Only 2 months after our wedding we found out we were expecting our first child and from then the wieght started piling on again. "Just baby weight..." I thought and "It'll all drop off once our son is born." Of course it didn't and going back to Slimming World didn't get me anywhere close to losing the weight. For months it was 7lbs off, 7lbs on, etc. Then there was a house move, which included a temporary move into my sister's house in the Netherlands, so the whole weight loss went out the window...March 2008 - Yoohoo! We're pregnant again. Strangely enough during pregnancy I actually LOST weight... well, in the end I weighed the same as before pregnancy, so I thought, surely when this darling little girl come out, I will weigh less than I did before pregnancy? Our daughter was born weighing 9lbs 1oz and my weight was not much less than before pregnancy. How does that work?
Anyway, found the new local Slimming World group and joined, but again with the same results, 7lbs off, 7lbs on, for months on end.
In January 2010 my parents had together started a new plan, Dr. Frank. A Dutch diet plan that you join online and you get a daily e-mail with a menu that you can follow. As Mum & Dad had great results and the website promises 1 kilo per week weight loss, I thought to give it a try. It really is an alternative Dr. Atkins. High protein, low carb, but with a little twist as it allows more vegetables and some fruit and the protein/carb relation is less extreme as well. Fairly easy to follow, but not in the UK where the cost of cooked/cold meat is so much higher than the Netherlands, it was too costly and finding equivalents for certain Dutch products made it really hard. After 5 weeks I gave up. I watched what I ate to a certain extend but not as much as I should have. By June there was no point in starting another plan as we were due to go to the USA for an 8-week holiday, so that was it. I weighed 1 stone more after our American adventure - Queen Mary 2 there and back, Luxury Hotels, Disneyland and a 5 week camper road trip from Los Angeles, CA to Washington, DC and being treated to fresh lobster in Portland, Maine.
In September I started having very bad back problems and my GP mentioned that my weight would not help issues. After numerous attempts at Slimming World, Dr. Frank, Atkins, Weightloss Resources, Primal Blueprint and other plans and not succeeding I had really given up all hope and I thought I was destined to stay the weight I was, unless I went and did something drastic.I didn't feel comfortable with many so I had to look for alternatives. I searched and found... SureSlim Aylesbury.
I started the plan officially on Monday 15 November, so less than a week ago.
The plan is easy to follow, although it does take some getting your head around it, but following the guidelines is easy, weigh, cook (or not) and eat. Three meals per day, each 5 hours apart, drinking at least 2 litres of water per day in addition to tea, coffee, etc. Easy-peasy.
I had my first weigh-in this morning - I've lost an amazing 3.3kg / 7.3lbs!
I'm so pleased... Onwards and downwards from here...
Nic x
