General hysterical diet-related rambling: From Flab to fab; Part two.

I will be starting again from tomorrow (just eaten yet another pizza, but only a few slices), the trouble is that I'm going away for a couple of days on Thursday, and food is included- eg. A five course meal! It is a mini cruise. But I won't be wearing a mini. I fear I may sink the ship.

I felt so fat going out clubbing on Saturday. It has given me renewed determination to stick to eating well. I won't be going out for another month till I've finished my Exante diet, hopefully I will have gone down another dress size by then. I felt all tummy and double chin. I think I'll go and look back at my old diary, I can remember writing about it when I realised my double chin had gone last time. I wan't to know what weight I am when it dissappears.

Think I will do exante for three weeks, instead of a month, as you are suppossed to gradually wean yourself back onto food, and they did also send me 8 less packs than they were suppossed to.
 
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Hi Ruth, I am so happy you are back…from browsing your diary I can see you’re doing really well with exercise and food. :waving:
 
Hi Ruth! Good luck on your new diet.. don't worry about the bad days! It happens to all of us. Just get back on that horse girl! I had a bad weekend as well but now I'm back on track and feeling good :)

That's lame that they shorted you 8 packs... are they going to send them to you or refund your money?

Hope all is going well now and we see your pretty face posting soon!
 
Hiya guys, sorry I have been awol. I have had a very busy week, and also a ridiculously bad food and drink week. I have had mucho fun tho, so its not all bad... But LADIEEEEEES, its time to kick arse again! Will check out your diary Mady :) And catch up with everyone elses x

Starting exante today, arrgghhh, wish me luck!

I did a begining of month two video. Have lost a little bit :D It has occurred to me that although I did the starting weight video, I didn't actually do a photo.

[video=youtube;9q57ZiUNpv0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q57ZiUNpv0&feature=youtu.be[/video]

Found my orginal starting measurements, which are half an inch higher than I thought they were (taking the broken tape measure mistake into consideration), so thats good, it means I have lost more inch-age then I thought:

4th June-
Waist 38.5
hips- 46.5
legs 27.5
bust 44
arms 15.5

6th July-
Waist 36..... Minus 2.5 inches :D
hips- 45.3... Minus 1.5 inches
legs 25....... Minus 2.5!!!!!
bust 44....... None, but the same bra.
arms 14.6... Minus almost 1 inch.
 
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Hi Ruth, 11 pounds in a month is super awesome!!!And you have a lovely hourglass figure!!!
 
:D Thank you :) I am quite pleased :) If I can have the same loss this month, I will be thrilled, as I will just be normal-fat.

Day one of exante, done. Two words sum up the tyheme of the day, and they are 1) Lumpy, and 2) Yuck. I haven't been hungry, but the grossness that I have swallowed doesn't even bear thinking about. To be fair, the people at exante do suggest using a blender. I have lost part of mine, so I couldn't do it. However much you whisk that shit with a fork, the lumps ARE NOT coming out :rant: And they are not nice.

Breakfast was porridge sachet. It is like an extra-fine ready brek, but it has this greasy, booby milk after-taste. I put a lot of cinamon in, but the after-taste was still there. I had three small lumps of chicken from my leftover tikka masala as a snack. Someone said that you can mix a vanilla shake with coffee (to make a kind of vannilla latte), which I did, but all the lumps floated in a thick layer on the top, and it tasted gross. But I couldn't bring myself to throw it away as I am worried as I will probably run out too early, as they didn't send all the months supply. So I drunk it, and its foul tasting lumpiness. I have just eaten a warm, lumpy, disgusting tasting tomato soup. Have never had powdered soup before, and now I know why. Again, I forced myself to eat it. I has three slices of ham as well.

My friend Charlotte said day two of the diet is the worst hunger-wise, as you haven't got the food in your system from the previous day, so I shall see how it goes tomorrow. To be honest, I feel like abandoning the exante ship, If all I am going to eat for three weeks is foul tasting lumps. I am worried that I will regret it if I don't stick to it though. It might not be nice at the time, but after I have finished my supplies I will be glad that I did it. I am still excited about the possible weight loss I could have on it, but I feel like puking when I think of the food I will have to eat to get there! I think I will have 2 shakes a day from now on, as I know that I think they are okay, and save the nasty stuff till last.

Just want to be slim.

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Had sugar free strawberry Jelly, as you are allowed it on this diet, thank gods.
Also had a chunk of bedtime cheese (was ravenous). This, along with the chicken and ham brings me up to a total of around 1000 calories for the day. If I can't resist the snacks by the time a week is up, I may as well eat real food. Because I could have a big egg salad, fresh soup, a snackpot, and some fruit for that in real food. And it would have the advantage of not being lumpy. And vile.
 
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That stuff sounds vile :( I think you're better off just going for soups/smoothies or something else low cal if that's what you're going for. Even the WW meals sound better than that stuff!!
 
It is indeedy so :( I will buy a new blender tomorrow, if I have enough money. Hopefully that will improve it a bit.

It has been hard today, I felt a bit faint, probably a combination of no proper food, lots of walking and the heat. I walked 3.5 miles to a nice park and back. Nick and the kids had a picnic, and it was SO TEMPTING! I did eat a little bit of skinless chicken thigh. It was quite weird, because there were grapes, and I was desperate to pinch a few, but alas, I couldn't.

I should go into ketosis in a couple of days, apparantly when that happens you have a surge of energy, and you're not hungry any more. I am reselling my Friday festival tickets on ebay. Because I know for a fact that if I go I will end up drinking. A festival with no alcohol will be no fun.

Today I've had a strawberry shake, a chocolate shake, a bit of chicken, a bit of jelly, and I will probably have a carbonara meal replacement later.

I was worried I'd have nothing to write about whilst not eating :)

Ps. Walking past Dominos pizza was torture.

Pss. Just had another strawberry shake. Big Mist-shake.
 
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Congrats on your inches and pounds!! you inspire me girly. Loved hearing your voice on your video! It makes you so much more real..haha..if you know what I mean.

I am so impressed with your shake diet. I really need to clean myself out to start fresh.....how bad is the hunger? Its so hard for me to eat well at dinner in this house..all three of my men...eat like football players. Its not stop eating around here.

I am going to search for some way to get motivated with food...and smoothies and shakes sound like a good idea!
 
Thanks :) One good thing about being so overweight is that it comes off really quickly at first, wish I could lose weight this quickly all the way to my goal! Yes, I am REAL!!! :) Looked down at myself, and I am definitely here, I'm not just a string of words on a website :D

I am in Ketosis- YAY! :party:

I do think this diet would be easist for a person who lives alone, or a couple who have decided to do the plan together. It is really hard to smell nice food being cooked (or even worse, cooking it yourself). Maybe you could ask your Hubby to cook for himself and the boys, and take yourself off up to your room and read a book or something. Saying that though, we are having a roast dinner tonight, and it smells so yummy, that I am going to have a bit of ketosis-friendly pork.

I think that the best thing about Exante, is that if you cheat, even once, with any carb-laden foods, then you will have to go through all the symptoms of going back into ketosis again... Like on a normal vlcd you might think- sod it, I'll cheat just this evening, and then go back to it tomorrow. This diet makes you think twice about doing that.

Three days down, 20 days to go! I have run out of sugar-free Jelly noooooooooooooooooooo.

Todays food: Porridge, banana shake, palm sized portion of roast pork, Thai soup.

Walked about a mile.
 
Thanks :) Off to stock up now! Jelly is actually amazing, and I am SO HAPPY that its something I can eat on this diet :hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

I woke up this morning, and something was amiss... I had this strange feeling.... I looked at the clock and I had only slept for 8 hours (I always sleep for 10/11 hours), I woke up naturally, and something seemed to be wrong with my face. And my brain. My brain was REFRESHED! My face had a SMILE on it! I feel like I am operating on a different plane, dizzy with happiness. My depression seems to have lifted off of me like a dark shroud and is no more.

[video=youtube;U5TqIdff_DQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TqIdff_DQ[/video]

Not only have my horrible tired and foggy brained symptoms of ketosis gone, I feel better than I ever have in my life, EVER. I have never woken up feeling completely 100% fresh and happy before, ready to go out and conquer the day. It must be my diet. Maybe I have always had an intolerance to something, but never cut it out.

Lifted this from Sunflower via Brawny:

"When I am skinny and sexy and awesome at life.."

What will you be doing?
I will be a skinny and eclectically dressed interior designer, I will be schmoozing, circulating, chatting and laughing. I will want to go out and do fun stuff, my weight and appearance will not hold me back any more. My true self will emerge... The self which is suffocating under rolls of fat.

Who will you be doing it with?
My family, friends, and people I haven't met yet.

Where will you be?
I will be at the Rio carnival wearing tiny shorts and a bikini top, with garlands around my neck. I will be at a roulette table in Las vagas, wearing a skin tight and revealing cocktail dress. I will be sunning myself in Hawaii.

Will the motivation to exercise come naturally?
Nope, but I will fake it till I make it.

How will you feel when you're there?
Bloody magnificent.
 
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4 days down, 19 to go.

Both yesterday and today I have had two food packs for breakfast, as one just isn't quite enough. I should really space them out, because you are only suppossed to eat 3 day... I ended up having an extra shake last night, and I have had half an extra shake, plus a chicken leg with skin today. I really don't know how some people stick to these diets for months on end. I woke up feeling ffantastic, but I have felt more and more irritated and giddy as the day has gone by. It is annoying me that Nick is cooking healthy dinners now, I think my health kick has rubbed off on him, its bloody annoying looking at a big plate of tasty looking healthy dinner and having to have a pathetic little bowl of what looks like baby food!

I have lost three pounds in 3.5 days, but I did eat badly the two days before I started so its probably water weight. Have been looking online at dress hire shops, the outnet and asos for outfits I'll be able to wear when I lose weight. I love clothes, but when I'm fat I just wear different versions of the same thing, and I lose all interest in fashion.

I have always intended on losing weight... I just think to myself, that unless I am planning on being big all my life, i would have HAD to have done it at some point, why didn't I just do it a year ago? That's one year of my life spent fat, that I can never get back. I wish I hadn't waited to get motivation, and I wish I didn't keep putting it off for stupid reasons such as uni stress. I would feel less stressed altogether if I had one less thing to worry about- My food and my weight. People who are stressed still eat well and remain slim... The whole world is stressed, but the whole world isn't fat. It just shows what a coping mechanism food is. I honestly felt like I earned a takeaway at the end of a long day studying. Food relieves stress. I feel like I deserve a takeaway after Nick has let me down. Food relieves upset. I feel like I deserve to eat junk when I have a break from the kids, I think I've earned it. Food helps you relax. I feel like I should eat badly when I am happy, because food and good times go hand in hand. I feel like when I am bored, the solution is snacking in front of the telly. Snacking in front of the telly makes it more special, more of an event, less boring. And now I have no real food, I am begining to see more clearly what an unhealthy relationship with food I have. I want to be someone who does not equate food with any of the above things. If I'm stressed, I should pamper myself/get pampered. If I need to relax, I can read a book, Its been proven you barely even taste food when engrossed in a tv programme, so what's the point in that?

I wish that I didn't use food like a drug. I wish that I had stopped waiting for motivation. I wish that I had just DONE it. I wish that I was sitting here now, without my tummy hanging over my jeans.
 
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Just wanted to say hey! I'm just starting (or actually, restarting) my weight loss journey AGAIN! So I know what that's like. I also have the same amount of weight to lose as you do and it seems daunting to me but i know it's attainable. After being away for so long, I don't think many people I used to talk to are on here anymore. Though I do see Sunflower!!! HEY!!!! lol So if you want/need any extra support I can do that... I know I need it myself!!
 
*shakes bingo wings at Risty* Still here baby!

Ruth, hang in there chick. I know exactly what you mean about relationships with food. I can't watch TV without putting something into my face. It doesn't feel like it's a proper thing unless I'm eating. Lots of hugs sweetpea <3 x
 
Hey Risty, Yup, I am another restarter eeeekkk. I know, 60 pounds does sound like a lot to lose, and the thought of having to lose that much is off putting. Both times I have lost weight in the past, I have only lost 45 pounds... This time my journey is almost double that. But we will feel great even before we get to our goal weight... Even dropping a couple of dress sizes is an acheivement, and one that will show a noticable difference. We don't have to wait till goal to get any rewards from doing this.

Hana, I knoooow, what is it about? I blame the cinema for making food and tv go hand in hand with each other. Stoopid cinemas.

Last night I got some bread out of the packet, and put it in the toaster. I then thought 'whatthehellareyoudoingtoyourself', and put it back again :) I had 3 scrambled eggs instead.

I passed out in the garden earlier on, which was a bit scary, especially as I had been using a violent and beastly circular saw 10 minutes previously. I've looked it up online, and most people who faint/feel weak and light-headed seem to feel like that between days 5-7. I might add in a ketosis friendly evenning meal, but I feel like that means I have failed. I don't want to fail! I want to ROCK THIS DIET! On Exante diets I have been reading, no-one says that they feel faint at all, and they are only eating three packs a day, I am eating extra! Its not fair!!! Only 18 more days anyway. Universe, please let the results be worth it!
 
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