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A last ditch effort...

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I'm gonna have to change my name back, I can't get used to Birdy! :D

Thanks for that WL.
 
Birdy said:
I thought I'd best do my own thread instead of clogging up somebody else's.

I want to do the Cambridge Diet but where do I buy it online? I don't like the internets for foodie type stuff, I might get poisoned! I'll have to do SlimFast until I get sorted. It's too sweet tho and not good for the Diabetes.

Weight down a bit this morning, 14stones 11pounds and tum measures 49inches. The only thing the Doc could say to me last night re health worries and liver was to get the weight off so I'll have to knuckle down to it. Had a last piggy breakfast...
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If you go online look up Cambridge diet it bring up consultants it asks your postcode and a list of consultants in your area. Hope this helps
 
Thank you. I've actually done one full day of low carb due to feeling extremely ill and it's no doubt self inflicted. I'll see how I go on... 🙂
 
Birdy said:
Thank you. I've actually done one full day of low carb due to feeling extremely ill and it's no doubt self inflicted. I'll see how I go on... 🙂
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I tried the Cambridge Diet about 35 years ago as somebody I knew lost about 7 stone on it. It was Ok but I only liked the soups and bars not the shakes so it got a bit boring and I found it made my jaw and teeth sore so it hurt to bite on anything. I did lose some weight. Sadly the chap I knew soon put back all the weight he lost and passed away shortly afterwards. I don't know if there was any connection.
As with all those type of diets it doesn't really educate you into a new way of eating which comes down to willpower and motivation.
I keep seeing adverts for this Noon diet program but I don't know what that involves and probably costs lots of money.
 
Birdy said:
Thank you. I've actually done one full day of low carb due to feeling extremely ill and it's no doubt self inflicted. I'll see how I go on... 🙂
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Truly sorry you've been very poorly Jan {{{Hugs}}} x
Self inflicted or not you gripped the bull by the horns and low carbed for one day, very well done you 🙂 I know it's not easy for you but just take one day at a time. Please know we're all here supporting you all the way my friend.
WL
 
Day 2, I'm on a roll! 🙂

Do Kraft cheese triangles count as cream cheese? If so how many triangles is a 'normal' portion? I had four. After first day yesterday I gained over a pound but lost an inch off my waist, the exact opposite of what I was expecting. 🙂 I feel good today now, bit crook on waking, but I've improved, thank goodness.
 
Resurrecting this old thread because it's another last ditch effort after putting so much weight on in the last week or two. I am such a silly old woman. Could kick myself. Right, just over 14stones now when I was nearly in the 12stones. Damn and blast. Will update this thread daily, no worries if no comments, it'll be a way of keeping myself on track.

Also I want to chat about books. I'm sorting out all my vintage books and then I put them on Goodreads just for the sake of it. 🙂 Just started the first shelf and came across a nice little book all in Welsh! It's not on Goodreads as far as I can see. It's called Ceiriog by Owen M. Edwards. I can't read a word of it obviously and wondered if anyone would like to have it? Quite old, 1910 lovely black and white illustrations. Seems to be poems. I just loves old books, or any books come to think of it. I'll pass it on to Oxfam if nobody wants it, they go for the more unusual stuff. Have a lovely costume jewellery set as well, will take that, clip on earrings and matching brooch. I'm fascinated by old stuff. 🙂
 
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Also I want to chat about books. I'm sorting out all my vintage books and then I put them on Goodreads just for the sake of it. 🙂 Just started the first shelf and came across a nice little book all in Welsh! It's not on Goodreads as far as I can see. It's called Ceiriog by Owen M. Edwards. I can't read a word of it obviously and wondered if anyone would like to have it? Quite old, 1910 lovely black and white illustrations. Seems to be poems. I just loves old books, or any books come to think of it. I'll pass it on to Oxfam if nobody wants it, they go for the more unusual stuff. Have a lovely costume jewellery set as well, will take that, clip on earrings and matching brooch. I'm fascinated by old stuff. 🙂
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Maybe @Bloden might like it ?
 
Ditto said:
Resurrecting this old thread because it's another last ditch effort after putting so much weight on in the last week or two. I am such a silly old woman. Could kick myself. Right, just over 14stones now when I was nearly in the 12stones. Damn and blast. Will update this thread daily, no worries if no comments, it'll be a way of keeping myself on track.

Also I want to chat about books. I'm sorting out all my vintage books and then I put them on Goodreads just for the sake of it. 🙂 Just started the first shelf and came across a nice little book all in Welsh! It's not on Goodreads as far as I can see. It's called Ceiriog by Owen M. Edwards. I can't read a word of it obviously and wondered if anyone would like to have it? Quite old, 1910 lovely black and white illustrations. Seems to be poems. I just loves old books, or any books come to think of it. I'll pass it on to Oxfam if nobody wants it, they go for the more unusual stuff. Have a lovely costume jewellery set as well, will take that, clip on earrings and matching brooch. I'm fascinated by old stuff. 🙂
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The book is £35 to £40 depending on condition.
 
Thank you guys. 🙂 Very interesting. Some books seem to be quite lucrative, but I'm done with ebay etc., cannot be doing with it, the hassle and drama. Just given a book valued at £200 to the free bookshop in our local town, just hoping they'll realise and get money for the charity. I should have told them really but I was offloading 3 or 4 carrier bags of ghostie books a day and making a quick getaway, at time hiding behind the bookshelves and sliding an arm around the corner to put more books in the box. :D Heard one volunteer say in an incredulous voice "More ghost books!" :D Oxfam can have the Welsh book then, but I shall tell them, it's quieter in there. 🙂

Lost four pounds overnight of the weight I put on. It's crazy really. Back in the 13s at 13stone 10pounds, relief all round then. Scrambled eggs and mix veg for breakfast and the same for dinner. Talk about feckless, I spent the last of my money in the restaurant and don't get paid until tomorrow. Good grief.
 
Oxfam I believe do look up the value of books which aren't bulk paperbacks, and sell the more valuable ones on eBay 🙂 though I'm sure they will be happy to be saved the effort of looking it up to decide!
 
I'm on a 'start Monday' thing again. Crazy. Why can't I understand that I have a chronic condition and it's not the old 'on again off again' diet malarkey? :( No measuring of early morning bg, no stepping on the scales and no measuring round the tum. Good grief, it's ridiculous.

Going to the cemetery today with siblings. Looking forward to it! It's taken us a couple of years to get there. Don't even know if they've done the lettering or anything. Hope they have, had long enough. 🙄 Got Aldi Daffs and Carnations to take and sisters have got candles and things, bro is bringing his garden stuff, tidy it all up a bit. See how far the mare's tail has encroached, the authority letting it all go to rack and roony these days. 😡

Then we're going shopping in Urmston, yay, I'm easily pleased. :D
 
Totally off the rails but my sister came last night and she's badly so I had to advise her. Good grief, me advising anybody! Just did a list of 'avoid' ie rice potatoes pasta cakes biscuits sweets and entire bags of cough sweets. At least she's kicked that habit but is in a dire way imho. Very worrying. I said I'll be good if you will so let's see. :(

My idea of 'being good, is finishing off all the milk loaf and promising myself I won't buy anymore. Soft eggs and soldiers though, you can't beat it nom nom nom and I'm girding my loins for brother's visit today. I will not goad him into buying me goodies ie Snickers. I blame other peoples but it's all down to me, silly moo.
 
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My idea of 'being good, is finishing off all the milk loaf and promising myself I won't buy anymore.
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I always put bread, and leftover portions of anything really, in the freezer as soon as i can. Find it avoids the “need to finish that off” thoughts
 
No measurement today despite the fact when I went to stay over at sisters I took my zippy box containing all my stuff my sister gives me so no excuse. She's always getting new equipment from the doc and she passes her old stuff on to me, nobody gives me owt! I go under the radar for everything. They're now going to give her one of those arm things so she won't have to try and get blood out, she's never really got au fait with any of that and is now in double figures, very worrying. They are making her do it the old fashioned way first though and she's struggling. Why are they doing that I wonder?

Me and my sisters are going downhill fast, what can you expect when we went to bed after a supper of chip butties! 😱 I will get back to low carb today but they will carry on regardless. I need to get to 8stone and set a good example. I'm so worried about us all.
 
I've been utterly ridiculous, even for me and that's all I have to say about that. 🙄

I ended up with four empty horses and one fifth place on the Grand National. 🙂 Cracking race but hope all okay. I've had to switch the telly off, the excitement is too much for me. I have to tell myself to breathe! :rofl:
 
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I've been utterly ridiculous, even for me and that's all I have to say about that. 🙄

I ended up with four empty horses and one fifth place on the Grand National. 🙂 Cracking race but hope all okay. I've had to switch the telly off, the excitement is too much for me. I have to tell myself to breathe!
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@Ditto! You do not have to get to 8 stone! When I was overweight in the past, every time I thought 'I need to be 8 stone' I ended up putting more on. I decided to operate on the basis that I'll aim for half a stone less, then establish that as the 'new normal' and then aim for another half stone and so on. These days I’m 9st 4, and although I’d love to be 9 stone, I’ll probably never see it.(I got below 9 stone when I was undiagnosed as Type 1, but I put nearly a stone back on when I started insulin)
I did well on the National today, I always pick the greys, only I wasn’t allowed to pick the one my daughter had backed. One of mine came in second, pity I hadn’t put real money on it. Daughter's came in 3rd, she made a net gain of £21. She’d also chosen one for the cat, which came in 5th. The one called 'The Big Dog'. I think the cat was hoping it would come last.
 
That cat! :rofl: My brother had The Big Dog but I think of all 'our' bets as mine because it's me that arranges it. I do likes an occasion. Gutted about that poor horse though. :(

My 'slim' weight was always 9stone 3pounds, and I was FAT! Size 16 and couldn't wear jumpers and skirts, too much roll. This is why I always think 8stone. I'd have to be that if I wanted to look 'normal' but never going to happen now. Today is another 'using up all the bread' day. I hates myself. It's all Warburton's fault. :D
 
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