Laura Jade Stone Height

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Inthe first two weeks it is an entirely liquid diet. Where you have the choice of soup, milkshake or porridge for your three main meals a day and nothing else. From the third week onwards you can swap one of the liquid meals out for a nutrient bar instead. All meal replacements contain your daily allowance of vitamins & nutrients. If you are a man or over 5 feet 8 inches tall this may be more.

Fed up of losing a pound here, and half a pound there, this was the main thing that attracted me to this diet. I wanted quick, decisive results. But that is not to say other conservative diets are not good and may work better for you.

The ethos of the Cambridge Diet is to put your body in a state called ketosis. Which very simplistically put is when you live off your body fat alone. To achieve this you have to rid it of carbohydrates. Once you reach this haloed state however, you no longer feel hungry.

Interestingly, why you may not be physically hungry. This does not take into consideration the tricks your mind plays on you. Strangely, unlike any other diet I have been on, I have found myself craving not cakes, sweets and chips. But, salads, bananas, breakfast cereal and mmm bread.

Even though I passed the medical questionnaire, my consultant wrote to my Doctor to inform them that I am participating in this diet and some medical conditions need prior medical consent before you can begin.

The diet itself states you should drink a minimum of 2.25 litres a day. From my experience this is nowhere near enough. In fact in the early days when I did drink this little, I found it gave me a headache that could give a hangover a run for its money.

Experimentation has shown that I need a minimum of 3 litres a day, great for your skin & health but there have been several times where I have considered relocating my laptop to the ladies bathroom at work!

Finally and perhaps most importantly I want to tackle the issue of maintenance. One of my biggest concerns when I went for my first consultation was if I lost the weight quickly, would I put it back on just as fast when I begin to eat normal food again.

I plan to try and exist on the Cambridge liquid diet for three months in total, after which I will hopefully have lost three stone. Now, after three months of abstinence, you cannot simply start eating normally again. Cambridge have a 7 step programme to introduce food back into your diet slowly. By the end of this programme you will be on your recommended daily allowance of calories. Teaching you how to eat healthily and and about portion control.

I still think it is relevant and I have gone on to do the diet more than once, since this very first blog post. I did go on to to lose the 3 stones I planned to on this diet and also managed to conceive a child naturally (I was doing the diet for IVF). Not that I can prove they are correlated, but I have my suspicions.

I actually only like the shakes and bars myself (you can have the bars after the first two weeks). You can always go back and swap the porridge and soups with your consultant for other flavours. Mine did that with me ?

I have been looking into starting the CD, I am bridesmaid at a wedding in May and have put on some serious chub over Christmas!

Can you realistically exercise whilst on the CD? I know in the first 4-5 days I probably wont want to do anything at all, but I wouldnt want to give up exercise (running, gym etc) for much longer than that.

I would love to lose 25lbs and time is not on my side!

Ooh I miss the wine too. I hate water! Had coconut water today and have been drinking diet tonic water. First weigh-in in morning. Going to sparkling water in wine glad I suppose. Have done this diet before and lost 3 stone. Took 3 years to put it back on again.

@Steveo amazing loss. Have you got the same to lose again? As I am currently 7 months pregnant, I too know that I will be going back on this diet again, I will blog about it when the time comes. Do let me know how you get on

hi all

i have just read all posts as seeing a consultant for the 1st time on fri, very scared but need weight loss badly since going back to university to train as a nurse (mature) and have put 3 stone on!!! my son and i will graduate together and need to be slim, i hope i can find the willpower inside me to stick with it.

thankyou all for sharing your experiences xx

Thanks Catherine. Nice to know it gets easier as today has shocked me how hard this week is going to be. Wow thats amazing well done! Im seeing my consultant thursday but would only have been 4 days so weighin the next thursday.x

Hi all,this is my first full day on CD,so far so good,tried it about 5 years ago and did very well but stopped it and piled it all back on ? love reading all the posts here and it really helps to know that we are all going through it together,good luck everyone x

@Sam you can do a weekend off if you wish to, and completely understand why you would want to for a lovely weekend away like that. But it will take you out of ketosis and make you hungry again so you will have to go through those first few days again on the diet. I would say if the weekend away is close it might be better to wait until after it depends on the dates.

Hi laura

Thank you for your post.i have tried so many products to lose weight .which was of no use.i heard about this diet and i am going start from tommrow i need to lose nearly 15 kg.hopefull i lose .i update with my results.tq for your post

Hi loved reading ll the blogs I have been going to a very difficult time emotionally and comfort eating now I am 18 pounds over weight been to my consultant got the soups my first day today never been on a diet before so I need all the help I can get. Much love Rekha

hello I have start my diet on Monday and I have to say I have been drinking water 3liter per a day which I never deinked water that much in my all life. is very hard diet but I have to be strong. burning 500calori in the gym drinking 2 of the shakes per day and small portion of food . hope I will loose my weight quickly, happy to loose few kg for month .:)

Hi lovey hearing all your comments and journeys. I am on day 6 sole source plus. First weigh in Tue due on any minute arghhhhh lol. Feel bloated and craving but not giving in. Got 4 stone to lose. It is coming off! xx

Hello Laura, thank u so so much for creating this page. I started the CD on 1st June, completed day 4 today so am really looking forward to loosing about 3 stones. I am just very very worries about hair loss. Anyone experienced that yet ??

Hi Ria, I will have completed 3 weeks tomorrow. First few days you may get a headache and be hungry but once ketosis kicks in the hunger pangs ease. Drink plenty of water too and maybe sugar free mints for the bad breath you will get shortly lol. Keep yourself busy to take your mind off food. I got weighed today and have lost 16lb in total. This is my motivation to keep going and will be yours too after your first weigh in x

Started CD 2 days ago, feeling really hungry still. Hopefully the hunger pangs will pass soon. I am finding the evenings more difficult than the days. If anybody else is doing it I really could do with some support. I have 8 stone to lose. I go on holiday in 9 weeks time. Realistically how much weight can I lose in that time?

Hi,

I started CD four weeks ago and i only lost 4 kgs. Anyways i have noticed something, my consultant started step 2 with me! 4 Cambridge meals and a homemade food. Did this happen to anyone else?

Day 1 for me today!

I starting on 810 diet 3 products and a small protein and veg meal. I have been successful on the diet but fail as I do not do the stages to consolidation. Lesson learnt. Good luck all

Kinda struggling this week . Cannot stop thinking about food . I was wondering if I could do ss2 instead of just the ss . Ive lost 12lbs so far and notice a change in my body already . So has others but for some reason I am feeling a bit down this week !

I am in week 2, feeling ok,, lost 9.5 pounds in week 1 really pleased. My only probles are night trip to the and last night I had cramps from hell in both legs, have now read this is a possible side effect, but I will keep going, so watch this space. Happy dieting all

I am 51 yrs.old and start on the cambridge diet tomorrow sunday Oct.4 2014. I will be doing the 110 four times a day.My plans are to consume water mint tea with lemon juice and cucumber used as a detox while losing te weight and eliminating toxins from by body.Please wish me luck and prayers,I am at the last resort and am determined to lose this excess weight then get a tummytuck.Yea the new me.Thinner.

Day 1 today, for the 5th time! I lose weight each time I tried but maintaining is the biggest problem. I always would have gained more weight than the starting weight of the last diet. Really hoping this would be my last but successful trial. Any tips?

hi all ? my first day me and my husband we moved to Dubai a year ago and both gained weight alooot of restaurants and delicious food and food lovers so we heard about this program and went on to the consultation on Friday and today is our first day,fingers crossed ?

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i am starting the cd tomorrow, reading these reviews has really motivated me. I would like to loose a stone for Christmas, and another stone after. the way I am thinking is one week at a time, because the thought of going without food for a month is unbearable. I am hoping that the quick weight lose will keep me motivated. but thank you for such a brilliant site, listening to other peoples stories and progress is great. let you know after 3 days feeling very excited

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