Day Seven

Well, hello. I'm a completely virgin blogger, so be gentle with me if I get all this horribly wrong.

Here's a bit about myself and why I've set this blog up. I'm Liz, 36, and I live in Kent with two cats and one husband. I'm blogging about my weight loss journey using the Cambridge Diet and I don't give a toss if nobody ever reads this except me. Just knowing its out there in the world, and using it to record my progress, ups/downs, thoughts, earth-shattering insights etc is enough.

I started CD on Monday 15 June. Its my second (proper) attempt at a VLCD, having lost 4.5 stone with Lighter Life in 2005 but failing to keep all bar a stone of it off. The trigger for starting CD - and really meaning it this time - was a trip away with friends in early May.

We had each bought the same dress from New Look back in about January of this year - a short, sequinned, gold tunic dress. I bought a 16 - the biggest size they had - with the intention to 'slim into it'. Hahaahahaha - excuse me whilst I roll about on the laughing floor for a while.

Of course I didn't slim into it and had to wear it as I was - it DID fit, just, but I did not look good in it. I feel so unhappy when I look at the photographs of that weekend. it was a brilliant weekend, but I can't believe I looked so bloody dreadful. I'm wearing the dress again in September.

Whilst it seems a bit superficial to lose weight for the point of a dress, its much more than that. I'm four years off 40 and need to sort my health out once and for all. I am at serious risk of diabetes and heart disease if I carry on like this, not to mention all sorts of other nasties that could come along. Being a sensible weight is the first step in a long journey to sort myself out. The dress is a convenient and useful expression of all that - I WILL look good in it; in fact, it will be too big, by September!

So here's the goal - four stone, or 56lb, by September, and then carry on after that to get to 140lb. Started on Monday, at 14'13, and by yesterday had lost 9.5 lb.

Here's today's stats:

Weight - 14'3.5
Lost - 9.5
To target - 46.5

I weigh in 'for real' on Tuesday, so hope to get it to 10lb or more by then. Till then....

Lx