I'm not saying I am amazing and yes only been on it 8 days but for some reason (after reading someones post recently) even at the start they were thinking of ways out of it...like having coke zero - i would have thought that wasn't great.
Also people need to read what are in the shake n spice things - i had loads at home but I checked what was in them and most had garlic and dried onion and salt.
No chance am I using those...pure spices instead.
I dunno - I may change my mind but I guess for the money I am paying to do it I need to follow it to a T AND I don't want my health to play havoc if I don't follow it by the book.
Someone has sat there and written the rules for CD, I assume with someone in the Health profession to ensure this is a healthy way to lose weight.
I guess I should revisit this when I get to week 12.
I have even made my brother make me something seperate for his wedding in May as I will be on week 6 by then....I am being prepared and it will be in Florida.
I am not letting anything get passed me this time!
Maybe I can do this now because I actually was happy with the way I was in terms of how I looked. My only concern was my health.
You're in the zone, hunni - and that's fab. :happy096: The first time I did Cambridge, I was 100%, no cheats whatsoever for 5 months - and unsurprisingly, I lost just over 5 and a half stones. And then I went on holiday - with the best of intentions (took a load of shakes with me)... and caved on the second day. Once out of my routine, in a different environment, it took nothing at all to make me feel deprived. It was my holiday, I reasoned. I
deserved to eat things I hadn't eaten for ages. So I did.
I've never been able to do Cambridge 100% for longer than a month since.
I'm not saying it's impossible to get back on track, cos others have done it (thank God - that's why I keep the faith!). But it's so very much more difficult than you might imagine. You never come at the diet from the same place you were at in the first place. When I started Cambridge, I was almost 18 stone. At the point of taking that holiday, I was 12 stone. I didn't recognise myself in photos. I actually looked a whole lot less than 12 stone (people didn't believe me when I told them I still had a couple of stones to lose). So because I wasn't as big, it wasn't so much of a big deal in my head. I've been half-hearted about losing the rest of my weight ever since, even though my weight has crept back up to over 14 stone (it even got to over 15 stone for a while).
I often wonder whether things would be different now if I'd carried on doing Cambridge through that holiday. I guess I'll never know.
If there's one thing I want to tell you - and of course, you might be able to do what I couldn't and climb back aboard the wagon successfully - it would be to
keep going until you reach goal. That special occasion you're planning to come off the diet for - the holiday, special birthday, Christmas - there'll be hundreds of special occasions
after you reach goal. Stop along the way - and you risk taking the incredibly frustrating (and expensive!) scenic route to goal...
