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You could always decide to be THE success story. Sounds like you still lose the weight on the diet but can't stick to it. it is def. true that it is harder but.... this doesn't mean it is not doable. I know for a fact that this is true. On VHI.ie there is a diet and nutrition section where there are many women who have maintained on lipotrim and started and restarted. You have to be a member of VHI to comment and be a part of that support network but you can easily read the archives and you will find many women who have done this diet and refed and then returned and refed and lost many stones and then maintained. Have a look. I really believe it is possible to restart this diet and for you to lose this weight if you keep the determination necessary to sustain a few months. Lots of women do it and you can too. I know I have fallen off the wagon since I have restarted but I think it is about trying and trying and trying and looking to succeed not looking for excuses to fail. If no-one has done it before then this doesn't mean I can't do it - just means i will be the first. I can do it and so can you - its all about you choosing. Your body and mind are always as weak as you let them be that's why we are all on this diet in the first place. I can find hundreds of reasons not to continue the diet every single time I break it. At the end of the day, I am not happy being 17, 27 or 47 lbs over weight. Just because it is 17 lbs doesn't make it any less easy to cope with. I am not happy at this size and it is all relative. Good luck with whatever you decide - you know deep down what you can and can't do. Have you heard the saying 'methinks he doth protest too much'. That is what comes to my mind when I read your posts because you have already decided you can't do it but deep down you know you want to. Just get on again and go for it girl. You might surprise yourself. Stop thinking about how long it'll take and how far you have to go and just go one day at a time!
Colly
Hi fatloser,
I totally agree with your post, but I have to stress each time i have gone back on this, it is horrific as far as symtoms and not down to my willpower. I have had to come off it for health reason whereas the first time I did it my body totally accepted it but ever since my body is totally fighting it. Its not just your average heachace, hunger pangs, light headed usual symptoms everyone gets. I used to always think I was trying to hard and not giving my body enough time to get over it. And each time I left it longer and longer before trying again but each time my body was having none of it.
One of the times I had to come off it as my blood pressure had dropped so low and nearly fainted twice. Another time I was on it 3 weeks and took 1 ducolax and was just about to be rushed to hospital with severe pains (worse than childbirth) which made me think that my insides were being totally messed up. Thank god I held off going to the hospital and it finally subsided after 6 hours of intense pain.
I know my posts may sound like I am making excuses, well trust me I aint, my concerns are over the way the body reacts the second time around. I am not going back on this and giving up 2 or 3 days later. I am manging maybe 2 or 3 weeks and then its total panic stations as far as my health is concerned.
The last time I tried this if you look back at my posts I felt totally fantastic for 6 days solid, I had awful headache the first day and half of day 2 which is totally understandable and then went on to feel totally great. By the end of day 6 I was not able to function, every muscle in my body ached, I was practically seeing stars and my daughter commented on how dark I had got all of a sudden under my eyes she was shocked and my hubby worried at how fast I went downhill within the matter of 3 hours.
So its not lack of willpower, its the horrific symptoms that has me thinking, can this be done a second time around or does your body really put up a fight and know what is about to happen to it.
I actually managed last year to do this for 3 weeks and give up smoking at the same time as lipotrim so my willpower is great and always has been in that respect. But yet again it was not the smoking that got the better of me but the lipotrim.
I know my last post sounded like nothing but excuses but it did not mean to come across that way. I just know that all this is not in my head and would love someone to prove me wrong, I dont mean someone who is breaking it for a day and then going back on it, I want to hear of someone who can last a straight couple of months second time around.
I know I could easily hop back onto it 2 days later after coming off it but that is defeating the object of lipo and in my opinion wasting so much money only to be out of ketosis and feeling terrible all over again.
Sorry dont mean to sound harsh but its so frustrating trying to get my point across at what this is actually doing to my body ever since I lost the weight 2 year ago.
I am not knocking the diet at all cause I know it works, I just cant understand that no matter how long I stay on it when I try again, I feel so dreadful to the point of where it scares me.
You talk about, if you want to do this then you will and how I could be the first sucess story. Well trust me I would love to be, I am writing these posts cause I am so frustrated that my body wont accept it and this is why I have tried and tried to get back onto it to PROVE my body will one day accept it again but its just not happening and if I do find a sucess story then maybe one day IT COULD WORK FOR ME AGAIN. Maybe I need a total of a year or 2 break from it, who knows!!!!
