When i was at school my teacher told me that every story has a beginning a middle and an end. I was never good at school but i am determind that this story will have all of the above.

The main purpose of this blog is so that i can relect and also so that people who dont understand what i am doing WILL.

So i am Laura, i am a 23 year old Female who is 5foot and weigh 12st 4. I have been having problems with my own personal image and have decided that i will something to change that. After reasearching lots of different diets, i found Lighterlife.

Lighterlife is a VLCD (very low calorie diet) and i was very keen to find out more so i made the first step of contacting the local lighterlife councellor.

Last Sunday i met up with the local Councillor, she is a very nice and seems a very understanding and helpfull lady. She explained that i would be off conventional food and everything drinkable apart from black tea, black coffe and water for the next 14 weeks, should i choose to take part. However this does not been you starve yourself, you are given food packs everyweek, these consist of shakes, soups and bars. Everyday you must eat four of these to add up to your RDA of things that keep you going such as vitamins.

So after learning about the inns and outs everything seemed well and good and i was very keen, the only thing that was holding me back was the cost. Its £66 pounds a week for the 28 food packs (4 packs X 7 days), 2 hours of councilling a week and total support. Ok it sounds alot but considering how much i spend of booze, take aways, snacks and weekly shopping i think i will be making a saving!.

I will addmit i have told people about this diet i am starting which was possibly not the best idea as most of them have tried to talk me out of it without knowing the full facts and therefore making me not feel positive about what it is I WANT TO DO FOR MYSELF, but i will refer them to this blog where i will be completely honest about everything and i can promise that if it doesnt make me happy and causes me problems i will stop, but untill then NO ONE IS GOING TO STOP ME.

My dream is to loose this awfull belly, take the weight off my knees and be able to fit into nice clothes without looking like a cow squeezed into a condom and to live my life not as the fat person i am destined to be.

Saturday 26th July 2008 - The First session

So i have been to my first session today at 10 am (very tired, it was too hot to sleep last night)i had been told that i am due to start my foodpacks on Sunday which is good as we are having a BBQ at home today and i love BBQ food.I was very nervous about going to the session today due to all the negativity that i have had but i went and im glad i did.

I arrived at the venue very nervous about who i was going to meet, what was going to happen ect. Everyone bar one trned up so there was only 6 people in my group, the ages ranged from 18-58 so there was a good range and it was refrressing to see people around my age.We discussed all sorts of things including confidentiality, (hence why i will only be blogging about myself and not gossiping about anyone else)setting ground rules and what was ahead of this journey.

I ordered my food packs and ordered a wide range just so i could try everything so i could decide what it is that i liked or not. We were not allowed to order bars as we will be able to have one when we go for a drop in session on tuesday which we will have just to check that everything is ok and that we are coping, I think by then i will be dying to chew on something.

I got weighed and according to their scales i weight 12 stone 2 so this will be in my mind my starting weight. I am sooo excited about the possiblity of getting into my old clothes and re gaining my confidence oh and this last supper i am about to eat.

Will write again tomorrow but if you want to check out more information about the diet, go to www.lighterlife.co.uk