My weight Journey

On 136th Day of CDing

Wednesday 14 March 2007

2nd Mar - 14th Mar - 102 days to 114 days

I know that I’m not updating my blog these days as much as I used to. Its mainly because I was thinking of writing this till I complete 100days of this diet and I was initially not thinking of not continuing the diet after 100days. But things have changed and am still continuing the diet. But not exactly SSing.

I’ve kind of become naughty after my illness and eating of food due to illness two weeks ago. The update is I came out of ketosis and my weight was fluctuating and I was putting everything into my mouth. Now from today got back into ketosis so should be easy from now on. But the problem is because I’ve started eating normal food, my mouth knows the tastes and the chatterbox inside me is asking me to feed some normal food. Lets see whether my chatterbox wins or I.

I’m visiting my family in India during May and the visit is planned for 3 weeks. So I want to lose as much as weight as possible before I go there so that I need not worry too much even if I put on a couple kilos. So thinking of continuing this diet till 15th of April and then get into maintenance.

My husband is also doing this diet and I should say that he’s lost lots of weight and I’m definitely jealous about that :). I want to be 10stones when I go to India and I think I will achieve it. My B’day is nearing and I should be 10Stones on my B’day. That’s my goal. Lets see

Thursday 1 March 2007

24th Feb to 1st Mar - 96th to 101 days

I completed 100days of this diet yesterday. Started with Lipotrim for two weeks and moved to CD SS and completed 100days yesterday. Have lost 49lbs in these 100 days. Average of .5lbs a day which is not bad.

Never fell ill during these 100days and finally on 99th day was down with Flu and could not do anything. Because the packs provide very balanced diet I think my immunity has increased and could feel lots of difference in my skin but at the end got flu now. Since I am taking medication, I've started eating little of rice in addition to my pack and I am sure I can get back to SSing in a day or two when I recover completely to lose the rest of 20lbs. I want to say onething to anyone who's thinking about this diet, If I can do this, anyone can do this. So please keep doing it and you will be happy as me in few days

Friday 23 February 2007

21st to 23rd Feb- 93rd to 95th Day

Quite normal these days. But kind of getting bored or having some cravings. Though the cravings are not very bad, I am thinking about the day I should be stopping.

One more thing to worry about is my husband is able to continue his diet without any problem. The best or worst part is he did not even suffer like me during the initial days. He usually loves food and he's more of a carb person than me. So I kept telling him that he'll have a hard time. BUT he's actually very easy with it. I think this diet gives people surprises in all the ways. He's also having a good weight loss. OK. Let me stop talking about my husband's diet here. This is my blog and not his blog :)

Tuesday 20 February 2007

16th to 20th Feb - 88th day to 92nd day

These days have been better. On friday had a good dinner with my family at a restaurant. But was conscious about what I was eating. I just wanted to do it because I was getting so bored and wanted a change. I had two small spring rolls ....Wow they tasted soooooooooooooooooo good. Anyways, havent lost much weight this week there could be so many reasons for it.

One more news is my husband has started this diet from yesterday and I have already challenged him saying he's not going to continue. I will get a Nanpod if he fails to continue the diet and if he continues he'll get one. So all of u please wish me luck in my mission to stop my husband from succefully doing the diet :-).... I was just kidding.

I am happy that he's also doing it...Lets see whether we emerge as a slim couple from this CD.

Thursday 15 February 2007

7th Feb to 15th Feb - 79th to 87th Day

I am really sorry about the discontinuity in my blogging (If at all anyone is reading it regularly :) )
Its because I just moved home and do not have broadband yet.

All these days my diet has been going really really smooth. Have learnt to alter the diet the way I want by eating little grilled chicken or chickent curry when I get really tempted and the good news is its not doing any harm to the ketosis.

This week I lost 2.2 Kgs and I am in cloud nine after seeing scale yesterday. I do not feel much tired these days and this diet has become kind of part of my life and part of people who I work with too. Because I'm usually a loose talker I explain the diet to everyone I talk to(Whether they are interested in listening to me or not) Free advertisment for Cambridge Diet now.

Tuesday 6 February 2007

3rd Feb-6th Feb - 75th to 78th Day

I have started feeling better. But the weight loss is not that great. This week I've lost only 1.1Lbs, the lowest loss I ever had. I did not eat anything other than the two days where I had little grilled chicken nibbles. I'm really devastated because when I move to 790 plan I'm allowed to 175gm of chicken. If this little nibbles lead to weight increase then 790 may not work out for me which means maintenance is going to be more tough. Let me do SS this week traditionally and see whether the weight loss is same and make any conclusions on that.

One more good news is my dress sizes have gone from 20-22 to size 16. I'm so happy. I could see myself on the size clothese which I never thought I would be able to wear.

Friday 2 February 2007

2nd Feb - 74th Day

Still not feeling okat. Same hunger pangs, cravings and tiredness. More than all that mentally I'm down because of these stuff. Yesterday at home, I was trying to be very upset and was getting angry for everything. That's really not good for either me or for the family. So I need to do something about it. I wanted to complete at least 100days of SSing and then start doing 790 or any other plan but I think its not going to work. But I'll see to it that I acheive my goal weight by doing one or the other plan before my birthday in May this year. :)

1st Feb - 73rd Day

Today has been a very difficult day for me. Was feeling very tired and hungry and cravings. I really do not know why its like that. I checked my ketosis and I'm still in ketosis.

Tonight I seriously started thinking about doing 790plan. The diet I'm doing is Sole Source(SS) where I have CD packs which give me around 500 calories and 790 plan allows all three packs as usual and for the rest 300 calories I can have some high-protein food. CD books says that I will still be in Ketosis and can lose weight when I'm doing 790. Let me think about it and decide whether I want to move to 790. Most probably I will.

Thursday 1 February 2007

31st Jan - 72nd Day

I think I’m on the hungry and temptation cycle this week. Today I started feeling very hungry often and was getting tempted to eat food. I’ve noticed that its like a cycle where I have these hungry pangs and then its gone for few weeks. Now that I’ve lost some weight, I’m getting tempted to stop the diet. But u know what…I will not give up till I reach my goal weight

I usually drink tea when I feel hungry. I bought some calcium tablets from boots today to boost my weight loss and increase the strength of my bones. Lets see how it works out. Did I tell that I had around 3lbs loss…It was not like I was scared. So am happy.

Tuesday 30 January 2007

26th Jan to 30th Jan - 67th Day till 71st day

As I said I was very busy moving home and settling down in the new house. I had to work really really hard and still managed not to break my diet. But once I swaped my soup with Chicken :)
Today being my official weigh-in day, I could not find the scale in the morning. Just now in the evening I found the scale and guess what it shows that I have put on weight. Usually I know that the weight is more in the evening than in the morning. But still it should not be showing this high. I'm really devasted. I'll let you know the weight after I weigh-in in the tomorrow morning.

Having my fingers crossed till tomorrow morning :( I really want to see some good weight loss.

Thursday 25 January 2007

24th and 25th Jan - 65 and 66 days

It has taken me nearly 4 days to get rid of the weight I had put on during my chicken binging days :(
I feel very guilty and want to move faster. But this has made me very conscious now and am really worried about my maintenance phase. I've heard many people able to maintain the weight but am not sure how I will succeed on that.

Other than that the diet has become part of my life now and do not have any problems now. No temptation. In fact we had a team lunch at Pizz Express yesterday and did not feel anything. I was cool sitting with people eating pizzas and inhaling the cheese smell.

Tuesday 23 January 2007

16th to 23rd Jan - 57 to 64 days

I am sorry to have disappeared suddenly without any notice. I was the chosen one to travel to Manchester for a night and was very fortunate to get stuck at Manchester because of the train cancellations due to wind. So had to stay in there for another night and came back the next day evening. I was so tired of the travel and because we are moving home I was busy and tired and did not continue my blogging.


About the diet, I’d been really really naughty these days because I was staying outside. I realized that I have a habit of eating nice food when I stay out. So got tempted and did my maths and almost for 4 days I skipped two of my packs and equivalently had chicken (either grilled or Tandoori). You know what!!! Inititally it worked out very good BUT….yesterday when I weighed myself I had gained .4kgs :(


So am back to SSing now from yesterday. I started feeling very guilty. My husband was saying that I fiddling around the diet with over confidence and should not be doing it. Once in his life, I agree to what my husband is saying :) (Hope he doesn’t read this) So this week’s weight loss was just 1.7lbs… :( I’m obviously not very happy about it.


This shows that I need more self-control and also gives me an idea of how difficult its going to be when I get into maintenance. So, let me be prepared to it. So my aim is to lose as much as weight as possible now so that when I start gaining it, it will be at least slower and hope I will never get back to the weight at which I started.


Notice: Because we are moving home, I might be on and off this blog. But I’ll see to it that I’ll give the full update :)

Monday 15 January 2007

13,14,15th Jan 2007- 56 Days

13th and 14th were bit of wierd because I was very tired. More than tiredness I had very terrible leg pain. I do not know whether its related to the diet, but it was so different. The pain just appeared before I went to bed on both days. It might be because I was doing lots of cleaning stuff. Whatever, it was bearable and anyways, I got through those days .

Today the 15th was so very normal. It was so normal that I even forgot to have my lunch soup till 4:00 clock in the evening. The same in the night, I was just closing the kitchen fully and realized that I did not have my dinner soup :). Then I asked my husband to make me soup and he made it.
I have a tip to you all gals who are doing this diet...That is when your other half makes the soup its really delicious...Believe me..I mean it ;)

Friday 12 January 2007

12th Jan 2007-53rd Day

I was very happy in the morning when I weighed myself. In fact I weigh myself every day in the morning. Today I was 79.6Kgs. Touching seventies was something I had never dreamt of and it was a surprise for me because I'd lost one Kg in a day. I was initially thinking that my rate of weight loss was going down. But today I was proved wrong and am really happy.

10th and 11th Jan 2007 - 51 and 52 Days

On 10th evening I becamse little naughty and wanted to have chickent. Even though it was not my AAM week, I wanted to eat. It all started when I was walking along with my husband back from work to home. Smelled roasted chicken from Lahore Chicken point from the quite cold windy air...(Its all the smell and wind's fault and not mine :)) So bought roasted chicken, thought of missing my dinner soup and have equivalent Chicken. Surprisingly, by the dinner time all my cravings had gone. But still thought I can have little of chicken for my dinner instead of soup. So had very little chicken and guess what...I was feeling full with that. So no problem.

11th was very normal except for the little guilty feeling. But this diet has taught me to eat right portions. It has made me conscious about what I am eating. I love this diet and people!!! Remember if you are thinking of doing something about weight. Please do it now...I mean just now. Don't wait for anything...This diet is really amazing. I've reached my weight which I was before my pregnancy and I never thought I could ever do it. Here I've done it..... :)

Tuesday 9 January 2007

7th Jan to 9th Jan- 50th Day

As I said on my earlier blog, my weight loss this week did not go that much and today I weighed in as its my official weigh in day and I had lost only 2.5lbs. Which is the lowest weight loss I had on this diet. Usually people say that after AAM week you tend to lose more weight because the metabolic rate would have reset. But not in my case :(

Anyways something is better than Nothing. One more good news is, everybody in my office has noticed my weight loss now and I'm getting lots of compliements which makes me motivated more.
Today is my 50th diet on the diet. Wow!!! I never thought I would reach here. My plan is to do this diet for 100days whether I achieve my target weight or not but stop it at the end of 100days. Lets see whether I can do that...

Saturday 6 January 2007

23 Dec 2006 till 6 Jan 2007- 47 days on diet

Hi Everybody,

I am back after a long hibernation ...But a good one. The hibernation is only for the Blog and not for the diet. Can you believe it....Yes...I did it during my holidays too....

23 Dec – 31 Dec

To start with, I did not travel to Dubai on 23rd as planned because we missed the flight. Wait…Wait…Don’t think that we missed it because we were late or something. We went to the airport got our boarding pass and were standing in the big security checking queue and the queue was moving like an asthmatic dog trying to walk with 3 broken legs L. We saw the status of our gate being closed and asked the employees whether they can prioritize and let us get through the Security gate and you know what they said NO. By the time we went to our gate our gate was closed and we did not travel on that day. It was really annoying and we could not believe it happened. Whatever, because of that we had to re book our tickets to 25th and we travelled on 25th.

Now about the diet, All the 5 days we were in Dubai, I did not have much time to think about diet because we were so busy going around Dubai and doing shopping. May be buying stuff has controlled my appetite. J. It also helped that I was on my AAM (Add a meal) week and was able to eat Chicken. So what I did is, ate two dinners just chicken. It was easy to get Tandoori Chicken, charcoaled chicken or chicken tikka in all the places. The two days, when I decided that I was going to have dinner, I skipped one or two of my packs which gave me around 250calories to consume. So I had enough chicken those days and you know what …hmmmmm…It was really nice to Chew in some food…

So after coming back I checked my weight and I had lost around 2 and half Kgs. Wow!!! I was really really happy. So that’s my holiday story.

31st - 6th Jan

Were normal days. But this week my weight loss was not going that much as I expected it to be. Lets see on Tuesday (9th Jan) where it goes. Becuase usually Tuesdays are my official weighing in day.