Billies progress

Right I am doing the 'Diet Chef' program, I get all my meals, they are calorie and portion counted + a snack per day, it works out at approximatly £3.50 per day for 3 meals and a snack.

12th Oct 15.11 stone ( don't know what in metric) this was as I came out of hospital.
17th Oct 15.04 this was before diet started and most of loss was the water retention, started diet on 17th.
24th Oct 15.00 4lb loss.
31st Oct 15.00
07th Nov 15.00
14th Nov 15.01 1lb gain
28th Nov 14.10 5lb loss in 2 weeks
05th Dec 14.06 4lb loss
12th Dec 14.10 4lb gained
19th Dec 14.09 1lb loss
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06th Feb 14.04 restart weight
13th Feb 14.00 4lbs lost
22nd Feb 13.12 2lbs lost
01st Mar 13.09 3lbs lost
08th Mar 13.10 1lb gain
22nd Mar 13.08 2lb lost
29th Mar 13.06 2lb lost
05th Apr 13.05 1lb lost
27th Apr 13.04 1lb lost
13th June 13.02 2lb lost LOL in 11/2 months.
19th Aug 12.11.

Well you're off to a cracking start, well done!!

Are you finding that you have to add veggies and stuff, or are the portions okay?

Very very well done Billie - wonderful news and it has probably given you a great boost to carry on. xxx

Sounds like a positive start Billie.

well done billie thats great news to see it coming off like that. good for you

Well done Billie, you're off to a good start there.

That sounds great well done, now you have got me googling Diet Chef!!!!

Oh well done, Billie.
What a great start.

I'll look forward to following this thread with you.

I just had a quick look and put in my meals came to £190, bout £6.50 day not bad, I will also enjoy seeing how you are doing.
What are the meals like? tasty?

good for you billie .keep it up

You get meals for 5 weeks, pay for 4 weeks and get one free, so far the only meals I cannot eat is the Thai chicken soup and the Thai curry as they have lemon grass in them and taste very perfumed, I had chicken fricassee last night added a small portion of rice and it was very tasty, the only down side for me is the breakfasts as I loved my Kellogs fruit and fibre, yes you can add veg, rice, pasta, and fruit in small quantities.

i prefer tesco fruit and fibre billie ,its not got as much fruit in it ,its the dried banana i dont like .do you have to eat the meals and thats it then .surely you can have one meal aday every so often thats not on the plan ...can't you especially as its a healthier choice with the fruit n fibre

Didn't realise you had your own thread. I just asked on the incidental
how things were going.
Well done on a good start.

You are supposed to keep to the meals they provide but you can have a ordinary meal if you are going out or like me I go to Lesley once a week, but you have to keep as much to their portions as you can, there is a great choice of meals especially the dinners, and so far other than the Thai one they have all been very tasty, I had mushroom stroganoff tonight and added a small portion of rice, very tasty, so far not felt hungry at all.

glad it working out Billie, its a good idea that someone else cooks, wish i had someone here LOL

Well done Billie keep up the good work.

It's working well, and nice to try different foods too, well done.

This is fab Billie (only just found the thread) so you are off to a great start and keep up the good work.

Glad it's going well Billie. Are you sticking to just that and not snacking
in between ? I see you said that they are going to change the ones
with Lemon grass in. That's excellent. No point in paying all that money
if you don't like it. Do you get any choice ? or is it just a case of getting
what they send.

They have a very large menu to choose from Steph, 33 dinners, 17 soups and 4 milk shakes for lunch, 4 granolas and 5 porridges for breakfast, and 10 different snack choices, all I add is veg and fruit and a slice of wholemeal bread with the soup, also the thing I really like is there are no chinese, and only 3 curries.

31st October still 15st nothing lost this week, bit dissapointed but not surprised as the diet food I am getting is more than I normally eat in a day, except for the breakfast cereal, still will see next weeks.

Hang on in there, Billie. It may take your body a while to adjust especially if you're actually eating more. As long as you are eating less calories though, you will lose.

Yes, keep on in there Billie because as Lorraine so rightly says, it takes a while for a body to adjust to different eating habits.

a bit disappointing billie but as patty and lorraine have said, stick at it , you might have a massive weight loss when it does finally decide to leave you . normally ,you see, the initial weight loss of any slimmer is excess body fluids ,you take water pills and other meds that will make you not retain that extra fluid so it will not show up immediately in any dietary changes

I know I lost all the fluid in the first week before I started the diet, and have been on high diuretic since, I have to stick at it for two months at least so hope I willl lose more in that time.

Well again zilch, nada, none, not an ounce even, and I am keeping strictly to the diet so much so I am now craving for cream cakes, biccies, and chocolate, but will carry on and see if as Kim says I might have a big loss next week.

Oh Billie I'm sorry to hear that, I can tell in the typing that you are disappointed. Yes you must keep it up if for no other reason than it is better for you than all the above. I hope that there is something in the next week to encourage you to keep on. HUGs

Well it gets worse, no loss but a lb gain, and I have been sticking religiously to the meals, only problem I find is I am actually eating more than I would normally, especially the soups, they are so thick I have to water them down to make them edible, anyway the second lot has arrived so I will carry on till they are finished then will give it a miss and try something else maybe, we think it really is lack of excersise that is my problem but until I can get about with out gasping for breath or nearly falling over then I'm afraid thats a no no, so unless something dramatic happens this is my last post on here.

That's a shame Billie, think you are right about the it being the need to burn it off rather than totally about what you eat.

Oh Billie, so sorry you're not getting the results that you were expecting. I know how hard it is to shift the weight (although I have a good deal more than you to lose). You are right about the exercise; that's what is working for me; but I totally understand that it's not that simple for you.

Do you swim? It might be a more gentle form of exercise that would leave you less out of breath? Just a thought.