Hi all. Just though putting my feelings down might help me a little. I'm really struggling this week. I haven't been weighed due to having to work my weigh in night so I'm having a 2 week weigh in next week but I'm really finding I'm missing food now. I've stayed on plan. Had to go up to step 2 last week as I was on nightshifts and that was a struggle in its self...everyone is always hungrier on nights I just wish I could have been weighed this week. So my real dilemma is I'm missing food a lot and I'm worried it will become too much and I will have a binge. My friend has been at weight watchers for 4 weeks and had lost more than I lost in my first 4 weeks on CD. It's just makes me wonder if I should join a diet club to loose my last 2 stone? I've lost 5 stone already and it seems silly to deprive myself of all food when I could potentially have the same/better losses eating? I know there is no guarantee I will do as well as my friend on weight watchers but its just got me thinking. I've been on CD since 16th October, 100% no break for Christmas or anything.
What you all think?
Lynne - 70.5lbs down 25lbs to go...
Hugs :hug99:
I can guarantee that every single one of us who's done Cambridge or a similar VLCD has thought what you're thinking and, worse still, has a friend who's doing WW, SW or just plain old calorie counting that seems to be doing better than we are.
Here's the thing. The weight loss on pretty much all diets is the same during the first month (usually those of us on VLCDs lose a couple of pounds more but maybe not as many as you'd expect considering we eat dust
). That's because the major component of weight loss on any diet at the 4 week stage is water.
It's what happens after that first 4 weeks that the differences start to show themselves. On a VLCD, you can usually expect to carry on losing an average of 3-4lbs a week (while you still have several stones to lose). On any other plan, it drops to around 1-2lbs a week. And often it drops lower than that, because having the freedom to eat means that those on those plans are likely to take days off the plan more often than those of us doing a VLCD.
Long story short - you won't have better losses on any other diet. Many of us have been lured away by the prospect of eating more and still having good losses and it never works that way. No, sadly most of us end up back here, a stone or so heavier than we were when we left, and return to the VLCD wagons we hopped off.
Just my two-penneth
You could be one of the folks who'd benefit from a switch to a different diet but in my experience, you'd be a rare person indeed.
