VLCD, Lighter Life, Cambridge Diet, etc

[Mudwiggle]

Hi All

Wanted to see if anyone is doing one of these or thinking about it. (If there's already an active thread, I missed it).

I have done LL before, lost three stone in 10 weeks and maintained wonderfully until DC's. Eldest is now four and a half and I think I have probably tried everything going, you name it, I've tried it (Paul McKenna, Paleo, 5:2, Dukan, Weight Watchers, etc).

I know that this works for me, although I understand other peoples objections.
I get paid on Friday and will be contacting a CDC to start on Monday. By the time DS1 is five in June, I intend to be pre DC weight again!

Anyone up for it? Or can give me some support or advice? TIA.

Well done for the great weight loss toomanybuttons, thepatioislumpy, and wow oggsfrogs!! There is so much less of us all now than last week! I am over myself now- just a it of a humph at myself.

RedRidingchops, well done for date AND willpower- you are really doing well.

Scone, thank you for being there.

Yawning,thanks for kindness.

Today, for the first time in work, someone noticed and whispered in my ear. bearing in mind I'm in gym kit doing Zumba with the kids- so there is no mercy. I accept all and any nice things said.

Right - am feeling good today, the sun is shining etc. My body is a temple and all that. I'm back on track...

Morning, lost 4 pounds this week. Bright side is 11 pounds over two weeks!

Dark side is the total reluctance of my body to lose weight. The last time I did WW it took 4 weeks to lose 2 pounds even though I followed it completely. At which point I gave up.

Not giving up this yet, although the call of simple low carbing is quite strong!

I'm thinking low carbing sounds good, simple low carbing even better! I had a look at a low carb thread earlier and it seemed complicated, though am sure it isn't I just didn't have time to read it properly.

I am on day 6 and today is proving difficult. Hopefully weigh day tomorrow will give me the lift I need. I definitely think that low carbing is the way to go for me. I am always tired, always but since I started this at times I have felt less weary and actually energised whereas I was expecting to feel even more shattered than usual.

I think 11 bs in 2 weeks is blooming good Scone, I know it's frustrating, I seem to lose weight very slowly too, hence S & S. Do your clothes feel better? I haven't noticed anything yet but then it is very early days!

Just signed up for lighter life. Going to start next week. Wish me luck and hope I can stick to it!!!!!!!!

Well done Scone, you're well on the way.
Thinkfast I'm on day 29 with lighter life, if I can do it anyone can, as I have zero willpower!

My week's worth of "food"was lighter than my handbag!

Sammac how much have you lost in 29 days?

In 25 days. I've lost 18lbs. Won't get weighed this weekend as we're away, but I might go to drop in on Monday, day 34 and will let you know.

keep going everyone for the weekend! Plan ahead if possible, take your shakes and bars etc with you. Im out for a pub lunch and just going to order steak and salad, with fizzy water. Not my usual fair, but I am hoping to drop a couple of pounds this week. Good luck and enjoy the sunshine .

Just dropping in to say another 2.5lb for me this week.

I've struggled a bit this week, and whilst I've not cheated on the diet, my head has not quite been in the right place, so I'm pleased that I have had an ok loss. I think I've been concentrating too much on where I want to be in the summer, and getting down that it is still a fair old whack of weight away. What I should be doing is concentrating on each day and how well I've done so far.

Anyway, onwards and upwards all! Here's to a lovely sunny weekend and we're all that little bit thinner to enjoy it a bit more!

Really struggling. Life is a lot crap and is getting in the way. I'm trying really hard to avoid the emotional eating, but its not always possible. If I do succumb I'm trying to stick to the carb free options like some ham or chicken but I'm not always succeeding. I'm hoping to get this w/e out of the way (in more than one way) and then I can refocus myself on Monday.

I'm so low, but I know that if I 'allow' myself to fail in this too I'll feel even worse so I will not fail - this is just a blip

Good luck to all x

Patio - I'm sorry things are so difficult for you at the moment. You are not going to fail if you don't stick to the diet when things are so crap. Failure would be if you didn't get back to it when life allows. Be kind to yourself.

Enormous (((squidge))) to patio.

Emotional eating is such a difficult thing to deal with (understatement) - I have often thought that if only I used cigarettes as a crutch I would be a size 10. One with massive lung problems, obv. but thin. Instead I picked food and have been bulimic and a binge eater since the age of 14. Ah well.

The only thing I have ever found that helps is talking. Talk it out repeatedly. PM if you fancy an ear, I'm very willing to listen. xxx

Me too Scone. And Patio I am really sorry too that things are shite, this diet is no easy thing and it is so tempting to go and binge on something and life is OK for me just now so I can only imagine how difficult it is for you. Sounds like you are doing brilliantly for sticking with it, that is a massive achievement. Keep hanging in there

Patio, please don't beat yourself up if you go off plan, its really not a failure. Life can be very difficult, (just visited my teenage niece who is in a mental hospital = 6 suicide attempts), it's very stressful and if a diet makes you feel more stressed right now, then just plan a date when you can re-start. If thats not possible, heres a big hug!

Hope you are Ok this morning Patio, have been thinking about you and I do think Milky is right, it's not worth making yourself feel worse or more stressed, it really isn't. But if its helping then obviously it's good to keep on track.

Not that I'm one to speak, I totally messed up last night with a packet of steak mc coys and a glass of cava, classy me Oh dear.

How's everybody doing?

I've struggled all day today. Had to come up to bed early to stay away from the fridge.

I'm back. Thank you all for being lovely. I just went totally off piste this w/e but tried to be relatively 'good' and tried to stay away from too many carbs.

I'm back in the saddle tomorrow though. I need to get my arse into gear!

Good to see you Patio. Well done for getting straight back into it.

Starting tomorrow! Wish my luck. Hoping to lose 18lb in 25 days like sammac!

Right - so going off piste and cheating a lot bit last week has seen me put 2lbs on. I'm ok with that TBH. I'm still 8lbs lighter than when I began S&S just after Easter, and although things have been tough, they will remain so. Which means I simply have to pull myself together and get back to it. There will always be challenges in life, and I may always deal with them by eating, but one day or a couple of days of eating badly don't need to affect my weight loss in real terms. Little blips - that's all they are.

So, off to have my first shake now. I thought that going back on the diet was going to be really hard, having eaten 'real' food for a few days, but actually, I'm looking forward to it! I like the lack of thought I can put into it. I'm doing S&S simplicity so its 4 packs plus veg which means I can eat nothing else at all. So there are no compromises, no ifs and buts or maybes, just packs and veg.

Good luck to all this week.

Well done patio, we are all with you in this tough challenge right now. Just take each day as it comes and you sound completely up for it now.

We've been away for the weekend, when normally the wine would be flowing, crisps, dips etc. Ice cream blah blah. I found it really tough sticking with flamin sparkling water whilst dh drinking beer but my jeans are literally falling off me - I can pull them right down without unzipping or unbuttoning them. admittedly they are size 18, but when i got them in Feb I (blushing ) had to lie on the bed to zip them up

Little steps in the right direction.

Oh but its hard isn't it?! Spent the morning gardening so just been to the park with the little dcs as they were so good. Went to the shop on the way home as the older one wanted an ice cream and he chose white choc Magnums. They are my total favourite. And now I have two sitting in my freezer, calling my name

However, I am sitting here virtuously drinking a chilled can of Dr Pepper Zero and pretending that it is just as nice

I have dug out my two jumpsuits and hung them back on my wardrobe door (they got displaced in packing for the w/e) as thinspiration, and took my measurements again today. I've still managed to lose some even though I've put weight on. I assume it is because the weight is my muscles retaining water again rather than fat weight, so I've not got 2lbs bigger its just things redistributing.

So, yes, I am up for it again. I really went for it in the first week, the second week I was good but it was overshadowed by premenstrual slowing of the loss. Last week went pear shaped so this is my second crack at week #1. Feeling pretty good

I have managed not to give into temptation too... A trip to Warwick Castle, a trip to London and then a visit to the movies this morning.

No popcorn!!

Or lovely chocolate cake from Patisserie Valerie while waiting at Marylebone. I have a will of steel.

Plus, I took the dc to the local cafe where they scoffed cake. And I had a cup of tea. Oh yes. I know how to live. It is literally rock and roll around here you know!

Against all normal thinking I have decided to weigh daily. If the first rule of dieting is know thyself, I cannot cope with disillusion on a weekly weigh in, whereas at least daily I can see which way the wind is blowing.

So far this week another 4 pounds...

Excellent work Scone. I bow down to your willpower!

Forgive me for I have sinned - I had a small spoonful of picallilli with my chicken this evening. I have come a very long way on this diet for that to be the thing I craved most!!