Lipotrimmer

23rd Feb - 4th Day of diet - 152.6lbs

2008-02-23T10:34:00.000-08:00

I am really happy that I did not give up yesterday because today when I checked my weight it was really really great. I'd lost 1.4lbs in a day. Today was again another tough day because Saturday I am at home and obviously get tempted so much. But I cooked for my husband but never ate. I had one or two bites here and there. It was not because I was hungry it was just to tast stuff :)

22nd Feb - 3rd day 154lbs

2008-02-23T10:31:00.000-08:00

Yesterday's weight was 154lbs. Not bad.

I was not well yesterday and did not go to work. Because I was at home and was tired I was getting really tempted to break my diet. But I thought I have already suffered the first two days which is usually difficult, if I break it at this stage, then those two days of struggle would go waste. So I was strong and did not give up and I am happy that I didn't

21st Feb - 2nd day of diet - 154.88lbs

2008-02-23T10:26:00.000-08:00

I could not update my post on 21st. All I remember is my weight after one day of diet was 69.7kgs(154.88lbs). That's 1.8lbs less on one single day. Now wonder I'm continuing the diet

20th Feb 2008 - 1st day of diet again :) - 156.4lbs Restart weight

2008-02-20T13:14:00.000-08:00

Ok...Here comes my second phase of diet. For people who are reading my blog for the first time, I started my diet in 2006 Nov and lost around 30kgs(67lbs) in three months time following Lipotrim diet and then Cambridge diet. after a year, the update is, I've not maintained all the weight loss but have not gained all the weight too. I have gained around a stone's weight which I really want to lose.

So my update as of today is I am 70.4 kgs (156.4lbs). I want to become at least 140lbs. for which I'm restarting my cambridge diet. Today I've successfully managed to have only my pack (1 Cranberry bar, two spicy tomatoes). In addition I had some poppadams. Please don't ask me whether its part of diet. Of course its not. I got tempted when I was frying Poppadams for my husband and daughter. Anyways its my first day and I should be forgiven.

I think its easy to do it for the first two days its gets worse after that. I'll keep you posted about my progress. Lets see what happens tomorrow. Hopefully I would have reduced some weight tomorrow in the morning and that would motivate me to continue tomorrow.

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

2007-03-14T06:16:00.000-07:00

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 15^th 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

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

2007-03-01T06:37:00.000-08:00

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

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

2007-02-23T03:40:00.000-08:00

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 :)

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

2007-02-20T04:39:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2007-02-15T05:33:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2007-02-06T07:41:00.000-08:00

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.

2nd Feb - 74th Day

2007-02-02T04:55:00.000-08:00

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

2007-02-02T04:52:00.000-08:00

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.

31st Jan - 72nd Day

2007-02-01T03:08:00.001-08:00

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.

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

2007-01-30T10:07:00.000-08:00

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.

24th and 25th Jan - 65 and 66 days

2007-01-25T03:14:00.000-08:00

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.

16th to 23rd Jan - 57 to 64 days

2007-01-23T05:27:00.000-08:00

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 :)

13,14,15th Jan 2007- 56 Days

2007-01-15T12:50:00.000-08:00

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 ;)

12th Jan 2007-53rd Day

2007-01-12T14:24:00.000-08:00

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

2007-01-12T02:25:00.000-08:00

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..... :)

7th Jan to 9th Jan- 50th Day

2007-01-09T03:26:00.000-08:00

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...

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

2007-01-06T12:40:00.000-08:00

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 23^rd 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 25^th and we travelled on 25^th.

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.

32nd Day - 22 Dec 2006

2006-12-22T15:32:00.000-08:00

I was on holiday today. Because its end of the year I just wanted to use the holidays I was left with this year and have taken them now. Tomorrow we are leaving to Dubai...(Fingers Crossed) it depends on the the mercy of Fog :-)

yesterday and today were little strange because I was feeling hungry yesterday and today I was getting little cravings on food....hmmmm....Something is wrong?
May be because I've started my AAM week. Today I cooked my 50g(I didn't know that 50gm is this less ) chicken and 2tblspoon of mushroom with little salt and spices. CD allows only spices and my generous mind allowed the salt :) After all my mouth needs something good to eat.

Yea...today my weigh in showed .1kg weight loss. It was okay because I was little worried that Im starting with AAM and might start putting on the weight with water retention. It din't happen...But tomorrow it might happen because I've added salt and it might lead to water retention.

Anyways, if the fog permits us I'll be holidaying till next year and back on blogging from Jan. If not I'll keep posting...

Merry Christmas....Happy new year....
I'm so happy that I'm already working on one of my usual new year resolution and now I do not know what resolution I should take for 2007 because I'm always used to this weight loss resolution :)

29,30,31 days - 19,20 and 21st Dec 2006

2006-12-21T14:11:00.000-08:00

I was not able to blog for the past three days because I'd been little busy with my daughter's b'day and preparation for holiday etc. We are leaving to Dubai on 23rd and looking the flight cancellation today, I'm little worried. So do not know whether to go ahead with our travel or cancel. Let's see.

20th was my daughter's B'day and we had a great time. Had a B'day dinner and did not get tempted. Now a days its kind of okay. Today is 21st and started with AAM (Add a Meal). Had 80g of Chicken and two tblspoon of mushroom. I'm really thrilled to see my weight tomorrow. May be I would have gained little because I'm adding meals now. I can't wait till tomorrow morning.

28th Day - 18th Dec 2006

2006-12-19T03:53:00.000-08:00

Did shopping for my daughter's birthday which is on 20th of Dec. Because my workplace is very near to the Oxford street I was able to spend 2 hrs on the streets walking around. So felt little tired in the night. According to CD, after two week of SSing you can start doing simple excercises unless you don't overdo it and feel exhausted. I've currently not started with excercising because I am already doing lots of house hold work and walking a lot to work and at home etc. So My counsellor said because I am already working hard she adviced me not to do excercise. May be I'll start doing excercises when I feel comfortable.

27th Day - 17th Dec 2006

2006-12-17T14:27:00.000-08:00

Hectic Sunday!!!

Had guests at home and lots of cleaning and stuff. I spoke to my parents, bro and sis in India and you know what!!! They all could make out that I've lost lots of weight and they said I look lot younger than what I used to. No need to mention how I am feeling.... My sis-in-law went one step more and said "I look like a Model". Not that I just believed all the words but still made me happy. After all you need some motivation and when people notice change and appreciate it, its definitely motivating..... Is it not?

25th and 26th Days - 15th and 16th Dec 2006

2006-12-16T23:13:00.000-08:00

Friday was an average day at work. Average day at diet too. I think I'm getting used to this diet too much now.Good for me...

Saturday was little tough for me because I had a birthday party to attend. I already made up my mind that I'm not going to get tempted with the food and Guess what!!! it was really really easier than I thought. Never got tempted. Just had my coffee with my sweeteners and very little semi skimmed milk as usual (this is little cheating in the diet which I have been doing from the beginning ). Had lots of water because I was continuously talking friends and relatives. I had the side effects of drinking this much water in the night. Had to run to the loo from bed at least three times and I definitely hated it. That's the reason I'm here in front of the computer at 7:00am on a Sunday...Damn Water :(

24th Day 14th Dec 2006

2006-12-15T01:46:00.000-08:00

Very hectic day at work which means a very normal day in diet. I have always seen this happening. Found my belt loose. Actually 2 weeks ago I made a new hole leaving 1 and half inch and again its loose. I have the experience of making holes only to make it loose earlier and these days its different... Its cool. One thing I hate in CD is the Orange bars. They are too citric.... :(
I finished all my left over Orange bars yesterday and am happy now.

22nd and 23rd Day - 12th and 13th Dec2006

2006-12-14T02:35:00.000-08:00

I was busy on 12th because I had guests at home. Cooked some nice meals and never ate :)
13th was really easy because I was at client's place which takes me a long time to travel and I think when I'm really really busy I do not think about food.

I tried crisps with my Vegetable soup yeterday night. I won't say I like it though it turned out very good like crisps But it was different. I was getting bored with shakes and soups and bars and this was definitely a different one. It was salty though. Because the powder is for making soup it has salt needed for at least 300ml of water. But when I made it as crisps its salty..But I should do this every now and then.

Because I'm in my 4th week. I can start AAM(Add a Meal) from next tuesday. AAM is a phase for a week. Once you do CD for 4 weeks, you need to add a meal with your usual 3 CD packs for a week that's on the 5ht week. When I say mean do NOT think that its typical meal, but its going to be something like the following:

3oz (80g) portion of white fish
2oz (50g) poultry meat (without skin or fat)
3oz (80g) quorn or tofu
4oz (100g) cottage cheese (reduced fat)
2tbsp 'white or green' vegetables (cooked or raw) such as spring greens, cauliflower, lettuce, mushrooms, cabbage, marrow, broccoli, celery, cress, courgettes or cucumber

This is what the CD site says. But still I think I'm going to enjoy this and still I can loose weight but not as much as when I was eating only the CD packs (its called Sole sourcing (SS)). But its okay

21st Day

2006-12-12T12:43:00.000-08:00

Normal day without much cravings. But in the evening I was getting irritated so much without any reason. It has kind of become my routine now :(

Today is my 21st day and I made a very bad Strawberry shake today with lots of lumps. This is the first time I was trying the shake hot reading all threads at minimins.com about good the shakes when they are hot. But it looks like I'm not a Hot Gal...ohhhh I'm sorry hot shake loving gal... I'll definitely become one at least after I finish my diet *lol*. It was very bad may be because it was full of lumps....Better luck next time to me....

19th And 20th Day

2006-12-11T02:05:00.000-08:00

This weekend I had different kind of problem. Because I was going to have guests at home on Monday I was cleaning up the whole house (Not that I don't clean otherwise :) ), and in Saturday night I was feeling very very dizzy God!!! I have never seen anything like that. Even Sunday morning I was not getting better when I got up. Then after a while I was feeling okay and had lots of other stuffs to do. Again Sunday night, I was feeling the same way. I called Counsellor and she said its because I was working too much and need to rest. Let me see whether this dizzy feeling fades away otherwise I might need to give up the diet. Though I feel sad about that, there a drop of excitement in my mind. I know ... I'm trying to be little naughty here...

Spoke to my counsellor about my holidays and looks like I might move from Sole sourcing which is just 537cal diet to 1000calories diet. Let me see how I get through.
This week I weighed and did not see any weight Loss I was really worried. But on the forums people say that even though I have not lost weight I would have lost inches. So let me try on all my old tight clothes to keep me going.

18th Day

2006-12-09T06:37:00.000-08:00

I've started worrying about Christmas holidays. I am going to Dubai during the holidays and am wondering how I'm going to do the diet during holidays. Trying to find how I can manage to enjoy my holidays as well not get out of Ketosis. Planning to talk to my counsellor. Let me see what she comes up with.

I am not very sure about what is the best time to weigh. I have noticed that I have at least 4 to 5 lbs difference in weight depending on whether I weigh in in the morning or in the evening. I did my first weighing in the morning and trying to do it only in the mornings. But sometimes when I check it in the evening its 5lbs more which is scary. Need to find out about this.

17th Day

2006-12-08T05:38:00.000-08:00

This week has been little different from the last week. Though, I don't have so much urge to eat I've been feeling kind of depressed during the day. I really do not know whether its the diet. I'm guessing its the diet because I'm usually not that kind of person. Even if I have any problems I'll be down only for a day or two and not more than that. But this week, I do not have any reason to be depressed or down but still am feeling so. I'm really conscious not to show that to my hubby and daughter but sometimes it comes out. I need to be more conscious about it.

I don't want my entire family to undergo change when I'm doing this diet. My hubby has been so helpful that he prepares tea for me whenever I'm tired and was even ready to buy food from outside if I was finding it hard to cook for him. I'm feeling guilty that he's been so helpful and am trying to be selfish. I need to work on this thing now...

16th Day

2006-12-07T03:30:00.000-08:00

Very normal day... No temptation to eat. I actually started getting the satisfaction by just smelling the food now. :) That's what I did when I cooked dinner. I smelled the Chickpeas curry I made and it was amazing. Looks like I started liking cooking when I cannot eat. So I want to do something related to food always...Strange...hmmmm

In the evening I kind of was frustrated for everything. I don't know whether its related to the diet or work. But was getting irritated for everything. But thank God!! I kept it to myself and controlled it and not showed it to my hubby and daughter... Sooooo I can do this too. Good to know. I'm learning a lot in this weight journey

15th Day

2006-12-05T14:36:00.000-08:00

Today was really boring at work and may be because of that I started thinking about food again. After the first week, today is when I started thinking about food again and was worried about doing this diet for more days.

I should say onething. This diet is definitely life changing and I would suggest anyone who's BMI is dangerous to get into this diet. You get two benefits out of this diet. One you loose your weight and become healthier. Two..It shows how strong you are in mind. It tests your will power. When I started this diet I was thinking that I was not going to do this diet even more than two days. But when I have done it for two weeks it gives confidence on me and my will power.

So if anyone is thinking of doing it please do it and you can definitely see your life changing.

14th Day

2006-12-05T04:29:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was my official 2nd week on this diet. Hmmmm...I can't believe its alreayd two weeks. I am proud of myself now.

Yesterday was little strange because I was kind of feeling hungry. I had stopped feeling hungry a week ago. In the evening I checked my ketosis and it was okay. So i don't know what the reason was.

I had my crunch bar for my breakfast and I should say this 'WOW.........That was wonderful'. The problem was, I usually have bites of the bar during the whole of day time and because the crunch bar was really good I couldn't put it back and ate the whole bar in few mins. May be that's the reason I was hungry. I had soups for both afternoon and night. (Wanted a change). I did not like the vegetable soup and chickent & mushroom soup but I loved the Oriental chilli.

So I'm liking this CD where I have lots of options. My blog still reads Lipotrimmer though I'm currently a CDer(Cambridge dieter)... :) I cannot do anything now though

13th Day

2006-12-03T12:45:00.000-08:00

Today is my second diet on CD. I'm really enjoying this diet now. Got used to the sachets and water intake.

Today I went to weigh myself with the pharmacist and only 12 lbs down. At home when I checked it was nearly 14 Lbs down two days earlier. I don't know why it varies. Because I was goin to get weighed I did not even drink water or eat anything and thought of doing it after the weighing. Actually it affected me so much that when I came back from the pharmacy, I had acute stomach pain and had to go to the toilet at least twice. When I read the CD book it clearly stated that I should have had lots of water with the bar which I didn't :( So lesson learnt now and won't ever do that mistake.

I'm kind of feeling down today because its sunday evening and tomorrow I need to go to west end of London whereas I stay in East end of London. I need to do this travel for another 3 months and takes an hour and half each way and this puts me down....

Feeling tired and off to bed now...

12th Day

2006-12-02T14:15:00.000-08:00

I joined Cambridge diet today......woohooooooooo!!!!

I met my CDC (Cambridge Diet Councellor) today and got my sachets for next two weeks. Unfortunately scale in her place was not working and could not weigh in. At home it shows that I've lost 14lbs, but its hard to believe because my scale is not a digital one. I am going to order a digital scale online and keep track of my weight myself.

I Love CD food a lot. I had the milk choclate bar and it was wow.... tasty. I did not like the butter scotch shake which I had in the evening. For dinner I had spicy Tomato soup and it was yummy. One more good thing happened today. I tested whether I'm on ketosis today with the Ketostix. If anyone does not know what I'm talking about. Here's the explanation.

Ketosis is a condition in which the body will use the fat for energy and produces ketones as a by-product. This change in metabolism occurs when the body no longer has incoming carbs to produce glycogen and after the liver has been depleted of stored glycogen. Although ketosis has kicked in, this does not mean that body fat is being burnt it could be either body fat or dietary fat.

Ketostix Sticks.

These sticks can be used to find whether you are in Ketosis. This is based on the Ketones present in the urine.

Today when I did this test, I found that my ketostix was showing very light pink and I was worried that my ketosis is not strong enough. But now when I searced on some of the blogs and forums, I found that it depends on the hydration too. So if I'm drinking lots of water it means that my ketones are diluted and its very light pink in colour which is good :-)

I don't have any problems with drinking 4 ltrs of water because I usually drink that much water. I've seen many people struggling with this. One thing I do not understand is different VLCD programs ask the participants to drink different quantities of water. I do not understand the reason. Lipotrim insists on min 4 ltrs of water, CD on 4 Pints of water and LL (lighter life) on 6 ltrs.

Anybody knows why?

11th Day

2006-12-01T14:54:00.000-08:00

Today was the best day on my diet. Never felt dizzy or hungry. May be because I had a training from morning till evening and it has distracted me and did not feel anything.

In the evening, had guests at home and cooked for all of them and did not get tempted. May be I've become a very good girl :) or my stomach is planning for something big during the weekend ;)

Let me see how I get through. Yea...Now I remember why today was good. Its because I weighed myself today and I had lost around a stone on the scale at home. But still I do not want to believe this. Because usually the scale at pharmacist and home have always been different. Even in the weight loss...

Tomorrow first thing in the morning I'm meeting my Cambridge Diet Councellor. I'm really happy that I'm switching over to CD. I'll have someone to talk to and can have lots of different flaors...hoooraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy

10th Day

2006-11-30T13:04:00.000-08:00

I did not go to work today and was at home with my daughter.

All these days I have noticed that, when I'm doing this diet I am okay the whole of day time. But around 5 in the evening I start feeling tired and dizzy. It lasts till I go to bed. I don't know whether its just psychological or its physical. Whatever it is, I need to cope up and I will....

Today was easy other than the evening tiredness and dizziness. Got a call from work and got to know that from monday I might have to travel to a client place which takes more than an hour on the tube which I really hate :( I'm worried about continuing the diet when I'm travelling. Let's see. I just want to take one at a time and loose my 69lbs....

9th Day

2006-11-29T15:20:00.000-08:00

Again today I tried out something different. I didn't have any of my sachets today till lunch time. Had my strawberry milkshake for lunch. The hardest part was when there was free Pizza lunch at one of the meetings at work, I could smell Pizza cheese around me and there I was sitting with ugly glass of Shake (full of fibre) :( Still I managed not to sneak in.

I have to mention this really interesting thing happening today in the evening. Because my husband had gone to Manchester today I left work little early and picked up my daughter from her Childminder and there I was standing in front of my house. I was trying to open the door with the key I had and it wouldn't open....Tried harder...No...It won't open...My daughter (3 year old) started giving me advice about how her father opens the door Grrrrrrrrrrrrr....... Tried hard...Still won't open. Took help from neighbours and still not able to open. So I gave up finally and called one of my relative who had spare keys and I waited in a nearby resataurant till she arrived in.

Because I din't want to sit in the restaurant without eating, asked my daughter to eat something and she chose to eat Chicken 65 (Hmmmm.....My favourite)...I was sitting next to her feeding the chicken without putting even small bit into my mouth...I was very proud...(Don't be happy for me..Hear the rest of my story)

My realtive arrived and got the remaining chicked packed and finally got into the house. Again my daughter started eating her chicken and can u guess what I did...Yes...I had a small bit of chicken...Wow..it was delicious. The next bit I put into my mouth and started chewing...then felt guilty and spat it into the bin... So mean....

I am going to be 30 and still do not have control .... I'm ashamed...But its okay... at least I didn't eat the second bit...

So in the evening I had soup and in the night another strawberry milkshake...Not feeling hungry at all...Its just the temptation to eat food and no hunger...I'm happy now

And finally do you want to know why I was not able to open the door...because I was trying to open our house with our old house key.... I would blame it on the diet actually..... lol....

8th Day

2006-11-28T14:38:00.000-08:00

Looks like I'm getting obsessed with reading forums on VLCD(Very Low Calories Diet) now. But these forums are really really motivating and inspiring. Today was better. I finished drinking my 4 ltrs by afternoon and was not feeling hungry. But I have this dizzy feeling all day along. I don't know why...But its manageable.

Today I was thinking of changing from Lipotrim to Cambridge diet(CD). The reasons are
1. I pay the same price for CD food packets
2. I will get a councellor who will help with my doubts and motivating me
3. I'm getting bored with Lipotrim food sachets. they don't come in many flavours as CD ones. I read on forums that they are tastier than LT (Lipotrim) sachets...

I've fixed an appt with a CD councellor near my area for saturday. I'm longing to have some tasty food even though I'm dietting...After all my tongue has some tasting buds too ;-)

7th day

2006-11-27T14:33:00.000-08:00

Today was a very soberday. Though I was not hungry, I was really tired and light headed. Today I tried mixing little of choclate shake with my Cardboard tasting flapjack and it was nice...Invention of the day...Hooray!!!!

Came back little early from office and cooked lots of stuff and guess what did not put any stuff into my mouth... :)) Strong woman!!! Feeling better...May be ketosis has kicked in.Thanks for that Lipotrim

6th Day of diet -Had handful of rice :(

2006-11-26T14:06:00.000-08:00

Doing this diet during weekends is very very tough. I was about to cry when I had to control myself from eating food

Both on saturday and today I had little of rice when I was cooking. I felt really guilty after that. God!!! this is really terrible not to eat when I am cooking food. I was listening to the audio cassette which my pharmacist gave and it clearly says that this is food addiction and I completely agree with it.

I've been drinking coffee and tea with very little skimmed milk in it. I know that its cheating and but I cannot drink black coffee/tea. Today is 6th day of my diet and went to weigh my weight because I cannot go on weekdays and I've lost 7lbs. Thats really rewarding. So this diet has been rewarding though, I've been cheating it .
But I've decided to control myself from eating rice anymore...Let me see

5th Day

2006-11-25T05:11:00.000-08:00

I am sitting in front of this computer mainly because I cooked lunch and was tempted to eat. So I am trying to motivate myself by reading blogs and forums. Hope I will get through this :(

Suddenly, I started worrying about onething. I can manage and loose some weight if its for a short term but how long can I be like this. What if I start gaining weight after I go into normal food. So why should I be struggling to loose this weight which anyways I am going to gain. May be I'm trying to convince myself to eat...

Tomorrow I'll update how my day went

4th day

2006-11-25T05:09:00.001-08:00

It was better because I was busy at work. I had a slight temptation to eat during lunch because it was a free lunch :) but managed not eating. A Pat on my shoulder

3r day -Part 2

2006-11-23T13:50:00.000-08:00

Today in the evening I started feeling hungry, tired, irritated and what not and when I was coming back from work with my husband I started saying that I am going to eat something when I reach home. But he was trying to convince me not to eat anything and was saying that I have done it for 3 days with so much effort and need to go through these weak minutes. When we were back at home, he prepared a big MUG :-; of tea and it helped to curb my temptation...Thanks to him.

Its 9:54 pm and am feeling okay now. The only problem after I've started this diet is, sleep. I am not able to sleep in the nights. Though I feel very tired and lie on the bed, am not able to sleep properly. Hopefully things will change...Waiting for it to get better....

My Third Day of Lipotrim diet

2006-11-23T07:38:00.000-08:00

Today is my third day and I am already getting bored of this food now. It may be because work is not that hectic as yesterday. The main thing I hate in this diet is , the metallic feeling in my mouth. It feels as if you are really sick. Not very good feeling :(
I managed to eat only half of my flapjack in the morning and I'm holding onto my next half to eat in the evening. Ususally evenings I feel energyless. So I'm trying this today.

Though I am managing to drink more than 4 ltrs of water, its sometimes boring. Its already boring on my 3rd day and I don't know how I'm going to continue it. Yesterday in the morning when I checked my weight I had lost 3lbs (Wow for second day). But when I checked it again in the evening, I haven't lost any weight :( (May be the machine is wrong and I've really lost that 3lbs lol...) I got worried and was asking my husband at 11:00pm (while he was sleeping) that Why I am not loosing any weight and he said 'For god's sake its just your 2nd day..... :)

Today in the morning I checked and it shows that 3lbs less. So same as yesterday in the morning. Hopefully its lesser tomorrow in the morning...Fingers crossed....

My Second Day of Lipotrim diet

2006-11-22T14:07:00.000-08:00

Today was better than the first day mainly because I was busy at work. I just had my Flapjack for breakfast, Chicken soup for lunch and Strawberry shake for dinner.
Watched Desperate Housewives and am goin to go to bed now and am not feeling hungry :-)
May be I need to wait for it to become worse... I hate this metallic taste in my mouth.

My First Day of Lipotrim diet

2006-11-21T08:28:00.000-08:00

I started with a new diet called Lipotrim. Its food replacement diet and supposed to be faster. I have been doing lots and lots of research about loosing weight on the interenet and got this wonderful diet information and today I started with it.

Now I weigh14St 13lbs and am 5.1' feet in height.My target is to reach 10St.

I'm really thrilled about this new diet which I started today. The diet is, you eat/drink only sachets of shakes or snack bars which you buy from a pharamacist. I think this program is only available in UK. You can have only 3 sachets either of Shakes/Snack bars/ Flapjack bars. You should be drinking lots of water to be precise at least 4 ltrs of water everyday. May that's the reason they say You are not supposed to feel hungry :)

First day(Today) was not very bad. I had a snack bar in the morning which was not very tasty. I thought that the snack bars going to be tastier than the shakes, but I was wrong. In the afternoon I had strawberry milkshake which was really good. This shows how good I am at judging things :o)

Have managed to drink around 2 and half litres of water. My pharmacist said I can have Tea/coffee but without sweetener or milk. But one of my collegue who's doing the same kind of diet said we can have sweeteners. I added little of skimmed milk to my tea to make it look like tea :-; I know that its real cheating. But I wanted to have this luxury when I'm doing this kind of tough diet.

I got inspiration from this site from Janine www.slimjanine.co.uk though she's doing a different diet. Thanks Janine!!!