The two kinds of people who do a VLCD
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Soon to be yummy mummy
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"The second kind are those that see the diet as a choice, at anytime they can go and eat what they want, they can go and drink what they want but they choose not to because they want to lose weight and be slim more than they want to eat or drink."
I love it! I haven't started the CD plan yet - I'm waiting for blood tests and the go ahead from my doctor, but I WILL be starting on Monday 18th April! I meet my CD consultant tomorrow to get the forms and info from her and be weighed and measured!
I definately want to be this kind of person!!
I'm not scared at the prospect of not "eating" i'm excited!! I'm not telling any of my friends apart from the OH as I struggle with will power anyway (hence allowing myself to get this big!) and negativity from others will just sway my positivity so I'm getting on with this one on my own!
I'm going to be busy in work over the next few weeks anyway, so I'm planning on working, coming home, spending time with the baby, having my shake(!) then a little light exercise and bed - for the first 12 weeks anyway! From then on I will start socialising properly again but i want to give this a good go before i let other people's negative comments in! Also by then I'm hoping to have lost at least a stone and a half so hopefully people will SEE how well its working for me and lay off the negativity!
I'm a bit apprehensive as to whether I have the will power to stick to it - as I've failed/given up on most diets! But I just need to keep telling myself that this is MY choice and I want to be slim more than I want the food/failure!
So thanks for this post Mike! I'm going to print it out and stick it on the kitchen cupboards, the oven door and the fridge! (and pop one in my handbag for good luck!)
xxxx
I love it! I haven't started the CD plan yet - I'm waiting for blood tests and the go ahead from my doctor, but I WILL be starting on Monday 18th April! I meet my CD consultant tomorrow to get the forms and info from her and be weighed and measured!
I definately want to be this kind of person!!
I'm not scared at the prospect of not "eating" i'm excited!! I'm not telling any of my friends apart from the OH as I struggle with will power anyway (hence allowing myself to get this big!) and negativity from others will just sway my positivity so I'm getting on with this one on my own!
I'm going to be busy in work over the next few weeks anyway, so I'm planning on working, coming home, spending time with the baby, having my shake(!) then a little light exercise and bed - for the first 12 weeks anyway! From then on I will start socialising properly again but i want to give this a good go before i let other people's negative comments in! Also by then I'm hoping to have lost at least a stone and a half so hopefully people will SEE how well its working for me and lay off the negativity!
I'm a bit apprehensive as to whether I have the will power to stick to it - as I've failed/given up on most diets! But I just need to keep telling myself that this is MY choice and I want to be slim more than I want the food/failure!
So thanks for this post Mike! I'm going to print it out and stick it on the kitchen cupboards, the oven door and the fridge! (and pop one in my handbag for good luck!)
xxxx
LipoLisa
No longer a redhead though!
I've wandered over here from the Lipotrim camp and so glad that I did. This post was just what I need to hear right now - only as an affirmation really because I believe that I have made the right choice regarding this (LT) diet - but moreso that I am in the second camp and am really enjoying the freedom of losing the weight and not having to thing about food.
Although I am begining to give thought to my new meals once I refeed.
Thank you for this posting.
Lisa x
Although I am begining to give thought to my new meals once I refeed.
Thank you for this posting.
Lisa x
I should have read this 2 years ago when i was bragging about how quickly i reached my 'GOAL' weight, when i secretly convinced myself that i dont need to do it anymore. I skipped the maintaining phrase and jumped right back to my previous eating habit. So here i m wanting to do it again.
But i really need your help right now! I did CD two years ago back when i was in Manchester, now i m back in China and wanting to do it one more time for good. I m just wondering if there's any way i could still do it, obviously without buying it from or seeing a counsellor.
I m looking forward to hearing from you guys!
Thanks in advance!
But i really need your help right now! I did CD two years ago back when i was in Manchester, now i m back in China and wanting to do it one more time for good. I m just wondering if there's any way i could still do it, obviously without buying it from or seeing a counsellor.
I m looking forward to hearing from you guys!
Thanks in advance!
LipoLisa
No longer a redhead though!
Am definitely the second choice one on this. I found it fairly straight forward once I'd made the decision to try this... am not an advocate of any diets really because I do have the mindset that I shouldn't put more in my mouth than needs to come out my other end! But I did want something that gave quick results and not too much having to think about the 'diet'.... no food as a system worked really well for me.
I am currently sustaining and now enjoying a healthier eating lifestyle and TFR gave me the break from food and drink that I needed in order to do that.
I am currently sustaining and now enjoying a healthier eating lifestyle and TFR gave me the break from food and drink that I needed in order to do that.
That is so true! I think people who end up lapsing on diets is coz they see it as a prison sentence! I'm focusing on the positive - i'll be much slimmer and healthier by the end of it! I mean in week 1 i lost 8 pounds, and people have actually noticed the weight loss, so just imagine what people will say when i have lost 3 stones! And thats what keeps me going. xx
That is so very true! I am the second one, have loved doing it, love the shakes AND the chicken soup!! Have been our for several meals, water please, away for weekends, more water please, but I am so determined and don't care what people say and there have been lots of negative comments. I just watch the weight come off and already, two stone lighter today feel so much better. I can honestly say I've never felt hungry. I'm sure attitude and being positive really helps. Be a number two!!
Ditto!!
It`s getting to me a bit tbh when some ppl keep cheating and posting about it. It`s quite demotivating (is that a word?) especially when I stick to it 100% yet they cheat and lose double the weight than I do in a week.
I hope I don`t offend anyone, But it is upsetting when everyone posts about cheating and how the food "just jumped into their mouth" - er no, YOU put it there?!
I realise this diet is hard for some people, But I don`t get why some people deliberately cheat and think it`s ok if they`re 100% for the rest of the week or something
Surely if you cheat, You`re only cheating yourself in the long run??
I think you either have to make sure that your head is in the right place 100% and/or move up a plain until you`re at a stage where you can stick to it without making excuses.
Failing that, Maybe if the ones who are prone to cheating kept it to their own diaries rather than making numerous threads about it, It would be easier for those who are 100% Saying that, I wouldn`t want anyone to miss out on support when they feel they need it.
Anyway, Will get off my soap box now
Hope I haven`t offended anyone xX
southwestnurse
Member
Good post
There is a 100% section for those moments that you really can't cope with the less than 100% posts.
It really helped me when I was trying to avoid all f word talk
xx
Thanks
I`m aware of that part of the board, But I`m doing 810 plan which involves 1 small meal a day and don`t want to post and discuss food incase it upsets others who are doing SS Xx
RaeSlim
Member
I'm a newbie but this is certainly inspirational. For me CD has given me the incentive to commence on my life time journey which is a choice to my life time commitment of looking after myself and looking great.
I started CD in May and already over a stone lighter. It was a choice and I haven't seen it as a prison/restrictive lifestyle.
I also have to say this forum is fantastic and I have obtained so much knowledge.
Mind you, I still have 3 stones to go to reach goal weight and maintain it.
Here's to all the beautiful people here and to all the beautiful people who's contributed to this thread.
I started CD in May and already over a stone lighter. It was a choice and I haven't seen it as a prison/restrictive lifestyle.
I also have to say this forum is fantastic and I have obtained so much knowledge.
Mind you, I still have 3 stones to go to reach goal weight and maintain it.
Here's to all the beautiful people here and to all the beautiful people who's contributed to this thread.
cosmicstar
Member
I have definitely noticed that there are two kinds of people who do the crazy diet of a VLCD
The first kind are those that see the diet as a prison, they aren't allowed to eat, they aren't allowed to drink, they aren't allowed to go out and socialise on the diet, they aren't allowed to do things they want to do.
The second kind are those that see the diet as a choice, at anytime they can go and eat what they want, they can go and drink what they want but they choose not to because they want to lose weight and be slim more than they want to eat or drink.
The people who see the diet as a prison sentence tend to hate the diet all the way through, they generally feel unhappy while losing weight and from my experience tend to "escape" from the prison at some point and eat and drink and then the diet becomes even tougher.
For those that make a choice to just not eat or drink I find they tend to enjoy the diet!! They have made a good choice as they can feel the results and with the right mindset it is just a matter of keeping yourself focussed for a few months while you get to where you really want to get to.
All of us who start a VLCD desperately want to lose weight for many reasons and we all know the diet is in our own heads. If you drink the packs and drink the water and avoid food then you will lose weight as it is impossible not to, the only problem is whether your mind makes you falter along the way.
So please please see the diet as a choice, and a very good choice as it will change your life for the better.
GO FOR IT!!
I am in my 2nd week of the Cambridge diet, and am still adjusting to not eating food. I am absolutely craving Chilli heat wave Doritos with dips! I agree with your words, even though I've been on the diet such a short time. I made the choice to do this diet as I have so much weight to lose, but don't want to take 3 years to lose it. I want to see results quickly... and get my health and life back on track! I need to find things to do with my time to stop myself thinking about food. Thank you... your words made me think, and have helped me to carry on.
Kind regards.
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bellefrogette
Silver Member
I have definitely noticed that there are two kinds of people who do the crazy diet of a VLCD
The first kind are those that see the diet as a prison, they aren't allowed to eat, they aren't allowed to drink, they aren't allowed to go out and socialise on the diet, they aren't allowed to do things they want to do.
The second kind are those that see the diet as a choice, at anytime they can go and eat what they want, they can go and drink what they want but they choose not to because they want to lose weight and be slim more than they want to eat or drink.
The people who see the diet as a prison sentence tend to hate the diet all the way through, they generally feel unhappy while losing weight and from my experience tend to "escape" from the prison at some point and eat and drink and then the diet becomes even tougher.
For those that make a choice to just not eat or drink I find they tend to enjoy the diet!! They have made a good choice as they can feel the results and with the right mindset it is just a matter of keeping yourself focussed for a few months while you get to where you really want to get to.
All of us who start a VLCD desperately want to lose weight for many reasons and we all know the diet is in our own heads. If you drink the packs and drink the water and avoid food then you will lose weight as it is impossible not to, the only problem is whether your mind makes you falter along the way.
So please please see the diet as a choice, and a very good choice as it will change your life for the better.
GO FOR IT!!
Bumping this up because its a great post .
Bella
cambridgedietjune2012
Full Member
So so true x
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tisseltass
Full Member
A very true insight, I think it goes further in life then the VLCD diets. If you, generally see things in your life as being in a prison, having to go to work, having to exercise, having to study your life becomes a lot of things that you MUST do, it's a good reminder that you always have a choice in all the things we tend to think that we must do, we just have to deal with the consequences later on. But all the same, we have a choice.
For me, the VLCD diet was definitely a choice and it forced me to see that I have so many other choices besides food in life. To find ways to hang out with friends, deal with feeling bored or sad without clinging to food (Because, yes, I did that so well. It was just so easy.) So yes, good and clear insight.
For me, the VLCD diet was definitely a choice and it forced me to see that I have so many other choices besides food in life. To find ways to hang out with friends, deal with feeling bored or sad without clinging to food (Because, yes, I did that so well. It was just so easy.
) So yes, good and clear insight. 
bigandbeautiful
Member
I've just read your post - I thought it was great and so true.
I'm on day 2 of CD, tomorrow is day 3, and I've realised that I was forced to do every other diet I tried - forced by myself because I HAD to lose weight but I felt resentful that I had to stop eating all my favourite foods so I'd end up overeating.
I'm actually now so happy at the thought of losing weight and I'm just doing it for me, and my health and confidence rather than for an event - which meant, yes, I would lose the weight but after the event the weight would come back on and more!
I won't let myself give up for once, the only thing that will stop me from doing this is me!
I'm on day 2 of CD, tomorrow is day 3, and I've realised that I was forced to do every other diet I tried - forced by myself because I HAD to lose weight but I felt resentful that I had to stop eating all my favourite foods so I'd end up overeating.
I'm actually now so happy at the thought of losing weight and I'm just doing it for me, and my health and confidence rather than for an event - which meant, yes, I would lose the weight but after the event the weight would come back on and more!
I won't let myself give up for once, the only thing that will stop me from doing this is me!
Savannah:-)
Member
I too am loving the CD - it is liberating and it works x
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