I'm an old hat at this. Been at it for 5 years this year on and off...
I'm a CDC so have seen, with pleasure and pain the successes and failures of others and have experienced the same myself. The one thing that I've learned is that you have to be in exactly the right frame of mind in order to SS successfully.
I'll give you a potted history of me to help you see my point...
April 2005 weighing 21 stone, feeling desperate and unhappy I met a woman at the beginning of her LL journey in the course of my work. I revisited her at the end of her 100 days (it was purely coincidental) and she just looked amazing after losing 4 stones in her 100 days she was at her goal weight and feeling great.
So in July I began to look at LL. Found the website and realised that my nearest office was ab out 30 miles away. So I googled VLCD and came across the Discovery Health forum (the oldies will remember this), talking about Cambridge diet... So I looked them up and found my nearest counsellor was 20 minutes away.
August 2005 I started SS. By December I'd dropped 7 stones and was asked if I'd like to become a counsellor myself!
I lost a further 10lbs and became a counsellor in March 2006.
Dont' get me wrong I wasn't, by any stretch of the imagination skinny my BMI hovered around the 28 mark until I went to Florida for 2 weeks... 21lbs gained in 2 weeks:break_diet:
It all kind of went pear shaped from there. I continued counselling and watching others successfully get to goal, all the time watching my own weight go up and up....
My business was growing, but then again, so was my waistline
I restarted and failed to get anywhere with SS over and over and over again. It was utterly pointless. Everytime I fell.. I binged and gained even more weight.
Finally in January 2007 I had regained every single last lb (pluse 2lb more for luck!) I'd lost :giveup: I decided that I would NOT try and SS until I was truly in the right frame of mind to be successful.
I did 1200 plan and the 1500 plan for 2 years... with long pauses where I practiced maintenance... Where I learnt just how much I can eat without gaining.
At the end of July last year I finally came to be in the right frame of mind to try SS'ing again. I was going to visit my OH who was working in Europe on a contract. I planned for 7 weeks of SS and lost 2 stones and was back down to 7 stones lost.
It was easy, because I had a definite goal in mind.
It was easy because I knew it was only for 7 weeks.
It was easy because I had a VERY clear picture of what the results would look like at the end of my 7 weeks.
It was easy because I was no longer desperate.. and I had nothing to lose from trying.
So I logged back onto Minimins, started posting and reading the inspirational things that are often posted here and I stuck with my plan.
Today is Day 4 for me.... I had a wobble yesterday and picked at a few nuts and a slice of cheese, but I'm in ketosis so all is not lost.
Today, though I feel a bit 'disconnected' and weird. My legs feel heavy and my concentration is amiss. I just nipped to the garage for some tea and almost drove into another car because I was a little 'absent'. I feel like I've been out climbing Snowdon and really need to just go back to bed and sleep it off.
I've not felt quite like this before when starting SS, but I hoping that it soon wears off or I fear I may lose my job because my brain is not firing on all cylinders!!
I'm a CDC so have seen, with pleasure and pain the successes and failures of others and have experienced the same myself. The one thing that I've learned is that you have to be in exactly the right frame of mind in order to SS successfully.
I'll give you a potted history of me to help you see my point...
April 2005 weighing 21 stone, feeling desperate and unhappy I met a woman at the beginning of her LL journey in the course of my work. I revisited her at the end of her 100 days (it was purely coincidental) and she just looked amazing after losing 4 stones in her 100 days she was at her goal weight and feeling great.
So in July I began to look at LL. Found the website and realised that my nearest office was ab out 30 miles away. So I googled VLCD and came across the Discovery Health forum (the oldies will remember this), talking about Cambridge diet... So I looked them up and found my nearest counsellor was 20 minutes away.
August 2005 I started SS. By December I'd dropped 7 stones and was asked if I'd like to become a counsellor myself!
I lost a further 10lbs and became a counsellor in March 2006.
Dont' get me wrong I wasn't, by any stretch of the imagination skinny my BMI hovered around the 28 mark until I went to Florida for 2 weeks... 21lbs gained in 2 weeks:break_diet:
It all kind of went pear shaped from there. I continued counselling and watching others successfully get to goal, all the time watching my own weight go up and up....
My business was growing, but then again, so was my waistline
I restarted and failed to get anywhere with SS over and over and over again. It was utterly pointless. Everytime I fell.. I binged and gained even more weight.
Finally in January 2007 I had regained every single last lb (pluse 2lb more for luck!) I'd lost :giveup: I decided that I would NOT try and SS until I was truly in the right frame of mind to be successful.
I did 1200 plan and the 1500 plan for 2 years... with long pauses where I practiced maintenance... Where I learnt just how much I can eat without gaining.
At the end of July last year I finally came to be in the right frame of mind to try SS'ing again. I was going to visit my OH who was working in Europe on a contract. I planned for 7 weeks of SS and lost 2 stones and was back down to 7 stones lost.
It was easy, because I had a definite goal in mind.
It was easy because I knew it was only for 7 weeks.
It was easy because I had a VERY clear picture of what the results would look like at the end of my 7 weeks.
It was easy because I was no longer desperate.. and I had nothing to lose from trying.
So I logged back onto Minimins, started posting and reading the inspirational things that are often posted here and I stuck with my plan.
Today is Day 4 for me.... I had a wobble yesterday and picked at a few nuts and a slice of cheese, but I'm in ketosis so all is not lost.
Today, though I feel a bit 'disconnected' and weird. My legs feel heavy and my concentration is amiss. I just nipped to the garage for some tea and almost drove into another car because I was a little 'absent'. I feel like I've been out climbing Snowdon and really need to just go back to bed and sleep it off.
I've not felt quite like this before when starting SS, but I hoping that it soon wears off or I fear I may lose my job because my brain is not firing on all cylinders!!