15 weeks into dieting and for the first time since

I have had chocolate again. Thank you hunts.
Hunt's snack pack fat free chocolate pudding 3.5 oz cups are the yummiest and only 90 calories and no fat, did I mention No fat.
I have also decided to limit my normal days calories down to 1000 - 1200 calories, so I can maintain my weight using those ever so tempting special meals when I get down to 9 stone 6pounds.

15 weeks of dieting

What a roller coaster ride of thoughts, emotions, highs higher than I would have ever thought and lows - feeling like I am starving. I feel like I am weaning myself off a drug that I will not be allowed to ever go cold turkey, with temptation everywhere. I have to train my body to feel full on a maintenance plan after I have lost these last 5 pounds. I am hoping it won't stay an eternal up hill battle.

1st Week - 16 pounds
2nd Week - 4 pounds
3rd Week - 1 pound
4th Week - 3 pounds
5th Week - 1 pound
6th Week - 3 pounds
7th Week - 3 pounds
8th Week - 3 pounds
9th Week - 1 pound
10th Week - 2 pounds
11th Week - 4 pounds
12th Week - 1 pound
13th Week - 1 pound
14th Week - 1 pound
15th Week - 1 pound

And now my very own quote

Just like any journey, it is easier to achieve your goals when you keep your eye on getting there and not the distractions.~ Suzanne Jeffares

Now for some light humour I found from

http://www.quotegarden.com regarding dieting

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. ~Author Unknown

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. ~Author Unknown

I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me! ~Author Unknown

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days. ~Totie Fields

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. ~Andy Rooney

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. ~George Bernard Shaw

I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990. ~Dave Barry

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad. ~Janette Barber

Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner. ~H.S. Leigh

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. ~Dan Bennett

I bought a talking refrigerator that said "Oink" every time I opened the door. It made me hungry for pork chops. ~Marie Mott

Weigh in 137 pounds or 9stone 11 pounds

I'm still loosing weight which is great :-) expecting to only loose 1 pound every 2 weeks now, we will see how I go.
When I get down to 9stone 6pounds I would have lost 50 pounds.
Sometimes I find it hard to believe, and sometimes I still feel fat but my clothes say other wise.
I feel a lot healthier, I am not getting reflux at all, I still have to get used to people looking at me, when you are bigger people don't notice you at all (unless you are very obese, and I was not).
Getting closer to that before and after photo I promised, and I will keep to it.
It is getting harder to stick to the diet, I have to remind myself theres not much longer, not much more to loose then I can go on my maintenance diet/ healthy living.

Decision

I have decided to change my goal weight from 9 stone to 9 stone 6pounds, because my weight loss has slowed a lot, the calories in my diet daily are 900 - 1500 and I am almost happy with my weight.
So this means that I am very close to my goal weight now. I have worked very hard to get here and I am very happy with all my hard work.

Weigh in on the 17th

I am down officially to 9 stone 12 pounds. I still feel like I could loose a little bit more. Waiting for my body to feel the same way.
I really want to get down to 9 stone. I feel that would be the best weight for me.
I've had a cold and had no idea that the honey and lemon drinks that my sweet boyfriend was making for me were worth 70 calories each. 3 or 4 drinks later.
Anyway, I will be happy if I weigh in at 9 stone 12 pounds this coming Saturday.

Just a few thanks to companies for making low fat or low calorie products

No fat chocolate pudding (that I will be allowed when I get to 9st 6pounds)

http://www.snackpack.com/pages/index.html
http://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/36028.htm

Low fat cream cheese alternative - and sooooo yummy
Extra Light PHILADELPHIA – only 5% fat
http://www.kraft.com.au/philadelphia/products.cfm

wow, just wow

I have lost 44 pounds and there is only 12 more pounds to go.
Then I promise to put up the before and after photos :-).
I am only 6 more pounds away from being allowed a special meal (small meal or treat) a week and being allowed chocolate pudding every night (low/no fat of course).
Something to look forward to, definately.

Review of diet

1st Week - 16 pounds
2nd Week - 4 pounds
3rd Week - 1 pound
4th Week - 3 pounds
5th Week - 1 pound
6th Week - 3 pounds
7th Week - 3 pounds
8th Week - 3 pounds
9th Week - 1 pound
10th Week - 2 pounds
11th Week - 4 pounds
12th Week - 1 pound

at 9 stone 12 I am now allowed

a tablespoon of extra light (5% fat) cream cheese or 1/4 cup of xtra lite or trim milk, or a tablespoon of low fat cottage cheese.
And now I'm allowed potato, kumara and pumpkin also as part of my vege meal.

Weigh in day yesterday

Weigh in yesterday was 9 stone 13 pounds / 139 pounds / 63 kg, for a while there I was worried I would not be able to get below 10 stone. But I've done it. And today I weighed in at 9 stone 12 pounds /138 pounds / 62 kg.
It would be so easy to stuff up now, as other foods smell really really good, and this is something I'm going to have to be strict on till its second nature. People have been soooo supportive but are starting to say that I'm at my ideal, I know I'm only 12 pounds away then I will be happy.
I need to find nicer ways to politely say no when it comes to people offering food, I really don't think they understand how difficult this has been, I don't want them thinking I am being rude but I don't want to have to loose this weight again. I will have to learn to maintain very soon, I am hoping that its going to be a lot easier than this diet.
I am missing chocolate, icecream, burgers, roast chicken, bread, pizza, pasta and just being able to eat with others with out having to think about the calories.
I love how healthy I feel, heaps more energy, how I look, the excitement of having to go down a dress size when shopping (now I'm down from 16 - 18 to a size 12) thats been great :-), its been great getting the support of others telling me I am looking great.

Weigh in day yesterday

I am now down to 140 pounds (or 10 stone or 63.5kg)
I am 2 pounds away from adding some more of my favourite veges (potatoe, kumara (like sweet potatoe), and pumpkin), I will also be adding 1 table spoon of extra light cream cheese, or trim milk or cottage cheese as well.
I have been eating under 50 grams of smoked salmon each day now, and I am amazed that on a week where I have increased my calorie intake and a week where I normally have fluid retention and 11 weeks into my diet I have lost 4 pounds.
I can only put this down to the fact that I am slowly increasing the calories and this is increasing my metabolic rate. (Which is all good)