Saturday 26th August
I woke up this morning to welcome in a much better day all in all. I did my hubby and daughter a cooked brunch of scrambled eggs (laid fresh this morning by our chickens), toast, mushrooms, beans, hash browns and bacon. I was not tempted to pick even though I would loved to have tucked in if I had been at goal.
I tried on the size 12’s I bought last night (which I couldn’t do when I bought them because Tesco shut their changing rooms in the evening) and they sort of fit. According to hubby they fit because they don’t look too tight but for comfort sake I think another 4-5 lb off would be best so they are in my wardrobe ready to shrink into. The size 14’s I have now are all too big and the 12’s I have are too small so I am at that annoying stage of being slap bang between sizes. I never had this experience when I was larger because all my clothes had elasticated waists so this is all new to me.
The speed at which you lose a dress size on LL never fails to amaze me. 3 weeks ago I realised that I was a size 14 now in another week or so I will be a size 12! Given that I know I have at least another stone to lose after the weigh in on Monday which would take me about a month to lose, I could be a size 10 top by the end of all this which is what I was hoping for. Having a flat chest does have some benefits! Taking into consideration that the shops have changed their sizes so that a size 10 is equivalent the old size 12 and an old size 12 was what I was aiming to be based on my size/weights 13 years ago I don’t think my guess was far wrong.
I won a pair of Miss Sixty jeans in a size 28 on eBay and they arrived this morning. They are stunning and I bought them as an incentive to get to my goal waist size. The trouble is that although the waist is what I am eventually hoping to be, we go back to the fact that I have big legs and these jeans look a bit too skinny for me. Mind you I did say that about the size 14’s my step mum gave me and there hasn’t been a problem with those once I shrunk. I’ll keep the jeans and see what happens. If I don’t manage to lose enough off my legs then I will sell them on again and should get my money back if not a bit more.
My water consumption and toning have been dreadful over the past week even if the activity hasn’t been too bad and I am not sure I will make it to the 4 ½ stone mark by Monday night. I tried upping my water consumption back to 6l’s today and just feel like a beached whale. Even if I don’t reach the 4 ½ stone then I have still had a far better than anticipated result but I do like nice neat numbers! I am still going to be making a special effort with the water for the next couple of days. I only have to lose 2.2lbs to reach my 4 ¼ stone target. If you want to get all technical about it I probably reached my 4 ½ stone target last weigh in because the first weigh in was done first thing in the morning and my weigh ins have now changed to evening. My morning weight would definitely be 2.2lbs lighter than in the evening! I have never limited my water intake to fix a weigh in before but I am seriously considering doing it for this one.
My mum went and saw a Cambridge Diet counsellor today. To be honest I am quite offended by the term Cambridge Diet counsellor because, with few exceptions, most of them aren’t counsellors at all they are just sales reps as no counselling training required by CD. Anyway I was able to give her a few pointers like using a bit of the vanilla milkshake in coffee and spitting the packs into 6 smaller meals. I know mum will be successful on this because she has done CD before and lost a lot of weight.
Having read through the info in mum’s books about what the stabilisation and maintenance bits of CD is I have decided that CD can’t offer me what LL can. On CD the foods are not reintroduced a few at a time and there is no mention of finding out about trigger foods etc. It has been a very useful exercise for me to read what the different CD plans consist of as this have taken away any thoughts I may have harboured about going for the cheaper option. Cheaper in this case is not better. I owe it to myself and my family to get the most important stage of the diet right. OK LL is a lot more money but I have lessons to learn that will last a lifetime and CD can’t come close to offering what LL will give me. It’s a shame I can’t swap to CD for the development section because I am so bored of the LL food packs and then back to LL for the management bit as that would be the perfect solution!
Pedometer: 2,594
Water: 6l’s and consistent
Toning: None
98 days down, 2 to go.
I woke up this morning to welcome in a much better day all in all. I did my hubby and daughter a cooked brunch of scrambled eggs (laid fresh this morning by our chickens), toast, mushrooms, beans, hash browns and bacon. I was not tempted to pick even though I would loved to have tucked in if I had been at goal.
I tried on the size 12’s I bought last night (which I couldn’t do when I bought them because Tesco shut their changing rooms in the evening) and they sort of fit. According to hubby they fit because they don’t look too tight but for comfort sake I think another 4-5 lb off would be best so they are in my wardrobe ready to shrink into. The size 14’s I have now are all too big and the 12’s I have are too small so I am at that annoying stage of being slap bang between sizes. I never had this experience when I was larger because all my clothes had elasticated waists so this is all new to me.
The speed at which you lose a dress size on LL never fails to amaze me. 3 weeks ago I realised that I was a size 14 now in another week or so I will be a size 12! Given that I know I have at least another stone to lose after the weigh in on Monday which would take me about a month to lose, I could be a size 10 top by the end of all this which is what I was hoping for. Having a flat chest does have some benefits! Taking into consideration that the shops have changed their sizes so that a size 10 is equivalent the old size 12 and an old size 12 was what I was aiming to be based on my size/weights 13 years ago I don’t think my guess was far wrong.
I won a pair of Miss Sixty jeans in a size 28 on eBay and they arrived this morning. They are stunning and I bought them as an incentive to get to my goal waist size. The trouble is that although the waist is what I am eventually hoping to be, we go back to the fact that I have big legs and these jeans look a bit too skinny for me. Mind you I did say that about the size 14’s my step mum gave me and there hasn’t been a problem with those once I shrunk. I’ll keep the jeans and see what happens. If I don’t manage to lose enough off my legs then I will sell them on again and should get my money back if not a bit more.
My water consumption and toning have been dreadful over the past week even if the activity hasn’t been too bad and I am not sure I will make it to the 4 ½ stone mark by Monday night. I tried upping my water consumption back to 6l’s today and just feel like a beached whale. Even if I don’t reach the 4 ½ stone then I have still had a far better than anticipated result but I do like nice neat numbers! I am still going to be making a special effort with the water for the next couple of days. I only have to lose 2.2lbs to reach my 4 ¼ stone target. If you want to get all technical about it I probably reached my 4 ½ stone target last weigh in because the first weigh in was done first thing in the morning and my weigh ins have now changed to evening. My morning weight would definitely be 2.2lbs lighter than in the evening! I have never limited my water intake to fix a weigh in before but I am seriously considering doing it for this one.
My mum went and saw a Cambridge Diet counsellor today. To be honest I am quite offended by the term Cambridge Diet counsellor because, with few exceptions, most of them aren’t counsellors at all they are just sales reps as no counselling training required by CD. Anyway I was able to give her a few pointers like using a bit of the vanilla milkshake in coffee and spitting the packs into 6 smaller meals. I know mum will be successful on this because she has done CD before and lost a lot of weight.
Having read through the info in mum’s books about what the stabilisation and maintenance bits of CD is I have decided that CD can’t offer me what LL can. On CD the foods are not reintroduced a few at a time and there is no mention of finding out about trigger foods etc. It has been a very useful exercise for me to read what the different CD plans consist of as this have taken away any thoughts I may have harboured about going for the cheaper option. Cheaper in this case is not better. I owe it to myself and my family to get the most important stage of the diet right. OK LL is a lot more money but I have lessons to learn that will last a lifetime and CD can’t come close to offering what LL will give me. It’s a shame I can’t swap to CD for the development section because I am so bored of the LL food packs and then back to LL for the management bit as that would be the perfect solution!
Pedometer: 2,594
Water: 6l’s and consistent
Toning: None
98 days down, 2 to go.
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