Any one want to be my WL Buddy???

[Elvira]

Can't you get ready to drink ones GTPeach? We get them here in the UK and they are delicious even when they haven't been chilled!!!!

Oooh and I wouldn't eat tomatoes if I were you. I am pretty sure they knock you out of ketosis.

Congratulations on the size 8s!!! I am nowhere near there yet. I have dropped a size on top but I am too scared to try on a size smaller bottoms in case they don't fit and I get disheartened! Maybe after this week. If I lose 4lbs this week, I am down by 2st! Yay! Hope I do it. I have rearranged my room so I now have room to do my exercise DVD! I think if I try and do that every evening Mon-Fri, I should improve my loss for the week.

Fingers crossed!!! xxx

 

[GTPeach]

Yeah - I've nixed all tomatoes. (I'm weak - had a teeny cherry tomato before with each salad to ween myself into straight lettuce.) I've found these amazing dressings - everything free (no fat, calorie, carb, sugar, acid - nothing!!) and they actually taste GREAT!

As for ready to eat soup and shake - I WISH!!!! They don't have those here at all. You guys have such a wide variety of products and flavors there. I've emailed the owman in charge of food there to ask 1) what their menu for lunch and dinner is (if grilled chix is on it, basically) and 2) if I cna have access to a stove or a place to keep food and ice cold.

If her answer is no on both accounts, I am going to borrow a big cooler from a friend and pray the cooler will keep the ice and chicken and dressings edible for the weekend.

 

[GTPeach]

Oh I went for the necessary new tops yesterday. It was possibly the most awkward and still amazing time of my life! I was in a store, and I'd left hte dressing room with the top still on because I wanted to find a nice accessory to go with it if one was on sale. And someone said,"Wow that looks really good on you!"

I went back and tried the next top on, and was in the mirror when this absolutely gorgeous woman said, "That yellow sweater looks great on you" She wasn't an employee, so no incentive to lie either!!

I'm not accustomed to being complimented on my looks - if I get compliments about my body it's my unusual eye color (gold), my long eyelashes, or my thick and long hair. Never my body itself!!

Also, it was in the store I used to work at. The boss there was such a nasty lady. She was always telling me how fat I am (even though she was larger herself), how I need to get breast reduction, how I need to get surgery, how curly hair was too nappy looking and unkempt for her store, how the outfit I had on looked dreadful..... just making my life there hell. WELL!!! She served me, and waited on me, and ma'am'd me at the register, and I realized - SHE DIDN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE ME!!!!! I'd lost so much weight since working there (as well as, I'm sure, getting my happy glowing composure back, nicer makeup, and a different hair style) that she didn't know who I was! THAT was ace!!

 

[GTPeach]

Wow - the director of food at the camp got back to me already! :-o

No stove, but I can use a microwave and refrigerator (as long as I pester Rick enough so he remembers adding it to the contract, no additional charge!). AND AND AND

She is amazing as well. I swear, these are the reasons I'm a Christian. She has put a note in that tells the kitchen to include a 2 oz. serving of chicken each meal (or 4 oz. per day - lunch and dinner so I can have meat and lettuce with all my friends and still be within my calorie allowance) AND also noted to take my foods out before they get seasoned with everyone else's so that my chicken comes plain instead of buttered, marinated, etc. Wow! :-o

So I can eat with everyone else, store ice for my shakes, store my salad dressings so I can have some everything-free flavor in my salads, and - if we were allowed to microwave - access to the microwave so I could heat my soups once blended with my mini-travel-blender.

 

[Kippaxmum]

Hi GT, that sounds fantastic! Well done on the compliments too!
I went out at the weekend and it was fantastic! So many compliments myself and we pulled!
I didnt lose any weight but blamed that on booze! So, here is to another week of 790 for me

Hows everyone doing?

 

[Elvira]

I'm doing good thanks Kippaxmum! I don't feel half as self conscious about my weight as I used to which is great. It's allowing me to focus on sorting out the other things that affect my confidence!!! x

 

[GTPeach]

The medium shirt I bought is already falling off my shoulders! So my frame, at least, is a small - even if my gut and boobs haven't caught up yet! Just sitting in the restaurant waiting on my "lettuce and chicken". They just brought it out, but it was a full Caesar sald - dressing, cheese and all. So I had to send it back, which I HATE doing, but......

 

[GTPeach]

2 STONES GONE FOREVER!!!!!

 

[Kippaxmum]

Well done - and well done for returning the salad.

I went out for a girly night on Saturday and before we went I foolishly ordered chicken & lettuce (with absolutley nothing on!) They brought me my chicken & lettuce and I was totally wrecked by 9.30pm pmsl. Not doing that again! (I wasn't in ketosis though - havent been for a while now!!!) grrr

Glad to see were all doing good
xx

 

[GTPeach]

They weren't too nice - I don't think I'll be going back to that place, during the afternoon at least. The brought out a full salad. When I sent it back, they brought it out having removed the cheese but still slopped full of caesar dressing. So I said, "Look. I just want lettuce and chicken. Nothing else." So they took it back and when they brought it again there was still dressing on parts of it. Not wanting spit in my food, I just removed the leaves that had dressing on them and then ate. But the waiter never came back to my table, and when it came time for the check he said, "Oh just pay here now - I have to leave because shifts are changing." And HOVERED!! See - I wasn't going to give him a tip because he was so lousy but he hovered, expecting one, before he left. The bill was 8.10 and I ended up giving him 90 cents. Arugh!!

 

[Kippaxmum]

Nightmare! Definitley dont go back there!

 

[Elvira]

Hi guys! Hope you are all doing okay?

Just thought I would post this week's comparison pics. And I decided to smile this time hehe!!!

I think you can see that my thighs have slimmed a bit since the last pic. Must be where that 5lbs went from!!! xxx

 

[GTPeach]

Wow - go gem!!!

 

[claire1]

wow gem, what a difference....x

 

[Kippaxmum]

You go girl - that is some difference! Well done & thanks for sharing!
xxx

 

[GTPeach]

week 6 wi - 1st on the aam type plan - 3 lbs. lost!

 

[Elvira]

Thanks guys!

And well done GTPeach!!! xxx

 

[Kippaxmum]

Well done Peach - thats great!

 

[GTPeach]

Thanks guys!

 

[GTPeach]

Tonight was odd. It was odd and mind altering. My friends and I all got together, and there are these girls I've always envied for being so freaking gorgeous. Today, I realized that I've passed a couple of them, caught up to a couple of them, and am not far off from the skinniest of them!! :-o