This is the first week since the beginning of transition that I am happy with how the weight has “behaved” during the past week. Finally no more frantic jumping around but softly moving within the boundaries of a pound. Another such stable week and I feel that I am well founded for the coming holiday season and that my weight has truly begun resetting itself.
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TRANSITION : Week 9 – Day 1
Nov 12
WOW. So here I am – lost an additional 7.5 pounds during the past 3 weeks on transition – and this will be my first back to reality test week.
It will be actually a stress test week because I’ll be 5 days out of town: wedding, client meetings, friends dinner out, family dinners… I don’t have so much action usually in 2 months and now all combined in 1 week. As I have lost this much during transition, I am not too worried. It will be definitely interesting. I will NOT begin writing what all I am now indulging in or able to eat – it is too personalized the transition and my path could be very different from what you will experience.
Following my good-by letter to the accu-list – this group of people, old timers helping and newbies learning plus everything in between – has been a big part of my success during this program. Only fair to say thank you.
Thank you.
Alright, guys and gals – today I am on my first day of week 4 on my transition and I am moving on to the accu-grads list. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone here for helping each other as you do.
I consider my “voyage” (trip) on the beads a super experience and I am really happy to finally have gotten back “my” body I had lost 10 years ago.
For those fretting about transition I have a little tidbit: I was horrified that I might gain again 1 or 2 pounds back on it and so I ensured to be actually 1 pound below my end goal number when I started on transition. If I would have known then what I know now, I would have saved a whole week: during the past 3 weeks on transition I lost another 7.5 pounds! Now, I know this is a tad unusual to lose this much – I attribute it to my metabolism kick starting back into gear due to the diet and now burning again way better then it had over the past few years – I mainly want to point out that: yes, start transition when you are at your goal, no need to try and over-shoot it.
By the way – from being a 10/12 I am now a 6 (I am 5′10″), oh wow and my underwear is a 5 and considered a Small at Target. My new set of bra’s has the same size of cup but from a 38 I went to a 34. That’s 4 inches less fat. The fitting lady was really impressed that I did not lose on my cup size! But this is what you’ll hear here over and over again: you lose fat, not muscles or flesh.
There are only 2 things I recommend for all on basics:
a) if you have enough energy, do some light exercising from the beginning.
You are going to lose weight so tremendously fast that your outer layers of your skin will be happy if you help it a little and for this reason doing some regular toning (not heavy weight lifting!) helps wonders on the way to a new you.
b) try committing yourself 100% and adhere to the absolute no BLT – no Bite, no Lick, no Taste.
It is not the calories which will mess you up, it is the chemistry as this diet works these wonders because it only contains milk and veggies. No vinegar, no oil, no protein, no starches, no flour, no sugars, no nothing. That one – single lick of salad dressing containing vinegar can set you back a week.
I know I was lucky, the timing of my participating was perfect. I had no major obligations during 2 months or only such which I could handle without falling off the wagon. And even though I had a horrible rough emotional few weeks due to a loss (which usually would have resulted in bingeing), the protocol and the rubbing of the beads helped me during the hard times by allowing me to cling to the routine of the protocol. And this diet was such an opportunity for me to finally be done with the 10-year diet which lead to nowhere (aren’t you sick and tired of always thinking “I should diet”, only to falter again?) and to do it with no hunger and with such an easy to follow protocol, it felt to me personally like a “last chance” to really make it and in no way was I going to mess that up.
Wishing you all a smooth ride to YOUR goal.
You are worth it and you can do it.
—marlyse
A nice problem to have.
Oct 7
When I was close to my weight goal, I was fretting over the possibility to gain during transition.
Haha. If I would have known, I would have gone onto transition a week earlier.
I am on my last day of week three of transition and I have lost unexpectedly another 7 pounds during those 3 weeks! I am actually battling, not to lose more because I do not want to end up with that what is called to be underweight – yeeks! I’m doing this by lightly “cheating” here and there, such as not to only eat two small fruits a day but either having a third one on that day or to eat large fruits instead. But even so – the weight is still dropping.
Isn’t this a great problem to have?!
Of course, this next week will be a big test, with 5 days out of town, client meeting(s) next to a wedding and dinners out with old friends long time not seen – I am sure I’ll work my way back up on those 7 pounds pretty darn fast. The nice thing about this (probable) fact is that I do not have to worry if or if not it will happen.
First time
Oct 1
Today was the first time since I began this program that I did not stick completely to the rules. Like, really not. The past 2 days – milk days – had been really hard for me, especially the second milk day. I really felt hungry. And my weight dropped even further down – below the healthy weight zone – not what I was aiming at. So, that was then my justification. I had too much fruit. Instead of 2 servings, I had something like… 5. And my body is barking at me for that: too much fruit sugar. Ugh. So tomorrow I need to clean that out again. The fruit was just so good. That was the second justification. Of course I am right now mad at myself. But on the other hand, it’s okay. I did it once, doesn’t mean I have to repeat it. Lesson learned: right now the focus is shifting from “wow, I can eat again, eat, eat, eat” to “eat only when and as much as needed to not be hungry“.
More thing added back into my diet. Nice. Last week I lost even more weight, probably another 2 pounds. Not my plan. Lost even though I am really working on fitness. This week it’s more variety in protein (cheese, YES – but not more than 3 oz a day). I can even have little dairy (milk, yogurt), low fat on my veggie days (I will probably pass for the most, as I still can’t have Sugar in the Raw I am not (yet) interested in my usual large cup of Early Gray tea – I’ll rather wait until I can have it all. Also, I can have some starchy stuff (such as potato) – either starch or grains. Definitely getting back to a full “can have it all”. Again, there is no “standard” when it comes to transition week 2 and later, this is completely personalized. Such even, that next week we will add “wedding cake” back into my menu – as that is the week we will be out of town for such an event.
