Here I am at the end of the 28 day kick start diet. I followed the diet almost to the letter. I didn't eat the desserts when I wasn't hungry and I swapped the dinners to different nights occasionally.
I can report a 6.2kg loss for the 28 days. That equates to an inch off my hips and two inches from both my waist and bust. Though that doesn't take me down a dress size, it does mean that my clothes are fitting more comfortably and in a couple of instances are getting a bit on the loose side.
A couple of friends that I hadn't seen in a while have commented. One asked if I'd lost weight, the other stated that I was glowing. Since my family who see me every day haven't noticed any change in my appearance it was nice to have confirmation that there is some outward sign of my efforts.
For myself, I feel more energetic (my runs seem a tiny bit easier) and I'm sleeping better.
So was it a success? By my arbitrary weight measure-yes. I did lose more than the 4kg I decided would indicate success. (I chose 4kg because any sensible diet should result in at least a 1kg per week reduction).
Was it worth the effort and monotony? No, I didn't reach the 7kg loss that would have made that worthwhile. (I chose 7kg because it would mean a 1.5-2kg loss on average per week).
Though I am happy with the result I don't think I would do the full 28 days again. Most of the weight was lost in the first week, during the extremely low calorie phase. I would repeat that week as a kind of detox if I'd been over indulging or perhaps if I hit a plateau for more than a month. But the other 21 days didn't really pay off the effort.
Overall a positive experience but I'm not entirely sold on fad diets yet.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Still Kicking
Week 3 of the kick start diet has been more interesting as far as food goes. The variety has been good and the recipes not too hard to follow. No obscure ingredients or unusual preparation methods to complicate life.
I didn't follow the week to the letter, skipping most of the suggested desserts. Not because I'm trying to keep calories down but simply because I wasn't hungry. Also, my water intake remains low. I'm completely out of the habit of drinking during the day-something I'll have to get back into.
Things have stalled on the weight loss front. Though I haven't gained, which I thought I might, neither have I lost anything this week. While that's no surprise it is a little disappointing.
So I'm on the final stretch now.
I didn't follow the week to the letter, skipping most of the suggested desserts. Not because I'm trying to keep calories down but simply because I wasn't hungry. Also, my water intake remains low. I'm completely out of the habit of drinking during the day-something I'll have to get back into.
Things have stalled on the weight loss front. Though I haven't gained, which I thought I might, neither have I lost anything this week. While that's no surprise it is a little disappointing.
So I'm on the final stretch now.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Kick Start: Phase 1 Complete
I've finally finished phase one of the kick start program and I can't tell you how glad I am to see the end of my soup days. While the soup is really quite nice (kind of like a minestrone without the pasta and beans) eating it almost every meal, every day for two weeks wasn't easy. By day ten even adding different herbs couldn't make it more appetising.
So has it paid off? Yes, I've lost another 1.5kg. As anticipated the loss has slowed down considerably but the other expected side effects failed to appear. I've had a small break-out on my forehead but my skin has stayed otherwise clear, I've not been particularly lethargic or headachey and I haven't developed any illness.
I'm still a little sceptical that the six kilos lost so far will stay off. I'm sure much of it has to be water weight because while I've been eating so much soup my fluid intake has tapered right off. I usually carry around a water bottle but I haven't been for the past couple of weeks. I just wasn't interested in drinking much. I suppose the fluid content of the soup was putting me off a bit.
Now I'm in phase two of the program I get to eat a lot more normally. And by normally I mean I can serve the rest of the family the same food that I'm eating, which should make life a little easier on the home front.
With the increased food intake I expect weight loss to slow down even more and I wouldn't be too surprised if I experienced a little gain this week (disappointed but not surprised).
So has it paid off? Yes, I've lost another 1.5kg. As anticipated the loss has slowed down considerably but the other expected side effects failed to appear. I've had a small break-out on my forehead but my skin has stayed otherwise clear, I've not been particularly lethargic or headachey and I haven't developed any illness.
I'm still a little sceptical that the six kilos lost so far will stay off. I'm sure much of it has to be water weight because while I've been eating so much soup my fluid intake has tapered right off. I usually carry around a water bottle but I haven't been for the past couple of weeks. I just wasn't interested in drinking much. I suppose the fluid content of the soup was putting me off a bit.
Now I'm in phase two of the program I get to eat a lot more normally. And by normally I mean I can serve the rest of the family the same food that I'm eating, which should make life a little easier on the home front.
With the increased food intake I expect weight loss to slow down even more and I wouldn't be too surprised if I experienced a little gain this week (disappointed but not surprised).
Monday, November 14, 2011
Getting My Groove Back
I've been a little dissappointed in my last couple of runs so it was nice to finally get back to form yesterday. It was overcast and humid but I took it slowly and managed to get through the full half hour without any problem.
On the diet front, today is day 14, my last soup day. Thank God. I'm so bored with the soup.
On the diet front, today is day 14, my last soup day. Thank God. I'm so bored with the soup.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Diet Update
Conditions for my run today was much better. The sky was blue, there was a light breeze keeping the temperature reasonable and I was dressed appropriately. Yet somehow the idea of running for half an hour made me nervous. So I set out on a shorter 2km route and jogged along at my accustomed slow pace and made the distance without any problems. But still the idea of running for thirty minutes fills me with dread. It's nonsense because I know I can do it, I've been doing it for months. It's a mental hurdle I have to get over not a physical one.
On a dietary note, I'm about halfway through week 2 of the kick start diet and I think I know how this diet works. Not only is the soup very low calorie leading to an extreme calorie restriction but the monotony turns you off eating altogether. Late last night I was feeling hungry. This diet discourages hunger-it's one of the things about it that I think is good. According to the rules of the diet if I feel hungry I should eat-soup. As much as I want as often as I like. But I simply couldn't face another bowl of kick start soup, so I didn't eat at all. And there's the secret. If I was truly hungry I wouldn't have hesitated to eat the soup.
On a dietary note, I'm about halfway through week 2 of the kick start diet and I think I know how this diet works. Not only is the soup very low calorie leading to an extreme calorie restriction but the monotony turns you off eating altogether. Late last night I was feeling hungry. This diet discourages hunger-it's one of the things about it that I think is good. According to the rules of the diet if I feel hungry I should eat-soup. As much as I want as often as I like. But I simply couldn't face another bowl of kick start soup, so I didn't eat at all. And there's the secret. If I was truly hungry I wouldn't have hesitated to eat the soup.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Running On Empty
Since I completed the C25K I've maintained the habit of running three days per week. While my speed remains the same slow jog it was back at the end of week nine, I still manage to complete the full half hour. So I was very surprised when I barely made the fifteen minute mark today.
Even though I had set out at my accustomed leisurely pace I started to feel tired at around the ten minute mark. Believing the fatigue to be mental rather than physical, I plowed on thinking I'd work through it, until just past the fifteen minute mark where I well and truly hit the wall. I literally couldn't run another step. I stuttered to a walk and scanned myself searching for the problem.
I was mildly out of breath but certainly not gasping or panting. I'd worked up a light hairline sweat but didn't feel overheated. The usual suspects (feet and left knee) were all in good order-no pain or stiffness. Even my left hip didn't hurt any more than usual (it often aches while I run but the exercise seems to loosen it up and it won't bother me again all day).
Finding nothing overtly wrong I picked up the pace, but only to a very slow jog, and a couple of minutes later was back to walking. I'd be surprised if I actually ran more than six or seven of the following fifteen minutes. The entire experience was quite disheartening.
Any number of factors could have contributed to the exhaustion. I didn't sleep particularly well last night. I was inappropriately dressed for the weather (it was overcast and threatening rain when I left so I wore long warm pants but once under way I discovered it was warmer than it looked). Conditions were warm and humid, not typical of this time of year. All of these factors may have contributed to my lethargy.
But I strongly suspect that the kick start diet played a large part. I've been following this very low calorie diet for over a week now and though I have ample fat stores I think the exercise was just a bit too much for me at my current intake level.
Maybe this was just my first 'bad' run. I've heard they happen to everyone occasionally. But the timing seems a bit too coincidental.
It'll be interesting to see how my next run goes. I'll report back later in the week.
Even though I had set out at my accustomed leisurely pace I started to feel tired at around the ten minute mark. Believing the fatigue to be mental rather than physical, I plowed on thinking I'd work through it, until just past the fifteen minute mark where I well and truly hit the wall. I literally couldn't run another step. I stuttered to a walk and scanned myself searching for the problem.
I was mildly out of breath but certainly not gasping or panting. I'd worked up a light hairline sweat but didn't feel overheated. The usual suspects (feet and left knee) were all in good order-no pain or stiffness. Even my left hip didn't hurt any more than usual (it often aches while I run but the exercise seems to loosen it up and it won't bother me again all day).
Finding nothing overtly wrong I picked up the pace, but only to a very slow jog, and a couple of minutes later was back to walking. I'd be surprised if I actually ran more than six or seven of the following fifteen minutes. The entire experience was quite disheartening.
Any number of factors could have contributed to the exhaustion. I didn't sleep particularly well last night. I was inappropriately dressed for the weather (it was overcast and threatening rain when I left so I wore long warm pants but once under way I discovered it was warmer than it looked). Conditions were warm and humid, not typical of this time of year. All of these factors may have contributed to my lethargy.
But I strongly suspect that the kick start diet played a large part. I've been following this very low calorie diet for over a week now and though I have ample fat stores I think the exercise was just a bit too much for me at my current intake level.
Maybe this was just my first 'bad' run. I've heard they happen to everyone occasionally. But the timing seems a bit too coincidental.
It'll be interesting to see how my next run goes. I'll report back later in the week.
Monday, November 7, 2011
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.
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.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
We Have a Diagnosis...
and the reason I've been feeling more crappy (that'd be a technical term) than the expected with average cold is because I've got atypical pneumonia. Good news - time off work. Bad news - all I want to do is lie down for hours at a time.
Instead of vegetable soup I celebrated the return of a (half-hearted) interest in food by making vaguely Chinese-influenced chicken soup for lunch, and totally ruined the whole carb abandonment by having a bowl of WeetBix with muesli and rice milk. It hardly burst the calorie count - today I clocked up 965calories for the day and just couldn't manage anything else.
Tomorrow I'll start the 17 Day program, though if the past couple of days have been anything to go by I won't be able to manage the entire intake, nor the otherwise reasonable 17 minutes/day light exercise recommendation. - Alex
Instead of vegetable soup I celebrated the return of a (half-hearted) interest in food by making vaguely Chinese-influenced chicken soup for lunch, and totally ruined the whole carb abandonment by having a bowl of WeetBix with muesli and rice milk. It hardly burst the calorie count - today I clocked up 965calories for the day and just couldn't manage anything else.
Tomorrow I'll start the 17 Day program, though if the past couple of days have been anything to go by I won't be able to manage the entire intake, nor the otherwise reasonable 17 minutes/day light exercise recommendation. - Alex
Friday, October 7, 2011
Killer cough
O! the horrible coughing-to-the-point-of-gagging.At least I no longer have a fever, but I have post-febrile patheticness and have done little for the past two day but lie in bed. And cough.
Yesterday's orgy of beef and tomatoes didn't happen, and my total intake amounted to 43 calories of Raspberry Zinger tea with honey.
While I was in the UK I bought a vast array of lollies from the awesome A Quarter Of, ostensibly for the licorice care package I'm putting together for a brother-in-law; though I certainly bought a beautiful array of licorice and aniseed treats, half or more of my purchases were for me - pips (tiny little lollies with fantastically intense flavours), Irn Bru-flavoured humbugs, lime hard-boiled lollies, rhubarb and custard lollies, pineapple chunks, raspberry millions, mini Parma violets, Chelsea Whoppers, monkey bars, Krakatoa foaming fizz... and I didn't even know what those last half dozen are! I do, clearly, have impulse control issues, which is how my expedition to buy a pair of shoes netted me two pairs, plus two pairs of ankle boots and a glorious (but unneeded) red leather suitcase. But I digress.
I've been very disciplined since my delivery arrived some three weeks ago, but today I managed to choke down two Cadbury fudge bars (25g and 115 calories each) and two Nestle Caramac bars (30g and 173 calories per bar - they're basically caramel-flavoured white chocolate). They were quite soothing to my irritated throat but sat less well in my still nauseated gut, so I may stick to tea and honey for now. I also had four pips, in banana, cola, strawberry and cream. I can't find any nutrition information on them, but they're tiny boiled lollies, weighing about 2g each so 30 calories.
I just can't do anything physical, thanks to quite unpleasant and persistent shortness of breath with essentially no exertion. So somewhat less the rest of the Kick Start program and rather more of the This Bug is Kicking My Arse... - Alex
Yesterday's orgy of beef and tomatoes didn't happen, and my total intake amounted to 43 calories of Raspberry Zinger tea with honey.
While I was in the UK I bought a vast array of lollies from the awesome A Quarter Of, ostensibly for the licorice care package I'm putting together for a brother-in-law; though I certainly bought a beautiful array of licorice and aniseed treats, half or more of my purchases were for me - pips (tiny little lollies with fantastically intense flavours), Irn Bru-flavoured humbugs, lime hard-boiled lollies, rhubarb and custard lollies, pineapple chunks, raspberry millions, mini Parma violets, Chelsea Whoppers, monkey bars, Krakatoa foaming fizz... and I didn't even know what those last half dozen are! I do, clearly, have impulse control issues, which is how my expedition to buy a pair of shoes netted me two pairs, plus two pairs of ankle boots and a glorious (but unneeded) red leather suitcase. But I digress.
I've been very disciplined since my delivery arrived some three weeks ago, but today I managed to choke down two Cadbury fudge bars (25g and 115 calories each) and two Nestle Caramac bars (30g and 173 calories per bar - they're basically caramel-flavoured white chocolate). They were quite soothing to my irritated throat but sat less well in my still nauseated gut, so I may stick to tea and honey for now. I also had four pips, in banana, cola, strawberry and cream. I can't find any nutrition information on them, but they're tiny boiled lollies, weighing about 2g each so 30 calories.
I just can't do anything physical, thanks to quite unpleasant and persistent shortness of breath with essentially no exertion. So somewhat less the rest of the Kick Start program and rather more of the This Bug is Kicking My Arse... - Alex
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The magic of fad diets
So after the two fruit days when any fruit except highly-calorific bananas were allowed, on day four my (by now quite boring) soup can be supplemented by up to three banana smoothies. I'm not quite sure how they're high potassium levels (like the vast quantities of tomatoes in the soup and in the two days ahead) now outweigh their calorie count, but that's why I'm not a fad diet creator.
Yesterday was a bit of a catastrophe, though in the reverse way one might expect. I did, I must confess, break the Kick Start diet a smidge, by eating about 10g of crisps, but my total daily intake was very low. As, in fact it has been since Friday: Friday 546, Saturday 747, Sunday 544, Monday 709, and today a comparatively whopping 1168 - must be the potassium!
I had my soup overnight, plus the alluring crisps (or, to be precise, Smith's Aussie Fries), and before leaving work (at around 8:45AM) I had a multigrain muffin with extra light ricotta and half a tomato, followed by half a packed of delicious Soyco Malaysian Satay tofu (and I'm surprised by LiveStrong's nutrition break down of 47.3% fat when the label says 9.6...) I then went to help my mother pack for a trip to Rome, and got home around 3PM, so exhausted I showered and went to bed, sleeping until 1AM and then again from 3AM til 7:45, so no Day Three update, and not much eating or, sadly, exercising.
That's probably a good thing, as the cold I've been incubating's picked up a touch - last night I had some slightly alarming creaky on inspiration, and as I type I'm shivering with a low-grade fever. So perhaps working out is something to put - or, more accurately, stay - on hold. Just getting the washing off the line made me both short of breath and a little nauseated.
I did cheat a little this morning, weighing in before the week's over: 4.4k off since Saturday's weigh in (or 3.3 since the Friday weight). I think it's way too soon to be triumphant, and no doubt a chunk of that's water weight, but it's still a move in the right direction. - Alex
Yesterday was a bit of a catastrophe, though in the reverse way one might expect. I did, I must confess, break the Kick Start diet a smidge, by eating about 10g of crisps, but my total daily intake was very low. As, in fact it has been since Friday: Friday 546, Saturday 747, Sunday 544, Monday 709, and today a comparatively whopping 1168 - must be the potassium!
I had my soup overnight, plus the alluring crisps (or, to be precise, Smith's Aussie Fries), and before leaving work (at around 8:45AM) I had a multigrain muffin with extra light ricotta and half a tomato, followed by half a packed of delicious Soyco Malaysian Satay tofu (and I'm surprised by LiveStrong's nutrition break down of 47.3% fat when the label says 9.6...) I then went to help my mother pack for a trip to Rome, and got home around 3PM, so exhausted I showered and went to bed, sleeping until 1AM and then again from 3AM til 7:45, so no Day Three update, and not much eating or, sadly, exercising.
That's probably a good thing, as the cold I've been incubating's picked up a touch - last night I had some slightly alarming creaky on inspiration, and as I type I'm shivering with a low-grade fever. So perhaps working out is something to put - or, more accurately, stay - on hold. Just getting the washing off the line made me both short of breath and a little nauseated.
I did cheat a little this morning, weighing in before the week's over: 4.4k off since Saturday's weigh in (or 3.3 since the Friday weight). I think it's way too soon to be triumphant, and no doubt a chunk of that's water weight, but it's still a move in the right direction. - Alex
Monday, October 3, 2011
Heavier already?
So I weighed myself when I got up, and I've managed to gain 1.1k after my first two kick start meals - proof, if any was needed, that day-to-day weighing doesn't accurate reflect anything much.
I started day 2 feeling fine but tired, but when I got up I felt quite dreadful - dull headache, really tired, and just not right. An apple made no difference, so I had - in lieu of a cheese and ham sandwich - a toasted multigrain muffin with reduced fat ricotta and tomato on one half and Vegemite on the other. That and an apple picked things right up. Sadly I didn't do anything much on the exercise front, a problem lately with my night shifts - staying up too late in the morning, then scrambling to get to work in the evening, and probably the next bad habit I need to work on.
I had a small bowl of soup overnight, having neither time nor inclination then for more. Breakfast was a bowl of fruit salad (black grapes, kiwi, rock melon, honeydew and strawberries, accompanied by a diuretic glass of carrot, apple and celery with ginger.
I feel as though I could eat a meal now (some three hours after breakfast, as I'm not working on the early-to-bed thing yet), or just as easily head to bed. I don't, however, feel at all like any more soup, which probably doesn't bode well for the next five and a half days. I'm choosing option B, and will keep you posted. - Alex
I started day 2 feeling fine but tired, but when I got up I felt quite dreadful - dull headache, really tired, and just not right. An apple made no difference, so I had - in lieu of a cheese and ham sandwich - a toasted multigrain muffin with reduced fat ricotta and tomato on one half and Vegemite on the other. That and an apple picked things right up. Sadly I didn't do anything much on the exercise front, a problem lately with my night shifts - staying up too late in the morning, then scrambling to get to work in the evening, and probably the next bad habit I need to work on.
I had a small bowl of soup overnight, having neither time nor inclination then for more. Breakfast was a bowl of fruit salad (black grapes, kiwi, rock melon, honeydew and strawberries, accompanied by a diuretic glass of carrot, apple and celery with ginger.
I feel as though I could eat a meal now (some three hours after breakfast, as I'm not working on the early-to-bed thing yet), or just as easily head to bed. I don't, however, feel at all like any more soup, which probably doesn't bode well for the next five and a half days. I'm choosing option B, and will keep you posted. - Alex
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Kick starting things
I suspect the reason why people lose weight on this diet is because of the vast amount of time spent chopping and peeling the ingredients. A kilo of carrots, a bunch of spring onions, a couple of capsicum... and already I've gone off program because the recipe specified green and I went for the (tastier, less expensive) red ones instead, and threw in a couple of cloves of garlic. Oh dear, it's all over!
So I had my first bowl of kick start soup at 2AM - it was surprisingly nice, but I suspect I'll be reconsidering that in a couple of days. For now, though, it's all good and I'm feeling quite virtuous.
I've flipped days one and two, starting with soup and vegetables; tomorrow's soup and fruit (because I'm going out for breakfast after work and fruit salad will be on the menu at 8AM, unlike steamed vegies). Monday is soup plus fruit plus vegies (be still my heart), Tuesday is non-chews day, with soup and banana smoothies. On Wednesday I get to add "six luscious tomatoes" (why six? No idea) and beef, plus soup, with beef (or chicken, or tofu) and vegies on Thursday. And on Friday I get brown rice, vegies, fruit juice and the note "you might need more soup today."
So my vegies when I got home where a bunch of steamed asparagus and a handful of snow peas with a little butter and olive oil. Of course, had I been a little more careful with the reading I'd have realised I could reward myself (their words) with a jacket potato topped with butter or yoghurt. Silly me, I was paying attention to day three, when I can eat all I want but no potatoes. Why? No idea - it must be magic.
Fruit day (the official day one and my day two) allows as much fruit as I like, except bananas. This is a little perplexing, because day three (soup, fruit and vegies) says nothing about bananas, and day four I can have up to three large bananas in my smoothies as they're a great source of potassium. But not on day one?
If I have hypoglycemic symptoms (headache, anxiety, drowsiness) I can have up to one sandwich of wholegrain with cheese and ham, but no butter or margarine. Butter's okay with a jacket potato but evil with a wholegrain apparently. Why? No idea - diety magic again.
All of this is, of course, key - mystery and a thin veneer of science, and ignore the discrepancies. And yet here I am, doing it anyway. So I'm off for a little more soup before bed. My cunning plan is weighing in when I get up, a return to the working out for the first time in quite a bit, and a yummy breakfast of soup and maybe a jacket potato (if I'm up to a supermarket trip before work).
Watch this spot. - Alex
So I had my first bowl of kick start soup at 2AM - it was surprisingly nice, but I suspect I'll be reconsidering that in a couple of days. For now, though, it's all good and I'm feeling quite virtuous.
I've flipped days one and two, starting with soup and vegetables; tomorrow's soup and fruit (because I'm going out for breakfast after work and fruit salad will be on the menu at 8AM, unlike steamed vegies). Monday is soup plus fruit plus vegies (be still my heart), Tuesday is non-chews day, with soup and banana smoothies. On Wednesday I get to add "six luscious tomatoes" (why six? No idea) and beef, plus soup, with beef (or chicken, or tofu) and vegies on Thursday. And on Friday I get brown rice, vegies, fruit juice and the note "you might need more soup today."
So my vegies when I got home where a bunch of steamed asparagus and a handful of snow peas with a little butter and olive oil. Of course, had I been a little more careful with the reading I'd have realised I could reward myself (their words) with a jacket potato topped with butter or yoghurt. Silly me, I was paying attention to day three, when I can eat all I want but no potatoes. Why? No idea - it must be magic.
Fruit day (the official day one and my day two) allows as much fruit as I like, except bananas. This is a little perplexing, because day three (soup, fruit and vegies) says nothing about bananas, and day four I can have up to three large bananas in my smoothies as they're a great source of potassium. But not on day one?
If I have hypoglycemic symptoms (headache, anxiety, drowsiness) I can have up to one sandwich of wholegrain with cheese and ham, but no butter or margarine. Butter's okay with a jacket potato but evil with a wholegrain apparently. Why? No idea - diety magic again.
All of this is, of course, key - mystery and a thin veneer of science, and ignore the discrepancies. And yet here I am, doing it anyway. So I'm off for a little more soup before bed. My cunning plan is weighing in when I get up, a return to the working out for the first time in quite a bit, and a yummy breakfast of soup and maybe a jacket potato (if I'm up to a supermarket trip before work).
Watch this spot. - Alex
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