CAMBRIDGE DIET CLUB......THREAD 2

[mrspoppins]

Hi Everyone!

Week commencing Monday 8th January

Inspirational Words...

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum

xxx

oops we are still postingn on the old thread!!!! I will add post to let everyone know!!

have to be honest my day 1 restart went right up the wall!!!! was n't that bad but did eat in the evening - it is pathetic but I got depressed thinking about going back to work soon to a job where I am not treated very well and I just had to eat something. First lesson - eating when upset etc. The first step is recognising you are doing it -the second is not to do it!

Anyway day 1 (again) and I am not eating today - I have 2 shakes and a soup to have today (rather then the all soups I would have had to have yesterday).

Seeing counsellor tomorrow for first visit so must try and do it today or it seems a bit pointless.

still waiting to hear about the crisp thing from earlier post.

Does anyone still want to do the summary thing?

Hi, i'm Gemma and I need to lose about 8st so i'm seeing a CD counsellor on Wednesday about starting the diet. I'm a bit nervous, I did LL for a fortnight in 2005 but had to stop because I fell pregnant, can't afford to go back on LL (can't believe how expensive its become since then!) so CD is the next best thing.

Hoping I don't find it as hard as I did LL, I wasn't hungry ever, but god was I bored! Going to try and counter that this time by knitting whenever the craving takes me, hopefully i'll get a skinnier body and lots of new jumpers to fit it that way!

Day 2 for me So far so good although I'm feeling a little bit 'spaced out' this morning.

Hello - sorry have not posted for a few days so am not ignoring anyone!

Meb - am happy for you (or anyone else - Mrs Poppins as she started it all??) to do summary if people want to (not everyone has replied to this bit - tsk, keep up everyone ). Am sorry that you had a blip - please think of it just as a blip and not failure or restarting as such. Just put it behind you and dig in. Are you looking for another job? As I'm sure you realised, eating didn't make that problem go away but keeping on track with you weight goals will make you happier, healthier etc etc. If I feel tempted I often look at clothes in magazines or catalogues which I imagine I will be able to wear confidently when I lose some weight. I also have some things in my wardrobe which I would dearly love to fit in so I just go and have a good look and stroke of them [slightly mad emoticon]!

As for the crisps, I haven't made them for ages but I will soon and let you know exactly how to do it. But, it was something like...choose a flavour you like (for me the thai chilli worked well), mix with water to make a thickish paste, spread blobs on parchment paper (you should get between 25-30 crisps) and cook in the microwave (I usually did it in batches of about 9) for c. 1min 30 secs (but just keep checking as they burn very easily!) They should peel off very easily and be crisp and a light brown - yum!

Welcome bendigoblue - good luck with your new journey. The first days are hard but once you get over them, it should be a breeze! I too get very bored, but yes it's good to try and find a good hobby to combat that as you will need it for when you eventually reach goal and don't slip back into your old habits.

Good luck all. Day 7 for me today - not long and I will have completed a week. Had a weigh-in and am already no longer obese but overweight again - yippee.

Hi everyone. keep going, it's all in a good cause!!!

I'm now on day 4!!! Still have loads of days to go, but i'm taking it one day at a time for now.

I can honestly say that i don't feel at all hungry today.

I am drinking a lot of water though.
Easily 4 litres a day!

Have been feeling really cold though.

Have any of you tried the choc/mint shake?
If you make it hot, it's similar to options drink.
Also had hot cappucino, thats nice as well.

Well, I had my Week 6 weigh-in today and was rather relieved because I haven't been weighed since the end of week 3.

So ..... I basically did a full week's SS before Xmas, then pigged out for an entire week, starting on Xmas Day, then have been back on SS for another week up until today.

I reckon that I did quite a bit of damage over Xmas, depsite all my prior good intentions, I really didn't hold myself back. I think that what I lost in week 4 (no weigh-in) would have been cancelled out (and more) by Xmas week (week 5), so was hoping that this week would leave me at the same weight I was prior to Xmas .... if all that makes sense ??

Anyway ...... I've actually lost another 4lbs, so leaving aside Xmas week, that means I've lost a total of 25lbs in 5 weeks which isn't bad.

I have found the last week really hard - not surprising I suppose after indulging myself spectacularly, but that loss, which is more than I'd hoped for, has put a bit of a spring back into my step. I still don't know what I actually weigh (don't want to know) but I suspect I am now roundabout half way there. I think it's unrealistic to achieve another 25lbs loss in just 5 weeks, as you always lose most at the start, but imagining - say - in 8 or 9 weeks time, I will have achieved goal is great.

wow that's a brilliant result.
Hope i can do as well.
I'd be so happy if i could lose that.
Have loads to lose though so it'll probably take me ages.
Do you exercise as well?

I don't really exercise at all Fussmummy. I know I should but with a 3 year old who insists on walking (which I don't want to discourage) I am restricted to walking at 3 year old speed into town and back (probably only 1.5 miles). Left to my own devices, I'd like to walk 5 miles every day but I don't think my daughter could manage that unless she could be persuaded into her buggy.

Starting this diet though co-incided with me getting a new Dyson. Since then, 'cos it's so brilliant, I've hoovered the whole house almost every day (we have longhaired cats so need to suck up blobs of hair). Maybe that's helping ?

I am thinking of starting at the gym though. I know I enjoy that sort of exercise as I've spent a lot of time in gyms in the past. Finances over the last few years put the kybosh on that but those have recently started to improve so now it's a possibility.

Oh - I meant to say as well, Fussy, if you have loads to lose you probably will lose as much as me, if not more, during the same period. I've noticed other dieters who start off heavier lose more !

does anyone want to do the summary thing? I will do it if anyone wants to do it and mrspoppins does n't want to collate. Does anyone know if you can attach things to these posts or put in links as someone will have to show me as I don't know how to do it.

catsmother do you mind me sking what your height and start weoght was or BMI - it sounds like a fantastic loss - well done. I am stil struggling on day 1/2 so hearing your results is very motivational.

bendigoblue good to have you here. I am interested in what you said - I am ttc and know I have to stop diet if I fall pregnant (which would be great). I think my weight os currently stopping this hence the reason for this diet. Do you mind me asking if you were quite big when you got pregnant then - it always gives me hope when I hear this. Have you managed to shift any post pregnancy weight? I have n't at all - actually put on - how bad is that?

mrspoppins do you want to do the table of information on us and shall someone decide what shall be on it? or shall we just forget it?

Meb, I'm 5 foot 6, and 42, but I honestly don't know what my start weight was, or what my current weight is now ! I deliberately asked my counsellor not to tell me, nor have I weighed myself at home, because I felt that knowing what I was (and comparing it to what I was prior to having my 3 year old daughter might be too depressing !).

However, from the way my clothes felt, I would guess that my starting weight was around 13.5 stone, maybe a little less. So, I sort of know, but really don't want to know if that makes sense.

Instead, I can obviously get encouraged by the increasing loss and I'm also out of the size 16 jeans I had been forced to buy for the 1st time ever (the impetus for the start really) and back into my 14s, which are now falling down and need a belt or else I'm constantly hoiking them up, but which were impossibly tight before.

The way I look at it is that I have a wardrobe full of good clothes I haven't worn for years. These are mostly 12s. I don't care what the scales say so long as my body feels right and my clothes feel right ........ so, when I get to that point, I will weigh myself then and see what the scales say.

I always used to be around 10 stone for most of my 30s. I can remember weighing myself once when I was about 21 and being 8stone 4 (!!!) but was around 9 stone for most of my 20s ..... whilst eating really horrendously (I used to regularly have 3/4 pounders from Wendys - anyone remember them - for lunch, and buy 4 chocolate bars for a days work). Psychologically, I find it hard to come to terms with that aspect of getting older (I don't think I'm doing too badly on the looks front otherwise) but it's almost like your body's betraying you somehow now because you eat far less than you used to and still put on weight.

blimey. You are really not that overweight - you have some to lose but not masses - in this contaxt your loss to date is tremendous - I hope you are really proud of yourself as you should be.

Thank you.

I reckon I probably have around 4 stone to lose which isn't as much as some people .... but then again an awful lot more than others who also feel unhappy with their weight. As I said before, I really don't want to be ruled by the scales, but more by how I feel at any given time.

My extra weight had contributed to various health problems (leaving aside self-esteem and depression at dressing frumpily .... I simply couldn't afford to buy a whole wardrobe of larger clothes & have therefore largely lived in Tesco £15 jeans & their £5 T shirts for the last 3 years). For example, I suffer terribly from really sickening and painful acid reflux, no matter what type of food I eat, which is commonly thought to be exaccerbated by extra weight (though if it doesn't go, I must see the doctor about it - again). My legs - along the shins - are quite puffy and, sorry if TMI, if you press there, there's an indent left, and that can't be right can it ? I also felt very sluggish and unfit. So something had to be done ..... it wasn't simply vanity.

No matter how much we all have to lose what's important is that we get to a point where we feel - mentally & physically - happy in our own skin. From reading other CD dieter's case histories, those with a "lot" (this is quite subjective) of weight to lose do often seem to do so within a time frame of months rather than years. Take a look at this link if you want to be inspired:

success stories with before & after pics

wow thanks for posting that link, wqas really beginning to think I can't do this and that made me more determined to see it through.

Have really fancied toast today, don't know why! funny thing is, all the things I fancy are simple things like poached egg on toast.

day 5 and I feel hungry

hoping this will pass soon

happy to contribute to the summary thing but to be honest havent got time to collate it myslef - sorry

what a brilliant link - that looks like a great chat forum too - do you use it?

Wow, that's a fantastic link, i'm going to bookmark that for inspiration I think!

Meb2006 - When I fell for my first son I was about 16st, between having him and ttc number 2 I had PND and comfort ate a lot hitting 19st at my heaviest. We ttc for 8 months with no success which was hard as we fell for ds1 without trying at all, so then we decided to stop trying and go for radical weightloss, so I started LL. I'd already lost a stone on Slimming World, then I lost another stone during the 2 weeks I was on LL, before realising my period was late and finding out i was pregnant. I was 17st at the start of the pregnancy, gained 13lb during the entire pregnancy (i'll never understand that, I never seem to gain much while pregnant, presumably because i'm huge already!) Went down to 16st after having him before the PND kicked back in along with the comfort eating and I went back up to 19st. I lost a stone and a bit before xmas doing a bit of SlimFast here and there, but now i'm sick of messing about with diets, I want it gone once and for all!

Bendigoblue we sound like are in the same boat re. weight gain and pregancy - I know all about the comfort eating too. I have slightly less then you to go in terms of weight I want to lose but still lots - maybe 6 stone - so if I ever manage to get this going we can be lose it together. Still if someone told me I was pregnant in 2 weeks I would be thrilled! Best of luck.

meb2006 Just wanted to let you know that when i conceived each of my children i was really overweight.

A lot of people seem to think that because you're fat you cannot have a baby!

I know a lot is to do with health risks, but my pregnancies were all fine.

I conceived each of my children within 3 months of trying!!!!

Meb - I don't us that forum, but it was a link in another forum I do look at (though I haven't posted much).

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Gingernut - What is it about poached egg on toast ? That is what I've been craving too. I treated myself to poached eggs on toast during Xmas week - lovely !

Oops, that didn't work.

This is it.

Hi all...

Bendigoblue...don't feel that you are doing second best by doing the cambridge diet and not lighterlife will you! Lighterlife actually bought the rights to the recipes that cambridge did but added the counselling and upped the price by almost double!!! It is therefore exactly the same diet nutritionally...we'll be your counselling!!!!!!!!!!

Cat's mum WOW great weight loss. very good for you.

Meb2006...I think it is a good idea but perhaps everyone wants to do their own thing. What we could do is, at the end of our posts, put something like I will do at the end of this one...

Well despite my starting this thread off I've had a very bumpy road but on saying that, am still a stone lighter than I was at the beginning of December when I began all this so I'm pleased with that result.
I began in earnest this week and have my counsellor visit at the end of the week which I am looking forward to.

I know that at the moment I am existing rather than living and want this year to be the start of the me that has always been there but has been pushed into the shadows by my weight.

We are booking our Summer holiday next week...France and camping...every year we do the same as we'd like to retire to France but every year I cannot take part in all the activities due to my size...we're also planning a return Disneyland trip for 2008 and I AM going to be able to go on all the rides with no fear of not being able to fit!!!
xxx
START WEIGHT............... 21st 1lb
PRESENT WEIGHT............. 20st 1lb
LOSS....................... 14lbs

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