Sunshine Singer
Dropped White Sugar & Feeling Fantastic
I was planning on starting my own diary when I got to 9st to motivate me through maintenance. However I've decided that I would like to start it now on day 46, why wait to be motivated?
Now I'm going to write this for me and of course anyone who is at all interested but I have found waking up every morning to my Shrinklie thread and posting has been a huge factor on why I've been able to stay on track all this time. I find posting positive thoughts for the day to help others has actually helped me every day. When else in every day life do we ever get up and first thing list the positive things we are going to do.....well I've never have.
So here I am at week 6 day 5 and am loving every day of my CD journey. I started out at 11st 3lbs with a goal of 9st. Today I've decided to get real and have changed my goal to 8st 11lbs as I know I will be so happy back at that weight.
I am really excited to have enjoyed my journey so far so much. It doesn't feel like a diet to me at all. I've been doing 810 as I thought, knowing me, there would be more chance of me sticking to it. So it's a little less of a loss each month but I'll get there and much quicker than on any other diet I've ever been on.
Just like everyone else in the first few weeks, I've had my up's and down's with side effects and being ill however this time has been different for me. This time I haven't blamed the diet for being ill and if I've come home exhausted from work, in agony with period pains or felt low I haven't gone straight to the kitchen to binge on anything and everything that was there, the trap I was caught in for years. Because of the simple fact that I'm enjoying CD so much, I've just enjoyed what I can have on the plan and not once felt the need to binge.
Seeing the pounds coming off like this is just amazing to me. I've only ever lost a lot of weight through nearly killing myself working out and counting every point that touched my lips (and boy that was hard work and I couldnt maintain the weight loss) or through losing my lovely Mum suddenly 5 years ago when I was so caught up in looking after her that I didn't eat to my marraige breakdown nearly 3 years ago. All 3 times I was tiny but never could enjoy it with the stress I was going through.
This time however,I am so ready for this. I'm ready to be skinny/slim not a stick...I'll always have my curves, I'm a woman and we have them. I'm choosing to do this for me and because of this I'm loving all the changes that are happening to me. Like in week 1 when my cheekbones came out, week 3 when my 3 chins were becoming 2 and all the other changes like my tummy and muffin tops are getting smaller and my calves thinning.
Now I'm not an obsessive person. I don't stand in front of the mirror every 5 mins to see if i've lost weight but I've noticed the difference in my clothes. I was always into fashion and loved my clothes but as the weight (notice i say 'the' weight and not 'my' weight) piled on I covered up in jeans and hoody's, stopped wearing skirts and the fatter I became the more effort (if I was dressing up etc) I had to make with my makeup just to feel ok about myself. Now tho having lost 20 and a half lbs in 6 weeks, I'm back in my lovely clothes again and this time I'm appreciating it.
Today was a bit of a turning point for me. I've had my hair cut into a lovely short feminine bob as i no longer have my 3 chins , my cheekbones are out and I no longer feel the need to hide behind my long hair. I feel liberated, younger and a million times better about myself.
As this is my first diary entry it's pretty long and a bit waffally. I'll go into more detail along the way.
In short the few lows during the 6 weeks have been having 2 periods within 3 weeks, very low enery at times, being completly wide awake all night at times and being sick with a bug twice. But i didn't dwell on any of these lows and never once intended on cheating or losing focus.
The highs have truely out-weighed any little lows. Seeing the results so fast with my body and face changing. The compliments from friends, finding lots in my wardrobe that now fits or almost fits me. The confidence to have a short hair do and not feeling the need to hide my face. Trying on the sample bridesmaid dress this week for the second time to check my measurements before ordering and fitting in the sample that didn't go anywhere near me last time. Wearing shorter skirts and finding that all my usual tops are hanging off me so much so they make me look bigger than I am....hurray!
Most of all......the friends who I have made on here and the fabulous support I've had. You know who you are and you've kept me really motivated.
Finally (at last i hear you say, or I hear myself say if this has been too long for anyone to read ) I keep KD's words close to my heart that getting to goal is only the beginning.
Loving CD xxx
Now I'm going to write this for me and of course anyone who is at all interested but I have found waking up every morning to my Shrinklie thread and posting has been a huge factor on why I've been able to stay on track all this time. I find posting positive thoughts for the day to help others has actually helped me every day. When else in every day life do we ever get up and first thing list the positive things we are going to do.....well I've never have.
So here I am at week 6 day 5 and am loving every day of my CD journey. I started out at 11st 3lbs with a goal of 9st. Today I've decided to get real and have changed my goal to 8st 11lbs as I know I will be so happy back at that weight.
I am really excited to have enjoyed my journey so far so much. It doesn't feel like a diet to me at all. I've been doing 810 as I thought, knowing me, there would be more chance of me sticking to it. So it's a little less of a loss each month but I'll get there and much quicker than on any other diet I've ever been on.
Just like everyone else in the first few weeks, I've had my up's and down's with side effects and being ill however this time has been different for me. This time I haven't blamed the diet for being ill and if I've come home exhausted from work, in agony with period pains or felt low I haven't gone straight to the kitchen to binge on anything and everything that was there, the trap I was caught in for years. Because of the simple fact that I'm enjoying CD so much, I've just enjoyed what I can have on the plan and not once felt the need to binge.
Seeing the pounds coming off like this is just amazing to me. I've only ever lost a lot of weight through nearly killing myself working out and counting every point that touched my lips (and boy that was hard work and I couldnt maintain the weight loss) or through losing my lovely Mum suddenly 5 years ago when I was so caught up in looking after her that I didn't eat to my marraige breakdown nearly 3 years ago. All 3 times I was tiny but never could enjoy it with the stress I was going through.
This time however,I am so ready for this. I'm ready to be skinny/slim not a stick...I'll always have my curves, I'm a woman and we have them. I'm choosing to do this for me and because of this I'm loving all the changes that are happening to me. Like in week 1 when my cheekbones came out, week 3 when my 3 chins were becoming 2 and all the other changes like my tummy and muffin tops are getting smaller and my calves thinning.
Now I'm not an obsessive person. I don't stand in front of the mirror every 5 mins to see if i've lost weight but I've noticed the difference in my clothes. I was always into fashion and loved my clothes but as the weight (notice i say 'the' weight and not 'my' weight) piled on I covered up in jeans and hoody's, stopped wearing skirts and the fatter I became the more effort (if I was dressing up etc) I had to make with my makeup just to feel ok about myself. Now tho having lost 20 and a half lbs in 6 weeks, I'm back in my lovely clothes again and this time I'm appreciating it.
Today was a bit of a turning point for me. I've had my hair cut into a lovely short feminine bob as i no longer have my 3 chins , my cheekbones are out and I no longer feel the need to hide behind my long hair. I feel liberated, younger and a million times better about myself.
As this is my first diary entry it's pretty long and a bit waffally. I'll go into more detail along the way.
In short the few lows during the 6 weeks have been having 2 periods within 3 weeks, very low enery at times, being completly wide awake all night at times and being sick with a bug twice. But i didn't dwell on any of these lows and never once intended on cheating or losing focus.
The highs have truely out-weighed any little lows. Seeing the results so fast with my body and face changing. The compliments from friends, finding lots in my wardrobe that now fits or almost fits me. The confidence to have a short hair do and not feeling the need to hide my face. Trying on the sample bridesmaid dress this week for the second time to check my measurements before ordering and fitting in the sample that didn't go anywhere near me last time. Wearing shorter skirts and finding that all my usual tops are hanging off me so much so they make me look bigger than I am....hurray!
Most of all......the friends who I have made on here and the fabulous support I've had. You know who you are and you've kept me really motivated.
Finally (at last i hear you say, or I hear myself say if this has been too long for anyone to read ) I keep KD's words close to my heart that getting to goal is only the beginning.
Loving CD xxx