Nikki-G
Full Member
Hi all! Wow I haven't been on here for a long time! I have just done a week of LT TFR after being off it for a year & it's prompted me to come on here & see how people are getting on. Also, tell my story for anyone struggling & hope that it spurs you on!
I started Lipotrim in January 2012. My start weight was 14st 13lb. I am 4ft 11 inches and it just needed to end. I was always an outgoing, flirty, confident teenager and I shamefully just stopped looking after my body after I had my son at 17. In fact, before I had him, I never needed to watch what I ate & I was out dancing 5 nights a week so never knew what it was to have weight issues. All of a sudden I've got from a size 10 to wearing tips from Evans as big as size 32. I was sceptical about the diet, had no idea if I could do it or not. I heaved and threw up the first shake I had, then quickly learned I liked the chocolate and chicken soup only. I had just these 2 sachets for 5 & a half months! And it felt like a matter of weeks. My first loss was 5.5lb after a full week of 100% I made the mistake of looking at others losses & hoping for more, still, slightly disheartened I carried on. After a couple of weeks went by, clothes were getting baggy and seeing my face change & liking what I saw kept me going and I was excited for weigh in each week. Time honestly flew. I was losing more than a stone a month, some weeks I lost 2lb...some weeks 6lb, it was so unpredictable. Always stuck to 100% I stopped the diet in mid July at an end weight of 8st 12. I wasn't ready to stop but I had to refeed before a holiday. My plan was to get straight back into it when I returned home. I didn't manage this. I just lost focus as I knew I felt good enough and didn't have as much to lose. My Christmas I'd been swinging between 9 & 10stone. After Christmas the scales said over 10 stone & I got scared if soon be back where I started. I attempted of a number of times to get rid if that stone if gained. Couldn't do it, kept failing & felt awful for it. Tried other ways but nothing was as doable as the first time I succeeded with it. I did get down to 9.1 at one point but then it crept back Jo to 9.7 in a matter if weeks. I had this Girly weekend away coming up and wanted to wear the clothes I'd dreamed of...so I got focused and made myself get the the first few days of my latest LT attempt. This was just last week, started on the Monday and could feel a massive difference already by the Wednesday (I feel a lot of it is in my head!) weighed myself on the Friday & was absolutely go smacked. I've lost 6.6lb in less than a week and my holiday clothes actually feel great and I'm wearing them with so much confidence (I've not actually gone away yet...I just LOVE trying my new stuff on!)
In may last year, I finally got the confidence, self worth & independence to end my relationship with my sons father who I'd stupidly let cheat, disrespect, starve me and our son of love and attention for far too long. Some people may say its shallow of me to lose weight & leave him...making up their own reasons for me making the decision to leave. The pain I went through for 8 years was visible to all close to me and I've never felt so loved and respected by so many people who saw me get the balls to choose a better life for me and my boy. I knew I now had the happiness to be alone with him and enjoy every minute of him without any depressing shadows hanging over me. I knew I had to do it sooner or later and it always will have happened eventually- but i definitely have the weight loss to thank for changing heart and enabling me to like myself enough to see that I can choose to be happy. And I did
Give it a good, proper go. Keep yourself so busy the first few days especially and before you know it, you'll be giddy for weigh ins & feeling driven my the difference in your reflection.xxx
I started Lipotrim in January 2012. My start weight was 14st 13lb. I am 4ft 11 inches and it just needed to end. I was always an outgoing, flirty, confident teenager and I shamefully just stopped looking after my body after I had my son at 17. In fact, before I had him, I never needed to watch what I ate & I was out dancing 5 nights a week so never knew what it was to have weight issues. All of a sudden I've got from a size 10 to wearing tips from Evans as big as size 32. I was sceptical about the diet, had no idea if I could do it or not. I heaved and threw up the first shake I had, then quickly learned I liked the chocolate and chicken soup only. I had just these 2 sachets for 5 & a half months! And it felt like a matter of weeks. My first loss was 5.5lb after a full week of 100% I made the mistake of looking at others losses & hoping for more, still, slightly disheartened I carried on. After a couple of weeks went by, clothes were getting baggy and seeing my face change & liking what I saw kept me going and I was excited for weigh in each week. Time honestly flew. I was losing more than a stone a month, some weeks I lost 2lb...some weeks 6lb, it was so unpredictable. Always stuck to 100% I stopped the diet in mid July at an end weight of 8st 12. I wasn't ready to stop but I had to refeed before a holiday. My plan was to get straight back into it when I returned home. I didn't manage this. I just lost focus as I knew I felt good enough and didn't have as much to lose. My Christmas I'd been swinging between 9 & 10stone. After Christmas the scales said over 10 stone & I got scared if soon be back where I started. I attempted of a number of times to get rid if that stone if gained. Couldn't do it, kept failing & felt awful for it. Tried other ways but nothing was as doable as the first time I succeeded with it. I did get down to 9.1 at one point but then it crept back Jo to 9.7 in a matter if weeks. I had this Girly weekend away coming up and wanted to wear the clothes I'd dreamed of...so I got focused and made myself get the the first few days of my latest LT attempt. This was just last week, started on the Monday and could feel a massive difference already by the Wednesday (I feel a lot of it is in my head!) weighed myself on the Friday & was absolutely go smacked. I've lost 6.6lb in less than a week and my holiday clothes actually feel great and I'm wearing them with so much confidence (I've not actually gone away yet...I just LOVE trying my new stuff on!)
In may last year, I finally got the confidence, self worth & independence to end my relationship with my sons father who I'd stupidly let cheat, disrespect, starve me and our son of love and attention for far too long. Some people may say its shallow of me to lose weight & leave him...making up their own reasons for me making the decision to leave. The pain I went through for 8 years was visible to all close to me and I've never felt so loved and respected by so many people who saw me get the balls to choose a better life for me and my boy. I knew I now had the happiness to be alone with him and enjoy every minute of him without any depressing shadows hanging over me. I knew I had to do it sooner or later and it always will have happened eventually- but i definitely have the weight loss to thank for changing heart and enabling me to like myself enough to see that I can choose to be happy. And I did
Give it a good, proper go. Keep yourself so busy the first few days especially and before you know it, you'll be giddy for weigh ins & feeling driven my the difference in your reflection.xxx
