This
past week I have been finishing the juice programme, and I have to
say it it has worked really well. Overall I have lost half a stone,
and though I don’t feel I have any more energy in myself, I am
awake in the mornings. I am waking up before my alarm clock, rather
than putting it on snooze ten hundred times, and feel awake. I can
get out of bed at a reasonable time in the morning and even see my
husband off for work!
This
week, I am going to do two smoothies a day, and a proper dinner in
the evening. I will try and eat low carb in the evenings, to keep
the weight loss going. I know any weight loss now will be much
slower than it has been this week, but hope it will continue. If at
any point I feel my weight is stagnating, I know I can always sign up
for a 3 day programme just to give me the boost I need.
Now
I have finished 10 days of juices and smoothies, I can share my
experience. It was much easier than I was expecting. Many people
have told me that they couldn’t cope without eating food, but
actually it wasn’t too bad. I even was able to bypass cookies and
cakes. The hardest thing for me was not ‘cooking for others’ as
I managed that, and had the juice next to me, sipping as I did so;
but watching my girls turn up their noses to the lovely pastries I
made: cheese and ham, or sausage and cream cheese. I do confess to
eating one of those. And on Friday night I went out for a meal of
Moroccan Tapas. That was delicious. I did not drink my evening
smoothie before I met my friends. I drank a mocktail in the first
bar, and then stuck to water all night. I ate less than I usually
do, but felt so stuffed! I really ate too much. I did enjoy the
food, it was very tasty, but I need to learn that I can’t eat as
much as I want to; both in order to lose weight, and also because my
stomach has shrunk a little. Even at the march on Saturday I took along my juices, though at one point I did have the dilemma of being really hungry, but also desperate for the loo so not wanting to drink anything more! Fortunately, I was just waiting for the coach by this point, and there were public loos nearby so it was resolved quickly.
So this week, as I reintroduce food
into my diet, I need to focus on portion control, and
storing/saving/reusing leftovers appropriately.
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