~missy-moo~
Getting thinner everyday!
Background to my LT journey
After having a baby in 2006, I'd never quite managed to lose the pregnancy weight. I put on 5 st .
Christmas 2008 I was shopping for a new coat and every coat I tried on just looked awful. It was then that I decided enough was enough and that it was time to do somehting about it.
So on Jan 1st I went on slimfast for 2 weeks to prepare myself for LT. On 16 Jan 2009 I enrolled at a pharmacy and got my first weeks supply.
I stuck to LT for nearly 6 months and lost 5 and a half stone. I was just gearing up for re-feed when I discovered I was pregnant. My immediate reaction was to come off LT straight away so didn't re-feed properly.
I had concerns about having been pregnant and on LT so rang the Howard Institute with some questions where they reassured me that the diet was safe and it was quite common for pregnancies as it makes you more fertile. They also said all the folic acid in the shakes was good for early pregnancy.
Unfortunatley, though, my pregnancy didn't last as at our routine scan we were told our baby had no heartbeat. I checked with 3 health professionals, independent of te Howard Institute and they all said that my miscarraige would not have been caused by LT. In the end, I had to go for surgery as my miscarriage did not resolve naturally. Then ensued a number of weeks of emotional recovery and during this time, dieting and weight were the last thing on my mind.
So 6 weeks after surgery, I'm back to lose the weight from my second pregnancy.
Alex
After having a baby in 2006, I'd never quite managed to lose the pregnancy weight. I put on 5 st .
Christmas 2008 I was shopping for a new coat and every coat I tried on just looked awful. It was then that I decided enough was enough and that it was time to do somehting about it.
So on Jan 1st I went on slimfast for 2 weeks to prepare myself for LT. On 16 Jan 2009 I enrolled at a pharmacy and got my first weeks supply.
I stuck to LT for nearly 6 months and lost 5 and a half stone. I was just gearing up for re-feed when I discovered I was pregnant. My immediate reaction was to come off LT straight away so didn't re-feed properly.
I had concerns about having been pregnant and on LT so rang the Howard Institute with some questions where they reassured me that the diet was safe and it was quite common for pregnancies as it makes you more fertile. They also said all the folic acid in the shakes was good for early pregnancy.
Unfortunatley, though, my pregnancy didn't last as at our routine scan we were told our baby had no heartbeat. I checked with 3 health professionals, independent of te Howard Institute and they all said that my miscarraige would not have been caused by LT. In the end, I had to go for surgery as my miscarriage did not resolve naturally. Then ensued a number of weeks of emotional recovery and during this time, dieting and weight were the last thing on my mind.
So 6 weeks after surgery, I'm back to lose the weight from my second pregnancy.
Alex
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