Getting back into my jeans...

[pezzaburza]

Hi all

I am not sure I am doing this in the right spot, so apologies and please move it if its not!

I started on Monday and have found this forum a GREAT help to compare symptoms (headaches, thirst, hunger, tired etc).

I am doing the program as a friend lost 30 kilos on it, and is like a new man. I am doing it because I am sick of being on a "diet". I have spent the last 4 years of my life on a diet and haven't lost any weight! I am sick of looking at cupboards full of clothes that don't fit me anymore, but I haven't thrown out yet because I am sure they will fit me "when i finish this diet". Even blind Nelly can see the pattern there!

So I am on Day 3, and staying focussed. (although, yes thirsty despite drinking enough water..)

BUT.. I do need some advice! I have a 4 day conference from 13-17 August... next weekend!! Help! It's interstate, and catered. I have spoken to the organisers and they have given me a run down of the catering, but I will be guessing as best I can weights etc. Surely other people here have been to a conference while on the program and can offer me some advice?

Breakfast - I am going to take boiled eggs and some vegies cut up and weighed in bags, and Ill just eat them in my room (there is a minibar!)

Lunch and dinner... help? Is guessing going to set me way back?

Bad timing I know!! Thanking you in advance!

Penny

[*Nelson bride*]

Hi Penny, welcom to the forum

I cant really help with the advice yet as I dont start programme until tomorrow, How ever can you not take your own lunches to the conference???

GOOD LUCK

[cathbug]

Wow! Big decisions. My suggestion is that since you are so early in the programme and your body is still settling into this way of eating, pack a chilly bin and take all your food with you.

[sammie]

Hey Penny

I would say that so early in the program I wouldnt be doing any guessing. Is a buffet style or a sit down meal for lunch. If sit down talk to the organisers - tell them you are on a medically prescribed diet by your doctor due to food allergies and insulin levels blah blah - youknow what I mean as ask if you can give them your lunchtime meal. Even if its the same for 5 days be safer bet. If they not happy with that - I would take your scales and use your mini bar fridge - salad and tuna is always a good safe bet. Check out location there maybe a supermarket nearby where you can just stock up for a couple of day. Also get you out in the fresh air

Not sure if this helps in anyway - good luck and welcome on board.

x

[waterbaby]

Hi Penny

I'm on day 3 too! So far I'm doing OK, some pretty strange flu-like symptoms but no headaches which I'm relieved about. Haven't really being doing this for long enough to give you any sound advice but I know for me I want to be completely deviation free for the first month at least, which means I need to control every meal.

Good luck!

[pezzaburza]

Thank you all so much!! I am feeling better about it now. Its mostly buffet style, so I will pick well.. I am going to take as much preweighed and labeled food as I can, and try and nick back to my room to eat, rather than eating with the group. There is one 3 course meal though - so I will have to be good! (good practive i figure as well..) My clinic got back in touch with me as well and told me it wasnt the end of the world, so that is a relief. I am going to take my prescription with me, and you never know, the hotel may be able to help me out when i get there. Fingers crossed!

waterbaby - good luck to you too! I want to stick to it 100% as well, which is why I am sad about the conference! Damn work interfering! But, I will try my best. Keep in touch with how you are going! Are you thirsty? The more I drink, the more I want to drink. Not sure if that means i was just really dehydrated before, and my thirst register has just switched on now I am not putting food in my face instead of drinking!

Thanks again guys!! I am looking forward to losing my first few kilos so hope this doesnt put me back too far! I can't rememeber the last time I lost weight.

[waterbaby]

Hi Pezzaburza

Have just found out I have a client dinner on Monday 16th and thought of you - if you can survive a whole conference I can definately survive one little dinner. Still very nervous though and have been furiously googling menus trying to figure out where will be safe.

I have been really thirsty - especially at night. I'm waking up two or three times a night to pee and drink water (which is a bit of a vicious cycle really).

Good luck for the weekend!

[pezzaburza]

Waterbaby you will be fine! WE will be fine! Both eating out on the same night.. Ha! I have been paying close attention to what the cooked quantities of proteins looks like, so I can best guess meals I can't self cater.

I am drinking loads still - figure its my body getting rid of the toxic matter that has been locked in cells.

In good news though, headaches have stopped and my boyfriend told me he thought I had lost weight (well, he actually said my cheeks looked smaller...), so I stood on the scales - 1.5 kilos off!! I was GOBSMACKED!!

It was the motivation I needed that this program works!!

Good luck with the dinner (and yes for the weekend as well) As I was once told at a weightwatchers meeting "Don't let your weekend be your weak end"