Right, here goes. I had my first child at 19 (20 years ago) and was terrified of gaining weight so ate a lot less than I had been running up to pregnancy and obviously none of the copious amounts of alcohol I had been getting though either. Unbelievably, I managed to go from 9 stone to 13.5 stone during the pregnancy and only lost about 1.5 stone giving birth! Moving along a few years, i bobbed about 13 stone for a long time until I became unwell with serious asthma and with lots of steroids, I went up to a mighty 15 stone in just 2 months - then I discovered diet pills when I was at university. Man, I loved them, oodles of energy, weight falling off and hardly any sleep required made studying all night so easy. Suffice to say I loved them and managed to get down to 11 stone and hit the wall and I just couldn't make the scales move anymore. Sadly those pesky pills lost their licence as some people were having heart attacks or summink and I was no longer able to get them. Moving on again, I met my husband (who I went to secondary school with in the eighties) and we started eating a bar of green and blacks chocolate every night. After gaining back about 2 stone (now 13 stone again), we got married and I had two more children (now 6 and 7). The first of those pregnancies left me with another stone of extra weight, but by some miracle when I had my last baby, I weighed in 1.5 stone less than when I got pregnant. The reason I'm boring you all (if anyone is out there lol) with my weight ups and downs, is really to remind myself how I have felt at various weights.
Somehow, three years ago, I suddenly realised I was getting fatter (how I don't know) so I joined SW at an even mightier 16st 1lbs, lost almost three stones (but it took ages) and got bored and regained 2 stone, so joined WW, got bored even faster (although I prefer it to SW) and gave up after losing a stone. Since, I have bobbed between 14, 7 and 15 stones. (Still awake?). My problem with SW and WW isn't the regimes themselves as clearly they are sound and have been successful for millions. However, they make me obsessive about food. I can maintain fairly easily by being vaguely aware of what I have eaten each day, but I can't stand obsessing about food all the time as it depresses me - hence why I end up getting bored/fed up and giving up.
So, here I am. A friend told me about S&S and I arrived back here on minimins about a month ago. I've never done a VLCD before, so I don't know how I will get on with it, but I'm hoping for a similar downward trend as the diet pills. I have my sample pack so here I go....
Day 1 - Hazelnut shake (meh so will make into a coffee next time), mild curry with green beans (can I have them?), cottage pie and cauliflower with a dark choc coconut bar in the evening, washed down with a can of coke zero (gutted I can't drink my favourite diet lemonade). I have to say, I felt hungry, but probably because I was obsessing all day about starting. So to supplement, I also had 200g of chicken (bad but protein only so I'm hoping that it won't prevent ketosis starting asap).
Day 2 - (lighter life sachets from my above mentioned friend who has kindly given me all the sachets she had left over that she didn't like (about 100 of them)) apple and cinnamon porridge, asparagus soup (a little slimy and less tasty as I got to the end) and a shepherds pie with leeks and a little chilli powder for tea (almost made me vomit). I will treat myself with a S&S bar this evening.
Although I have only had a day of each brand, I already prefer the S&S sachets so will have to follow advice I have seen on here and have at least one sachet I don't particularly like every day - probably two as I have so many of the LL sachets (grateful but pfffttt). I expect I have not written loads that I meant to share.
Oh, I won't be telling those at work. I have been off sick for the last six months with an anxiety disorder and I'm due back on Thursday....
Oh, and I am really missing my lovely cups of tea with one sugar. It doesn't matter what sweeteners I buy, I just can't stand the taste in tea.
My goodness, I have spewed out far tmi for one post! I will try to rein it in tomorrow.
Laters xx
