yeah - sort of. We want to take a holiday in New York at easter next year - hopefully a last big holiday before we're parents. So i need to have done all the stepping up by end of march. That means stopping SS mid february, which means 15 weeks (after this one) left on SS.
If I average 3lbs a week then I'll be 16lbs short of goal when I start the seven weeks stepping up. If I average 3.5lbs a week that will make me 8.5lbs short of goal when i start stepping, and if i manage an average of 4lbs a week then I'll only have to lose 1lb over the steps, or hopefully, i'll end up going lower than goal so I have a safety cushion for gaining a bit while on hols.
If - as seems possible - i don't quite get to goal before easter, and/or - as seems likely - I put on weight on holiday, I'm going to shift the last bit with dietchef. I don't think that CD would work like this for me twice, and i think for my own mental space, but also for my poor husband, I have to have a fixed point where I say 'done. finished. no more vlcd, that chapter is over'.