Cambridge diet - 10 stone to lose
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Mandlegrot
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Ooooh wow well done!!! Amazing loss, and I'm gobsmacked at your measurements. I had a bra fitting today and am exactly the same size as I was last year...I am not sure where the 2 stone plus has gone, but my clothes don't feel much different :/ I bought some size 16 trousers in the sale in New Look today, no way does my butt fit into them but my legs do...I am going to use these as a reference and try them on every week and see how it goes, as I don't own any trousers or such things with a proper size for my bottom half (ONLY leggings, and stretchy stuff with S/M/L sizing)
I can only help to get such results as yours with your measurements! An inspiration even though we are on different plans
I can only help to get such results as yours with your measurements! An inspiration even though we are on different plans
Thank you! It is not my butt that is the problem, even my consultant said to me where is your bum? Lol. For me it is my stomach. Yes about once a week I try on clothes that don't fit and see how they are doing!!! At the moment in the main I wear leggings. Can't wait to ditch the leggings lol! Glad I can help x
Well, was having a nice chilled day and then I got a phone call from my friends mum... my friend is at work, her mum was supposed to pick her son up from school but her mum is stuck in traffic, about 20 miles away, can I pick him up later. Eventually managed to sort it but seeing as I have no kid related things in my house I have taken him to McDonalds. Feels so strange only ordering a kids happy meal and a bottle of water for me. I have bought a chocolate tetra pack and lemon bar out with me. Strangely today I am not that bothered, good thing seeing as my friends son is eating his food so slowly!!!
kittyperry
Silver Member
Wow Char,
Reading this thread is inspirational. I want to be able to go out and not be bothered by people eating all around me. I do hope I can be as strong as you have been today.
Reading this thread is inspirational. I want to be able to go out and not be bothered by people eating all around me. I do hope I can be as strong as you have been today.
Forever fat n 'bubbly'
Silver Member
Well done char! X
MsJMC
Strong women stay slim
Hi Char , well day two off tabs , soon be back into the full swing of things .
4 weeks on Cambridge , long may you keep strong ! you know when this is all over it will be worth all the hurdles that you have came across . So today your feeling so much better , no demons lurking .
Is this becoming natural to you now .... I never feel hungry on VLCD its mind games i hate , its getting past mind games and knowing how to deal with them ... which is still something i have to deal with , i'm going to be calling on you once i'm back on 4 packs aday and saying Char help ....
so its really taken you a month in all to feel , ok this is what i must do and get an end result , to keep pushing bad thoughts out of your head ... you know always i have two voices talking to me while on this crazy diet , one to tell me to cheat one too tell me not too , as i get past a week them voices get stronger Char , i dread it , any tips ?
4 weeks on Cambridge , long may you keep strong ! you know when this is all over it will be worth all the hurdles that you have came across . So today your feeling so much better , no demons lurking .
Is this becoming natural to you now .... I never feel hungry on VLCD its mind games i hate , its getting past mind games and knowing how to deal with them ... which is still something i have to deal with , i'm going to be calling on you once i'm back on 4 packs aday and saying Char help ....
so its really taken you a month in all to feel , ok this is what i must do and get an end result , to keep pushing bad thoughts out of your head ... you know always i have two voices talking to me while on this crazy diet , one to tell me to cheat one too tell me not too , as i get past a week them voices get stronger Char , i dread it , any tips ?
Thank you kitty and forever.
Ms - I know it is hard....the voices, I have to deal with those too. It can be such an internal struggle. When I struggle, I just keep reminding myself of how far I have come and the reasons why I want to do this. I also tell myself that all the food I want will all still be there when I have finished this, if I still really want it. I have to admit when I have done vlcds before and I have eaten something, it never tasted as good as the thought of it in my head. The thing that really makes so much sense to me is when my consultant said this diet is like medicine, you have to take it until you get better. In my head I think if I eat I am messing around with the medicine, and it wont work. When I step on those scales, when I can wear something I haven't worn for so long it really is worth it to me. When I feel low I think, if I stop here where will it end? The weight wont magically drop off by itself, I never thought I would get to 20 stone but I did....the next thing would be 30 maybe 40 stone, unable to do anything, stuck in a bed, having to be cut out of my home...I don't want that. I watch those documentaries, I watch the documentaries about how people have lost weight, if possible I get in bed and try to sleep it off. Many times it would be so easy to just reach out and put that bit of food in my mouth, but it would be like going down a one way street to a bad place, it wont end well. This is going to be about 7 months out of my 30 years of life, that is hardly anything. Writing this diary helps. I am sick of normally being a hermit, feeling too terrible to go out anywhere, holding back on my life, I know if I stop this I wont even go to college in September. I want to start living, otherwise I may as well not even be here...I don't even feel like I want to meet anybody at the moment. This is for me. There have been so many of those embarrassing moments which should have given me a wake up call to do something. As drastic as this is, for me the thought of going to a slimming club and only losing 1 or 2lbs a week, I feel like it would take me forever, and to me feels disheartening and like I will never get there. I still have a voice now, trying to tell me I can't do this, to just eat and accept that fate, but I can't let it win anymore.
I always carry a couple of cambridge products with me, and a couple of cans of coke zero, and the dreaded bottle of water. If I have a really long or tough day I have an extra can of coke zero, for me it helps to take the edge off when everyone else is eating. It is my special treat to myself, because I deserve it for doing this, and if that is what it takes to get through it then so be it. Oh and I really don't recommend this to anyone else but because I smoke, I smoke more when I am tempted, and because I know it is a appetite suppressant.
I will be here and try to help if I can...how are the tablets going? Are you doing 1000kcal a day?
Ms - I know it is hard....the voices, I have to deal with those too. It can be such an internal struggle. When I struggle, I just keep reminding myself of how far I have come and the reasons why I want to do this. I also tell myself that all the food I want will all still be there when I have finished this, if I still really want it. I have to admit when I have done vlcds before and I have eaten something, it never tasted as good as the thought of it in my head. The thing that really makes so much sense to me is when my consultant said this diet is like medicine, you have to take it until you get better. In my head I think if I eat I am messing around with the medicine, and it wont work. When I step on those scales, when I can wear something I haven't worn for so long it really is worth it to me. When I feel low I think, if I stop here where will it end? The weight wont magically drop off by itself, I never thought I would get to 20 stone but I did....the next thing would be 30 maybe 40 stone, unable to do anything, stuck in a bed, having to be cut out of my home...I don't want that. I watch those documentaries, I watch the documentaries about how people have lost weight, if possible I get in bed and try to sleep it off. Many times it would be so easy to just reach out and put that bit of food in my mouth, but it would be like going down a one way street to a bad place, it wont end well. This is going to be about 7 months out of my 30 years of life, that is hardly anything. Writing this diary helps. I am sick of normally being a hermit, feeling too terrible to go out anywhere, holding back on my life, I know if I stop this I wont even go to college in September. I want to start living, otherwise I may as well not even be here...I don't even feel like I want to meet anybody at the moment. This is for me. There have been so many of those embarrassing moments which should have given me a wake up call to do something. As drastic as this is, for me the thought of going to a slimming club and only losing 1 or 2lbs a week, I feel like it would take me forever, and to me feels disheartening and like I will never get there. I still have a voice now, trying to tell me I can't do this, to just eat and accept that fate, but I can't let it win anymore.
I always carry a couple of cambridge products with me, and a couple of cans of coke zero, and the dreaded bottle of water. If I have a really long or tough day I have an extra can of coke zero, for me it helps to take the edge off when everyone else is eating. It is my special treat to myself, because I deserve it for doing this, and if that is what it takes to get through it then so be it. Oh and I really don't recommend this to anyone else but because I smoke, I smoke more when I am tempted, and because I know it is a appetite suppressant.
I will be here and try to help if I can...how are the tablets going? Are you doing 1000kcal a day?
MsJMC
Strong women stay slim
Hi Char
By thursday i will be able to start a full 100% , I have stepped on the scales its reading 246 , yesterday was around my sisters for dinner .... so had few things which should not of .
I know SS is not the answer as theres alot i don't like , most of the shakes and i find the bars too small .
I read from all the VLCD taht exante was the highest in calories but still giving same results . I will see what i can find in the way of deals on that , did you sister ever try the porridge on Exante ?
Really was good to read how you deal with being on this and thinking if you cheat where does it stop and if the days hard have coke zero , yes when i used to smoke it was easier to diet , i gave up 8 years ago but i never gained weight then it all started back in 09 with my mums death and i have got into a habbit , in 09 i was 185 now i'm 246 , so its now getting out of that habbit .
But come Thursday its a 100% all the way , i have some stuff to get me going to start Thursday .
So a month on here for you now , blimey that really is when your gonna feel lots of demons come and yes you've overcome them all !! amazing must say ....i'll be here joining you and its a rollercoaster ride and i guess i better strap myself in hey ?
Hows you today ?
By thursday i will be able to start a full 100% , I have stepped on the scales its reading 246 , yesterday was around my sisters for dinner .... so had few things which should not of .
I know SS is not the answer as theres alot i don't like , most of the shakes and i find the bars too small .
I read from all the VLCD taht exante was the highest in calories but still giving same results . I will see what i can find in the way of deals on that , did you sister ever try the porridge on Exante ?
Really was good to read how you deal with being on this and thinking if you cheat where does it stop and if the days hard have coke zero , yes when i used to smoke it was easier to diet , i gave up 8 years ago but i never gained weight then it all started back in 09 with my mums death and i have got into a habbit , in 09 i was 185 now i'm 246 , so its now getting out of that habbit .
But come Thursday its a 100% all the way , i have some stuff to get me going to start Thursday .
So a month on here for you now , blimey that really is when your gonna feel lots of demons come and yes you've overcome them all !! amazing must say ....i'll be here joining you and its a rollercoaster ride and i guess i better strap myself in hey ?
Hows you today ?
Hi Ms,
I have a can of coke zero every day, 2 if it is really long or tough.
Lucky you giving up smoking and not putting the weight on!!
I was such a mess when my mum died. 7.5 years later, still not over it and I still can't accept she has really gone. Loved my mum so much, would have died for her. The weight dropped off me when she died without me doing anything, it was just grief.
Exante does give the same results as Cambridge. The porridge is a very new thing to Exante so my sister hasn't tried it yet, so I have no idea what it is like. I found Exante's best deal to be the bumper pack, I used to originally get the ones just with shakes, then the one with shakes and bars. It costs around 110 including postage and lasts 4 weeks. Can't really complain about that!!!
The reason I think where does it stop if I start eating is because I have tried to diet regularly since I was 16, really can't remember what I weighed then but I was a size 14 in everything except jeans I was a 16. I have yoyoed ever since. Since then the lightest/thinnest I remember getting to was size 16 in everything except jeans (18) at 16.9 and that was after my mums death when I was 23 back in 2006. So overall I have just kept putting weight on. I know when I can get to that weight again it will be like a big milestone. And an even better one when I can get size 14 jeans on....
Well, I couldn't sleep at all last night, was still awake at 08.30am, eventually drifted off and just got woken up by the doorbell. I ignored it the first time then it went off again, my neighbour is moving today and someone wanted to know if it was ok to put the van on my grass to load it up. How annoying!?! Maybe I should have said no just because they woke me up and I am now feeling really tired and grotty lol. Me when I have been woken up and I am still tired = not a very nice person, turn into a monster!!!
How are you today?
I have a can of coke zero every day, 2 if it is really long or tough.
Lucky you giving up smoking and not putting the weight on!!
I was such a mess when my mum died. 7.5 years later, still not over it and I still can't accept she has really gone. Loved my mum so much, would have died for her. The weight dropped off me when she died without me doing anything, it was just grief.
Exante does give the same results as Cambridge. The porridge is a very new thing to Exante so my sister hasn't tried it yet, so I have no idea what it is like. I found Exante's best deal to be the bumper pack, I used to originally get the ones just with shakes, then the one with shakes and bars. It costs around 110 including postage and lasts 4 weeks. Can't really complain about that!!!
The reason I think where does it stop if I start eating is because I have tried to diet regularly since I was 16, really can't remember what I weighed then but I was a size 14 in everything except jeans I was a 16. I have yoyoed ever since. Since then the lightest/thinnest I remember getting to was size 16 in everything except jeans (18) at 16.9 and that was after my mums death when I was 23 back in 2006. So overall I have just kept putting weight on. I know when I can get to that weight again it will be like a big milestone. And an even better one when I can get size 14 jeans on....
Well, I couldn't sleep at all last night, was still awake at 08.30am, eventually drifted off and just got woken up by the doorbell. I ignored it the first time then it went off again, my neighbour is moving today and someone wanted to know if it was ok to put the van on my grass to load it up. How annoying!?! Maybe I should have said no just because they woke me up and I am now feeling really tired and grotty lol. Me when I have been woken up and I am still tired = not a very nice person, turn into a monster!!!
How are you today?
kittyperry
Silver Member
Hi Char,
Thank you for your inspirational writing. It is so helpful to hear how you are coping. Reading your posts made me think that if you can do it, I can keep doing this too.
My Exante order arrived today, so once my CWP packs run out, that will be it. I tried the Exante bar for lunch. It's nice. A bit dry, but that's okay.
Thank you for your inspirational writing. It is so helpful to hear how you are coping. Reading your posts made me think that if you can do it, I can keep doing this too.
My Exante order arrived today, so once my CWP packs run out, that will be it. I tried the Exante bar for lunch. It's nice. A bit dry, but that's okay.
MsJMC
Strong women stay slim
Hi char
yes , its not breaking the Rule to eat its keeping to the packs .
so they rang your door bell at 8:30 am they should of put a note in the night before , thats bad .
With sleeping i'm wide awake when i go up too , don't sleep well , active mind .
Aww yes our mums , its hard at first but i;m ok now coping ok , miss her loads ! you was young when you lost your mum .....
Yes it really is a case of sayin ok lets get today over with its just another day on this , your clothes feeling lose ?
yes , its not breaking the Rule to eat its keeping to the packs .
so they rang your door bell at 8:30 am they should of put a note in the night before , thats bad .
With sleeping i'm wide awake when i go up too , don't sleep well , active mind .
Aww yes our mums , its hard at first but i;m ok now coping ok , miss her loads ! you was young when you lost your mum .....
Yes it really is a case of sayin ok lets get today over with its just another day on this , your clothes feeling lose ?
Forever fat n 'bubbly'
Silver Member
Hi Char! Still internetless :-( hope you're winning sweet pea! X
Petitemaman
Member
Hello everyone,
it really is amazing reading about your journey so far Char, keep it up. I started CWP on the 29th of April and I have lost 13lb.3 so far, I had a break in between though but I re-started CWP this week on Monday and it has not been easy cant wait to check my weight next week. Looking forward to droping some few pounds again.
it really is amazing reading about your journey so far Char, keep it up. I started CWP on the 29th of April and I have lost 13lb.3 so far, I had a break in between though but I re-started CWP this week on Monday and it has not been easy cant wait to check my weight next week. Looking forward to droping some few pounds again.
Hi... sorry I haven't been on the last few days been busy!!
Ms, yes losing your mum is so hard...exactly, it's just sticking to the packs and not eating food! How are you getting on now, your tablets must be finished!
Forever, do you mean you have no internet at the moment? That sucks. I am with talk talk and they cause me so many problems. I only went with them because they are so cheap!!
Petite, thank you and well done!! The first week was so hard for me as you can see!! Not sure I would trust myself to take a break, I am worried I would never get back into it so well done!!!
5 weeks today of cambridge, get weighed this evening!!!!!
Ms, yes losing your mum is so hard...exactly, it's just sticking to the packs and not eating food! How are you getting on now, your tablets must be finished!
Forever, do you mean you have no internet at the moment? That sucks. I am with talk talk and they cause me so many problems. I only went with them because they are so cheap!!
Petite, thank you and well done!! The first week was so hard for me as you can see!! Not sure I would trust myself to take a break, I am worried I would never get back into it so well done!!!
5 weeks today of cambridge, get weighed this evening!!!!!
Oh and yes clothes are definitely loose!!! Yay!!! Makes it all better when you have been finding it hard!! Still 100% although have had a couple of tough days. I was looking at an indian menu last night that had been posted through the door, I know I shouldn't but it was a new restaurant so I was looking and dribbling at the thought of what I would have if I was eating, miss my indian takeaways!!!
