Kick Start Diet

Things have been holding steady for me on the weight loss front for quite some time now. I'm half way to my goal weight and I've hit a plateau. This wasn't entirely unexpected and I kept up with the regular exercise and sensible eating whenever hungry in the belief that eventually I'd start to lose again.
That hasn't happened. In fact, after the October birthday marathon week I gained two kilos. With the ten kilos I'd regained back in March, and spent most of this year relosing, fresh in my mind I decided the time had come for drastic measures.
I remembered Alex talking about the kick start diet and thought something like that might be worth a try. Later, at the supermarket checkout, I saw New Idea magazine had a 28 day kick start diet booklet attatched. I've always been wary of fad diets. Why spend a lot of time and effort losing weight that I'll only put back on the minute I deviate from some ridiculously strict plan? But I decided the universe was trying to tell me something. I bought the magazine and read through the diet.
It did seem to be very similiar to the diet Alex tried. At least the soup recipe and first week eating plan looked the same.
When I stepped on the scales after a week of sensible eating and exercise and saw that the two kilos I'd gained hadn't budged by even a gram my mind was made up. I decided that I would follow the first seven days of the kick start diet as a detox then return to sensible eating at the end of the week.
I began my first fad diet with the idea that a one kilo loss would be a success and a two to two and a half kilo loss would make the monotony of it all worth while.
By day four the soup was getting a bit dull but I perservered and it paid off. Here I am on day seven and I can report a loss of four and a half kilos. I am both surprised and delighted. I suspect that much of that number is fluid loss but even so the psychological benefit of seeing the scales finally move is huge.
I have now decided that I will continue to follow the diet for the rest of the 28 days. Even though that means repeating week one's soup fest for another seven days. I expect the weight loss to slow down considerably now I'm past the initial fluid loss and I wouldn't be at all surprised if I put a little back on as I continue.
I've decided that for me to consider the 28 day kick start diet a success, I must have lost four kilos in total by the end of the month. And if I am to consider it worth the monotony, I must lose at least seven kilos by the diet's end.
I will report my progress over the next three weeks. For now I'm off to chop vegetables. I've got to make some soup.