Another 7lbs gone tonight.D

I've also lost another 7 inches

I'm off on holiday for the weekend now.

Have a good one.

Sarah

I can't wait

We're going away for the weekend. It's our wedding anniversary, but we're taking number two son and his friend, so it's not really a dirty
romantic weekend. But anyway the weather is supposed to be nice, so lots of lazing around on the beach is called for.

I will be going after my weigh in tomorrow night, so not sure if I'll have time to post the result, but keep your fingers crossed for me anyway.

Have a lovely weekend everyone

p.s Lee if you're reading this, my son is making me listen to Yngwie Malmsteen now. It's all your fault

Don't blindly walk into a room and say in a loud voice

"Have you just farted??",

when your husband is on the phone to the insurance company.

He just won't see the funny side

I can remember the school nurse coming to visit my mum at home to tell her to put me on a diet.

I was around 10 years old. This was the start of my never ending diet cycle.

I was never allowed crisps or junk food (I never tasted a McDonalds or a Chinese take-away until I started work) and I was allowed to choose one chocolate bar on a Saturday morning. We always had skimmed milk, and low calorie squash (NEVER fizzy pop) and have NEVER had sugar in tea or coffee.

When I started secondary school I was taller than everyone else (don't know what happened there I'm only 5'4" now) and felt like a giant next to the other girls. However, I was really not fat. I was very athletic. I loved PE, I was in the athletics team, the netball team and the swimming team. I still felt fat next to everyone else though. I can vividly remember my waist was 28" and everyone elses was smaller. So at the age of 15 I persuaded my Mum to take me to a slimming club. I weighed 10stone 7lbs and I think I got down to about 9 stone.

While I was still at school and getting loads of exercise I managed to stay at that weight with no problem or effort (I thought it was easy )

BUT as soon as I left school and started a YTS scheme (remember those??)I went mad with food. All the things I had never been able to have I certainly made up for. McDonalds or the chip shop every day, chocolate bars, full fat coke. All my friends ate it and never put on weight, so why couldnt I do the same???

When I was 17 I weighed 12 stone 7 and remember sulking and not wanting to go to a friends wedding because I was soooo fat and everyone would be looking at me (I wish I was 12stone 7 now).

I got engaged when I was 17 and we set the wedding for 1st July 1989. So that entailed joining another slimming club - I weighed nearly 16 stone. For my wedding day I got down to 14stone.

I couldnt cook and meals became chips, pies, ready meals etc (I know it sounds like a cliche). By the end of our first year of marriage I weighed 17 stone and was expecting number one son. By some miracle I lost weight during my pregnancy and was lighter when I had given birth, than before.

I can't remember my weight between then and my second pregnancy, but by the end of my 2nd pregnancy I weighed 21stone 9lbs . My son did weigh 10lbs 10oz, but I don't think I can blame all the weight gain on him

After number 2 son was born I joined WW for the first time. I weighed 18stone 10 and a quarter of a pound!!! I managed to get down to 14stone 12lb and everyone kept telling me I looked fine and didnt need to lose any more weight. So I didnt

Guess what?? All the weight came back and more. Now my sons are 15 and 13 and I'm still dieting

This time I am determined to do it and I will NOT put it back on.

p.s I'm a good cook now, in case you were wondering and my children eat very healthily. Number 2 son is the only one at school who goes back for second helpings of cauliflower and cabbageD

I've got a headache and I'm totally stressed with work.

Anyone want to come and work for me?? No-one at my place seems to want to do any over-time or help out. One of the girls is off ill today, one is on holiday and the other one didnt want to cover!! Normally I would have covered (as usual), but unfortunately number 1 son has lost his keys so would be sitting on the doorstep until half past seven and number 2 son was being looked after by my friend, as it's (another) teacher training day.

My old Practice Manager came to the rescue (bless her) and is covering the evening surgery.

The reason I'm typing this is that I'm feeling hungry because of the stress. Good little Angel that I am , instead of eating chocolate etc. I'm sitting drinking my Cambridge Savoury vegetable drink.

Can anyone tell me why I still feel the urge to eat when I'm stressed though?? I don't understand it.

I would really kill for a bottle of wine and some chocolate right now

No I'm not paranoid We went to a friends on Saturday night and another couple of our friends were there. The men (yes the men) happily sat and discussed my diet.

I don't know what it is about this diet, but men have never shown an interest in any diet I've been on before, but this seems to fascinate them.

I could hear my husband explaining to them about ketosis etc. See he does listen when I'm boring him to death

Anyway, they all said they could tell how much I'd lost and how well I was doing (when do men ever notice things like that!!!). Must keep it up now for my male admirers

I think I can see a difference in my face nowD and I'm sure there are some collar bones emerging

The first one is me at the start of my diet and the second one is me 8 weeks later

Hoorah lost another 3lbs. Was expecting a smaller loss because thats how my weight has been going big, small etc and also its that "time of the month"

Therefore I am pleased with this weeks loss.

In 2 months I've gone down 3 sizes, my rings are dropping off, my watch spins round, Ive lost 7inches of my boobs , 7 inches of my waist and 9 off my hips (can't remember the rest).

Bring on the next 2 months - I'm ready

This is Charlie - my beautiful lodger for a couple of days. She's been visiting my stud boy and keeping hime company

So hopefully we will be having little grand-kittens at the end of AugustD

Weigh in later Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Me on holiday last year. Do you think this is why I put on weightD

There will be none of that this year

I've had a Gaiam pilates kit sitting for ages in the bedroom (doesn't everyone???) and today it was pleading with me to use it.

If you are under the impression that Pilates is going to be easy (like I did) - ITS NOT I used the lowest resistance band and it still killed me.

But hey, no pain, no gain.

Perhaps in a couple of months I will be up to the standard of the old lady who is demonstrating the light workoutD D

My beloved Frothie Maker has died

My blender stopped working a couple of days ago and now my Frothie Maker. I put in some lovely mushroom soup and it killed the electrics three times!!! So that was one soup ruined then I found out my old braun hand mixer to mix another one, only I managed to get most of it up the walls and over the work surface.

As I can't possibly live without it (it mixes Cambridge soups to perfection), my darling husband went and bought me another one today and a new blenderD D

Ive also had some more treats this weekend. My mum bought me a lovely silver cross with pink and white stones in for getting to day 50, and my husband bought me an MP3 player

I'm just spoiltD D

Lost another 6lbs this week

go into any shop and know they'll have a size to fit me

go into any restaurant or cafe and not worry about whether I will fit in the seats

get into a small car and not have my knees under my chin and the seatbelt not fit

wear a skirt and not have my legs rub together!!

stand for hours and not get swollen ankles and aching feet

run for a bus

feel my ribs

manage all the positions in the Kama Sutra

All these are things "normal" people take for granted.

I can't wait to be "normal"D (well body wise anyway, not sure if dieting will make me normal in the headD )

Weigh in later and tomorrow is day 50!!!!!

I think I'm sick of it. I love the patients and everyone I have to deal with apart from the Dr's I work for.

Today she told me I have no respect for her because I told her she was upsetting patients by calling everyone in for unnecessary blood tests. She retaliated by saying that she wasnt doing it for her benefit and what did I think she was doing it for? I told her simply that she was doing it for the money. Before QOF came in and we got money for every point that we got they weren't interested in calling patients in for tests or anything else for that matter. As long as they got paid they weren't worried. Now everything is a different matter. We have a lot of elderly patients who get really worried when they're called in for tests as they think something is drasticallly wrong. I, therefore spend most of my day sorting out whether they really need anything doing and trying to convince them that they're ok. It's a simple matter of the Dr's looking at the computer, but they would rather put silly little notes on the patients prescriptions. They've even started telling patients they can't have a prescription unless they see the nurse for tests first.

Anyhow thats my rant over. Normally I would have turned to food, but I've had my mousse, soup and a cambridge bar.

Time to look for another job, I think. Anyone want a Practice Manager???

Well I managed to get through it. I went to a BBQ on Saturday, which is the first time I've really been out since I started on the Cambridge Diet.

It was lovely and hot so I managed to keep drinking bottles of iced water all day. I was more concerned about people noticing that I wasn't eating, but no-one noticed until I started eating my Cambridge bar and then people started asking questions. It's not that I mind, I just hate being the focus of everyones attention and having to explain all about the diet. The main reason for this is because I'm getting used to the "oh surely that can't be good for you",. "what?? you can't have any food", "how much does it cost?!", "surely it's the same as doing Slim Fast" etc etc. They soon shut up though when I tell them I've lost nearly 3 stone in 6 weeks

It was another eye-opener for me though, as I sat and worked out what I would have eaten if I'd been on any other diet. I just know that I can't cheat on this diet, so I don't!!

Here's what I would have eaten

2 burgers
2 hot dogs with onions and relish
Doritos and dips
Salad
Tuna past salad
Three Cheese pasta
Pizza
Ribs
Mini scotch eggs (at least 2 or 3)
Coleslaw
Potato Salad
2 bottles of wine.

and I always wondered why I used to put on weight when I had a day off my diet. If I was doing WW I would have had nothing to eat all day, gone to the BBQ, eaten all of the above, then reasoned with myself that I'd blown my diet. I would then have carried on eating whatever I fancied until I got weighed in on Tuesday evening. I would put on about 4lbs and then start all over again on Wednesday morning

In 6 weeks I can already see how I'm changing my attitude towards food. It's seems like when I was eating and dieting before I didn't realise what I was doing. Now food is out of the equation it all seems clear to me. I wish I'd known about this diet years ago.

I've lost another 4lbs this week.

I'm now off to watch England play and to a BBQ. Obviously I will be taking water and a Cambridge bar but I don't care as long as I keep losing the weight.

Have a lovely day everyone.

Come on EnglandD

I've had lots of compliments today

The trainer who came to work just after I started on Cambridge came back for some more training today. She told me I look like a different person

Then later I went to a friends house and her husband said the weight was dropping off me and her 12 year old daughter said I looked like I'd lost loads of weight. She said I would soon be skinny (there's a long way to go before that, bu the thought was there lol)

So, yep I could get used to this

Weigh in on Friday. Hope I've lost some. I feel like I've got some fluid retention due to all this hot weather. My fingers and ankles are swollen, so I'm hoping I won't be too disappointed.

Ive read somewhere that it takes 28 days to form a habit. Well Ive been on this diet for 40 days now and I'm still not used to drinking 4 litres of water a day
I've never drunk a lot of any sort of liquid before so drinking 4 litres a day is a big shock to my system.

I'm doing it but I'm still not liking it

I suppose the water flavouring makes it a bit more palatable, but I'm frightened of having too much flavouring in case it slows down my weight loss.

Anyway, I'm off work today, I've done the housework and I'm off to sit in the garden and get a bit of this lovely sunshineD D D

Happy Wednesday to everyone

This might be too much information, but anywayD Every day for years I've had diarrhoea so when I started this diet and heard about constipation I thought it would never happen to me. I was sooooo wrong.

Yesterday I was in agony with constipation. I was on and off, on and off the toilet all night. I did finally manage to go and it was worse than giving birth. I've had two children - one of them nearly 11lbs, but at least I had gas and air then

So, if your darling husband buys you psyllium husks at the beginning of your diet (at great expense) and you can't be bothered to take them, then don't say I didnt warn youD

I've now learnt the hard way (but that's usually the only way I learn)

Sorry if you were eating (but if you're on sole source you shouldn't ba anyway )

Whoo hoo have lost another 7lbs this week.

Anyone out there thinking of doing this diet - just do it!!!!!!!!!!! You won't regret it.

So, onto week 6