CAMBRIDGE DIET CLUB ....... THREAD 3

[catsmother]

As the old one was getting rather large.

Feel free to post this weeks good and bad news, frustrations, tips, feelings etc.

Hi BB - thanks for the link - sorry, could have looked it up myself (away with the fairies tonight!). Blimey it's all very technical isn't it - think I'll just stick to my usual 30 mins on the exercise bike in front of EastEnders!

bendi, so glad you had a good loss and that the fat fairy DID visit! well done, you have come such a long way, you must feel (and look) like a different person already!

luciemule, good on you for getting on top of that carb craving! it must be lovely but v weird to be on add a meal. i can't wait!!

i weighed in this am and after 14 days i have lost 14lbs! i am delighted and my cdc was a bit shocked, but i think maybe the more you have to lose the faster it happends at the start? anyway, i am well chuffed esp. now my energy levels have returned and i feel like i am really getting used to this regime.
i still envy those of you exercising though, i crash out at about 7pm and evenings are the only time i could do anything without the kids and my DH works til 8-9pm. i guess i could try an exercise dvd?

Get yourself off to the gym in the morning when the kids are at school/nursery.

Don't let the puppy hold you back. Put him in his crate for a hour. Once your out of the house you'll never know if he misses you or not.

How about a brisk walk in the morning? That would set you up for the day and you'll feel fab.

You've done brilliantly sis

Hi everyone, thanks for all the encouragement you gave me.

I saw my CDC and i've put on ONE pound!!

I honestly thought that after everything i'd eaten that it would've been loads more than that.
Mind you, i was really busy and doing a lot of running around so probably burnt up loads of calories.

Definately haven't beaten myself up over it though, and i'm now back in full swing and aiming to lose 5 lbs by next weigh in!

I've still lost 30 lbs so i'm not complaining.

Have a very long way to go, so it's a good job i like certain shakes and bars.
Don't like the soups.

Keep at it everyone and lets all go for another good week.

I wonder how much weight we'd have all lost together in say 6 months?

Morning FussyMummy! That lb will be gone straight away I bet, and 30lbs is a great loss!

I'd like to have lost nearly all my 8 stones in 6 months, thats a whole (skinny) person! We could lose a few people between us I bet!

Devonshire - did you weigh in last night and how did it go?

Hi everyone! I'm finally starting on Saturday. I have my friend's birthday party on Friday night and have vowed to start the next day. I went through my various packs last night and put them into what I'd have each day: very OCD of me but I was just trying to be organised! I've got some of the tetra packs because they will be easier for me during the day. I'll have one normal drink before I leave the house, the tetra, something when I get in and something later at night. I get 4 a day because I'm tall. I'm not seeing my counsellor until I'm 13 days in so hopefully I will have lost enough to be happy with the result! Then because of her Easter holiday plans and mine I won't see her for nearly 3 weeks which will be weird. She seems really nice though and said she'd call me on Tuesday to see how I was getting on with it and if I was in ketosis yet.

She warned me off going to the gym for the first two weeks though saying I'd probably feel generaly rubbish so it wasn't recommended. Does that sound right? I am keen to get back to the gym while losing weight so hopefully my skin stands a better chance of returning to normal (whatever that may be).

I've decided I need to lose 6 stone which is about 1.5 stone more than her calculation. That will take me to just over 10 stone and I'm 5'10". I would love to get to 10 stone but wonder if that's realistic.

Sorry for long post - I'm getting excited in advance of starting!

Hi Jumpingin - you sound very positive and organised so good luck for Saturday. I think I need to be more focussed but today and yesterday went a lot better for me, although have been feeling very faint whenever I stand up and ketostix very dark pink (I think I should drink more!)

Hi Jumpingin!

Welcome aboard! What will 10 stone give you a BMI of? I don't think its unrealistic at all if thats what you want, you can't do sole source once you get to BMI 25 I don't think, but you can do some of the other steps to help you get to the weight you want. I'm aiming for 10.5 stone which will give me a BMI of 24. something.

Well done Lucie on being in the pink! You sound really positive, great stuff! My ketostix were quite dark to begin with no matter how much water I drank!

hi - i didn't realise you couldn't do sole source until you reached your target weight. I wanted to get to BMI 23.5 so I guess I'll have to do 790 then to reach 10stone. My counsellor didn't tell me that.
Can I buy ketostix from anywhere? I'm sure I must be able to - CDC charges me 6.99 otherwise.

Don't quote me on it, but there was a discussion on minimins about it the other day and i'm sure one of the CDC's on there said its health guidelines that you can't do a vlcd with a bmi of less than 25. Apparently its less if you're asian? No idea why that would be.

Actually, it might be one of those things where you need a doctor to say its ok to do, like not doing AAM.

I'd just ignore me, I probably talk crap

thanks BB. How has your day been today?
I assume you have children? How do you find it cooking meals for them etc?

Here's the thread I read it on...

minimins

I've no idea what a weight of 10st would be for my BMI. Ahhh, I've just calculated and at my height (5'10") a weight of 10st would give me a BMI of 20.1. So I could, in theory, get down to 9.5 st and still be in the healthy range. Well, either way, so long as I get to the healthy range at some point I'll be happy.

I don't have any idea how long I'll SS for but expect at least 6 weeks though I know she said after 4 weeks you have to have a week where you have a meal per day. I think I'll be learning as I go along!

Welcome Jumpingin and good luck with the diet. I'm sure you've heard it before but the first few days can be really tough and mess with your mind, so hang on in there. But you sure are aiming to be very skinny! Did you used to be that weight?

Not a bad result for you Fussymummy really - 1lb is nothing in the great scheme of things.

There really is a wide range of counsellors, isn't there? Mine is very nice, but is pretty clueless. She said I would definitely not stay in ketosis on the 790 plan (I'm pretty sure she's wrong there) and is encouragine me to SS still, even though my BMI has dipped below 25! I was going to anyway just for a little bit longer, but in the spirit of easing myself in, I am going to start having my allowance of skimmed milk - in fact I had a small skinny cappuccino today! Felt really bloated afterwards and it was quite disappointing - note to self, avoid them at Starbucks and stick to the Costa ones which are far nicer.

Anyway, helped with my mood a bit. Boy am I pre-menstrual, grumpy and starving! I know it's all in my head and that I must just get through these next few days - good practice for the future when I am faced with comforting myself with a big chocolate muffin!

hi jumpingin and good luck for your 1st week! i did feel like cr*p for the first week i wld say and then gradually felt better but i am still waiting for the energy rush ny cdc keeps on about!

luciemule, i lost another 6lbs this week, taking me to a stone in the first fortnight - whoo-hoo!! only another 4 months to go then...!
well done the rest of you, have a good weekend!

oh btw, is anyone else absolutely *ffing FREEZING on this diet?? our boiler broke over 2 weeks ago and we are without heat but the rest of my family don't seem bothered and an extra jumper is fine but i am wearing a scarf all day, my hands are blue and i am practically sitting on the plug in heater!!!

aaarrghhh! i have had a lovely day enjoying the cold winter sun but this evening my mood seems to have dropped so low. i keep thinking, another 4 mths of drinking this crap! it's not as vile as when i first started, my taste buds have changed, but still, i really miss food.

no, i am not hungry but i felt a strong need to eat as it was friday night and that is when we normally pig out (not that i didn't also pig out secretly every other day and night..)

have done the obvious things, had a bath, a facial, gone on minimins for inspiration but still feel really low. anyone else get mood swings with cd?

I've started. My enthusiasm is not so high today but then I'm hungover and craving all the foods that have got me into this mess in the first place. Did walk to the local shop to buy a newspaper and considered starting tomorrow so I could come back for scrambled eggs on toast and a glass of zero coke but didn't give in. Instead, I got home and made my first drink. I had vanilla and it wasn't vile like I had anticipated. One packet gone, 3 more to go today. I also bought a 5L bottle of water so I can fill it up each night and see just how much I drink each day. Not very scientific but a start. It says 2 1/4 litres but my CDC said to aim for something closer to 4. Does that sound right to everyone?

I'm starting a new job on Monday so hoping that the feeling like crap thing isn't totally true though suspect it will be.

Hope everyone has a good weekend and please please let me get through today and tomorrow ok.

Hi everyone
you're all doing so well - amazing Devonshire - you must be sooooo proud of yourself! A stone in a fortnight - you musn't have cheated once!
This weekend I've had a friend staying and she's food obsessed (in a good way) and makes me feel terribly guilty eating anything when I'm not dieting so you can imagine how extra good I've been. Although, she's just gone to bed and the temptation is there to go and eat something! But I won't - going to bed to finish 'The Island' which I highly recommend if you haven't read it.
Off shopping tomorrow as my jeans now look like they're being held up with bailer twine.

Ok, so I failed already but I'm starting again tomorrow. I never really got started other than my first shake when I whisked out to lunch by well meaning friends. So I'll start tomorrow. I'm hoping a weekday will be an easier start because I'll be out of the house and away from temptation all day.

I do not want to fail.

Hi everyone!

Congratulations on starting Jumpingin, and well done on not having the scrambled eggs and putting it off another day, there are so many times i've done that on diets and then tomorrow never comes.

Well done on your first stone gone Devonshire! You must be feeling so proud of yourself! The rest will be gone before you know it!

Lucie, good on you for having a good day yesterday and not caving in the evening as well, keep at it!

I'm on day 54 now, it's zoooooooming by! Am struggling a bit with cravings at the moment, but I think it's because i'm a bit stressy trying to get an essay done. I think stress may be one of my big triggers.

Damn, damn, damn ...... I hate myself.

I have binged today, I had no intention of doing so but just did. Maybe it was because the rest of the family went out to my favourite Italian rsetaurant and I was feeling sorry for myself ?

This is what I ate:

small bar of chocolate
1 chocolate freddo
spaghetti bolognese (bowl of)
5 or 6 shortbread biscuits
small bag of kettle chips (with balsamic vinegar on !)
handful of asian combo mix (peanuts, crackers etc)
cheese
the bobbly bits out of the middles of some liquorice catherine wheels intended for my daughter

I'm getting weighed on Tuesday and have now almost certainly totally f*** this week up. I am so angry with myself ....... and I feel sick, and have got acid. Serves me right I suppose. I wonder what the point of spending £32.50 this week was.

that's not a binge, catsmother, i could easily have had double that in one sitting!

try not to worry, i hope you really enjoyed your scrummy food, i know i would have done, that little lot is right up my street! the fact that you have a tummy ache is probably a good thing, it may put you off food for a bit!

it's just a blip. you are doing so well. it may be hard to get back into ketosis, but it may not!

do you feel prepared for tomorrow and a fresh start?

oh, and drink TONS of water!!! that seems to be the advice on minimins if you have a wobble!