Myfallenheart
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I'm starting a diet today, the Cambridge Diet starting on SS.
It may seem like a 'fad' diet choice (other people's opinion not mine) because its meal replacement but for me, right now, I think its the right choice.
Why? Well I know myself and I know that I am better able to be motivated and determined if I get a good result for weight loss fairly quickly. I'd read up a lot on all the meal replacement diets and this one felt like a good choice for me because of its different stages and how you ease yourself into eating food again. I know what TO eat and what NOT to eat but I need help getting to a stage where I feel as if I have a weight that I want to maintain and something to feel proud of about myself.
The reason I gained weight the last few years is unhappiness. Then in the year before my children and I left Wiltshire to return to Wales (we've been back in Wales for 10 months now) I became very sedentary and spent most of my time hiding in my bedroom to avoid being in the same room as my ex as we were still living under the same roof. This all helped the weight pile on even more.
So, about two weeks ago I made the decision to do something about myself, actually I say two weeks ago but its been on the cards for a while to do something about it, not only for my own vanity and confidence but because I worry about the effects of being overweight on my health. I get joint pain in my knees and this is made worse by being overweight as well as the fact that I'm an apple shape which puts me at higher risk of diabetes, cancer and other health problems.
I went to see a Cambridge Diet consultant locally last Thursday and bought a week's worth of products. I will weigh in every Thursday and collect my 'meals' for the week at the same time. I didn't start the diet until today because it was my son's 10th birthday yesterday and he wanted me to make him a birthday cake, there would be no way I can bake and ice a cake without tasting the flavour to make sure everything was ok AND I wanted to ease myself out of drinking diet fizzy drinks AND be able to go to Pizza Hut with the kids for my son's birthday. I don't socialise or drink so normally these situations don't come up and wouldn't be an issue, it is just birthday's that we ever go out to eat anywhere.
Ideally I'd like to lose 3 stone but at the moment the goal is to reach the top end of the healthy BMI for my height and then set another goal. I've joined a forum and I'm reading other people's experiences in using the diet and seeing their before and after photographs.... I really should take a photograph of myself. I'll have to do one later. It will help me if I can see changes in my body.
For the drinking 2 litres of water a day I have cleaned out an old 6 pint plastic milk bottle and I'm using that so I can see exactly how much water I'm drinking. I started a few days ago to help get me used to it and I also started to massively cut down my fizzy drinks so that I didn't have to deal with suddenly stopping everything at the same time! I will admit I think the water is going to be difficult for me initially but I hope getting into a habit will make it much easier and I'm really going to miss my diet coke/diet cream soda. What I won't miss however is the weight I intend to lose
As it will only be my fourth day on the diet when I weigh in I don't expect a huge loss but anything to get me started will be amazing.
I'm feeling a little nervous that I am going to miss food as its become a habit to shove something in my mouth when I'm lonely, bored, sad etc... and worried how I will deal with feeling hungry.
Plus one small question, does anyone know if Canderel is ok to use as a sweetner in Coffee? The tablet type not the granular? I don't mind black coffee but unsweetened....
It may seem like a 'fad' diet choice (other people's opinion not mine) because its meal replacement but for me, right now, I think its the right choice.
Why? Well I know myself and I know that I am better able to be motivated and determined if I get a good result for weight loss fairly quickly. I'd read up a lot on all the meal replacement diets and this one felt like a good choice for me because of its different stages and how you ease yourself into eating food again. I know what TO eat and what NOT to eat but I need help getting to a stage where I feel as if I have a weight that I want to maintain and something to feel proud of about myself.
The reason I gained weight the last few years is unhappiness. Then in the year before my children and I left Wiltshire to return to Wales (we've been back in Wales for 10 months now) I became very sedentary and spent most of my time hiding in my bedroom to avoid being in the same room as my ex as we were still living under the same roof. This all helped the weight pile on even more.
So, about two weeks ago I made the decision to do something about myself, actually I say two weeks ago but its been on the cards for a while to do something about it, not only for my own vanity and confidence but because I worry about the effects of being overweight on my health. I get joint pain in my knees and this is made worse by being overweight as well as the fact that I'm an apple shape which puts me at higher risk of diabetes, cancer and other health problems.
I went to see a Cambridge Diet consultant locally last Thursday and bought a week's worth of products. I will weigh in every Thursday and collect my 'meals' for the week at the same time. I didn't start the diet until today because it was my son's 10th birthday yesterday and he wanted me to make him a birthday cake, there would be no way I can bake and ice a cake without tasting the flavour to make sure everything was ok AND I wanted to ease myself out of drinking diet fizzy drinks AND be able to go to Pizza Hut with the kids for my son's birthday. I don't socialise or drink so normally these situations don't come up and wouldn't be an issue, it is just birthday's that we ever go out to eat anywhere.
Ideally I'd like to lose 3 stone but at the moment the goal is to reach the top end of the healthy BMI for my height and then set another goal. I've joined a forum and I'm reading other people's experiences in using the diet and seeing their before and after photographs.... I really should take a photograph of myself. I'll have to do one later. It will help me if I can see changes in my body.
For the drinking 2 litres of water a day I have cleaned out an old 6 pint plastic milk bottle and I'm using that so I can see exactly how much water I'm drinking. I started a few days ago to help get me used to it and I also started to massively cut down my fizzy drinks so that I didn't have to deal with suddenly stopping everything at the same time! I will admit I think the water is going to be difficult for me initially but I hope getting into a habit will make it much easier and I'm really going to miss my diet coke/diet cream soda. What I won't miss however is the weight I intend to lose
As it will only be my fourth day on the diet when I weigh in I don't expect a huge loss but anything to get me started will be amazing.
I'm feeling a little nervous that I am going to miss food as its become a habit to shove something in my mouth when I'm lonely, bored, sad etc... and worried how I will deal with feeling hungry.
Plus one small question, does anyone know if Canderel is ok to use as a sweetner in Coffee? The tablet type not the granular? I don't mind black coffee but unsweetened....
