Curvy getting back to feeling good
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Curvy1
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So got up feeling ok... Recovered from yesterdays illness - not sure what it was ..?
I went to group and WI this morning , lost 1.5lbs - I am a bit gutted , but got to keep going ... I got some porridge today as I really could not stomach a shake after yesterday ... It was actually ok ... It's amazing how our taste buds change as the first week I hated it ...
Moving on to lite today so planning my meals for the evening - prob just start with chicken and salad ... The book says that you can have as much veg as you want - but a cereal bowl is about the right amount ... 200 g of protein is also quite a lot ! Oh well going to give it a go and up the gym - trying to keep positive and keep going
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I went to group and WI this morning , lost 1.5lbs - I am a bit gutted , but got to keep going ... I got some porridge today as I really could not stomach a shake after yesterday ... It was actually ok ... It's amazing how our taste buds change as the first week I hated it ...
Moving on to lite today so planning my meals for the evening - prob just start with chicken and salad ... The book says that you can have as much veg as you want - but a cereal bowl is about the right amount ... 200 g of protein is also quite a lot ! Oh well going to give it a go and up the gym - trying to keep positive and keep going
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Minerva
...we're sinking deeper.
Aww hun 
Sorry you didn't get to your under 10st - that's disappointing, but you'll get there next week, you're nearly there!!
As per meal planning - have a look at the Slim & Save meal tracker. Slim & Save is pretty much the same as Lighter Life - I have their packs for dinner as they're so nice (!!).
Go on their website - at the top have a look for 'Meal Planner & Weight Tracker' - do a quick registration and plan your meals away! I think their packs have similar calorie values to substitute your breakfast and lunches - and it will give you a suggested calorie limit per day on 3 packs and a meal. You can stick to the calorie recommendation or up it a bit (as I think Lite may be up to 800 calories per day?).
:hug99:
Sorry you didn't get to your under 10st - that's disappointing, but you'll get there next week, you're nearly there!!As per meal planning - have a look at the Slim & Save meal tracker. Slim & Save is pretty much the same as Lighter Life - I have their packs for dinner as they're so nice (!!).
Go on their website - at the top have a look for 'Meal Planner & Weight Tracker' - do a quick registration and plan your meals away! I think their packs have similar calorie values to substitute your breakfast and lunches - and it will give you a suggested calorie limit per day on 3 packs and a meal. You can stick to the calorie recommendation or up it a bit (as I think Lite may be up to 800 calories per day?).
:hug99:
Curvy1
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Day 48 - So after having abit of a miserable weekend - with me not losing much I have decided to draw the line and carry on.
I have moved on to lite - so the 3 packs and a meal. I am going to stick with protein and salad until i can get head sorted. i can believe that you eat carrots on the plan - i thought they were too carby... I need to read my lite booklet in a bit more detail but the jist of it I thinkn is about 200g protein and about a cereal bowl of vegtables from a list.
My meal tonight will just be a chicken breast and some cauliflower.
I think that I have knocked myself out of ketosis. i went to a friends house over the weekend and she had some houmous and cucumber - i thought that I would be fine with it... I had literally 2 teaspoons of the hummous... but I felt a bit odd on sunday and when I did a test it was only just pink...
So trying to get myself back in and I think TOTM is approaching so not feeling great - but I need to carry on.. Hopefully this weekend I will be in the 10's !!
on the plus side I did have my measurements done and I have lost about 6inches all over,most of it has come off my waist and legs.... although still a way to go with my legs, but def my clothes feel better and i am wearing clothes that are in my medium range ... i tried on some dresses that I have for the summer, though they fit i still have a bot to go before I will be comfortable in them...
Amyways I hope that you are all fab - and all doing better than me ( I still cant get over my crappy 1lb loss) hopefully with a few more calories it might stop my body holding on so much..... we shall see!!
I have moved on to lite - so the 3 packs and a meal. I am going to stick with protein and salad until i can get head sorted. i can believe that you eat carrots on the plan - i thought they were too carby... I need to read my lite booklet in a bit more detail but the jist of it I thinkn is about 200g protein and about a cereal bowl of vegtables from a list.
My meal tonight will just be a chicken breast and some cauliflower.
I think that I have knocked myself out of ketosis. i went to a friends house over the weekend and she had some houmous and cucumber - i thought that I would be fine with it... I had literally 2 teaspoons of the hummous... but I felt a bit odd on sunday and when I did a test it was only just pink...
So trying to get myself back in and I think TOTM is approaching so not feeling great - but I need to carry on.. Hopefully this weekend I will be in the 10's !!
on the plus side I did have my measurements done and I have lost about 6inches all over,most of it has come off my waist and legs.... although still a way to go with my legs, but def my clothes feel better and i am wearing clothes that are in my medium range ... i tried on some dresses that I have for the summer, though they fit i still have a bot to go before I will be comfortable in them...
Amyways I hope that you are all fab - and all doing better than me ( I still cant get over my crappy 1lb loss) hopefully with a few more calories it might stop my body holding on so much..... we shall see!!
Curvy1
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day 49
So having an ok day so far - I have made myself a salad with some chicken breast for my meal today - i am going to try and have a meal at lunchtime this week.
So had my shake at 7am and just had my bar at 10:30 and will have my salad probably about 1:30 - i know it feels like I have had a lot of my cals early ... but I dont think that I am in ketosis yet, hence I am feeling hungry...
I am going to try and get to the gym tonight (about7:30ish) and then have my final shake after that..
lets see how I do!
Thanks Minerva for showing me the Slim and save website. I must admit i am seriously thinking of moving from LL as it is just so expensive I pay on average £70 a week... not great when you are only losing 1lb a week....
what do you think? I have read that people are raving about the meals - are they real meals? or are they just savoury packs? Really thinking about moving on...
So having an ok day so far - I have made myself a salad with some chicken breast for my meal today - i am going to try and have a meal at lunchtime this week.
So had my shake at 7am and just had my bar at 10:30 and will have my salad probably about 1:30 - i know it feels like I have had a lot of my cals early ... but I dont think that I am in ketosis yet, hence I am feeling hungry...
I am going to try and get to the gym tonight (about7:30ish) and then have my final shake after that..
lets see how I do!
Thanks Minerva for showing me the Slim and save website. I must admit i am seriously thinking of moving from LL as it is just so expensive I pay on average £70 a week... not great when you are only losing 1lb a week....
what do you think? I have read that people are raving about the meals - are they real meals? or are they just savoury packs? Really thinking about moving on...
Minerva
...we're sinking deeper.
I like your general plan - but I fear you're leaving a gap that is slightly too long in between meals and then going to the gym ... you'll be exhausted and starving take care hun, 4-5 hours between food packs is sort of roughly the maximum you should do. :hug99:
Slim&Save is exactly like Lighter Life - 4 packs per day or 3 packs and a meal - packs are nutritionally the same. Meals are the same powdery goodness, they're cheaper, there's more flavours and in my opinion - they taste so much better! My OH likes them a lot. Having said that I'm only referring to the 'dinner' type pack, I don't have cold shakes or bars from either LL or S&S - so I can't comment on them - but people on the other forum love all of the stuff.
The only thing you don't get is the counselling sessions and someone to weigh you. I haven't really needed those things so I'm fine with that... But it does confer the responsibility for your weight loss entirely on your own conscience in a way. So have a think about it. I'd say - doesn't hurt to give it a try for 2 weeks, if you feel like you're losing a little bit of control - your LLC is always there for you!
PLUS - don't feel too gutted about the 1lb loss... When you look around other VLCD dieters - their signatures often have a -1lb in there somewhere! It's normal. At least it wasn't a mysterious +1!
take care hun, 4-5 hours between food packs is sort of roughly the maximum you should do. :hug99:Slim&Save is exactly like Lighter Life - 4 packs per day or 3 packs and a meal - packs are nutritionally the same. Meals are the same powdery goodness, they're cheaper, there's more flavours and in my opinion - they taste so much better! My OH likes them a lot. Having said that I'm only referring to the 'dinner' type pack, I don't have cold shakes or bars from either LL or S&S - so I can't comment on them - but people on the other forum love all of the stuff.
The only thing you don't get is the counselling sessions and someone to weigh you. I haven't really needed those things so I'm fine with that... But it does confer the responsibility for your weight loss entirely on your own conscience in a way. So have a think about it.
I'd say - doesn't hurt to give it a try for 2 weeks, if you feel like you're losing a little bit of control - your LLC is always there for you! PLUS - don't feel too gutted about the 1lb loss... When you look around other VLCD dieters - their signatures often have a -1lb in there somewhere! It's normal.
At least it wasn't a mysterious +1!
Curvy1
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Day 50 - Hi Minerva , ok I am going to see how I do on say and maybe order a weeks worth from s&s .. I never made it to the gym :-( I felt too rough ... But this morning I feel great I am back in ketosis and I feel much better .
It's my sons birthday today 14 yrs old ... I have taken the day off and I am baking a choc cake !! It does not really bother me as cakes are not my weakness - for me it is crisps and savoury things . We are going to TGI tonight I will have some meat and salad .. I am only going to have 2 packs today as I may go over my meal allowance - I know I shouldn't but this is my first planned meal since I started .. I don't want to go off plan in terms of foods that I am allowed but I may end up eating a bigger portion .. I am not even going to have any birthday cake !!! Not surprising seeing as I know how much sugar and butter has gone in to it
WI on Saturday hopefully I will be in the 10's this weekend ..
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It's my sons birthday today 14 yrs old ... I have taken the day off and I am baking a choc cake !! It does not really bother me as cakes are not my weakness - for me it is crisps and savoury things . We are going to TGI tonight I will have some meat and salad .. I am only going to have 2 packs today as I may go over my meal allowance - I know I shouldn't but this is my first planned meal since I started .. I don't want to go off plan in terms of foods that I am allowed but I may end up eating a bigger portion .. I am not even going to have any birthday cake !!! Not surprising seeing as I know how much sugar and butter has gone in to it
WI on Saturday hopefully I will be in the 10's this weekend ..
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Curvy1
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Day 51 - so yesterday went well the cake was lovely (apparently) and the meal out was lovely - I had some steak, vegtables and green salad. It was way too much food for me. amazingly I would have normally had some chips as well...
Today is going ok - I have had a bar for breakfast and a salad for lunch, I will have shake before the gym and then a hot shake before bed - this might be a better spread then what i was doing before as i think i was leaving too long a gap between packs.
I am going to try and do S&S for 1 week and see how i do with the packs, I will still WI on a sat morning. I think that I have the right mindset to go it without conselling for a week. so lets see how it goes.
Although I have a bit of a confession about my conselling sessions - we are a group of 6 ladies and a few of them have gone through serious traumatic events and is is very intenses at our sessions. I must admit i feel a bit out of place as if I am honest my problems/issues seem so trivial to what these ladies have gone through.. I must admit that I feel exhausted after I come out of the session instead of motivated.. I know it is a horrible thing to say and feel guilty.. So going to give it a break for a week and see how I do..
Have a great day
Today is going ok - I have had a bar for breakfast and a salad for lunch, I will have shake before the gym and then a hot shake before bed - this might be a better spread then what i was doing before as i think i was leaving too long a gap between packs.
I am going to try and do S&S for 1 week and see how i do with the packs, I will still WI on a sat morning. I think that I have the right mindset to go it without conselling for a week. so lets see how it goes.
Although I have a bit of a confession about my conselling sessions - we are a group of 6 ladies and a few of them have gone through serious traumatic events and is is very intenses at our sessions. I must admit i feel a bit out of place as if I am honest my problems/issues seem so trivial to what these ladies have gone through.. I must admit that I feel exhausted after I come out of the session instead of motivated.. I know it is a horrible thing to say and feel guilty.. So going to give it a break for a week and see how I do..
Have a great day
Curvy1
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Hi All - So I have made my first order for S&S - I have gone for shakes, porridge and bars - i really do not like the meals on LL so have avoided them - but I did get 1 spicy spagetti to try.
I have also asked to have my diary moved to S&S.. thats where you will find me if you wish to keep in touch ( once I figure out how to get your diary moved)
I have also asked to have my diary moved to S&S.. thats where you will find me if you wish to keep in touch ( once I figure out how to get your diary moved)
Curvy1
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Hey - thanks for moving my diary ... Moving to Slim and save on Monday after 50 days in lighter life ...
So at WI today I have finally hit the 10's - 2lbs down for the week and I am 10st 13lbs...
I have bought some slim noodles /rice to give them a go maybe in a few weeks.. I ordered 1 weeks worth of slim and save products - mostly shakes and bars ...
Hope everyone is having great day
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So at WI today I have finally hit the 10's - 2lbs down for the week and I am 10st 13lbs...
I have bought some slim noodles /rice to give them a go maybe in a few weeks.. I ordered 1 weeks worth of slim and save products - mostly shakes and bars ...
Hope everyone is having great day
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Minerva
...we're sinking deeper.
Hi curvy - well done!! You're officially a 10st-er!!
You can go ahead and have some zero-noodles - they aren't going to affect your weight loss. Stick to half a pack per day as they can clog you up if you have too much. But with the right amount, they will get things moving!
It's a shame you didn't order some dinner packs from S&S - they are wonderful. LL packs are rather pukey compared to S&S!
By the way - how did you get your diary moved? I really wanted mine to go from LL forums to here as well
You can go ahead and have some zero-noodles - they aren't going to affect your weight loss.
Stick to half a pack per day as they can clog you up if you have too much. But with the right amount, they will get things moving! It's a shame you didn't order some dinner packs from S&S - they are wonderful. LL packs are rather pukey compared to S&S!
By the way - how did you get your diary moved? I really wanted mine to go from LL forums to here as well
Curvy1
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Suziesue - still right here !!! Not leaving at all x will be checking in on the LL frequently x
Minerva - I will give the meals ago on my next order - a lot of people are saying they are loads better than LL.. Prob give the noodles a go in Friday xxx
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Minerva - I will give the meals ago on my next order - a lot of people are saying they are loads better than LL.. Prob give the noodles a go in Friday xxx
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