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Morning Kira!!!

You know what. I was thinking last night about this stuff. It seems like light years to me. So every day I'm just saying if I can get through today on plan. Tomorrow will be ok. I can make a choice tomorrow. So it's almost helping stay on track. If I see 3 months ahead of me I'm like....arghhhh!!!

That said I'm off to lugano on May 27th for a break and I need to be under 13 stone by then. I can't face being blubbery in holiday snaps.
 
bettiesrevenge said:
Morning Kira!!!

You know what. I was thinking last night about this stuff. It seems like light years to me. So every day I'm just saying if I can get through today on plan. Tomorrow will be ok. I can make a choice tomorrow. So it's almost helping stay on track. If I see 3 months ahead of me I'm like....arghhhh!!!

That said I'm off to lugano on May 27th for a break and I need to be under 13 stone by then. I can't face being blubbery in holiday snaps.
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LOL, Nat, you really ought to update your stats. I was just wondering how to tactfully point out it might be difficult to lose over 2 stones in 26 days - and then spotted the 2014 goal date. :8855:

One day at a time is the only way. I'm trying really hard not to do too much forward prediction - it all just feels too far away and unachievable when I do. I blame my Dad for my innate pessimism. Why couldn't he have instilled a "can-do" attitude instead of "glass permanently half-empty"?

Anyway - I'm 8lbs down this week, Kira. Not my most awesome 1st week loss, but it will do. I just want to get out of the 16st bracket now. On the plus side, 16st 3lbs is the lowest weight I've seen in about a year. I've been lugging a whole extra person around with me for far too long! :sigh:
 
I concur! What I meant to say was under 14 stone and 13 something. It was early and being starving messes with my mental maths!

Sitting in Costa having a militant lunch break with ready made shake hidden in my bag. Bloody he'll. It's a bit dysfunctional isn't it. Going to plug in my "stop comfort eating" app. The woman's voice is annoying But even so. I'm feeling that nagging feeling of anxiety.

Funniky enough there has been a recent published study into obesity. Catergorising sub groups at risk.

One is "middle age women with an anxious state or subject to high levels of stress"....
 
bettiesrevenge said:
I concur! What I meant to say was under 14 stone and 13 something. It was early and being starving messes with my mental maths!

Sitting in Costa having a militant lunch break with ready made shake hidden in my bag. Bloody he'll. It's a bit dysfunctional isn't it. Going to plug in my "stop comfort eating" app. The woman's voice is annoying But even so. I'm feeling that nagging feeling of anxiety.

Funniky enough there has been a recent published study into obesity. Catergorising sub groups at risk.

One is "middle age women with an anxious state or subject to high levels of stress"....
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And there we are... :)

Well, that's better than blaming our genes, right? "It's not my fault, it's my high levels of stress. If society didn't expect me to be a high achiever I'd be skinny!"

Yeah. No one's going to let us get away with that. It doesn't fit the stereotype of us all sitting around watching telly in our jammies mainlining biscuits.

Damn, why did I mention biscuits? :eek:
 
Middle aged, anxiety, high levels of stress, that's me to a tee! Though underneath the excess 30 odd pounds there is the young middle aged me!

Good day yesterday and funny days are either really easy or really hard! Rarely in between! Luckily this will be a long weekend at home and no big socialising events so should be ok.

Lily an 8lb loss is great. Once thing I got myself in a tizz about was comparing the losses I had the first and second time around on vlcd and I do think it out added pressure on me thinking I simoly could never ever lose the weight again. hence the fear factor came in and then I couldn't handle any wavering moments as I felt I'd fail anyway. Does that make sense? Trying to say don't look back on previous attempts, I know we do it but I think we really should focus on this time around it being a fresh new start. That's why I'm desparately trying not to weigh - can't see that Lasting long but fine with that.
 
Kira said:
Middle aged, anxiety, high levels of stress, that's me to a tee! Though underneath the excess 30 odd pounds there is the young middle aged me!

Good day yesterday and funny days are either really easy or really hard! Rarely in between! Luckily this will be a long weekend at home and no big socialising events so should be ok.

Lily an 8lb loss is great. Once thing I got myself in a tizz about was comparing the losses I had the first and second time around on vlcd and I do think it out added pressure on me thinking I simoly could never ever lose the weight again. hence the fear factor came in and then I couldn't handle any wavering moments as I felt I'd fail anyway. Does that make sense? Trying to say don't look back on previous attempts, I know we do it but I think we really should focus on this time around it being a fresh new start. That's why I'm desparately trying not to weigh - can't see that Lasting long but fine with that.
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Good advice. :) You can't help it though can you? But you're absolutely right - and the other thing is that I'm starting from a different place - I was 12lbs heavier first time around - nearly a stone, really. So of course my first week loss was higher. I lost 16lbs in the first 2 weeks then had a 2lb loss in the third. And while I was looking for old photos of the slim me in 2008 last night (I posted one in my diary :)) I came across a post where I announced I'd lost 30 pounds in 6 weeks. But that was then and this is now. I was younger, not peri menopausal. Sam was 11! :eek: The circumstances are not the same. :nono:

Hope you have a lovely weekend x
 
Ist it funny how hormones play a huge part in how we lose weight. I'm sure for some evolutionary reason however, it's a fact that after 35 weight loss sure feels like a different ball game.

I'm 39 this year and can't help but feel if I don't resolve this now. Then I never will. I can't face another decade of fighting myself to address my eating habbits. The rebellious child inside wants all the goodies, but the adult is saying...you know you are predisposed to heart and diabetic conditions so why do it to yourself. Eat better. Excercise more. Take action against stress. It's a constant bickering in my inner monologue. I think that some degree of hypnosis is working on me. I'm looking at things slightly differently. The take the chocoholic cure slimpod is the one I'm listening to most and another one "stop comfort eating" which I know is a MAHOOSUVE problem for me....

It's the lack of control too. Example today we had a planned day out to the monkey forrest. I had my ready made shakes and a bar and my water. I got an M&S picnic selection. Made a flask of peppermint tea. And wouldn't you know it - Abe calls me unable to move from the car wash in agony with his stomach. So the day is off. Instead we will be off in A&E as his team of consultants want Him in any time this stuff kicks off, because the peritonitis and spleen issues he gets because of familial mediteraining feaver, trigger off brugada pattern heart arthmyia...

It sucks having a loved one with chronic health issues!!!

Sorry kira, just dumped my junk on your thread!!
 
It's tough having previous attempts to compare to, more so as many of us had that golden first time on a VLCD which for some reason can never be repeated!
My first vlcd I was smaller than I am now yet lost 4 times as much in my first two weeks than I ever have since. It sucks but I need to remind myself that I cannot go on comparing today to the past as it's unlikely it will ever be as good.

I also have that feeling of failure before I've even started. My smaller clothes look tiny, I can't believe I ever fitted into them and it seems impossible to do again. But I will!!! Safely with Slim and Save then exercise and cal counting. I mainly want to be healthy but I really want to look good too!
 
bettiesrevenge said:
I concur! What I meant to say was under 14 stone and 13 something. It was early and being starving messes with my mental maths!

Sitting in Costa having a militant lunch break with ready made shake hidden in my bag. Bloody he'll. It's a bit dysfunctional isn't it. Going to plug in my "stop comfort eating" app. The woman's voice is annoying But even so. I'm feeling that nagging feeling of anxiety.

Funniky enough there has been a recent published study into obesity. Catergorising sub groups at risk.

One is "middle age women with an anxious state or subject to high levels of stress"....
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I agree with that. I found it difficult to lose weight when in a very stressful job. No matter what I did, it would not shift. I think it's the higher levels of cortisol (is that right?) released into the body. So it is hormonal to a certain degree. there's that, and the need to make yourself feel better when you're stressed and that for me meant lovely food!!
 
Having a chilled weekend and doing well with water. Not much to report as simply de-stressing and it's great being at home.

Nat at hope it didn't take hours at A&E? Not the best start to a bank holiday weekend. That's stress and the kind one has no control over when it's to do with health. I know some of my stress is almost self created, well not created but exacerbated by the way I handle it. Part of my work stress is a result of having an over developed sense or responsibility .....and it can be a positive but also a negative. Time out this weekend is enabling me to refocus on managing that.

Lily was Sam 11 in 2008?! Just dawned on me my eldest was 11 almost 12 in 2008! Not even going to think about that!
if I start looking at pics from them it will set me off on that fear factor again that i won't ever lose the weight. Daft I know.

three events I would like to be slimmer for -June Dh's work summer party, wedding in August and Dh's brother's 60th.
 
Hope you're ok, petal xx
 
Hope your okay kira xxx


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I'm still here! And still doing okay! Had to curb going off plan with the extra protein meal (chicken and salad) but still ok.

Just been busy workwise, stressing and working. DS1 revising and managing him phone from London has been tricky as I'm stressing more than him! Can't believe hel will be leaving school! Sleep has been poor and hence I've tried to go to bed early as I'm shattered in the mornings. Time to catch up with you all.

Carrie loving your profile picture - must drop by and say hello!
 
Going to have a trip to Holland and Barrett at some point decided I need a bit more than a multivitamin.

Still don't think im drinking enough water but I'm doing ok. I still haven't weighed which is a great feat for me although I don't think I've broken the 10st barrier. Losses definitely feel slower this time around.
 
Awe thanks kira, lovely comment. Amazing willpower not weighing, I've fallen straight back into the million times a day category lol.

Fab news on carrying on with diet too, hope you feel better once you get some correct vits and minerals in you xxx


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Could I join here? Some of you may remember me from previous Vlcd attempts. Am on day 2 of Exante, and wishing I could sleep through the next few days!

I have a beach holiday (my first in years) coming up in just over 11 weeks and I want to feel comfortable in my cossie. I've been losing weight very slowly (what is it about turning 40 that does that!) since Jan and am a stone and a half down since then, but with 2 stone to go, I need to speed it up now!!!

I'm determined to stick to this for 14 days, then review (I'd ideally stick to it until 2 stone was gone...maybe 8 weeks? but my brain freaks out if I think that!)
 
Morning ladies and welcome Diejtninja and yes I do remember you from the boards :) well done starting! That had been the most difficult for me.

Bananas I think your right it's something maybe be more than vitamins one needs. I didn't do well in Holland and Barrett as I felt overwhelmed and came back empty handed! I have multivitamin and I am taking menoherb (for perimenopause) and has black Kohosh in it...... Think I need to do bit more research. My friend tells me I should take something for eyes bilirubin? Also vitamin D and possibly b12? I'll do H & B take 2 today or may go at lunch time tmrw.

Other than that doing ok. Have moments of wavering now and again but working through them. Being extremely busy with work stuff has helped though it's a fine line as stress can either make it easier to do vlcd or it pushes me the other way to desire or need the comfort of the binge drug! There's not denying its solo hard at times.
 
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