I aim to lose 100lbs during my year following a typical 1940′s wartime ration diet.
Check back here regularly for progress photos as the weight drops off…
Feb 2012: I’m trying to take a photo every time I lose about 15-20 lbs. I tried on a shirt today I bought over 4 years ago that I hoped, one day, I’d fit into. Today was that day so I got my daughter Jess to take another progress photo.
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Old attempts- photos below
Even though I still had 100lb left to lose shifting 57 lb made quite a difference..
On my 40th birthday, 8 January 2006, I originally attempted to lose weight following a 1940′s wartime ration diet. For 4 months I successfully stuck 100% to an authentic wartime eating plan, lost 57lbs and felt great!
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August 2009 @ 315lbs - November 2009 @ 283lbs
Good luck to you. My DH and I just went on a diet too. We are on low calorie but I am thinking about borrowing some of these recipes. We are on a fixed income so I may be able to save some money with these recipes. Thank you and I will check in and cheer you along. : )
Hey Eve- thanks for your comment. That’s one thing I have noticed….am spending far less money not eating junk!!!
I am not sure how well these recipes would work for weight-loss occasionally by themselves but certainly, living 100% by wartime rationing seems to be regulating the junk I was consuming before and that in turn is helping me lose weight.
Will look forward to hear how you are getting on with your diet!!
C xx
hi there, I didn’t know where to contact you but your layout design looked messed up on opera and internet explorer. Anyways, i just suscribd to your rss.
I can really tell in your face and around your chest. What an achievement!
Just wanted you to know I am still with you. You are looking good. The Holidays coming up are going to be difficult for me but I am nearing my regular weight, so I am allowing myself a couple of treats. Someone gave us some nice persimmons, and I think I have a recipe from the forties for a pudding which they say has more the texture of a bread pudding than a creamy type of pudding. I think the recipe may be English. I have a feeling it was on the menu on Thanksgiving along with Pumpkin Pie.
The odd thing is when you cut to basics in cooking, you do seem to eat less. Maybe it is having to cook from scratch, you tend to enjoy it more and eat less.
In looking at your recipes, I am amazed at the meals they could get on the table even with such limited resources.
Extra fat photo added…. daughter found top photo the other day on the computer. Not sure what weight I was except I know it was taken a few years ago and I was over 340 lbs…
Prior to starting the 1940s experiment in August 2009 I had already dropped over 30 lbs from my heaviest weight taken around the time the top photo was taken.
Eeeekkk. Seeing that photo brings back memories just how physically painful it was to stand up for long periods of time…am still out of shape of course but not nearly as much as I was then!
If ever there was an incentive to keep going …
C xx
You have got to be proud of your accomplishment. Although you are quite pretty at the heavier weight, you are looking even better as you lose.
My diet has gone rather well. I am almost normal weight but my husband got off his and has probably gained even more than he was. He is or was going on diet the first of this year but got a horrible cold, so I think it best to wait this cold out, before he starts again and he does too. He is strong willed though, so if he can give up smoking, he can do this. Keeping in touch with you. Hang in there till you get where you want to be. I think Billy has about 75 to lose and I hope to lose another ten maybe.
Yes, and you should try many different foods in small quantities. It used to be bored. Any kind of food, you should find your self to a different treatment or favorite food from your diet it will be easier and your free time to meet the weight remains. They are so much better, and another thing you should do is try to go it on sheets feel good about themselves.
thank you for all of the wonderful recipes that you have posted. i too like you are trying to lose weight. i was over 24 stone and i am now about 22 stone. i am unsure what that is in pounds.
you are an inspiration. keep up the great work. i love the website.
hiya just wonderd how you are getting on now and if you have anymore new photos.
well done.
well done i too am trying to loose weight. i have managed to loose 41/2 stone in the last 4 months and i still like to loose another 5. im gonna have ago at your recipies hopefully the whole family will enjoy them too. well done on the weight loss keep going your looking great!
WOW and double WOW!!! That is a fantastic thing to achieve… losing weight is so damn hard because it takes such a lot of effort and persistence and determination! How do you feel? I bet you are feeling really good in yourself? I can’t wait to lose that much!! Hope you manage to achieve your ultimate goal but well done for losing so much already!!! xxxxxx
Wow! What a wonderful job you’re doing. I so admire your focus and your tenacity. And what a creative way to approach it. I’m gonna follow to cheer you on! Good on ya girl!
You have inspired me to try again sweetheart, oddly enough my 84 year old Auntie has just loaned me 3 books of Mrs Patterns wartime food recipes, so I have no excuse. I have to have surgery next year on both my knees….watch this space!
Jantoo x
Aww thanks Jantoo! I LOVE Marguerite Pattens books!!!! Losing weight does help with joint pains- mine has already mostly disappeared. Hope everything goes well with your surgery C xxxxx
You are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing!
What an awesome blog….I’ve only just begun to check it out and I am inspired! What a great job so far…it’s a process, but it looks as though you have many people cheering you on and I am too! Best of luck!
What an awesome blog…..I have only begun to check it out and love it! Great job!
an you come on the radio 660-822-6783
Hi there- do you run a radio station?
Thanks
C xx
Is this it? http://womensviewradio.com
Sure I’d love to! I guess it will be over the phone?
C xxx
Wow, I want to do the ration diet too!
Miss Carolyn, I am so impressed with this diet. (or rather life change) I think what empresses me most is your face in the four pictures.. your smile speaks very loudly to me… Thanks so much for allowing me to follow your journey. Your friend from Missouri USA.
Hi Carolyn,
I was just looking through your recent blogs and I realised that I have lost track a bit on just about how much you’ve lost now? Would love to see an updated photo if you have one?
J. xxx
Hi Julie and sorry to have lost track with us too xxx Life is very, very busy for me..
I’ve lost 2 lb last week and 2 lbs the week before and if my calculations are correct that means I have now lost 66 lbs and am down to 233lbs..
Next photo will be when I am down 25 lbs since the last one so as long as I keep on losing should reach that in a couple of weeks
Hope all is well
C xxxx