When to start the CD steps introducing food.

Im currently on SS (week 2 day4) I have 4 st 3 lbs to get to my goal. I want to be at goal (and hopefully be eating food completely) by 1st week of June as Im going on holiday. When should I begin the steps where you introduce food ? Should I do them all (inc AAM at the start) ? Im a bit wary that if I start these too soon I may not lose enough weight for my holiday.

.....listening for an answer here too!

Thanks. By the sounds of it, at a rough guess, Ill be using the month of May to go through the steps so Im fully eating for my holiday. Still a couple of months of SS'ing Dunno if I can make that ?

Hi Paul

Generally they advise if possible to do two weeks on each level, one minimum. I would personally do AAMW for one week then each of 790, 1000, 1200 and 1500 for two weeks. I did this when I was going on holiday at Christmas. If you work backwards from 1st June this is about 8 weeks working through plans so you would need to start 1st April which would give you another couple of months SS which should mean a loss of 2.5 stone ish. Don't forget you will continue to lose on the plans as well so might reach 3.5 - 4st for your hols. If you want to SS for longer then you could do each step for only one week and cut the time down by half.

Gxx