Well I said I was going to spread out my words of wisdom and then I gave you …. Nothing. So here is some other little bits of information. Drink lots of water, exercise daily , go to bed early. I learned this one from goldilocks. If you feeling like you are getting peckish late at night just go to bed and that will be one sure fired way of you not eating. Cut back on carbs and eat foods that is as close to it’s natural form as possible. Actually I’m even boring myself writing this. We’ve all heard it before and we know how to loose weight but it is so damn hard to put it into practice.
Last Sunday (5th April) I was out for a walk with my friend Sarah. She was telling me that she had just started a new diet, The South Beach Diet. I have heard the name before but I didn’t know what it entailed. She told me it had 3 phases. The first is for two weeks and involves cutting out carbs, sugar (including fruit) and alcohol. Good lord, what’s the point of living without all of those. But when I thought about doing this for just two weeks I thought it might be a good challenge and it would be easier to do as she would be doing it too and we could compare notes. So I went home and did a little research on the internet to see what was involved. It didn’t seem to be too tricky so I have been sticking to it for the last 8 days. It was VERY difficult not to eat chocolate or hot cross buns over the long weekend but I stuck to it. It was also difficult not to drink over the weekend but once again I dug deep and found the resolve not to touch a drop. Well for most of the weekend I didn’t touch a drop. We were on a cruise on the Harbour on Friday and it would have been so damn rude not to have some champagne while we were out. But you will notice from the photo above that I only ate prawns and oysters. Not a carb in sight and oh so tasty. From the start I had decided that I would allow myself to drink on the cruise. So apart from that I was very good. And now the result ….. I have lost another 4.5lbs!!!! in 8 days and I still have another 6 to go. I am now officially over the half way mark to reach my target weight. I have now lost 7.5 lbs and I am chuffed. There is hope for me yet.
I know Raven didn’t eat carbs for a long, long time so I would be interested to know what are your thoughts on this. When I start eating carbs again will the weight go straight back on? I think from reading up on the south beach diet that after two weeks you introduce some fruits and some brown rice and brown bread back in but in small quantities. I’m looking forward to that first slice of bread already. I think I will bake some delicious Roly’s brown bread that Goldilocks gave me the recipe for.
I will report back at the end of the two weeks and let you know how much weight I lost in total. I would like to loose another 2lbs this week. The lunches and dinners on this diet have been fine but it has been a bit tricky to not have carbs or fruit for breakfast. What else can you have??? I have been enjoying scrambled, paoched and soft boiled eggs. I can handle that for a couple of weeks but I am looking forward to a bowl of cereal or a slice of toast.
Last Sunday (5th April) I was out for a walk with my friend Sarah. She was telling me that she had just started a new diet, The South Beach Diet. I have heard the name before but I didn’t know what it entailed. She told me it had 3 phases. The first is for two weeks and involves cutting out carbs, sugar (including fruit) and alcohol. Good lord, what’s the point of living without all of those. But when I thought about doing this for just two weeks I thought it might be a good challenge and it would be easier to do as she would be doing it too and we could compare notes. So I went home and did a little research on the internet to see what was involved. It didn’t seem to be too tricky so I have been sticking to it for the last 8 days. It was VERY difficult not to eat chocolate or hot cross buns over the long weekend but I stuck to it. It was also difficult not to drink over the weekend but once again I dug deep and found the resolve not to touch a drop. Well for most of the weekend I didn’t touch a drop. We were on a cruise on the Harbour on Friday and it would have been so damn rude not to have some champagne while we were out. But you will notice from the photo above that I only ate prawns and oysters. Not a carb in sight and oh so tasty. From the start I had decided that I would allow myself to drink on the cruise. So apart from that I was very good. And now the result ….. I have lost another 4.5lbs!!!! in 8 days and I still have another 6 to go. I am now officially over the half way mark to reach my target weight. I have now lost 7.5 lbs and I am chuffed. There is hope for me yet.
I know Raven didn’t eat carbs for a long, long time so I would be interested to know what are your thoughts on this. When I start eating carbs again will the weight go straight back on? I think from reading up on the south beach diet that after two weeks you introduce some fruits and some brown rice and brown bread back in but in small quantities. I’m looking forward to that first slice of bread already. I think I will bake some delicious Roly’s brown bread that Goldilocks gave me the recipe for.
I will report back at the end of the two weeks and let you know how much weight I lost in total. I would like to loose another 2lbs this week. The lunches and dinners on this diet have been fine but it has been a bit tricky to not have carbs or fruit for breakfast. What else can you have??? I have been enjoying scrambled, paoched and soft boiled eggs. I can handle that for a couple of weeks but I am looking forward to a bowl of cereal or a slice of toast.
Good girl. It is the first part of a diet that is the hardest so you are doing great.
ReplyDeleteOh that's great. Yes, I have found that the weight does drop off especially with no wine and carbs and it does go back on again when you start eating the carbs and drinking the wine but perhaps the other two thirds of this diet will counterbalance this?
ReplyDeleteI wouldnt worry about the champers. There are no calories in it and that's why the models drink it!!! Looks like you had a lovely day. Good luck!
Oh forgot to say. You look great in that photo but are you sure you haven't stretched it somewhat in height to make you look a little.......hmmm.......... slimmer perhaps?
ReplyDeleteOhh now that a very good idea but I promise this is a straight out of camera shot, do not pass photoshop, do not collect $200.
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