Cambridge Diet

Louisepp

lynzpower wrote: »

Im on mini mins - not-so-little-L is my user name over there. some messup with the cambridge dieters one, ive registered but they wont accept my password asked for a resend which hasnt come :wall:

never mind.

I'm a Super Mod on minimins, as on Cambridgedieters. Will pm you.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

You aren't supposed to weigh yourself every day!

Your body weight fluctuates you know!

Be patient!!!

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Lyn - on cambridgedieters you will be already logged in - just click and it will probably let you in!! I did this at the beginning!

lynzpower

nope, its not letting me log in still.

never mind! I waste enough time on forums as it is :rotfl:

Louisepp

Toots wrote: »

I am on day 8 of CD today and have lost 8 pounds in the first week. I got on the scales today and haven't lost anything! I'm not despondent - I'll just carry on but am a bit surprised to get to a day without losing weight so early into the diet.

Is this normal?

Yay Toots. 8lbs in the first week is brill. I weighed daily and would often get days where I seemed to either stay the same or put on, but the weekly weigh was down.

I enjoyed weighing daily, but you do need to take the body water fluctuations into account and not let it throw you off course.

Louisepp

lynzpower wrote: »

nope, its not letting me log in still.

never mind! I waste enough time on forums as it is :rotfl:

I know that feeling. Spend waaay to much time on those two, and my own group. Really did out to get me a life

Louisepp

I agree Toots. I always weighed daily because it motivated me. Even when the scales stayed the same, or went up, it only had a positive effect. others struggle so it's a very personal choice.

I still weigh daily even though I've been at goal for 2 years. With a study of maintainers they found they were more likely to stay at goal if they weighed daily.

I do it because I want to.:p

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Toots wrote: »

There are plenty of people and groups (like weightwatchers) around who say you should weigh yourself weekly but they can't provide a valid reason for not weighing yourself daily. Weighing myself daily actually motivates me.

If I didn't weigh myself daily I wouldn't last a week on any diet. I think that people are individuals and what works for one doesn't always suit another. If weighing yourself and finding you've lost some weight helps you to focus and carry on then I can't see the problem. If I put weight on one day I would make an extra effort to drink more and exercise more the next.

There's always different horses for different courses.

If that is true in your case then why are you complaining about not losing weight every day on CD?

Cambridge say you lose 14 lbs per calendar month, which equates to less than 0.5lb per day.

lynzpower

I dont weigh, and never have really, as many years ago I got a bit obsessed with watching everything I ate adn youd often find me weighing myself before and after going to the loo. Not good, and a bit on the mental side.

So I dumped my scales. Numbers to me dont matter - indeed all this BMI business/ stones/ kilos/ pounds and all that jazz, dont interest me one bit.

im much more interested in the holistic approach. A massive spare tyre of flab around my midriff bothers me more than someone telling me what my BMI is. Indeed on the cambridge diet BMI site this morning its told me my healthy weight could be as low as 6 stone 4. If I got to that, healthy would not describe it, I would be literally bones.

I dont care, Im happy, looking better today than I was a week ago, and definately loosing inches. If I hopped on the ascales to find id lost no weight over the last week it wouldnt bother me, after all, its the inches that matter.

Louisepp

Cute_n_Quirky wrote: »

If that is true in your case then why are you complaining about not losing weight every day on CD?

I don't think Toots was complaining. Just asking if it was normal

And yep. Perfectly normal :T