Cambridge Diet part II

HEREWEGOAGAIN_2

Hey guys
Well here I am back again....after much dilly dallying before Xmas its time to actually do this !!!! Bit of background info....I lost 4.7 stone on LighterLife about 5 years ago and it has eventually all crept back on, i'm ashamed to say ! :mad: I know how i've let this happen, so hopefully 2010 is my year to get back to my happy weight.:j I found a top out that i bought at my slimmest....oh my days...its absolutely tiny, so now its hanging on my wardrobe to give me the incentive i need !

So here we go again......probably around 5 stone to loose, but am trying to take it day by day.....day 3 so far and counting !!!!! Best of luck to you guys, you all seem to be doing sooooooo well, just can't wait to get a few stone off and feel healthier again !!!

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stokegal wrote: »

I'm meeting my cdc tomorrow for the first time tomorrow - I'm very nervous as she sound all posh on the phone and lives in a really nice area in Stoke - I'll rock up with my scruffy hair (not brushed most days - I think I look boho - but I actually look more hobo, lol) excuses for being fat and probably swear (it just slips out )

BTW - Someone mentioned something about Reciepes, I'd be really interested in those - my friend use to freeze her shake or something and have it like ice cream - if thats possible

Stokegal

Hi Stokegal, I hope your meeting went well with the CDC. If I had caught this last night I would have said you need not worry. Every CDC has completed the diet and will know exactly how you feel Let us know how it went...

That was me with the recepies...

Ice-cream ~
Two ways, either feeeze a pre-made tetra and then get it out of the freezer about 5-10min before eating. However the way I make it... Take about 20 icecubes and smash them up, then in your blender make up you shake with very little water (maybe a cup). While its still blending add you crushed ice and eat with a spoon. I lived on these while doing CD over the summer... Watch out though this killed my mini blender *remember the 15min rule still applies*

Mc Shake aka Mc CD Shake ~
Crush about 10 icecubes and make shake as above but with more water then pour over 3/4 whole icecubes... *remember the 15min rule still applies*

hunbun wrote: »

You will get through it, your determination will drag you through to the next day. Look back at your posts on here, as Pap says, you showed massive determination in them and that won't dissappear.

Each day is a new day. If you slip a little one day, don't worry, in the overall scheme of the rest of your life its nothing.

Lets make 2010 our best summer yet girlies - no more sore legs and wishing the hot days would go away.......

:T :T :T Amazing post Hunbun :T :T :T

piratess wrote: »

Sooooo the end of my Day 1 went ok .. very restless in bed last night didnt sleep well atall! ... And this morning my word! .. My mouth felt like the bottom of a sewer only worse! how ever OH kissed me before work ill never know! .. And then to top it off i got up to go to the loo and almost fell over, i kinda stumbled back into the wall! ........ felt so dizzy light heated almost sick! .. my eyes wouldnt focus either ...... is this normal ?????????
I tried the Porridge for breaky YUK YUK ........ it smelt like babyfood and i had a spoon full and just kept rolling it round in my mouth trying to swallow!! anyway after urging a little it all went in the bin! ...........
I had a warm choccy shake and sanity returned! how yummy are they !!!!!! .. so ive rung CDC and im now swapping all 4 of my porridges for choccy .. ~good times~
Ive just had half a strawb one warm and wow! .. it tastes like angel delight it really does so defo on the list for next week! and quite sweet to so will be a good one for evening

Ok so how am i feeling .......... not hungry! (never thought id say that) .. drinking water but not sure ive had enough today so far ... i feel a teeny bit light headed .. and a lil sign of a headache. other than that ... i feel fine

Means so much to me ya know .. you here egging me on! .. Well im hoping i can egg some of the newbies on to now ive got day one out of the way LOL

much love xx

Hello Piratess...

Ohh the horrid mouth means you are heading for ketosis. Sometimes it gets better sometimes its with you throughout the diet. One tip is buy one of those travel toothpastes and cut down the handle of a tooth brush to keep fresh all day as gum/mints are not allowed. So glad you are finding shakes/food you like. If you like the strawberry you can actually get something to make angel delight. Its called mix a moose but you can only have it from week three. Something to think about.

Glad you are feeling ok all round. The headache and dizzyness is classic symptoms of burning all your stores and your body asking for food. So you are getting into ketosis :T They will all go once you are in ketosis. Tomorrow maybe your worse day but as soon as you are through that no stopping you :j


Weigh-in for me and only lost 1lbs... but it wasnt really it was 10lbs. I didnt weigh officailly last week but my scales are the same as the CDC's. I put on 10lbs according to my scales for chrsitmas/new year. So I lost all that and actually droped 1lb from my CD card wight too :rotfl: Plus I was measuered and 1.5" of bust, hips and waist hoping for about 5lb this week which will take me well into the 11 stones :T

Keep going all we will get there

piratess

Hi Herewego again! ... Well done for getting back to it, I look forward to reading about your progress ...

Pap ... Well done !!! .. great stuff! ..Im a lil worried! .. when you said tomorow may be my worse day worse day how? .. If it will be worse as in spacey headachy feeling i can cope with .. Hunger however i think ill need to be prepared for! ..
I kind of feel like i could pick BUT only cos its picking not cos its hunger! ..

Am going to try oriental chilli soup tonight .. does anyone have it as half a pack atall ? im just wondering if its as thick as the pot and leek!

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piratess wrote: »

Pap ... Well done !!! .. great stuff! ..Im a lil worried! .. when you said tomorow may be my worse day worse day how? .. If it will be worse as in spacey headachy feeling i can cope with .. Hunger however i think ill need to be prepared for! ..
I kind of feel like i could pick BUT only cos its picking not cos its hunger! ..

Am going to try oriental chilli soup tonight .. does anyone have it as half a pack atall ? im just wondering if its as thick as the pot and leek!

Opps I havent scared you have I? The reason is everyone claims day three is the worse. Thats when you body says 'woaah she isnt eating what do we do?' Then your body thinks and starts burning fat. Day three was fine for me it was day four that was my worst. I stayed in bed all day and was attempting to be sick. I was also hungryer on day three but I used distrction.water techniques :rolleyes:

Everyone copes diferently though so please dont worry yourself. Once you get past everythinga dn into ketosis you will be fine In a few days you will be posing saying you fel amazing/have loads of energy etc etc...

I dont have soup so cant say Piratess :cool:

piratess

In a way Pap im hoping the snow we get tonight means i cant go to work tomorow .... so that will mean i can snuggle up feel sorry for myself when the bad day hits ! ....
other wise ill be walking around counting the hours and clients down until i can come home and feel sorry for myself! .. I had to use the loo in two clients homes today ..... I never have to normally haha ... they must have thought id gone mad ...

hunbun_3

The oriental is nice but quite thin. I can't stand the leek and pot though!! Just goes to show that we all love and hate different things....

Got to dash, kids are calling, but keep going everyone.

Love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

stokegal

Well I visited my cdc today and tbh I didn't really gel with her.... that sounds awful as it was only the first time I met her and she probably is really nice but I had to ask a lot of questions to get info which I probably wouldn't have got otherwise... anywho... I'm sure that we'll motivate each other on here more than any cdc could in the "real" world

So....she gave me 1 stick to wee on and I bought 21 shakes, 2 premade shakes and a shaker thing with cambridge all over it. I can envisage a lot of self pitying posts coming from me in the next couple of days :rotfl:... it'll go along the lines of... I'm so hungry... Nobody understands... I've got a headache... I hate my life.... I'd rather be fat (a down right dirty rotton lie too) lol so please ignore these posts and I'm trying to focus on the fact I go on holiday in 15 weeks and 4 days and have set me self a goal of losing 3 stone in that time

I'm off work tomorrow which will be a real test as I'll be in the house all day with DS as I dont want to take him out in the snow (he's off from the childminders poorly :sad:) and they'll be all this temptation to snack, I need a project to do with DS... he has the attention span of a goldfish so I may need several mini projects :rotfl:

Anyway back to Cambridge I have the following

Shakes
Chocolate
Chololate Mint
Strawberry
Toffee and Walnut
Banana

Soups
Leep and Potato
Chicken and Mushroom
Mushroom
Oriental Chilli
Spicy Tomato

Porridge
Original
Apple and Cinammon

Piratess - how's your 2nd day gone? I still have my mental pom poms for you

Hope everyone else is having a good day too!!

piratess

Hey! .. Morning ....... .. Day 3 in the CD household! ...

Hunbun i chickened out, i didnt have the oriental soup! i kinda darent haha! .. so had a bath instead and drunk lots of water, and cos i wasted a porridge if i had a third shake yesterday it would have left me short .....

Way to go StokeGal! ..
Your right about support, i think this board and other similar ones are going to proove a god send! ... well done for jumping on the wagon! .. I found day 1 fine no hunger and didnt even need the bath id planned! .. I did however spend all day reading and typing on forums! and babbling in my own diary at home! ...

Im on Day three! .. i think the evenings are the worst, not becuase i want to eat, (wow surprising) but because the voice of doubt starts talking to me
(he must come out in the dark)
and says things like "your fine as you are" .. "you can still look nice ya know" "go on egg on toast wont hurt"
ya know the kind of thing! ....... its bad
I tried porridge yesterday YUK then had a choc shake warm MMMMMMMM and a strawb shake warm .. again YUMMMM ... This morning ive had a choc mint .. well half a one! .. i want to try and split them through the day, as im not at work today due to schools being closed ..
Waking this morning my mouth felt like the bottom of a sewer again! ... YUK and dizzy, i also felt like i had a head cold, ya know achy neck, heavy yukky head weakness! ...
I still dont feel hungry though... is this normal ???

Stick with it Stokegal baths, chatting on here,
(ill gladly give you my msn if you feel it will help) im using all the help i can get HAHA .....
Im around all day so will be back and forth most of it lol specially when my kids are eating me out of house and home lol

~~mental poms poms coming your way everyone ~~

hunbun_3

Well done Stokegal....you've gone and done it!!

Its a bummer Piratess when you make something up and just CANNOT get it down...I have bought an extra two (or more if I could afford it) each time I've gone, so that I have a 'store' of them. In the first week though, in fact I think it was probably more like the first two, I didn't have that 'luxury' and I remember one day only having one shake and my plus meal. I'm with you on the porridge - eugh! Yet I know someone who thinks they're brill.

You are definately hitting the ketosis wall !!! Get through the next couple of days and you're there.

I am really struggling guys. Have not stuck 100% since starting on Monday and am battling with my addictive gremlins. How can it be possible to eat something without realising / thinking ???? Have not had alcohol since Sat though. That is something that I am chuffed about (now that makes me sound reeeeaaaaalllllyyy bad:beer:). Kick me up my chunky butt please:o. Weigh in cancelled cos of weather (cant get there). Kids off, feels like christmas all over again. Got loads of yummy stuff still in and my will power is no where to be found - this is definately a case of do as I say not as I do - not good!

Good luck Stokegal on day one ......water is the key.

And on that note I will go and get a glass now:p:p:p

stokegal

Hey :hello:

Well I had the strangest dreams ast night... I knew that I was starting tday and I had a dream that I was so hungry this morning that I ate chips for breakfast and was so upset because I'd ruined it all... weird... it really scared me though and now I'm even more determined than ever not to mess this diet up. I started off well this morning - I had a strawberry shake which wasn't bad... I should have mentioned before that I'm quite fussy when it comes to food... I don't like milkshakes, I don't even like milk, nor tea or coffee and the idea of eating porridge make me feel sick but I WILL start liking them I gave DS his baby porridge this morning so I wasn't tempted to eat the crusts off his toast and he looked as impressed with his porridge as I did with my shake :rotfl:

I'm going to fill my day today with lots of cleaning and I have that Just Dance game on the wii so as part of losing weight I'm going to try and go on that every day - it's so hard!!!

Hope everyone else has a good day and no doubt I'll be on later whinging