Week 7.
I know I haven’t reported for a few weeks but to be honest there was nothing to report, diet was going great weight loss was steady and my day to day was going fine no real problems or temptations, one thing I did find though that you might find interesting, If you can control yourself buy a small bag of Maltesers, and you can have 2 Maltesers a day as a nice little treat.
Week 8.
Well this week I have planned a day off from the diet 1 as a test of will as to if I will be able to get back on again easy or not, that and it’s my wedding anniversary so planning on spoiling myself + the good lady.
So it’s Tuesday, the day after my weigh in I weighed myself that morning so I could know how much I would have put on that day; I started the day off with a nice bacon butty and a cup of coffee, the wife has a bad habit of cooking all nice sweet things that I can not have on the diet and there was a nice cake that she had made so had a nice slice of that, then for lunch time Home made Yorkshire pudding with mashed potato with philly cheese steamed cabbage cauliflower, 2 small grilled chicken breasts and topped of with some gravy, after being on the diet for as long as I had my stomach had shrunk and I found it hard to eat all the food, after eating I felt physically sick and was very uncomfortable for about half a hour after, it might have been that I had eaten to much or just the shock of such rich food being introduced.
Later that evening we went to the cinema and after a meal out at a restaurant, I was surprised by how my decision making was influenced by how I’ve changed, as, as I was looking through the menu I could almost see the sort of damage I would be doing to myself if I ordered that or that, I tried to stay away from bread and chips, but instead indulged in what I had been craving all week, and went with chicken nacho’s.
Also my mind sent regarding Alcohol surprised me as well. As twice that day I was offered the option to have beer, and I used to love downing a pint, but to be honest the actual thought of having beer disgusted me, so I stuck with water.
The next day I was ready to get back on the diet, because I had forward planned that day I had my mind set to get started again, the first 2-3 days I was fine but then as I re-entered Ketosis I had forgotten how rough the transition was, but made it through, as I stated earlier I weighed myself the morning of my day off and I weighed myself on the Wednesday morning I had put on 4lbs, this was a shocking revelation as one day off was equal to a weeks weight loss.
Week 9.
Have settled back into the diet quite comfortably, not really got much to report, and so thought I would tell you a bit about some of my food experiments.
Now I love to experiment with foods, especially when the choice of foods are limited on the diet, I tried adding stock to Quorn mince, but alas it took me out of ketosis, so I found a way round it, when cooking Quorn mince add some mild curry powder into a cup and add boiling water mix and pour into the frying pan that is cooking the mince. This is a nice flavour stock that won’t take you out of ketosis, another tasty meal that is great to have on the diet Spicy chicken chunks.
Step 1 (depending on which step your doing) take 170g of chicken and cut it into chicken nugget sized chunks.
Step 2 get some herbs and spices. I used mild curry powder chives and a few others.
Step 3 mix the herbs and spices together in a bowl.
Step 4 take each segment and coat it with herbs and spice until you can not see any more pink flesh.
Step 5 cook
Step 6 after about 5-10 mins turn the chicken over as it will have started to develop the shiny marinade. Then continue to cook.
Step 7 serve with a side order of salad.
Enjoy.
Certain Quorn products I have found will take you out of ketosis, but some wont, The burgers will but the sausages if you don’t have a full meal of just sausages they wont, what I mean by this 5 sausages = 200g so if u have 2 sausages combined with the mince or the chicken pieces then you will stay in and they are very tasty and make a nice (boost) meal.
When I say Boost meal what I mean is every now and again its good to have something you shouldn’t have as it gives your metabolism a kick, as just sticking to the diets rules your body will adjust to the low calorie intake and slow down the metabolic rate and will start to burn less fat, so a kick now and again keeps it at a higher rate.
Week 12.
Well I think its safe to say I am well into my journey am over half way to my goal now, one thing I have found is that resisting is getting harder as my confidence in the diet is growing my resistance to want foods is slipping, as at the back of my mind there’s that thought, “well you’ve done so good so far one little naughty wont do you to much harm and if you have it just after your weigh in you have all week to loose it”.
Well week 12 is here and I can move up to the 810 step for a week, been looking forward to this as on the SS+ program I am on I couldn’t have milk, but on 810 you can so coffee, omelettes and scrambled eggs just a few of the things that been looking forward to, today had to take my meal with me to work as was on a 11 hour shift so opted for tuna, I weighed my salad out and tub’d it up and took 2 tins of tuna with me as in 810 260g of tuna = 2 tins, and believe me that’s allot of tuna.