What do clients on the programme say?
Melinda, Kent (22/08/08)
I've been biggish all my life and am generally
a happy person but it always annoyed me that my weight seemed to be
the one thing I couldn't control. I'd lost the odd 2/3 stone here
and there (with WW!) but always put it back and then some. I'd just
never found anything that worked before or got to the bottom of why
I overate, which I now realise is something you have to understand
if you're ever to solve the problem.
I've been with boyfriend for six years and for
five of those we've been engaged. In that time many of our
friends have met their partners, got engaged and married (and even
started having kids!) but I've always held back because I never
wanted to be a fat bride. My boyfriend is lovely and would marry me
at any weight but he realised until I was happy with myself and my
weight it probably wouldn't happen. Thanks to LighterLife we are
now planning our wedding for 8th August 2009!
Rachel (20/08/08)
I finished foundation last night and just wanted to post
something I had written in my diary which sums up how I feel.
Hope it gives a little bit of umph to everyone still in
abstinence:
I woke up this morning and felt different about this diet. So
far it has all been a journey in stages and this is obviously
another part.
To start with it was all about being brave enough to do it, then
it was coping with the first week withdrawals, then the enormity of
the length of the task, then the intense emotions brought up by the
councilling, then the slight disappointment at the slightly slower
rate of loss than I was expecting, then the coping socially with
people whilst on the diet, then the frustration at the lack of food
and the hunger and cravings, then the resignation to it, then the
complete boredom with the packs.
However today I feel grateful to the diet. It is by no means the
easy option but it has fundamentally changed me in so many ways and
I am soooo grateful.
I was in a bad corner when I started this diet and had been for
a while. I had given up hope of ever being remotely slim and was
resigned to tag myself as a larger lady (the largest person I
knew). I felt isolated, frustrated, out of control, tense and had a
poor self image. I was hiding - invisible I hoped to others. I had
turned my back on the person I used to be.
This diet has not just reduced my waistline. It has empowered
me, booted me out of my hiding place, squashed me through some
difficult hoops, forced me to start thinking again - to face things
head on.
I am stronger, more relaxed, more tolerant, more focused,
calmer. I feel like I'm emerging from a misty place into a bright
sunny place.
So here's a big thanks to LighterLife.
Sally, Stoke-on-Trent (14/08/08)
I just love LL. It not only changed my life, but saved my life.
I am positively evangelical about it!
August 19th marks one year since I
started my incredible journey. It has in deed been amazing. I feel
I have grown so much as a person in this year & all the
problems & issues, health wise & emotionally, which were
centered around food & eating have melted away.
I love food now - it is not the enemy. It is
a friend who gives me great fuel to do good work! I feel alive. I
am an achiever. I realise now that I was living a half life....i
will never say anything bad about my larger self & I feel no
shame - why should I? I am who I am. It was me, but this is me now
& who I want to be for the rest of my life.
My skin is clear, I sleep less. I love
cooking & creating. I go on the trampoline, I run on the
treadmill, I never take the lift, always take the stairs. I love my
bike. I love wearing trousers cos I look really good in them
I love my reflection. I love
how youthful & fit I feel. I love going in to a shop & not
being able to find anything that fits me - not because I am too
big, but now I am too small lol.
It is far, far, far more than just weight I
have lost...I have lost the shackles.
One year on is a time of great reflection
for me. I am eating very normally...thinking very normally. I am
the person I always wanted to be...that slim, self assurred woman
who never weighs herself and eats what she wants because she knows
it is about balance. She can tell by her clothes if she needs to
cut back and she never has to. I love that.
Melanie, London (14/08/08)
“I'm on week 5 of Lighter life and I've lost 24lbs
already, I feel really good with loads of energy, my skin is great
and I'm sleeping well. I'm very passionate about the difference
Lighter Life has made to my life, after being overweight for 11
years."
Sarah, Ormsley (04/08/08)
I wanted to drop you a line, and tell you how
fantastic I think your programme is!! I've been on it for four days
and already lost 11lbs!
When I was starting the programme I was
looking for inspiration, after looking in numerous supermarkets for
your magazine without any luck I eventually found it in
WHSmith's!
I couldn't really find any diaries of feelings
and experiences on the programme, so I have created a blog. It is
mainly to give me inspiration and others if they think it will
help!
Lynn, Lancs (01/08/08)
Just a note to let you know:
I am only just over 1 week into my lighter life diet and I feel
fantastic. I woke up this morning at 7.30am jumped out of bed
feeling healthier and more "alive" than I have done for longer than
I care to remember. I have already lost 9lbs in the first week and
when I hopped on the scales at home (sorry I can't resist watching
the weight fall off) I have unofficially lost 13lbs, its just
AMAZING!
I already fit into clothes that I haven't been able to wear for
quite some time.
Thank you LighterLife
I have even thought of a little slogan you may be able to
use.
The weekly fee seems a little expensive before you start with
Lighter Life, but, after the first weeks weight loss I got to
thinking, what other ways can you lose weight so effectively for
that kind of money? Hire yourself a personal trainer? I Don't
think so........... Hire yourself a "live in" dietician who will
prepare all your meals for you (as well as doing the dreaded weekly
supermarket trip) Don't think so either but
wait.....................actually I do! I have my very own "live
in" chef who has prepared my meals for me and taken away all the
stress of meal times, shopping, standing in food aisles (surrounded
by items you don't want to look at ) with my calculator working out
calories and saturated fats, and all for only £66 per week. What an
absolute bargain and as an added bonus it frees up loads of time to
do things I actually enjoy.
I appreciate that men and women with families will still have to do
the supermarket trip but buy what you have to for your family and
get out of there, or if poss get your partners to do it !!!
Finally slogan? "Chef in a Sachet"
Best wishes and thanks again for what seems like (in my short
experience) the best way to diet EVER!
Arianna, London (31/07/08)
I have been on the Lighter Life programme since April and I
managed to lose 3 and a half stones. I think the programme is just
fantastic! I feel so much better now!
I attend meetings in London. I just wanted to
let you know that my counsellor is just fantastic!!!! She is really
encouraging, supportive, very friendly and makes you feel
really at ease since the first meeting we had. She is a credit to
your company! If all your counsellors are like her, no doubt the
program has a high success rate!