How can I lose 10lbs before my holiday on, er, Monday?

[WhatsGoingOnEh]

In a panic. Was meant to start diet in May but one thing (or rather, one pizza) led to another and now I've got less than a week.

I'm 5'6" and look great at 9st 7. This morning I was 10st 11! Shiiiiiiiit!

What can I do? I really REALLY need to crash some of this off. I don't care if it's unhealthy, it's only for a few days and I can do it properly when I get home.

Any and all ideas MASSIVELY gratefully received. What are your tried and tested tricks? Thank you!

Thanks Itsfab and WhatsGoingOnEh - I feel better now

I could be persuaded to give Scarsdale a go again.

Itsfab -- I watched "Food Uncovered, the truth about diets" on TV last night. A scientist said that ALL detox teas are basically crap. Some will have a laxative effect (but they'll be clearly labelled as such), but the others do sod all. So sadly, it doesn't really matter what tea you bought. :)

I'm on the Pukka Detox tea which tastes horrible and doesn't do anything. The old one, SlimMe tea, was better.

At least on Scarsdale, we get to eat a lot of proper, nice, food.

Shall we start Scarsdale on Monday? Gives us time to get the food in. You really do have to stock up on allowed food first, otherwise it's hell.

Between now and Monday, we can do any kind of quick fix crap we like. I might use up my UltraSlim sachets.

And we can set deadlines! I'd like to be 10stone by the end of September, which is my fiance's birthday. We will probably do something lovely so I'd like to look and feel thin by then. Then my ultimate goal is 9st 4lbs by Fireworks night. Because it really WILL be fireworks night when I'm thin enough to TMI ALERT wear all my sauciest undies again. :)

I've drawn up a daily routine schedule. I work from home, and therefore easily waste entire days doing fuck all. I've drawn up an incredibly simple daily plan, with exercise glasses scheduled in. I live literally 200 yards from a gym, and yet I never go. But I will!

Monday is also a good starting date as it's the 1st of September. September will be our transformation month! We need a catchy name for it. Slimtember?

When we want to binge on tiger bread and fudge, we will just tell ourselves we're not allowed to do that in Slimtember.

The bad point if postponing our start date, though, is that I will honestly eat everything I can lay my hands on, between now and then. I'll go berserk. I'll start setting alarms on my phone to wake me up at 3am for a fridge-raid.

I'm not sure about Scarsdale - seems a bit rigid for me lots of bread too, yak.
I might join in the thread on my own LC diet though if thats ok?
Today i have had a coffee, a fag, a big bowl of soup and a pint of fizzy water - apparently I can have a potato later woopwoop!
Tummy feels a bit bizarro...

I like the idea of end-of-August-anarchy before Slimtember

I had two snickers for breakfast this morning and I can't bring myself to care.

Thehounds -- of course you can do your own thing! All manner of fat-busting schemes are welcome here. Especially (for me) if they involve fags. :)

Victrix -- two? Oah! Amateur! I've just eaten a WHOLE box of fudge I bought as a present for the kids. The whole box. That's commitment. Unless you go to the shops to buy two more snickers to eat before bedtime, I'm putting you down as a slacker.

:)

Loving the sound of Slimtember

My bastard Rotation Diet Book finally arrived today - I haven't opening it yet. I stuck to 600 cals on Sunday, then 900 on Monday (as per the Rotation Diet 'rules') but yesterday and today I am instead using mfp and my Fitbit to keep at least 500 cals under what I burn - yesterday I was 900 cals under though. I'm 2lbs down so far.

I'll have a read through the book for low-cal motivation.

Am thinking my plan's too tame for this thread though

There only were two so I've had three slices of bread with nutella as well, wouldn't want to let the side down after all

Victrix - good girl! :)

BB -- no plan is too tame!!! Look, if we think you're ever getting too sensible for the thread, we'll just gently talk you into drinking a mug of ShitterTea in a bath of Epsom Salts after donating a pint of blood (note to self: must try that) or something.

As long as nobody does WW. That IS banned, just on principle because it rewards glacial-speed weight loss.

SHHH with your fudgeandsnickers talk!

Thanks WhatsGoingOn good to know you've got my back.

Ok I'm in.
Off to google Scarsdale.
[and not to eat use up that last bit of G&B Hazelnut Raisin in the drawer. Oh no]

*Whats - best thing you can do for your health is to stop smoking

I might try the tea anyway, see what happens. Too to take it back to the shop.

Have resisted the call of the pudding.

Going to make the kids fish and rice for their dinner with 3 veg.

Ok, I'm trying some colon cleanse tablets. You take one in the ring and one at night. After three days you take two each time.

Day one and I'm doing farts so repulsive they could fell a cart horse and I woke myself up in the night taking I'd sharted. Not sure I am brave enough to up the dose.

I am 60 kilos!! That's a 2 kilo loss.

Good times.

I'm in for Scardsale Slimtember. I lost about 1.5 st on it years ago.

I work from home too but neeeeeed a 'proper' job.

The Pukka tea worked for me, so I dread to think what the shitter tea would do.

I can't not go to Ww, I'm the bloody weigher!

Kelly -- reread the first line of your post! Do you really take one colon-cleanse tablet "in the ring"? I agree, it's the most logical place, but...

I love Scarsdale but is it too rigid for all of us to do? Would we be better if doing the James Duncan plan instead? It's much easier shopping-wise. The food is just eggs, tomatoes, fruit and the odd bit of meat on days you'd otherwise faint.

Would that be simpler? I just have a dream of us all cheering each other on.

PrimalLass, hugs to my fellow freelancer. I once heard working from home described as "wanking and eating soup". That's pretty much my average day!