Wannabeelovely
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By the way, I love your name for me!!!! xxxxx
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Wannabeelovely
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That must be so soul destroying for you. I wonder why that happens for you? At least I know where I go wrong and only have myself to blame. The last diet I tried was SW and I lost 6 stones on it and then I went on holiday, gained 6lbs and couldnt get myself back into it. Then I slowly gained all but 1 and a half stones of it and hated myself so much for it. I was so ashamed. Its the closest I've ever come to getting my target weight and I blew it big style. People around me said that I'd put it all back on and I was determined to prove them wrong but sadly I proved them right. I havent told anybody I'm doing this yet cos I can't bear to hear that they've been saying it again. Having said that, I DO feel very very determined to do it this time and I think and hope that CD is the diet thats going to help me achieve it. We HAVE to be positive don't we - otherwise, what have we got? xxx
Wannabeelovely
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Thanks Broxi - that means a lot and I'm too fond of judging myself by my body and not my personality. I know I'm not coming across as the life and soul of the party on this forum but I do actually enjoy a good belly laugh and a joke with the best of em! In fact, I act the clown to hide my insecurity and self-loathing! Complex thing the mind eh???
I did SW last year. Was absolutley loving it. Only losing 1lb a week but easy for me. But after 1 & 1/2 stone it stopped working. I stayed on it from June to Septmeber and never lost another pound. Then just started eating big time again and put weight all back on by Christmas! Don't know why they stop working. Atkins the same. I lost 3 stone on it and stopped 1 stone to target. To this day doesn't work!
Iam lovely, I am a very happy person mostly but I moan my head off on this forum cos CD is dead dead hard I think. I'm overwhelmed by cravings and I am so depressed at times without food. If it wasn't for this forum and knowing other people are going through this I couldn't do it. So moan away to me and I'll just moan right back! xxx
Wannabeelovely
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I'd be tearing my hair out with frustration! You do great to stay so positive and upbeat and I can well understand your feelings of 'will it stop working for me' if thats been your experience. The difference with CD is that it IS so low cal and its a physical impossibility to NOT lose weight. Its gonna work for you - I can feel it in my bones - and my bones are NEVER wrong!!!!
Wannabeelovely
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This is the hardest thing I've ever done by a million miles. I want to weep when I start thinking about food and I have to get busy doing something else to take my mind off it. I even dream about it!! I'm a terrible binge eater and I can eat ENORMOUS amounts of the stuff - not cos I'm greedy but cos it just fills an emotional gap in my head. I think thats why we get so down and miserable on it - cos we've had our crutch kicked away. I don't know what to do with myself some days on CD it gets so bad.
Wannabeelovely
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When you did SW did you eat lots of the speed and superspeed foods? I found I didnt lose as well on the green days cos I ate loads of carbs and far less veg so I did mainly red. I think SW is a diet that you have to be constantly vigilant on cos variety and the lowest cal stuff is key to it and its easy to make the syns more important than they are.
Wannabeelovely
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You can't be a hopeless case if you've been on this for nearly 4 weeks cos thats one hard thing to achieve - the control is there somewhere within you. Maybe you just need to get to your personal target weight to give you the incentive to control your eating. Maybe you've never valued your other weight losses cos you didnt respect them - if that makes sense?
Wannabeelovely
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Thats what worked for me with SW anyway - and I definitely noticed a difference when I did all red days. I'm going to do SW again when (notice I said 'when'!) I get to my target cos I've never been so happy as when I was doing that. Its real life eating isnt it (which makes it all the more annoying that I blew it!). We can do this Broxi can't we?
I don't know but I definitely want to break this addiction of food that I have. I know it is an addiction because of the way I am feeling on CD. I am hungry most of the time but that doesn't bother me; it's the cravings I hate and life without food. But I am starting to feel much slimmer and realistically I could do this quite soon really. How long do you think it will take you?
Wannabeelovely
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I've got about 4 and a half stone left to get me to 11 stone which I reckon will take me 5 to 6 months (Christmas is on my mind!) but I'd love to try to get to 10 or 10 and a half. That would just be mind-blowing! I'm 46 though and was 19 stone at my biggest so I don't know what the loose skin would look like. I'd rather be a bit heavier and less saggy I think.
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Wowww, I've only missed a few hours, but its been some catching up.
Met my sister and not seen her for 2 weeks, she said she couldn't believe how much I'd lost, she said it was all on my face and visible on my waist.. That was a nice compliment, to start the shopping off, lol..Went off to Lakeside (essex) and roamed the shops, tried on a top/tunic that I wouldn't normally have gone for in Next, very colourful but it looked like a sack, (size 16) lol.. Next one, size 18, different design completely, made me look like I had a lot to offerup top, so that was a no no. Ended up getting a loose top, off the shoulders but with a strap too, so my arms won't be on display.. So that was my big shop. I ended up buying more for my son then myself!
Got a bit disheartened, and TBH, knew I'd feel like that, a bit too early for me, give it another 6 weeks and I'll try again, before I go away to Barbados.
Has anyone found that they have lost a lot from their waist, and their tummy now sticks out more? I feel that at the moment, and I don't like it.
Lovely posts on here again this evening. I do love our group xxx
Met my sister and not seen her for 2 weeks, she said she couldn't believe how much I'd lost, she said it was all on my face and visible on my waist.. That was a nice compliment, to start the shopping off, lol..Went off to Lakeside (essex) and roamed the shops, tried on a top/tunic that I wouldn't normally have gone for in Next, very colourful but it looked like a sack, (size 16) lol.. Next one, size 18, different design completely, made me look like I had a lot to offerup top, so that was a no no. Ended up getting a loose top, off the shoulders but with a strap too, so my arms won't be on display.. So that was my big shop. I ended up buying more for my son then myself!
Got a bit disheartened, and TBH, knew I'd feel like that, a bit too early for me, give it another 6 weeks and I'll try again, before I go away to Barbados.
Has anyone found that they have lost a lot from their waist, and their tummy now sticks out more? I feel that at the moment, and I don't like it.
Lovely posts on here again this evening. I do love our group xxx
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I'm 46 too! Did you have loose skin on SW? When was that? I lost 3 stone on Atkins 6 years ago and had no loose skin. My heaviest was 13st 8lb and I'm 5' 1''. When I lost with Atkins I was about 9st 7lb but I was not thin, great but not thin. I'm aiming to get just under 9 but don't know if that would be realistic. The last time I was that weight was after I had my son 17 yrs ago. During my teens I was 7 and 1/2 and in 20s 8-9. After 30 I blew up! But I know I'm not huge but far too fat for my height.
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