Juliette's Lighter life

Yep! Almost there ..... my 100 day milestone tomorrow

Hmmm ......but remaining in abstinence so not really that much of an exciting event

Weigh-in Yesterday evening was fine another 2.5 lbs lost..total weight loss is 2 stones 9.9lbs

We had a great group session S gave us a paper exercise to do where we made a fan and wrote our name on the outside then passed it around and everyone wrote something nice about you on each of the folds.

Well deserved strokes gave us all a nice fuzzy warm feeling...doesn't take much to make a person feel good and worthwhile,just a few kind words is all.

Drank 5 litres of water every day last week but cannot sustain it purely due to the amount of time spent in the ladies!

4 times through the night no thanks! I need my beauty sleep too much

Looks like my mini has sold and going to see my new sexy wheels tomorrow hopefully it will be ready by saturday after my hair appointment (thats what I call a nice weekend )

Have to go to work and jab lots of babies so taking my paracetamol and nurofen plus prophylactically

apologies for dullness of post but am in a tearing hurry.......

Well...Now I guess I realise that there are some not very nice folk willing to try to wreck your day with a nasty remark or two here in blogland I decided to delete the particularly nasty one from someone calling him or herself 'Disgruntled', and hope that they won't bother to visit anymore.

As in life....and my feeling is the same here as there,Do something every day to make others happy - even if it's only to LEAVE THEM ALONE!!

Anyway, despite everything I'm on the up once again full of renewed determination and positivity

I peeked at the scales at home this morning...57.3kgs so am happy that things are continuing in the right direction.

In group on Tuesday I had a chat with my LLC and she hopes that I will only be in abstinence for another 4 weeks, moving into management 5 weeks from now.

Grrr at self for thinking 100 days would be long enough

The only down side to that is that only one of my group (such as it is now) will be coming with me as the rest have more to lose.
I am dreading the change,but thats usual for me...I hate change (am scaredy cat )
Hopefully though it will only be a few weeks and the rest will follow us.

Really really really really wish it was Summer as for the first time in about 5 years I am not worried about summer clothes and just want to get out there and enjoy it......erm...we need some sun first though!

Big shout out to my ever-present virtual keeper-of-the-faith........ Soozyb who happens to be doing fantastically well on her own Lighter Life journey. Just wanted to say how fab you are and thank you for being out there

Not much doing this weekend.
Picking up my sexy new car next Saturday.......who needs chocolate for that feel-good factor?

Weigh-in Tuesday will post scary BMI update afterwards.

Take care fellow bloggers and thanks for being here with me

Ok...So 89 Days in and 100% stuck to the programme.

No lapses....No Hiccups......

Weight this morning 59.4kgs....

Yes, I should still be on top of the world

and I was.....

Until....

My very good friend rang and was talking to Gary as I was out at the time.

The conversation turned to The Cambridge Diet (similar to Lighter Life but not quite as brutal as I understand it) that she had started two days previously and had to finish as she had felt unwell.
He then mentioned my diet plan. Before I began this,I chose who I would be confiding in and who I did not want to tell but as I am nearly through foundation I wasn't too fussed by the fact that she now knew.
When she rang me the following day and we started to talk about what I was doing (after the initial lecture about why didn't I tell her) she said "You do know that you will put all the weight back on as soon as you start eating again?" followed by "I don't know anyone who has kept the weight off after doing that diet" followed by "one of my friends lost 8 stones on Lighter Life and gained it all back plus an extra stone" and finlly "If you lose anymore you will look awful"

At the time I answered with a fair degree of positivity and we moved along to other things.

It was only later on that evening that I started to feel really anxious about all that she had said, and Now I am distraught

What if she is right?
Why am I going to be any different to all the other people that she knows?
What if this has all been for nothing?

I am also really cross that a friend could wipe out all of my newly acquired self confidence in one fail swoop

This has been so so hard.

If I had been recieving medical treatment for something would she have said "you do know as soon as this treatment has finished you will get sick again"

I need to get positive again...but I don't know how

HELP!

Just a quickie

Weigh-in this evening another 4.1 lbs lost
Scary BMI now 25.9 (not quite so scary anymore although a lot more scary than the 22.5 I am aiming towards)

Total weight loss so far 2 stones and 6 lbs
Current weight on LL scales 61.4kgs
(mine 60.1kgs....why is the difference between scales becoming smaller? )

Only 6 of us left in the group now we have lost 9 along the way.

There was a great feeling within the group tonight.....some have lost 3 stones some 2 but we are ALL able to see a difference at last

Am going to try to increase water intake to 4.5 litres as from tomorrow (oh oh there's that old 'tomorrow' mentality creeping back!
Would do it today but am up 3 times for a wee in the night as it is

Day 85 tomorrow...don't know why, but that was always a major milestone for me...so will do a little jig when I get up on the morrow to celebrate.....

Did I mention?.......YIPPEE!

Wow! That sounds like I'm actually getting somewhere now!

Had a lovely weekend up in Staffordshire with my Sister,Brother-in-law and my yummy scrummy oh-so-absoloutely-flippin'-gorgeous neices and nephew

Myself and my two youngest only as Hubby away in Manchester with work and eldest working.

I finally filled Sis in on what I have been doing on the LL plan she was totally cool with it and really interested
No lectures or negative vibes there

We all went to a lovely Italian restaurant on Saturday evening, you know the kind of place where the garlic bread is dripping and the pizzas are the size of the planet

I took my soup along and we had a fab time.....me on the sparkling H20 and Sis having my share of the vino

It so isn't about the food....just about being all together

Found myself ice skating on Sunday afternoon lol

Managed to stay upright and really enjoyed it...now searching ebay for a pair of skates...why not? was always to paranoid about people seeing a whale tumble over on the ice not anymore!!!

Finished up with bowling this morning before we left for home

So all in all a lovely weekend

Came home and happily chucked out ALL my size 14 and 12 jeans and trousers went and replaced them with size 10's

what a great feeling! and even better that they fit comfortably

Weigh in tomorrow evening (Week 13) and yes...I still dread it

Have not sinned one tiny little bit in the whole 83 days and I feel as if the emotional roller coaster type feelings are diminishing at long last...am feeling on a bit more of an even keel now.

Am thinking about what to do in 17 days time when foundation comes to an end..and I have to say right now I really think I will continue on the foodpacks for maybe a month after Day 100.(NEVER thought that would enter this ole pea-brain

Will report in tomorrow after weigh-in,hopefully still smiling
Oh ..did anyone see Dr Who this weekend?

The weather was just gorgeous! 35* one day!

Hotel fabulous, suite with plunge pool......stunning views.....oh yes and all that.......FOOD!!!

Champagne on arrival,fresh fruit and chocolates in our room,5 restaurants, nuts and bar snacks on every table, endless ice cream places goodness me! what else do folk go on holiday for apart from to munch

I did myself proud

A little tricky explaining to the maître d' what was required regarding my shakes and soups (next time will write it down in whatever language is appropriate before I go!)
Apart from the usual internal struggles that were going on in my pea brain....I found that not only could I stick to the plan 100%, but had to push myself to get the foodpacks down atall

We walked loads,saw loads,swam loads and sunbathed loads

I had no worries about my bikini...and was THRILLED to wear my size 10 jeans!

Hubby told me I looked in his words 'stunning' one evening (that's amazing as he is a man of very few words usually)and I felt 10 feet tall

My confidence was back and I realised it is not how other people see me..it's how I feel inside and I was feeling great!
Even had photo taken!!!!!!!!!! BIG achievement

Back down to earth yesterday with the rain and the grey skies

Popped in to get my foodpacks for the week as I had missed my group on Tuesday, K insisted I was weighed (meanie ) and I am another 2 and a half pounds down so total loss so far is 2 stones and 2 pounds

I was a wee bit worried that I may have stayed the same as my water intake was only about 3 litres daily (just got fed up with it for a bit ....'twas my version of a very small scale rebellion )

Hubby's 40th birthday yesterday also and we had a party for him in the evening (more food and drink mountains! )

Yet again I drank only water and not a morsel passed my lips

Day 79 today already into week 12

Am off to go replace my work trousers with size 10's and banish the 12's and 14's to the rubbish bin forever