Well. I think it is fantastic there is a diary section on here. I was going to start an online blog - but figured nobody would ever read it ... and I have noticed the support on here is absolutely awesome ..so .. here goes!
Where to start really? Fat kid ... fat teenager ... certainly does = fat adult! I have skipped around pretending to be large and jolly for many, many years, but as I am 30 this May .. and staff at work have started calling me 'big Luce' and starting sentences with 'My friend ... shes a big girl like you'. It was just one wound too many open so I decided I must do something about it .. for good!
I am by no means new to 'dieting' over the years I have dipped my toe into Weight Watchers, Slimming World, Atkins, Slim Fast ... but never last more than a month. I generally lost about 7lb and then start to slip into old habits. Thats the thing with me. I am addicted to food ... BAD foods .. there, said it! I love nothing more than chips, fried breakfasts, crisps (damb Mr Walkers ...) and 'bad' foods generally. I happily go along for months on a take away a day. So I'm not one of these people that blames my 5'6 / 14 stone 13 frame on metabolism - I eat too much, of the wrong things ... simple!
You may think 14 st 13 ... hmmm, not a drama, but for me it is. I have never been able to wear anything other than an 18 or 16 in 'good' shops. I have never been able to be fashionable - or even wear a swimming costume in comfort. I have a really tiny frame and in a recent body scan I was pretty much 80% pure fat - gross !!! What I want people to understand is I don;t carry baby weight or I havent grown 'fat' over the years ... I have always just been this way ...
Anyway, its time a for a change. For real this time. I was scanning the internet and speaking to friends about ideas and I found Go Lower. This seemed ideal for me because it induces the body into ketosis - through food. I really, really admire people who can drink shakes or stick to a vlc diet - but I know, after trial and error that this isnt for me.
The box arrived and I set 28th December as 'D' day. I think that was important to me because I needed to have a start time - usually I just finick around 'nearly' starting something for weeks before I give up.
The box contains everything I can eat for the next fortnight while I am on the detox stage of the diet, generally a granola for breakfast, soup for lunch and then a meat based meal for tea (beef bourginon, pork and leeks .. meat balls ..) alsorts. You can have a portion of vegetables with this. There are also 2 snacks a day, nut bars, chocolate cremes and pork crunch ... (wow I thought .. I love that stuff!!)
So anyway, started 2 days ago and for the first 2 days I felt absolutely horrendous. Hungry, sick, headache ... which no amount of paracetamol touched and so, so, tired. I have slept 14 hours each night for the first two days. But .. something amasing has happened today. I woke up - sans headache ... and I am in ketosis - I feel absolutely wonderful. Awake, full of energy - and totally not hungry! I was seriously thinking of packing it in all day yesterday as with my job as a lecturer (back to work MondaY) I never thought I could go to work feeling the way I did.
I guess it must have been withdrawal from caffine, wheat and sugar - how amasing that these so called harmless substances can make us feel so wretched when we dont have them ???
So anyway, thats it from me. ... sorry for the chapter of War and Peace. I will do general updates, and will probably have a good moan too ..
Final thing for today - wow - there are some really inspiring stories on here. I will use your stories and determination to help me on my journey.
Thanks for listening - if you have got this far you deserve a gold star !!
L xx
Where to start really? Fat kid ... fat teenager ... certainly does = fat adult! I have skipped around pretending to be large and jolly for many, many years, but as I am 30 this May .. and staff at work have started calling me 'big Luce' and starting sentences with 'My friend ... shes a big girl like you'. It was just one wound too many open so I decided I must do something about it .. for good!
I am by no means new to 'dieting' over the years I have dipped my toe into Weight Watchers, Slimming World, Atkins, Slim Fast ... but never last more than a month. I generally lost about 7lb and then start to slip into old habits. Thats the thing with me. I am addicted to food ... BAD foods .. there, said it! I love nothing more than chips, fried breakfasts, crisps (damb Mr Walkers ...) and 'bad' foods generally. I happily go along for months on a take away a day. So I'm not one of these people that blames my 5'6 / 14 stone 13 frame on metabolism - I eat too much, of the wrong things ... simple!
You may think 14 st 13 ... hmmm, not a drama, but for me it is. I have never been able to wear anything other than an 18 or 16 in 'good' shops. I have never been able to be fashionable - or even wear a swimming costume in comfort. I have a really tiny frame and in a recent body scan I was pretty much 80% pure fat - gross !!! What I want people to understand is I don;t carry baby weight or I havent grown 'fat' over the years ... I have always just been this way ...
Anyway, its time a for a change. For real this time. I was scanning the internet and speaking to friends about ideas and I found Go Lower. This seemed ideal for me because it induces the body into ketosis - through food. I really, really admire people who can drink shakes or stick to a vlc diet - but I know, after trial and error that this isnt for me.
The box arrived and I set 28th December as 'D' day. I think that was important to me because I needed to have a start time - usually I just finick around 'nearly' starting something for weeks before I give up.
The box contains everything I can eat for the next fortnight while I am on the detox stage of the diet, generally a granola for breakfast, soup for lunch and then a meat based meal for tea (beef bourginon, pork and leeks .. meat balls ..) alsorts. You can have a portion of vegetables with this. There are also 2 snacks a day, nut bars, chocolate cremes and pork crunch ... (wow I thought .. I love that stuff!!)
So anyway, started 2 days ago and for the first 2 days I felt absolutely horrendous. Hungry, sick, headache ... which no amount of paracetamol touched and so, so, tired. I have slept 14 hours each night for the first two days. But .. something amasing has happened today. I woke up - sans headache ... and I am in ketosis - I feel absolutely wonderful. Awake, full of energy - and totally not hungry! I was seriously thinking of packing it in all day yesterday as with my job as a lecturer (back to work MondaY) I never thought I could go to work feeling the way I did.
I guess it must have been withdrawal from caffine, wheat and sugar - how amasing that these so called harmless substances can make us feel so wretched when we dont have them ???
So anyway, thats it from me. ... sorry for the chapter of War and Peace. I will do general updates, and will probably have a good moan too ..
Final thing for today - wow - there are some really inspiring stories on here. I will use your stories and determination to help me on my journey.
Thanks for listening - if you have got this far you deserve a gold star !!
L xx