That’s why the transition back to food is also well regulated. While I’ll be fasting for 3-4 months, My diet will be regulated and I’ll be monitored and counciled for about a year.
So how are you doing?
I thought of you this morning when I glanced at my desk and saw my yarn, instruction book and needles mocking me for not yet having started. So now I’ve painfully cast on and knitted a row.
Oh just DO it. I only started knitting properly in March after 30 years of studiously ignoring it. I’m knitting socks right now. 
I’m on row four. Don’t ask how many I have to go b/c it’s a scarf for a one-year old so I have no idea how long I should make it. Working hard not to knit each stitch or whatever they are called too tightly.
At that age a scarf should be long enough to tie, but not long enough to catch on furniture or reach the floor if the kid is still crawling. With a “under and over” perhaps four inches ‘free’ material at each end. That way, if it’s loose enough to get caught on anything, the knot’s mostly undone anyway.
Well done for making a start.
Add me to the list of picunurse well wishers, hoping for an update.
Good luck, picunurse. I was on a similar program in 2005 (except it was 500 calories a day) and lost 150 pounds in about 36 weeks. For those doing the math, that’s over 4 pounds a week. The first week I lost 12 pounds, and probably most of that was water. After that, it’s real. I have kept off 120 pounds of that since then.
Maintenance is critical. In our program you can stay in maintenance (weekly support meetings along with nutritional education) as long as you want to keep paying for it. Plus in maintenance we keep using the meal replacements for one or two meals a day. I know people who have been in maintenance for 15 years or more.
So it can be done, and I know you can do it. Lose it and then keep it off for the rest of your life. All the best to you, and remember the first two weeks are the hardest.
Roddy
You are doing a really good thing for yourself. For your body and for your spirits too. Keep at it and keep posting!
I am working on reducing my weight too. I need to lose about 40lbs. I have lost 4 lbs so far. Ten percent of the way!