Today I should be on Day 12 and probably around 7lb lighter. After my disastrous weekend, however, I have had to restart the whole shebang and I now find myself on Day 2, feeling a million times crappier than I did on the first day 2 but still determined to persevere.
Much as I `like' this diet - the food list suits me down to the ground and as previously mentioned it just doesn't feel like a diet, one thing has become glaringly obvious. It is impossible to follow this diet if you are disorganised. You have to have your menu plans sorted and have plenty of foods that you are allowed, available to snack on. Otherwise the whole thing can very easily fall to pieces.
And I would totally disagree with the whole restaurant friendly theme, I couldn't find a damn thing to eat on the menu when we were away, but maybe I just went to the wrong restaurant!
Thursday 25 September 2008
Monday 22 September 2008
And off the diet wagon she fell......
.......in a very big way :-(
My weekend away became a `back to eating normally' weekend, which now I am home I feel very cross with myself about. But I am not going to mope about it, I am just going to get back on the diet tomorrow - watch this space!!!!
My weekend away became a `back to eating normally' weekend, which now I am home I feel very cross with myself about. But I am not going to mope about it, I am just going to get back on the diet tomorrow - watch this space!!!!
Wednesday 17 September 2008
The dreaded day 5
Funny old day today. I was not as rough as the book predicts you might be but wasn't feeling all that either, felt very spaced out this morning, my brain just wouldn't compute but I think drinking a LOT of water today helped. Enjoyed my food again today but had the most horrendous craving for something sweet after lunch. Restrained it for so long then it came over me again, possibly because the box of chocolates was being handed around the office. Hmmmm. Decided I would just see if there was a dark chocolate in there as that is allowed. Then changed my mind, I thought no, I can fight this, I really can. Two minutes later I was shouting at N to `getoutofthewayIneedtogetinthe fridge!!!!!!' Checked the box and there was one. It was a marzipan one. I sodding hate marzipan and even if I didn't, I have a feeling marzipan would be very sugary, i.e very carby, i.e very bad. So I restrained myself. For 5 minutes at which point I threw down my pen and marched off down to the shop for a bar of dark chocolate. A mere square later (4.9 carbs fact fans) and that was me satisfied. The rest of the bar is in the fridge with a little message on it ;-)
I didn't feel guilty either, well I didn't need to because it is allowed but I was determined not to have anything sweet at all but it ain't going to happen if I get cravings like that, I will just send myself demented. Including everyone else in the office probably! lol.
Off on our big adventure of a weekend away tomorrow and looking forward to it, still undecided whether I am going to `cheat' and have a couple of drinks, I will see how I feel when I get there. I don't want to mess it up but then on the other hand if I do, by some miracle, manage to stick to this for life a few little drinks now are not the end of the world. But then I think no, I should stick to the book religiously for the first two weeks and there will be plenty of time for drinking later.
Then I think that I need to remember I DO still have a life :-)
I didn't feel guilty either, well I didn't need to because it is allowed but I was determined not to have anything sweet at all but it ain't going to happen if I get cravings like that, I will just send myself demented. Including everyone else in the office probably! lol.
Off on our big adventure of a weekend away tomorrow and looking forward to it, still undecided whether I am going to `cheat' and have a couple of drinks, I will see how I feel when I get there. I don't want to mess it up but then on the other hand if I do, by some miracle, manage to stick to this for life a few little drinks now are not the end of the world. But then I think no, I should stick to the book religiously for the first two weeks and there will be plenty of time for drinking later.
Then I think that I need to remember I DO still have a life :-)
Tuesday 16 September 2008
Day 4
Still sticking to it! This is a bloody miracle for me.
Had a better day today than yesterday, managed breakfast, took the supplements, drank 2 litres of water, had a good lunch and a good dinner. Got a dessert craving after dinner so Mr H made up a sachet of this Drink Chai stuff that I agonised over as it was 14.4g per 20g sachet and should I have it and should I not when I am allowed 30g at most a day and only gave in when Mr H screamed at me to `just drink the bloody thing'. Well he didn't scream exactly but you get the picture! As it happens I took one mouthful and nearly spat it out, it was horrid so the day is saved!
Felt like absolutely crap mid afternoon but it passed very quickly and I think actually it was the mug of green tea I had, I don't know if it is a detox thing or what but sometimes it does make me feel a bit iffy. Have felt ok since and I am just bracing myself for tomorrow when the book tells me there is a high chance I will feel dreadful. I will be almost disappointed if I don't because if I do I will feel more as though it must be working.
Have pored over the forum today - probably a bit too much actually. Forums are great and even though it is freaky how much time some people spend on them - I mean they must have lives right?! I quite enjoy reading them and they can be very very helpful and informative - they can also be a bit confusing. Like in this situation. You buy the book, the book tells you one thing and tells you the right way to do it. The forum tells you the same thing but umpteen different ways of doing it, or to be even more precise one post advises this, the next post disagrees, then another post sticks its two pence worth in and you are left thinking aaarrrrrggghhh, I am doing this all wrong and I don't know where to turn now!! I am going to just avoid the forum for now, stick to the book and keep giving it my best shot.
Right off to dance very energetically for 10 minutes before I prepare tomorrows breakfast and lunch :-)
Had a better day today than yesterday, managed breakfast, took the supplements, drank 2 litres of water, had a good lunch and a good dinner. Got a dessert craving after dinner so Mr H made up a sachet of this Drink Chai stuff that I agonised over as it was 14.4g per 20g sachet and should I have it and should I not when I am allowed 30g at most a day and only gave in when Mr H screamed at me to `just drink the bloody thing'. Well he didn't scream exactly but you get the picture! As it happens I took one mouthful and nearly spat it out, it was horrid so the day is saved!
Felt like absolutely crap mid afternoon but it passed very quickly and I think actually it was the mug of green tea I had, I don't know if it is a detox thing or what but sometimes it does make me feel a bit iffy. Have felt ok since and I am just bracing myself for tomorrow when the book tells me there is a high chance I will feel dreadful. I will be almost disappointed if I don't because if I do I will feel more as though it must be working.
Have pored over the forum today - probably a bit too much actually. Forums are great and even though it is freaky how much time some people spend on them - I mean they must have lives right?! I quite enjoy reading them and they can be very very helpful and informative - they can also be a bit confusing. Like in this situation. You buy the book, the book tells you one thing and tells you the right way to do it. The forum tells you the same thing but umpteen different ways of doing it, or to be even more precise one post advises this, the next post disagrees, then another post sticks its two pence worth in and you are left thinking aaarrrrrggghhh, I am doing this all wrong and I don't know where to turn now!! I am going to just avoid the forum for now, stick to the book and keep giving it my best shot.
Right off to dance very energetically for 10 minutes before I prepare tomorrows breakfast and lunch :-)
Monday 15 September 2008
Day 3
Another good day today in terms of following the diet, missed breakfast because we both overslept and had to make do with some nuts when I got to work but that is more than I would usually have so shouldn't feel too bad about that. I haven't cheated all day and I have taken my supplements and drunk the water and organised all my lunch for tomorrow.
So why do I feel like crap then? I am irritable for a start and truth be told I can't shake the feeling that this is all a big con and I am going to pile on the pounds.
I have got to forget that though, thousands of women can't be wrong. I am going to keep going and see how things are in two weeks. I am definitely not giving up!! Definitely not.
So why do I feel like crap then? I am irritable for a start and truth be told I can't shake the feeling that this is all a big con and I am going to pile on the pounds.
I have got to forget that though, thousands of women can't be wrong. I am going to keep going and see how things are in two weeks. I am definitely not giving up!! Definitely not.
Sunday 14 September 2008
Day 2
OK, this is all a bit strange. It is the evening of Day 2, I am still motivated, don't feel hungry and have more energy than I have had for a long time. Hmmmmmm. Mr H has commented that I am `full of beans' too. There is obviously something to be said for this diet!
Made the mistake of weighing myself this morning when I got up and I was heavier than I was yesterday! I am not taking much notice of that though, my true weigh in will be a week on Saturday and I am going to do my best to not get on the scales until then. I am going to give Phase 1 the 2 week blitz the book says you should and see where I am then.
Have stuck to the food list religiously today
Breakfast: Made little parcels of smoked salmon stuffed with cream cheese with lots of black pepper and lemon juice.
Lunch: A bowl of king prawns with a tiny bit of seafood sauce, mayonnaise would have been better but went for the sauce even though it was surprisingly high in sugar. Only had a teaspoon though.
Snacked on some macadamia nuts.
Dinner: A big heap of roast chicken with the skin on, cauliflower mash from the diet book and some stir fried cabbage with herb butter.
I have not missed carbohydrates in any way shape or form. The only thing I craved after I finished my dinner was something not sweet exactly but some sort of pudding so I had two teaspoon fulls of clotted cream, which is allowed and stopped me wanting anything else.
I have also managed 5 pints of water and have discovered that a slice of cucumber in a plain glass of water works wonders! It makes the water taste slightly of melon, lovely.
Have also been very organised by planning our meals for the week, sorting out my breakfast and lunch ready for tomorrow and packing my bag for work.
Struggling a bit with the exercise part. The book advises a brisk 10 minute walk once a day and to build up from that. Well I am a lazy cow so even walking for 10 minutes a day leaves me cold. But I have been running up the stairs instead of walking up them and I have decided to just stick a CD on and dance for 10 minutes a day, oh and book in to the toning tables centre that is in Rhyl as they worked really well for me last time.
I have been a bit worried today though about how I can be eating all this fat and food that slimming world or weight watchers would advise me to run screaming from and still lose weight. I kind of feel as though I will do this for two weeks, will put a stone on and realise the whole thing is one big con or fad designed for you to buy the book and then you are on your own sucker. Have posted to the forum though and I am not alone in feeling that. There are also dozens of women on there who claim to have lost pounds and pounds. One woman has lost 110lb!!! I will be happy with 3lb in my first two weeks to be honest, that is more than I have ever lost any other way!
I am also a bit concerned about Mr H. Yes he took the vitamins with me yesterday morning and yes he got on the scales for a weigh in when I did but when he started baking bread yesterday afternoon I knew he had fallen off the wagon. I also found out from a neighbour today that the reason he refused a prawn salad yesterday lunchtime was because he had been eating sausage sandwiches with them!! I am not bothered about him not following the diet to the letter but what does concern me is that I can eat all these fats because i am not eating any carbohydrates. My meals are for the most part going to be creamy, fat filled and anything low fat or lite is banned. If he keeps eating the carbs on the sly and the meals that I am preparing in the evening he is going to BALLOON!!!
Made the mistake of weighing myself this morning when I got up and I was heavier than I was yesterday! I am not taking much notice of that though, my true weigh in will be a week on Saturday and I am going to do my best to not get on the scales until then. I am going to give Phase 1 the 2 week blitz the book says you should and see where I am then.
Have stuck to the food list religiously today
Breakfast: Made little parcels of smoked salmon stuffed with cream cheese with lots of black pepper and lemon juice.
Lunch: A bowl of king prawns with a tiny bit of seafood sauce, mayonnaise would have been better but went for the sauce even though it was surprisingly high in sugar. Only had a teaspoon though.
Snacked on some macadamia nuts.
Dinner: A big heap of roast chicken with the skin on, cauliflower mash from the diet book and some stir fried cabbage with herb butter.
I have not missed carbohydrates in any way shape or form. The only thing I craved after I finished my dinner was something not sweet exactly but some sort of pudding so I had two teaspoon fulls of clotted cream, which is allowed and stopped me wanting anything else.
I have also managed 5 pints of water and have discovered that a slice of cucumber in a plain glass of water works wonders! It makes the water taste slightly of melon, lovely.
Have also been very organised by planning our meals for the week, sorting out my breakfast and lunch ready for tomorrow and packing my bag for work.
Struggling a bit with the exercise part. The book advises a brisk 10 minute walk once a day and to build up from that. Well I am a lazy cow so even walking for 10 minutes a day leaves me cold. But I have been running up the stairs instead of walking up them and I have decided to just stick a CD on and dance for 10 minutes a day, oh and book in to the toning tables centre that is in Rhyl as they worked really well for me last time.
I have been a bit worried today though about how I can be eating all this fat and food that slimming world or weight watchers would advise me to run screaming from and still lose weight. I kind of feel as though I will do this for two weeks, will put a stone on and realise the whole thing is one big con or fad designed for you to buy the book and then you are on your own sucker. Have posted to the forum though and I am not alone in feeling that. There are also dozens of women on there who claim to have lost pounds and pounds. One woman has lost 110lb!!! I will be happy with 3lb in my first two weeks to be honest, that is more than I have ever lost any other way!
I am also a bit concerned about Mr H. Yes he took the vitamins with me yesterday morning and yes he got on the scales for a weigh in when I did but when he started baking bread yesterday afternoon I knew he had fallen off the wagon. I also found out from a neighbour today that the reason he refused a prawn salad yesterday lunchtime was because he had been eating sausage sandwiches with them!! I am not bothered about him not following the diet to the letter but what does concern me is that I can eat all these fats because i am not eating any carbohydrates. My meals are for the most part going to be creamy, fat filled and anything low fat or lite is banned. If he keeps eating the carbs on the sly and the meals that I am preparing in the evening he is going to BALLOON!!!
Saturday 13 September 2008
Day 1
So here I am at nearly the end of the first day! I have stuck to the diet religiously - shocker. Usually I cheat, justify the cheats to myself, swear blind I have stuck to it and I am then horrified when I don't lose any weight. It IS only day 1 though, time will tell. Strangely I don't feel hungry at all, again - it is only day 1.
Today I have eaten:
Scrambled eggs, bacon and mushrooms.
Prawns with mayonnaise, cucumber, spring onion, lemon juice and lots of black pepper.
A huge rib eye steak with homemade pepper sauce (with double cream!) and a huge salad.
I have also discovered macadamia nuts. Oh. My. God. They are gorgeous, and I actually enjoyed the bag I ate more than an ordinary packet of crisps - winner!
And I have managed a litre and a half of water which is good going for me.
The whole thing feels a bit odd though. I have eaten so much fat it is untrue, and I don't feel entirely comfortable with that, even though the book is telling me it is good fat and all the foods I have eaten are `allowed' it just feels a bit strange thats all.
Mr H doesn't seem to be taking things that seriously. I didn't think he would (in a nice way) and the fact that he is currently baking a loaf of bread means he has probably already forgotten all about it!!
Today I have eaten:
Scrambled eggs, bacon and mushrooms.
Prawns with mayonnaise, cucumber, spring onion, lemon juice and lots of black pepper.
A huge rib eye steak with homemade pepper sauce (with double cream!) and a huge salad.
I have also discovered macadamia nuts. Oh. My. God. They are gorgeous, and I actually enjoyed the bag I ate more than an ordinary packet of crisps - winner!
And I have managed a litre and a half of water which is good going for me.
The whole thing feels a bit odd though. I have eaten so much fat it is untrue, and I don't feel entirely comfortable with that, even though the book is telling me it is good fat and all the foods I have eaten are `allowed' it just feels a bit strange thats all.
Mr H doesn't seem to be taking things that seriously. I didn't think he would (in a nice way) and the fact that he is currently baking a loaf of bread means he has probably already forgotten all about it!!
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