No don't get me wrong it's not that bad in fact it is a welcome change to the CSD I'm just having a bad day lol! I have been strict dieting now for nearly 9 days and I have just had it for the moment and I just need a bit of normality for a bit so no dieting this weekend in fact I'm going to have a drink as well I think I deserve it after this stint of dieting. Normally I just do 1 week CSD followed by 2 weeks healthy eating with a bit of what I like! I am counting now till my break 6 hours to go!

charito33 - 1gr = 1 gram? Is there a place where I can find more information? the exact serving and such? Can you have snacks in between the three meals and for dinner on Sunday, what list?

Thanks!

Last edited by rottingoak (2007-05-02 13:48:12)

Hi Everyone!
I hope that all of my buddies are having an excellent day and staying on plan!  I am feeling much better today about the whole dress issue.  I know in my head that dress sizes in the US are far off from the sizes of regular clothes but it still hurt in my heart to see that number 20 on the tag.    On the bright side it was a good kick in the butt for me to keep going and stay on track.  Thankyou Sally and Charito for your encouragement regarding my dress drama!  You guys are such an unbelievable support system for me and I am so grateful to you!

And I feel much better today because I spent hours getting my hair highlighted and practiced on for the wedding and I left the shop feeling like a real queen!  So all is well.

Congratulations Paragon on your weight loss!I say if you can lose a pound while eating raisin bread and peanut butter (my mouth is watering!) then that is an absolute success!  Good luck with your week of CSD!  Stay strong, I know you will do great!  And your DVD sounds like fun!  I'm sure my husband would love it too!

Charito, thanks for the negative calorie lists.  I was wondering about that as I had never heard about negative calorie foods until I started reading these posts!  I also have to admit that I did not exercise again today.    But I thought about it a lot and I have guilt over not doing it so I am sure I am ready to start tomorrow.  Thanks for the encouragement!    Also, your post about your husband already noticing, that is truly inspiring!  I hope you are having a good day one of csd!  Your soup looks delicious by the way!    I also used regular onion in my soup instead of green onion.  I also added a little bit of fresh garlic.  And on day three I am still liking the soup, so I guess that is a good thing!  And don't worry, we will not leave you.  I'm sure we can all stick together until we are all at our goal and we will all reach our goal, I just know it!

Sally, you are an absolute champion for going nine days straight without a break from dieting!    Congratulations on staying strong!  I am so anxious to hear your results from the 3dd because my plan is to go right from csd to 3dd and then just do healthy low cal food from then until the wedding next Saturday.  But I'll tell you what, just like you can't wait for your glass of wine, I am going to feel no guilt on Saturday when I have an ice cold beer at the wedding!    I was wondering, what exercise do they recommend in your csd book? Isn't it fabulous to have our husbands love us the way that they do?  My sister in law's husband is so rotton to her when she gains weight and I always feel so bad for her.  It really makes me appreciate my husband even more! 

Odette, how did you do with your 3dd?  Last time you checked in it seems like you were right on track.  I can't wait to hear what the overall results were! 

Cindy, congrats for sticking with your plan so far!    Aren't weddings a great motivater?  And your hubby letting you buy a new dress is a great motivation too!  Hope you had a good banana day.  I am one day behind you and although I'm not particularly fond of bananas I am really looking forward to the milk and a lot of the banana ideas that I have read in different posts sound really great!  Keep up the good work!

I am on day three and still hanging in there.  I feel grateful that my will power is staying strong and I know I will get through this week, with a huge thanks to you guys!     I am dying to weigh myself but I think it will be more gratifying if I wait until the end so I am holding out until Monday morning.  But when my hubby hugged me before he left for work tonight he said "Wow skinny, your diet is amazing!"  So that was great and I know I am on the right track.

Everyone have a great day tomorrow and keep posting your results!

Okay guys, I made myself a weight loss ticker on ticker.com cause I just love yours, but now how do I get it on here?  So  many different options.  Any help would be appreciated.

Good for you Cindy for sticking to it.  I am sure you will notice a change in your skirt soon enough.  And lucky you that your husband let you have a well deserved break from housework.  I'd like to say I wish mine would, but he has been working 16 hour days this week so I will give him a pass on the cleaning!

Is everyone having a good day?  I'm dying to hear some positive results from the 3 day dieters!  I am holding out hope that the 3dd is a miracle! 

Lol I had the same problem 36togoal Charito taught me how to post pictures etc on here. She's the queen of jazzing up the posts! 

You join www.photobucket.com which is free! Then you download your ticker to there and any other pictures you may want to put on here. You then copy the img tag [3rd box down under the picture you want] and paste on here!



Ok this is my new one!

Yahoo 5lbs to go!!! I lost 3 lbs on the 3DD which is 1lb a day so better than I do on the CSD as my average weight loss on that has been 4lbs a week! I think my body has got so used to the CSD that it doesn't work as well as it did to start with so a different diet has worked better for me. I stuck to the 3DD diet exactly and had no other fruit and veg even negative calorie ones!

Despite not dieting today I have been good: -
No breakfast didn't have time [I know it's a silly meal to miss]
Lunch - Spicy bean healthy choice wrap and a fruit smoothy [I actually went to the shop picked up a bag of crisps then thought better of it and put them back!]
Dinner - Rainbow trout and salad and 1 apple

As for cleaning I'm at it all the time at the moment [cleaning that is] people viewing the house every day and I am not the tidiest of people and for sure my husband and sons aren't! Why do teenage boys bedrooms look and smell like squats even if they are decorated nicely? Still I don't care just so long as we sell it again so we can move to our new house in Wales.

Charito you'll be pleased to hear that I'm aching all over today as I did dance teaching today and worked myself hard with the kids and made them do a good aerobic warmup first for my benifit lol! Still I think I'm fitter than quite a few of them!

My scanner is broken so I can't put the cabbage soup diet instructions for exercise on
here and you need the diagram pictures to really understand what you need to do!
I'll see if I can scan it somewhere else and will put them on when I can or I'll find a way of describing them they are very low key I think but then I am a PE teacher, be it a lazy one!

We sure all seem to have lovely husbands at the end of the day and for that we are lucky judging by what others I know put up with and that helps when we are doing this torture!


Hope all is going well for all of you

HAPPY DIETING!!!

Last edited by Sally22 (2007-05-03 13:42:24)

Okay I don't have a lot of time to post as I am running out the door at the moment, but Charito you sound so down I just had to take the time for a quick word of encouragement...
Sally is absolutely right.  Line up five pounds of butter because that is what you have accomplished and that is fantastic!  Or look at a five pound bag of flour or sugar and hold that up to you because that's what used to be on your body!  It's really quite amazing if you think about it!  And Sally, it is too funny that you equate your weight loss with pounds of butter, I thought I was the only one who did that!!! LOL 
Before I started this diet when I was just looking around and reading other posts, I found one so good and motivational that I had to print it off.  I don't remember who wrote it now, or where I found it, and I hope they don't mind me passing it along.  But it has helped me in my weaker moments and hopefully it can help you to!

"I deserve to be happy with the skin that I'm in.  I deserve to be able to put on ANYTHING and feel attractive in it.  I deserve to have my husband touch my body and not feel self-conscious about the way my body feels.  And I am going to do the work it takes to get what I deserve. 

You deserve to be happy with your body too.  You deserve to NOT waste time thinking about what size you can fit into, what department and aisle you have to shop in because of your size or feeling guilty if you have an item of food that's maybe not so good for you once in a while.

Why is 7 days so hard?  Isn't it worth it?  Is that feast you had at your family get-together or the 1/2 a pizza you had with your family or the bag of chips you just couldn't put down worth the guilt, helplessness and shame you are going to feel tomorrow - when you have to try to pick yourself up and start over again?  Just CHOSE not to do that.  It's your choice ALWAYS- why is it so hard to make the right one! 

Someone wrote in a post one time.... "NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS THIN FEELS!"  Every time people are eating things around me that I shouldn't eat (and I know what I should and shouldn't eat), I just remind myself of that phrase and remember how it feels to be thin and healthy and love the skin that I'm in.

The diet works - there's no doubt about that.  And it's so simple - nothing to measure, no points to count - it's a no-brainer.

Decide.....  decide that you are not happy with your weight
Commit..... make a commitment to yourself to stick to the plan no matter what
Achieve..... sticking to the plan, you will achieve your goals - it's a fact!
Celebrate... remember to reward yourself when you achieve your goals."

I hope that you can find some comfort in some of that, I know it is very inspirational for me!
Keep it up Charito, you can do it!  You lost a pound in a day?  That's fantastic!  Most people are lucky to lose that in a week!  That's what I was losing in a week before i started csd.  We are here for you, you will get through this! 

Okay, I have to run.  More later.  Thanks for the help with the ticker, I will try it when I get home.  And congrats Sally on your loss!

SALLY, MANDY and PARAGON, you guys are the best friends and diet buddies ever!!!


Thanks girls for all your words of support, it's 7:15pm now I have been so faithful to my CSD Day 1 (again day 1) cause yesterday the binge on eggplant ruined it. I am feeling so empty jeje but I know at the end I will feel great. I should feel very depressed but I am trying to think about other things, trying to organize myself and study my medical stuff so I can soon clear my exams and get my degree; I am trying to get back in shape because this overweight is taking my years away with tears and feeling myself like the most horrible thing. It may sound stupid but that's the way I feel, and the worst thing is that I let this happen day a day, at least now i am more conscious and for some sort of luck I lost 5 Lbs, it's a start right?

Thanks Paragon, Sally and Mandy, I really really value your words of support and kindness. You guys rock!!!


I made a new thread for us, it's for May, I thought about making something different of myself on this month that is just starting, I am 5 Lbs of butter lighther , so I am starting with my right foot. Please make your new posts overthere, I hope you like it.

See you bonitas on the new post, it's called "MAY CSD CHALLENGE"

God Bless You