Milk Week

[pmosgirl]

A friend of mine had milk week a couple of weeks ago, she did try some milk on day 1, but found she woke up the next day full of phlegm and a snotty nose (apparently milk can make us produce more mucus (yuk). Anyway, what she decided to do was to have a piece of fish or chicken which equated to the same amount of calories.

When she was weighed she had stayed the same from the previous week.

[Peridot]

Bleurgh - I hate milk! I've asked my LLC to find out if there is any alternative (HO were apparently thinking about it) before I get to week 13. Plain cottage cheese would be okay - or fruit juice or anything apart from the evil white stuff really. Although Brie or Stilton would be especially nice......... (fat chance - literally!)

[Lynn8124]

Hi. I done the foundation of LL last year and this milk week thread is interesting. How come LL is advising people to have milk, I thought it was supposed to be nutritionally complete? How often is milk week?

[SandraEG]

Milk week was introduced because NICE guidelines say you shouldn't do a VLCD for more than 12 weeks at a time. I knew this before I signed up because I was quite sceptical about LL before I decided to do it and the advice on the internet is to have a break after 3 motnhs and then start again later.

It raises the calories for a week to 1000.

Presumbaly they chose milk rather than adding a portion of protein so that we did not experience 'eating' if we have been 100% absitinent until then.

[Lynn8124]

Oh I see, thanks for that.

[MandyB2]

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Presumbaly they chose milk rather than adding a portion of protein so that we did not experience 'eating' if we have been 100% absitinent until then.

I never have understood ll's stance on "eating" as they provide bars as part of their program!!!!!!

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