Sunday 3rd September
Well it is weigh in day tomorrow and I forgot to mention that my LLC left a message on my answer machine saying that the Thursday meeting was busier but none of the development meetings had that many people in them.
To be honest I don’t even think that my lack of confidence in the development counselling is down to that. By definition people are on development for different lengths of time until they all reach their goal weight so there is no structured course to the counselling like there was for the foundation stage because we would all be at different stages with some closer to goal that others and facing different issues at different times because of this so I’m not going to get counselling tailored to where I am in my journey. I’ll just have to wait and see over the 3 meetings that are prepaid for.
I am paid up till 18th September on LL but if I am still not impressed after that then I will be swapping to CD. Mind you I think that as soon as you hit 25 BMI on CD then you are meant to start going back up through the CD programmes spending at least a week at a time, preferably 2 on each stage. These are add a meal, 790 plan, 1000, 1200 then 1500. I should be under the 25BMI by the time I run out of money. I have had another look through my mum’s CD book to see exactly what doing CD at under 25BMI entails. I haven’t decided what to do yet and have an open mind until the 3 meetings are over but I do think that if I hadn’t paid a month on advance of LL then I would have called it quits and swapped. Can this be fate telling me to hang fire and not make any hasty decisions? The biggest factor that LL may have over CD at this stage is that you get free management for a year after completing the route to management course but then I don’t know what CD do on that front? My biggest challenge will always be keeping the weight off and I have to think about what is best for me at that stage even at the expense of what happens to me at this stage.
Also I am trying not to let the fact that if I start CD after the next 3 meeting then I will be able to start eating with my family again and given that 2 weeks on each stage adds up to 10 weeks then I will be through the restrictions well before Christmas. I have to consider that this could well be affecting my draw to CD so I have to be careful about that because whatever I do it has to be for the right reasons.
I was talking to my hubby about the situation last night and he said that although I feel like I have come a long way with the counselling and haven’t learnt anymore about myself for weeks, I won’t know if I need the additional counselling of LL in management until I get there and he is as usual dead right – don’t tell him I said that though!
I enjoyed another bowl of chocolate porridge this morning and given that it is wet and windy it once again was a welcome and excellent start to the day. You get given a recipe sheet on how you can cook the packs for a bit of interest are only supposed to cook one a day. Nowhere n that sheet does it mention that PH could be such and excellent ingredient to make things a bit different.
The other small event of note which has really made my day is that I needed to adjust my SlenderTone belt so that the sticky pads were on the smallest setting. I have gone from not being sure that the biggest were going to fit to needing them on the smallest of the 3. This may be nothing to somebody else but I cried because it means such a lot to me.
Activity: 7,217
Water: 6l’s and consistent
Toning: 40 mins on ST
Weight: 12st or 168lbs
6 days of development completed, 44 to go.
Well it is weigh in day tomorrow and I forgot to mention that my LLC left a message on my answer machine saying that the Thursday meeting was busier but none of the development meetings had that many people in them.
To be honest I don’t even think that my lack of confidence in the development counselling is down to that. By definition people are on development for different lengths of time until they all reach their goal weight so there is no structured course to the counselling like there was for the foundation stage because we would all be at different stages with some closer to goal that others and facing different issues at different times because of this so I’m not going to get counselling tailored to where I am in my journey. I’ll just have to wait and see over the 3 meetings that are prepaid for.
I am paid up till 18th September on LL but if I am still not impressed after that then I will be swapping to CD. Mind you I think that as soon as you hit 25 BMI on CD then you are meant to start going back up through the CD programmes spending at least a week at a time, preferably 2 on each stage. These are add a meal, 790 plan, 1000, 1200 then 1500. I should be under the 25BMI by the time I run out of money. I have had another look through my mum’s CD book to see exactly what doing CD at under 25BMI entails. I haven’t decided what to do yet and have an open mind until the 3 meetings are over but I do think that if I hadn’t paid a month on advance of LL then I would have called it quits and swapped. Can this be fate telling me to hang fire and not make any hasty decisions? The biggest factor that LL may have over CD at this stage is that you get free management for a year after completing the route to management course but then I don’t know what CD do on that front? My biggest challenge will always be keeping the weight off and I have to think about what is best for me at that stage even at the expense of what happens to me at this stage.
Also I am trying not to let the fact that if I start CD after the next 3 meeting then I will be able to start eating with my family again and given that 2 weeks on each stage adds up to 10 weeks then I will be through the restrictions well before Christmas. I have to consider that this could well be affecting my draw to CD so I have to be careful about that because whatever I do it has to be for the right reasons.
I was talking to my hubby about the situation last night and he said that although I feel like I have come a long way with the counselling and haven’t learnt anymore about myself for weeks, I won’t know if I need the additional counselling of LL in management until I get there and he is as usual dead right – don’t tell him I said that though!
I enjoyed another bowl of chocolate porridge this morning and given that it is wet and windy it once again was a welcome and excellent start to the day. You get given a recipe sheet on how you can cook the packs for a bit of interest are only supposed to cook one a day. Nowhere n that sheet does it mention that PH could be such and excellent ingredient to make things a bit different.
The other small event of note which has really made my day is that I needed to adjust my SlenderTone belt so that the sticky pads were on the smallest setting. I have gone from not being sure that the biggest were going to fit to needing them on the smallest of the 3. This may be nothing to somebody else but I cried because it means such a lot to me.
Activity: 7,217
Water: 6l’s and consistent
Toning: 40 mins on ST
Weight: 12st or 168lbs
6 days of development completed, 44 to go.
posted by Tal @ 12:24 PM
1 Comments:
At 3:34 AM,
Sassy said…
Hiya
Have been reading your blog with interest as I've just started the Lighter Life programme.
Today is my day 2 and 100 days seems like a really long time.
Hope you don't mind but I've got a quick question for you......... how did you manage to get the lumps out of the shakes? so far I've had chocolate and vanilla and both nearly made me want to be sick. Any tips?
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