samey and I needed to come off.
Then we come to now. I have put on 1.7stone in 3 months since leaving slimming world! How embarrassing! I have a size 20 wedding dress that I know is uncomfortable and I must lose something before my wedding day at the end of April this year! I don't have long to go, just a couple of months but i'd like to lose some inches so my dress fits like a glove and is somewhat comfortable, i also want to feel less bloated and sluggish for our honeymoon!
I feel like I am coming to the party late. :cry: I should have started Cambridge at the start of January and I know i'd be flying, but I kept hearing negatives about it all the time and it put me off. Looking back it was all hearsay.
I met up with my cdc yesterday and she is lovely. She only lives up the road. She explained everything and I've done a lot of reading online so feel clued up about what I am doing.
Seeing the stories on here is such an inspiration. I know i'm going to have to be 100% on SS if I am to see any results. I can do this!
So far today I have had the Apple & Cinnamon porridge which I actually enjoyed and found it filling. I had read that maybe adding a little more water makes it nicer so thats what I did. In about half an hour I will try a chocolate shake for the first time and then for tea I'm going to try a soup. I had my first ever black coffee this morning as well. My mother in law will laugh her head off when she finds out I have had a black coffee as me and hubby to be always used to say 'urgh, how can you drink that stuff without milk' - it wasn't to bad but don't think I'll be drinking lots of it! I am a huge fan of green tea so have had a few cups of that.
I will say I have such a headache right now so will up my water. I don't think it helped that I had 3 slices of pizza last night as my "last supper" why didn't I think about the carbs!?
, I thought setting up something like this would be great for helping me get through the first day, first week and beyond!
My background of dieting.
I used to be a Slimming World 'healthy eater' as they say. I found the plan fab at the time, in total over 2 years up and down I lost 4.7 stone after starting around 19.7 and having no self confidence. I still keep a picture of myself on the fridge at my heaviest. Slimming World did help me change my life, it gave me a super amount of self belief and confidence.
I enjoyed my meals, enjoyed the plan, enjoyed my syns. It didn't give me much education in portion size but it took a lot of my weight off. Then around sept/oct 2010 I completely lost interest. I changed my group to see if that made a difference but it didn't. Now although I wasn't going off plan with slimming world to much I was no longer enjoying my food and maintained my weight for weeks, then slowly began to put on.
Because I had lost interest I left my group and tried to do something on my own. It was a bad decision as we were coming up to Christmas and I new I would start to comfort eat! It was pretty bad timing, some of my family still say to me "why did you leave, you were doing so well?" and to be honest I can't really answer. Something changed in my head and I was so bored of it at the time. I was also planning a wedding, had just ordered my wedding dress and you'd think it would spur me on to stick with it but i'd had enough it was just so samey and I needed to come off.
Then we come to now. I have put on 1.7stone in 3 months since leaving slimming world!
How embarrassing! I have a size 20 wedding dress that I know is uncomfortable and I must lose something before my wedding day at the end of April this year! I don't have long to go, just a couple of months but i'd like to lose some inches so my dress fits like a glove and is somewhat comfortable, i also want to feel less bloated and sluggish for our honeymoon! I feel like I am coming to the party late. :cry: I should have started Cambridge at the start of January and I know i'd be flying, but I kept hearing negatives about it all the time and it put me off. Looking back it was all hearsay.
I met up with my cdc yesterday and she is lovely. She only lives up the road. She explained everything and I've done a lot of reading online so feel clued up about what I am doing.
Seeing the stories on here is such an inspiration. I know i'm going to have to be 100% on SS if I am to see any results. I can do this!
So far today I have had the Apple & Cinnamon porridge which I actually enjoyed and found it filling. I had read that maybe adding a little more water makes it nicer so thats what I did. In about half an hour I will try a chocolate shake for the first time and then for tea I'm going to try a soup. I had my first ever black coffee this morning as well. My mother in law will laugh her head off when she finds out I have had a black coffee as me and hubby to be always used to say 'urgh, how can you drink that stuff without milk' - it wasn't to bad but don't think I'll be drinking lots of it!
I am a huge fan of green tea so have had a few cups of that. I will say I have such a headache right now so will up my water. I don't think it helped that I had 3 slices of pizza last night as my "last supper" why didn't I think about the carbs!?
Very pleased with that 
