Cambridge Diet

(Land_of)_Maz

Moneybubbles wrote: »

ahem

berryred (monkey face, red lips)

i know you!!!! well i know your pictures!! not sure have we ever spoken on minis?

I'm off to find you!!!!!!

Snaggles

Well done Pap for not munching the trifle! :T

I went for a run :j and I feel so much better and more positive.

If I haven't lost anything this week, I will chalk it up to a bad week and try harder next week.

goldfinch68

princessbutterpea wrote: »

!!!!!! i love them xxxxxxxx

You are a strange woman xxxxxxxx

goldfinch68

Moneybubbles wrote: »

I hated peanut bars first but now I love em haha

You are also a strange woman xxxx

goldfinch68

Okay my Cambridge friends.... this morning (unofficial weigh in on my scales at home butt naked) I weigh 11st 1lb and have achieved a BMI of 25.8. (2lb away from last years target achieved). I have emailed my CDC and requested to start maintenance as I am starting to want to pick at food, although meat, salad and fruit not wine and chocolate I am amazed to say. (Could murder a BBQ).

This will be the hard part but am determined to keep counting calories and maybe even drop another pound or two.

Going to step up the running (I have actually run the London Marathon and Great North Run before but you would never believe it seeing me shuffle along now ha ha!!). Taking my little 10yr old daughter with me as we are running the Race for Life - and if anyone wants to donate to her page for Cancer Research UK the link is below xx

I will still be on here to keep me going but more importantly to see you all reach your goals as you have all been a real inspiration and help to me on my weight loss journey (even if it was only 6 weeks but felt like 2 years). Come on Maz, Spud, the Fox, Duncan (where has Duncan gone?) PAP and everybody else!!

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/laurenmatthews10

goldfinch68

ps not forgetting Snaggles, Moneybubbles and Princessbutterpea - her of the amazingly bad taste in bars yeuch xx

Tolkny

goldfinch68 wrote: »

ps not forgetting Snaggles, Moneybubbles and Princessbutterpea - her of the amazingly bad taste in bars yeuch xx

I am new to this thread so please accept my apologies if what I say has been said before.

I tried The Cambridge diet decades ago and did not lose weight, although I cannot remember what went wrong.

I reckon diets are fine for people unlike me but I ate addictively and the more I dieted or weighed the more I obsessed about it all and got more desperate.

Today I weigh around, probably a bit less than 17 stone (what I was when last weighed a month or so ago)

In 2005 I had a "rock bottom" experience and admitted I could not help myself. I went back to Overeaters Anonymous and this time really listened. I had decided that my eating was killing me, and I could not face living feeling like I did, but I could not actively kill myself. I was in fact not really living as I was isolating and not part of "life".

Things did improve with the meetings but the cravings came back on me. Then two friends who were both larger than me (the bloke was 60+ stone honest). Told me of a treatment centre where they got help.

I struggled on for another 6 months or so, then I went there, they actually turned me around and sent me back to OA, which I have never left since 1994. However I realised that for me food addiction was pretty much the same for me as alcoholism or sex addiction or gambling etc., etc.. is for others. I now know I am also co-dependent (driven by what I feel others think of me).

Shortly after returning to OA in 2005 I got weighed and worked out I must have been around 27 or more stone back this time in 2005.

My life is changing for the better, I am truly recovered from compulsive eating (for today at any rate). I no longer get urges to eat what is not part of the food plan I have chosen for myself, which is three meals a day and nothing in between. I still go to OA and give service to OA and keep in touch with that Treatment Centre.

It works for me, it really does and if you cannot diet, it will work for you when you are prepared to admit powerlessness over food and become willing to consider new ways.

Obviously, if The Cambridge Diet is working for you, you don't need OA.

Alphamare

:T:T:TFinchy!!!!!!!!!!:T:T:T

:j:jwell done that woman:j:j

i wish my journey would take six weeks. I guess I just need to knuckle under because cheating only gets you eating only gets you no where! :eek:

I dont want to be fat for ever.

do you feel fab now Goldy? :rotfl:

I must say one thing i noticed with our 'week off' as it were is how tired and crappy carbs make you feel. not that i will ever give up scones with clotted cream but i would rather munch a toffee bar frm CD than a real choc bar and thats amazing!

Alphamare

Thanks Tolkny im glad you are getting to whereyou want to be. I may do some research on OA as i think i could use all the help i can get. Although i think you will find that we are our own OA arnt we girls

Ive just applied for another horsey job. me thinks i need to get butt moving. Also will be working on my book but i cant stay in the house anymore and there is no work right now at my 'day job' they are fully staffed (i am relief - which is great when they are not)

Alphamare

Do you have a problem with food?

This series of questions may help you determine if you are
a compulsive overeater.
1. Do you eat when you’re not hungry?
2. Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason?
3. Do you have feelings of guilt and remorse after
overeating?
4. Do you give too much time and thought to food?
5. Do you look forward with pleasure and anticipation to
the time when you can eat alone?
6. Do you plan these secret binges ahead of time?
7. Do you eat sensibly before others and make up for it
alone?
8. Is your weight affecting the way you live your life?
9. Have you tried to diet for a week (or longer), only to
fall short of your goal?
10. Do you resent others telling you to “use a little
willpower” to stop overeating?
11. Despite evidence to the contrary, have you continued to
assert that you can diet “on your own” whenever you wish?
12. Do you crave to eat at a definite time, day or night,
other than mealtime?
13. Do you eat to escape from worries or trouble?
14. Have you ever been treated for obesity or a
food-related condition?
15. Does your eating behavior make you or others
unhappy?
Have you answered yes to three or more of these questions?
If so, it is probable that you have or are well on your way to
having a compulsive overeating problem. We have found that the
way to arrest this progressive disease is to practice the
Twelve-Step recovery program of Overeaters Anonymous.




How many apply to each of us? I am sorry to admit for me its about 14/15