*DFW lets get rid of the lbs without spending £££'s Weight Loss thread*

tenmah

Hi BB

It is like that at my work and also they have a tuck shop as well, that is supplied by a charity, so chocolate and crisps are slightly cheaper than they are in the shops, and it is always kept well stocked - so tempting. There are also bags of sweets for a £1 with things like rhubarb and custard etc so it is just sitting there in the kitchen each time I walk in. Along with that one of the men keeps bringing in gorgeous cakes that his wife has made :eek:

I can't remember if it is you that is doing Lighterlife or CD, but I do wonder if that is 'easier' because it takes the choice of what to eat away from you?

Trouble is they are both so expensive. How do you find it? Would you recommend it?

LouiseJ

BB you have done amazingly well to have resisted all of that:T

I would have cracked at the opal fruits:rotfl:

Thankfully everyone is too busy to eat in our staff room!

Been to the Tapas bar, had pitta breads with dips, seafood paella and some chicken cooked in garlic butter (OK! I know that was a bad choice!)

I only ate around half of the pittas though and left some of the paella too had 2 lime and sodas to drink as was driving.

Still feel really stuffed though, I think my stomach has shrunk!

Off to bedski now xx

Weigh in day tomorrow:eek:

and my tickets have arrived for my hols:j

scrooge2008

The homemade brownies would have got to me BB . Seriously well done.

I agree with you Lou about wanting to eat less, especially in this hot weather, long may it last. I am beginning to crave healthy foods rather than my usual suspects. Strawberries and melon at the moment are just so delicious, and are my pickings of choice.

Another 1lb off Lou.

Thanks.

LouiseJ

I have decided to put off weighing in until tomorrow as I can still feel the tapas weighing on my stomach so it may give me an unfair reading:D

Big News.................MrJ has lost another 1.5lbs and has reached his target and even exceeded it by quarter of a pound:j:beer: I am so proud of him as he has really struggled with his weight for a few years now. It can be done everyone! So thats Skint Spice and MrJ who have reached their targets so far.

Well done on the loss Scrooge only 4lbs to your target too:T

Very happy today might even have a dance.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjXgskUN50

Burlesque_Babe

tenmah wrote: »

I can't remember if it is you that is doing Lighterlife or CD, but I do wonder if that is 'easier' because it takes the choice of what to eat away from you?

Trouble is they are both so expensive. How do you find it? Would you recommend it?

yeah, confession time I guess after nearly 4 weeks (weigh in tomorrow) that I'm doing CD. I always said I would never do it, everyone piles the weight back on etc etc but I think in reality that what I was actually thinking underneath is that I could never do it because of the utter lack of food (well on the soul source plan anyway). (and there are plenty of people who don't put the weight back on as they've worked back up the plans to a more 'normal' day to day way of eating).

However, my addiction is food and I felt I was nearing the last few options. Losing the amount I have to lose at a pace of 1 pound here , 1 pound there with SW, WW etc was never now going to be a success. I just couldn't see myself ever spending the next 2 years on a diet without ever falling off the wagon and putting weight back on. I bought Alli, never had it. Doctor gave me Xenical in March, never used them. I knew they weren't right for me but couldn't work out what was.

My relationship with food is that it pacifies my emotions and it fills all the dead time in my life, the latter being something I am now trying to come to terms with and consider what to do.

4 weeks in, I now realise the enormity of how food rules me and that the only way to change the way my brain works to beat the addiction is to just not have any. I need to change the habitual part of eating and re-train my brain. I might do some reading on NLP.

I have somehow managed to switch off the 'mmmmm, food' part of my brain so far. I cook food for OH, I buy shopping, I teach my class, I see all the food at work and walk past the little cafe we have with its Jammy Wagon Wheels etc I used to buy daily. Nothing bothers me, I almost just don't care. I am trying to see cooking as a mechanical process rather than something I love doing. I saw serving people food as giving 'love' and I'm trying to stop that feeling. I want to see food as just items you buy and cooking as a means to fuel rather than something to prop up my feelings constantly. I know this goes against all my passion for food/cooking etc but that's part of the issue.

I personally think CD is for those who's relationship with food has utterly broken down in some way , similar to a heavy drinker, smoker, drug user or even similar to someone with a huge mountain of debt. Other than surgery, I don't have any other routes to go down that are going to change my life so massively and in such a short time. Even so, the 'short time' for me is still around a year so not exactly an overnight change.

Money wise, I've managed to use OH's contribution to do the shopping for the month for food for him plus toiletries/cleaning stuff etc. I'm then paying for this myself and it is costing me approx £140 a month. That's probably just under double what I would spend additionally at the supermarket during the month but for the purpose I want it to achieve, I am at peace with that.

Doing SW/WW etc OH always had something to verbally 'beat' me with - 'it should be dropping off you' is a normal phrase when yet again I've lost a pound. He can't say that now. He would say 'I bet you've been eating when I'm not around'. Not even a whisper of that these days.

I feel fine, I feel buzzy, I don't feel hungry as I am in ketosis. I didn't even have the dreaded day 3 withdrawal headaches from carb withdrawal. I decided to do soul source (the absolute lowest plan) because I knew that there was no point in doing any higher one (they go up to 1500 cals a day) because food is involved and I would just lose the plot. That's why Slim Fast etc don't work for me - there's still food to be eaten which is open to abuse.

Like any diet, it isn't for everyone because it really does need a lot of soul searching I think because it is such a last ditch attempt and it really does make you think about your relationship with food.

I know some people do it to lose 3 or 4 stone and that is fabulous :T but for anyone who has 10 stone+ to lose, I would now really recommend seriously thinking about it and anyone with 6/7/8 etc stone to lose to also consider if the relationship with food is poor or deteriorating. Do lots of reading, do the research, weigh it all up as it's a big commitment to make.

Having an amazing CD Counsellor also helps
Phew...........:rotfl:

pania

nice one mr j!!! superb!!!

lou, can you put 13lb on your spreadsheet for me to loose? when do you guys usually weigh in?

Burlesque_Babe

lots of different days pania. I'm a Sunday WI.

pania

sorry BB you posted that while i was typing my reply to Louise J. just had a read of your post and you are an amazingly strong woman. you are fighting pack against the abuse by oh and doing this for yourself. bloody good for you. i applaud you xxx

pania

oh, and just for the record, I lost a toal of 17 stone this week!!! in the form of a twunty man whoop whoop!!!! :rotfl:

Burlesque_Babe

thankyou pania. I know that CD can bring up a range of reactions, I saw them when both Maz and PaP did so well, so I had tried to keep it under wraps for as long as I could. I knew I couldn't carry on with these losses without everyone realising and I now feel comfortable enough with it to tell you all.