Hello all, I'm still here but major re-furb going on this end. Great because I am occupied, but no so good for keeping up my hello posts.
Well I am still going, the odd bit of plain chicken passing lips very occasionally, but still going otherwise.
Just caught up on everyones posts and I'm rooting for you all. What happened is past now. You've chosen which way you want to go, and thats the hard part! I guess it's a little easier for me as I've done it before and know what to expect.
If you are wondering, I did 5 weeks for a hols to go from 18/20 to size 16 (completed).
When I got back (did not diet on hols at all!!!) straight back to it to go from 16 to size 14 (completed)
Faffed all summer, on for a week, off etc.... Now am back to do the last stint (hope its last!) 14 to size 12 and healthy BMI. At the moment I'm over 3stone lighter than when I started. If i get to goal it will be 5 1/2stone in total.
Here's what I found....
Week 1 always awful, no energy, miss food et...
Week 2 a little easier but still hard,
then as each week progresses it starts to feel normal and do'able. You still get days (or evenings in my case) when you just want to give up but each time you choose whether to fall or keep going. After a feww weeks you'll not fall as easily.....but most do at some point and you either get back on or not!
If you fall off, the weight gain is water aswell so will come off again pretty quickly. One meal in a week is still not 7 days of 2000 cals or more, so you will still loose, but water retention may fool you in believing thats not true, you need to look at that one meal over a months losses etc...
It's a hard diet but it does work, its not for everyone but is the only one for me. Each time I've come off the diet I've eaten as before. I would have maintained if I was carefull but the odd choccy etc... passed my lips lol. In the last 2 months I gained about 7 lbs through not being good at all, also because I knew I was coming back on the cd and what was the point of being saintly till then, silly I know!!!.
This time mainteneance will be adhered to as this is it!
I hope this helps anyone who is still not sure whether to come back or not. As for 'i'll do ww, sw or calorie counting - if it was - I could have done that before and didn't or I've treid it before and just cheated, too slow. If you did stop cd, would you really do those things 100% or would you struggle like with cd, as they are just all diets and its us that has to work out our diet demons, whatever diet. If we fall, we get back up. As long as we keep trying and don't give up we will get there. There is no doubt in that.
Better get painting. We are all human and it happens. Not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Its harder to come back than to give up, I hope you do though. Good luck girls, I'll be here.
Well I am still going, the odd bit of plain chicken passing lips very occasionally, but still going otherwise.
Just caught up on everyones posts and I'm rooting for you all. What happened is past now. You've chosen which way you want to go, and thats the hard part! I guess it's a little easier for me as I've done it before and know what to expect.
If you are wondering, I did 5 weeks for a hols to go from 18/20 to size 16 (completed).
When I got back (did not diet on hols at all!!!) straight back to it to go from 16 to size 14 (completed)
Faffed all summer, on for a week, off etc.... Now am back to do the last stint (hope its last!) 14 to size 12 and healthy BMI. At the moment I'm over 3stone lighter than when I started. If i get to goal it will be 5 1/2stone in total.
Here's what I found....
Week 1 always awful, no energy, miss food et...
Week 2 a little easier but still hard,
then as each week progresses it starts to feel normal and do'able. You still get days (or evenings in my case) when you just want to give up but each time you choose whether to fall or keep going. After a feww weeks you'll not fall as easily.....but most do at some point and you either get back on or not!
If you fall off, the weight gain is water aswell so will come off again pretty quickly. One meal in a week is still not 7 days of 2000 cals or more, so you will still loose, but water retention may fool you in believing thats not true, you need to look at that one meal over a months losses etc...
It's a hard diet but it does work, its not for everyone but is the only one for me. Each time I've come off the diet I've eaten as before. I would have maintained if I was carefull but the odd choccy etc... passed my lips lol. In the last 2 months I gained about 7 lbs through not being good at all, also because I knew I was coming back on the cd and what was the point of being saintly till then, silly I know!!!.
This time mainteneance will be adhered to as this is it!
I hope this helps anyone who is still not sure whether to come back or not. As for 'i'll do ww, sw or calorie counting - if it was - I could have done that before and didn't or I've treid it before and just cheated, too slow. If you did stop cd, would you really do those things 100% or would you struggle like with cd, as they are just all diets and its us that has to work out our diet demons, whatever diet. If we fall, we get back up. As long as we keep trying and don't give up we will get there. There is no doubt in that.
Better get painting. We are all human and it happens. Not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Its harder to come back than to give up, I hope you do though. Good luck girls, I'll be here.
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