19-07-2008
Hello,
This picture of me was taken on Thursday 17th July 2008. I weigh 16 stone 11lbs and started the Cambridge diet the Friday 18th July 2008. Today is Saturday 19th July 2008 and I have completed my first day. This website is all about my diet experience and I will be updating it everyday.
I am on this diet for me. I look and feel fat. I want to look much slimmer than I am now. I want to weigh much less than I do now. I have had my blood pressure checked by my GP and it was 125/76 with a cholestarol level of 4.8 and a BMI of 48. When I went to the cousellor she measured my waist as 45.5in and my hips at 54.5 which was only 5.5 smaller hips were 9 years ago when I was pregnant! My family have emailed or called me with their support and so have my friends. I have even made a bet with my childminder's husband that I will be 9 stone or pay him £5. Determination to get through the 109lbs before my goal weight is through my whole life and so I am happy to accept the challenge Matt :oD
Yesterday being the first day I was excited at how well I knew I would do. I had been advised that the dizzyness and tiredness and grumpyness would get to me and I did feel all those. However, being an NLP & Hypnotherapy Master Practitioner I know the reasons for those feelings. I am happy for this to be happening in such a way that the grumpiness is all about my body wanting something it is now not getting. The dizzyness is due to the amount of water I am now drinking (3.5 litres) and the tiredness is due to the body using up the carbohydrate stores it has.I started the day yesterday with an excited buzz due to being one day closer to my goal of 31st December 2008 when I will weigh 9 stone. The first drink i had was the chocolate shake and wow! It reminded me of the Thorntons belgium chocolate milkshake both my son and me had at Gunwharf a few months back. I really liked the flavour and the texture of that shake. I found that it was really easy to drink water when I had what I thought were hunger pangs. It was very easy to mistake the thirst pangs we all get with the hunger pangs until I started this diet.
At lunchtime around 1pm I had the spicy tomato soup and found that to be an incentive to have a different flavour at dinner time. Between meals I found that I was not picking nor had the urge to pick and was busy doing shopping or housework. I did think that as I have another Spicy tomato would the counsellor I am using be ok for me to change it, then i decided that it will taste better next time as I will be more familiar with the texture of the soups.
When I had my chicken and mushroom soup for dinner last nigh I was reminded of the creamy texture of the Baxters Cream Of Chicken soup and took my time with this soup. By this time I was feeling very dizzy and had drank 4 litres of water. The felling i had was similar to being slightly drunk.....almost the same way I was after 2 glasses of wine. I was happy to go to bed last night with a smile on my face and looking forward to my body looking and feeling the way my body really wants to.
Today I woke up feeling happy and a little dazed as I had been up three times during the night....all that water had to go somewhere lol. I am feeling really good and looking forward to the school carnival today. I will post some pictures on here when we get back. I had a really nice Butterscotch shake for breakfast which i am thinking I will order 2 of next week as well as the chocolate shake and chicken & mushroom soup. TTFN.