Last post of the year!

Well today I think I am back to the weight I was before taking a break over Christmas thanks to a stomach upset!
Tomorrow I Am going to get back on CD and see if I can shift this last 2 stone!
New year, New start! Hopefully 2008 will be far better than 2007
HAppy New Year to all
xxx

Was going so well.......

All day I had stuck to ss, wasn't feeling too bad even after an argument with Alex I kept away from the chocolates. Until the evening I was feeling really cold and wanted to snuggle up under the duvet and watch the soaps but I went in the bedroom to find Alex was in there asleep, not a huge problem I know but he could have mentioned that was what he was going to do. I came back downstairs and raided the quality street tin and fininshed all the ones I like. At least I know there aren't any there for me to worry about now!!
Today is a new start and I WILL stick to it!
On a positive note I thought I Would try all the clothes I bought in the sales and they do fit! so I can fit in a size 16 YAY!! my top size is still an 18 though as I have a rather large chest, I am hpoing that it will shrink eventually if not I'm off for a reduction

Back on it

Well today is day one back on ss! I have had a tetra and am not feeling too bad at the moment! In a while I'll have a bar and then soup for dinner tonight.
I've been to the hairdressers this morning and had my hair done so that kept me busy. Not sure what to do this afternoon, the boys have gone to the cinema but I don't know what to with Charlotte this afternoon although staying in feels a good Idea at the moment!

Incentives!

I have just got back from the next sale (was there at 5am!!) and bought myself size 16 trousers for my to shrink into! I have plenty of size 18's at the moment so thought I'd get my money's worth!
I am having my last day off cd today as the turkey needs to be finished off and then I'm back to ss tomorrow I have 2 stone left to shed and I want it gone by mid feb I have decided!

Having a break

I know it doesn't sound good but it is, THis time of year is a bit manic and I have a few things on so I have had a break from cd since weds. I went for a meal on wednesday night and had a pizza then yesterday I had a tetra for breakfast and then ate a filled baguette for lunch as we were out with friends and the today I had my works lunch. have been good and stuck to water the whole time but tonight the Ladies that look after dd at nursery invited me to a pub within walking distance and so I had a couple of glasses of wine, I enjoyed them but I feel quite pissed!!!
I think I will watch the end of Eastenders then collapse into bed!
I am going to start back on cd tomorrow as I am finished with my meals out other than at my Mums on Sunday, although she is doing beef casserole and I'm not that keen on it! and on Tuesday I will have some Christmas dinner (It has to be done!)
I'm not sure why I am putting all this down but I guess it makes me feel a bit better!
I will try and either get some walking in or get to the gym over the holidays in the hope I actually lose some weight over Christmas this year!

Phew!!

Well tonight I decided to go and get weighed early this week, I didn't really want to be weighed but to just pick my packs up!! Luckily I stayed the same but I thought it would be a lot worse!
I have changed to have tetra's in the morning as I'm going of the shakes a bit so think it might give me a boost by having something different.
I AM going to do this, I will get to 12 stone!

Whoops!

What more can I say!
You got it the Chinese won!! I got one delivered on Thursday night and ate a bit before realising what I was doing, I should have put the rest in the bin, bt not wanting to waste money I put it in the Fridge and finished it last night!
Oh well it's done, I'm back on ss from today and will NOT be wanting it again!
I've a big hockey match today, we really need to win if we want to stand a chance winning the league this year. I think it will be a tough one and I just hope I can keep a clean sheet! Would be great if I could.
Right off for my first shake of the day!

Today I am really missing.......

Chinese takeaways!!
I am sooo tempted to ring and order a couple of bits but then I think I really want to lose at least 1.5 lb this week to take me to a 3 stone loss in total on cd! I am now 1lb off 4.5stone loss in total too.
I had my meeting with the bosses and got my bonus, no payrise though :(. But I have ordered my new goalie kit so that should arrive tomorrow :) but I don't think I'll use it til the new year.

Struggling :(

After the weekend I can't seem to get back into it properly and have been nibbling a bit.

I picked at chicken and a few other bits but the worst was the mini bag of maltesers I had last night. I know it wasn't much but I still shouldn't have.

I am going to have a bath and early night and really try hard tomorrow! (I don't think I'll be able to make much of a loss this week though.)

I have a meeting with my bosses tomorrow and am banking on a payrise I guess I'm worrying I won't get what I want but I shouldn't use that as an excuse really. On the plus side I probably would hav eaten far more worrying before starting cd than I have now!

I took some more pics today now we are 8 weeks in.

Got there eventually!!

Omg what a faff to get on here tonight!!
I had been logged out of my account for some reason and couldn't remember my password then it told me my email address wasn't registered - utterly cinfused I did all the forgotten passwords etc to find it must have been someone elses (Oops!)

I had a really good day yesterday, played hockey - we won 2-1!! I did an amazing save - noe one thought I get it but I shocked everyone (including myself) and somehow managed to connect with the ball to stop it going in!
We all then went out in the evening for a meal, I was very good and had a salad and tried a few other things, luckily there were a few things that were seafood so that helped!! I stuck to water all night and I think that is the key too.

I'm going to be good now all week and not have anything other than my packs & water )ok maybe the odd green tea and coke zero!)

I got the letter yesterday confirming my exam result it is also asking for permission from myself & my employer to comtact the local paper! They need a recent picture of me but the most recent ones are either me completely dressed up or the ones for my weightloss so I think I need a new one taken! Or may get them to sent the paper to take the pic! (my bosses will go for free advertising!)

Talking of my Boss's I have a meeting with them on Wednesday to hopefully negotiate pay rises etc! I'm hoping for a bonus too as I need to get my own hockey kit as the one I use now is getting a bit loose! (and after yesterday will be smelly too!)

This is me in my kit! You can see why I was pleased when someone noticed I had lost weight through that!

MIssing?!

Wow a whole week without posting!!
My laptop died on Sunday so wasn't able to post til today.
I had weigh in tonight and lost 3.25lb so still on target losing weight and am now in the 13 stone somethings!!
Have had quite a good week, went out on Saturday night planning to eat a few bits as I had paid £26 for the meal and didn't get the opportunity to eat much as there wasn't a lot brought out which was disappointing! I then had a dilema do I eat the lemon meringue pie I ordered or give it to my sister? Mmmm tough choice! I was good and had one mouthful (not that good I know!) and gave the rest away. Although I did have a coffee with milk in on the way home from London to keep me awake!
I had some really good news this week too, I passed my ILCA Diploma (although I am still awaiting written confirmation!) I got 91% which is a distinction! I was completely shocked as I thought I had made too many mistakes and not put my candidate number on one of the answer sheets. Of course I had to buy cakes for the rest of the office so going to the bakers was hard and I was again naughty and got myself a muffin but it was a low gi one.
Not sure what kind of week I will have this week as I am out with the girls from hockey on Saturday night for Tapa's but I am hoping to stick with a chicken sort of dish!

4 down 2 to go!

Yes that's stone!!
Weigh in tonight and I have lost 6lb this week so that is now 34lb gone doing cd and 56lb in total!!
I am amazed as it is the most I have lost when dieting I've normally given up by about 2 stone but I really want to get to my target weight!
Saw my MIL and she commented that I had lost a shed load of weight!! (I didn't think she would even notice!)

Ready to Kill!!

Well for the first time (I've really noticed anyway I'm sure Alex would differ!!) I was ready to kill whilst on TOTM! I ended up having to shut myself in my office! I was feeling quite hungry too, I am finding that at TOTM too. I was good though and stuck to green tea, water, sugar free polo's and my units.
I did calm down by about lunchtime and felt ready to mix with the rest of the office! maybe the fact I also spent £100 in my lunchbreak helped too (not my money thankfully!)
Saw a couple more people that I hadn't seen for a while and they said they could really see the difference - it really keeps me going hearing that as I know this diet really is working!
Weigh in tomorrow should be good after last weeks measly 1lb! I have weighed myself this morning and the drop is about 7lb so I'm expecting it to be about 4 or 5lb once I'm fully dressed(which are the lightest clothes I have?!!) and drunk lots of water through the day (not much just before wi though!)

More Compliments!!

I had quite a good day yesterday!
At work I went over to the local Tesco express (I was their best customer til I started Cd!!) and one of the Ladies that I was doing ww with looked at me and said they could tell I was still doing well and asked how much I had lost and although they thought that cd was slightly extreme they thought I was doing so well on it!
I also went to the doctor yesterday and (even though it wasn't my regular one) she said I was doing really well and it was a good thing and gave me advice on upping my carb intake on days I was playing hockey (once I am at my goal weight that is!)
Last night I rang my best friend to find out how she got on at weight watchers and she had lost 1/2lb but was dissapointed, but I pointed out that it was her totm and then she admitted to having a bit of birthday cake before weigh in and had weighed 2lb lighter when she weighed herself in the morning!! But what she was saying was exactly how I was feeling after my weigh in last week so I know I'm not alone!
She then went on to tell that she was impressed that I ran across the hockey pitch on Saturday as a warm up which was rare for me as I felt very wobbly running and don't really like it but I'm starting to feel more confident about myself and I know the girls I play with don't judge me at all (even if they are all soooo skinny!!)
My friend also said that her Dad had said I was looking realy well too! She told him he should have told me that though!!
I was good last night and went for a swim, I haven't been for ages and remembered why - Other people!! Why do slow swimmers have to swim in the fast lane? and not like to get their hair wet?? I am an evil swimmer and make sure I kick extra hard when doing front crawl past them just to try and splash them!!
Right I'd better get off here so I can start on the water!!

Yaaaaaaaaaawn!!

Well dd decided 5.45am was a good time to wake up this morning! Oh well can start glugging that water earlier as I struggle to drink as much as I would on a weekday!
Not much planned really think I am just going to take the kids out! Although I also have the fuse for our downstairs lights to fix too it seems as none of them were working this morning but I need daylight to be able to sort that out!
Be back later I expect! I'm sure something more exciting will happen

Saturday!

Well was up early to go to hockey this morning. Was sttod in goal with all my kit on and the men's umpire walked past with our coach and couldnt work out who was in goal and had to ask. He was really surprised when he was told it was me and asked me if I had lost weight!
I was really pleased with that considering men don't normally comment on things like that! (especially knowing how blind Mike is!!!!) We won the hockey too which was fab!

Came home to the Alex & the kids and took dd out for a walk to the shops went into the butchers to order the Christmas turkey and he offered me pork scratchings I was very good and declined even though I wanted to grab a handful!!

The family are having fish and chips tonight so give me a night off cooking and I'm not likely to pinch any of that as I don't eat fish and am not keen on fried chips! So I think I'm safe from nibbling tonight!

The start!

I'm Claire, 30 years old up, Mother of 2 great kids, and work full time.

Up until April I was getting bigger and bigger to the point I looked in the mirror and thought Bubbles Devere from Little britain was looking back at me!

One Morning in April I felt I really needed to lose weight - something I had always known but I unfortunately suffered a miscarriage in March and think that changed my view on a lot of things.

I started Weight Watchers on the 7th April 2007 weighing in at 18st 2lbs. I really stuck to it to start with and managed to lose 2.5lb by August but then all the food around me got too tempting and I started slipping!

A friend mentioned The Cambridge Diet to me one day and I started to look into it. I always thought I liked my food to much to do a meal replacement diet that was 3 meals a day and small ones at that! But I thought I'd give it a go (with a little encouragement from Spooky!!)

So on 14th October 2007 weighing 16st 8lb I started my Cambridge Diet journey. Quite a few people thought I was mad (and still do but are supportive!) but I have now been on it for 6 weeks and have lost 28.5lb making a total loss since April 50lb!!!

I found the first 4 weeks quite easy but recently food has seemed really appealing and a few mouthfuls made it past my willpower!

This is me pretty much at the start of my Journey in April. I had lost about 6lb when this pic was taken. I can't find any other full length ones at the mo as I usually was the one taking the pictures!

This was taken on day one of the Cambridge diet

This is 4 weeks on - what a difference already!!

My lovely husband Alex I think is now getting rather fed up with me spending money on new clothes although I am being good and getting most things on ebay at the moment as I don't plan on being in the size 18 for long!!

Anyway I think I've said enough for tonight will update soon x