Annya! I liked the 25lb less bit of that, obviously not the other bit about bacterial stuff killing you! Just to clarify!
Hey ladies, well I'm back form Thailand, got back about 1am sat after a mammoth 28 hours of travelling home, was pretty intense, and has totally screwed my sleeping ability and patterns. Best holiday ever, saw quite a bit in just 2.5weeks, but a lot of travelling round, totally fallen in love with koh tao and would happily move there tomorrow back to my beautiful hut overlooking the lush beach and cabanas.
So before I left I didn't get a chance to check my weight and see if I gained in my refeed (they say you will put on 4lbs water weight back on anyway, plus maybe a little extra, but that should drop off week 2 WI) sooo, after doing the vlcd, I didn't really watch what I ate at all on hols, I think my only redeeming fact was we only ate breakfast and dinner and didn't snack. As I weighed myself today and have only gained 2lbs in 3 weeks, which considering the vlcd says I will gain 4 in water, is pretty awesome, and i've been away and drunk/eaten a mixture of really good and reeeeally bad food! So super happy, and after having sat off as we took the kids out for lunch to catch up on what we've all been doing gotten straight back to plan, going to try doing SW red days as much as poss, and today went fine. Yday did EE just as it was good to get back into meal planning and SW mindset, now am determined to get that 2lbs back off this week, I guess since its been so long since I did SW properly, maybe it'll be like first week again, so fingers crossed an ok loss! oooo also my body fat has dropped by 2% so despite the gain in weight it seems to be muscle and not fat.. which is good. otherwise I'd assume my bodyfat index would go up? I am bang inbetween average and good now. yay.
Anyway, everyone seems to have been pretty down, but you all seem to be back on the more positive scale again, so I'm really happy for you all, and the losses I've just caught up on, even small are better than nothing!
Hope Al's doing better Annya, and Lisa ur ok. And Lou you are getting there with sorting out the awful period stuff that seems to torment u, and am so impressed with all the things you do, you must be falling into bed every night shattered. The vlcd definitely messed me up a little, I started getting pretty bad migraines when I was away and I found I couldn't really drink alcohol the first week at all as I got very bad ones when I tried, then seemed to sort myself the 2nd week back on normal eating, and feel ok now, still pretty lethargic from it all though I think, and quite weak. Makes me concerned for people who do them long term, the 4 weeks for me was great but I definitely won't be doing one again, as I think I've learnt my lessons from it.
Anyway, hope you are all well.
Oh and Bev if you are on anytime soon, you have rental properties in Spain don't you?? I want to take the family away next month (oct half term) and wondered the best way to look for apartments (value/location/cheap flights etc) I thought you may have some advise if I have gotten that right.
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