Also thinking that you have to 'deprive yourself to be slim' is very negative and a difficult thing for your 'head' to maintain long term. Thinking about sensibly cutting back on the drinking and eating so you don't have to deprive yourself would be the way forward. You have to find your life balance. LT is just the means to lose the weight consistently and fast and cannot be part of a permanent maintenance plan.
Hi Ava
Time to face up to this and get it sorted. Get the weight off once and for all and start thinking NOW about why, when you stop LT you go back to your old ways after working so hard and achieving so much. Most of the time it's our heads that need sorting out. Being fat is a side effect of our brains telling us we need to eat. Hunger pangs are generated by our brains, not our bellies.
If you carry on eating, drinking and partying like you have been, you will be in an endless spiral of doom, which is bad for your morale and your future. BTW I'm all for the partying
For me, the really difficult bit has been me personally taking responsibility for my weight. I've spent too many years blaming all sorts of events in my past for causing me to be fat, and an excuse to maintain the fat. I now know I only have to blame myself and have to hold myself accountable for what I put in my mouth. If in the future I could have had 3 drinks and had a good time, but instead I had 10 or 12 which meant I stumbled into the kebab shop on the way home to devour a pile of calories - that is my own fault, not the fault of the drink.
Life is too short and there are more important things than being obsessed constantly with food.
There are many words above, only you can decide if there is any wisdom in them.
Good luck with your restart, we are running an April Challenge if you'd like to get involved.
Best wishes
Kay x x x
Hi Ava, just read your diary from start to finish!!! Hope you don't mind me popping onto Ur thread but I've currently done LT in 2010 for 7 weeks and lost 2 stone. I didn't bother to refeed and piled it back on plus another stone. After many failed attempts at restarting LT and failing, wasting my money I decided to go onto Cambridge.
Same principles as LT but so many flavoured shakes and delicious bars. Although more expensive than LT I pay 42 POUNDS per week and have a fabulous consultant that allows me to have sugar free gum and mints, tuna or chicken every day if I need to nibble ( its called ss+) coke zero, water flavouring which is really nice and some days that I need to go up a step can have a meal from a list provided so that I stay in ketosis.
I started at 12.8 and now 11.4 in5 weeks, I've eaten chicken, tuna, prawns, lamb every day because I can't honestly do 100% ever again and I feel no guilt I have no restarts and have not had a week where I have had a gain. The principles of LT are exactly the same as Cambridge but allowing myself a little nibble of what I'm allowed stops me from feeling like I'm paying a fortune just to starve myself.
Ava, u could stay on LT and when u feel like u r going to cave make GOOD choices so you don't feel bad and therefore stay on track without ruining all your really hard work. Allow urself gum or mints and a coke zero, u can even.buy the Atkins bars from Tesco and have that instead of going completely off the rails. No more restarts. It's easy to say I messed up today restart tomorrow. I noticed that you restarted loads of times over a 3 month period and basically hovered around the same weight. Look at the pattern and think to yourself what you are going to do differently this time to get you to your goal. Don't b ashamed to say I need little extras within an allowable list. I promise you it works for me and I will get to goal of 8 stone by august. YOU can do it. Sorry to babble on I hope my mistakes can help someone else. Good luck babe
roll on next week
