Week Three... DONE

Hello to any lovely person that is reading this! I realise I haven't written anything since day one and two but to be perfectly honest I haven't had the energy or brain power to write anything. I have to say it's not been a breeze but as I'm curretly writing this I'm feeling good.

I've just come back from a really posistive group meeting, I've lost 3lbs this week, which isn't the biggest weight lost but I know where I went wrong. I haven't been drinking enough water for my body to help flush out and burn my fat. Needless to say I have a glass of water next to me as I'm typing! I also got measured tonight. I have lost 2.5 inches off my boobs (lets hope it's back fat rather than actual boob!), 3.5 off my waist, and 5.5 inches off my belly!!! I am very pleased with that belly measurement!!

The tough bits

My first weigh in (where I lost 12.5 pounds) was followed by a awful meeting. I had found the week challenging but had distanced myself from any talk of food. The group then spent most of the session speaking about particular foods. I felt betrayed that my one safe place had almost turned on me and spat me out! I got in my car and cried, very loudly, all the way home, and then a bit more! As it was a stand in counsellor I didn't want to speak to her about it and have waited until today when my normal counsellor was back. I have discussed it and moved on.

The tiredness has been quite extreme for me. I have never been partuclary overflowing with energy, mostly because of my weight and being a generally lazy person (I admit it!). Most days it would get to 6pm and it would be a struggle to lift a glass or get myself ready for bed. My counsellor has told me tonight to listen to my body, if I'm tired go to bed and sleep. Funnily enough tonight I am wide awake, so maybe my i've turned a corner. Lots of others (with less to lose) have gained energy already.

Lighterlife warns that a reaction to it may be, some hair loss, luckily I haven't had this. However I have developed a strange area of hair on the top of my head which constantly feels like it has hairspray in it! It doesn't change when I wash it, if I condition or if I don't. But really my body is feeling pretty strange and has a lot going on so I shall excuse it for now!

Weight loss
Week One : 12.5 pounds
Week Two: 7.7 pounds
Week Three: 3 pounds

Aim for next week is 4 1/2 pounds. I'll have a glass of water please!!

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Day One & Two

So yesterday was no where near as bad as I thought it would be. I never felt starving, the worse effect was that come 6pm I was so tired. I picked a sheperds pie meal pack to have as my evening meal yesterday but found it quite tramatic! I had hoped for more than the pack could offer. I was hoping that my late evening hot chocolate would be a nice enjoyable end to the day but found that I had to knock it down like medicine.

I only had one temptation yesterday and that was a big slab of cake in the cupboard at work. Normally on a night shift I would have said 'oh I will have a bit of that later (with a big grin)' but I had to stop and think that I can't always say yes to everything!

I was just about to go to sleep last night when I stopped and thought 'I've done it!' day one is over, and even with some manky food packs, it wasn't even that bad!

Day two had a great start as I normally wake up feeling slow (to say the least), but this morning I was up, alert and off! I think some of this has to be because my stomach isn't full of food it's trying to process. I had a banana shake for breakfast which was ok and minestrone for lunch which was rather enjoyable! I've just had my evening food pack of spicy curry, and although lovely, I don't think my tummy can take that much spice very frequently.

But the best part of this post has to be that, when I went to see my LL counsellor to get rid of the dreaded sheperds pie, she encouraged me to get weighed. I was so happy to see that I have lost 5.2pounds already! Onwards and upwards now.

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The Beginning

Last night was the big night, I got to meet my group and choose my foodpacks. The group had 7 other newbies and three regulars who were lovely. There is a range of characters there and defintely some loud ones!!! Overall the group went well, we didn't get time for much discussion because there was so many people joining, but I am looking forward to hearing how everyone got on next week.

We also had our 'before' pictures taken and I can't help but think my counsellor was thinking 'if she sticks to the program the after pics will be drastic'. It gives me weird feeling, bad about myself now but proud for the future.

I found it really interesting that I didn't get emotional last night. I think having four weeks from the initial meeting until starting has allowed me to accept the program and approach it calmly.

I have found some useful words in some of the reading material I recieved. One tip is to wake up in the morning and imagine getting through the day, enjoying the foodpacks and going to bed with a real sense of pride. But todays motto is 'A journey of a thousand steps, starts with just one'.


Let the journey begin.