Thanks Orcanomore (BEST USER NAME. Well done.) Best of luck to you, that was my reason for wanting to get my re-feed done, too! People are pestering me about drinking already.
Ok, so. Day 1. Got weighed for my last weigh-in as a TFR-er. Lost 4lbs, very happy, down to 11st now from a starting weight of 13. Would love to lose another half stone by Christmas! And another stone-and-a-bit overall, just to get me into the 9st bracket.
She gave me a packet of 5 free maintenance samples - 3 shakes, a cream of veg soup, and a maintenance bar. (the bars are much smaller than I thought they would be, but the pharm assures me they're very filling).
So I toodled off to Tesco and I bought my turkey and my salady bits and some fruit and wholegrain pitta breads and hummus for Days 4-7! (FYI, I told the pharm I don't like mayonnaise, and she said it was fine to substitute things like hummus or relish or pesto, as long as it's low fat and low carb).
So I got home and had my first shake - a Summer Fruits one - and holy God, it was so thick, it was like drinking fruity whipped cream! It was glorious. Felt very decadent. Quite filling though, and after about half of it I started to feel quite full, but I drank the rest of it because I don't want to mess with the programme in any way - you're probably supposed to keep to a certain amount of calories a day to prevent going into the dreaded fat-storing "starvation mode". No thank you. But it was great to have something that's a different consistency to the other boring old shakes.
So then, the fun begins. For my lunch I made a turkey salad -
- 5oz of turkey breast, grilled on the George Foreman, to squeeze out the excess fat!
- 5 cherry tomatoes
- a few slices of yellow bell pepper
- A couple of slices of onion.
- A small handful of mixed lettuce leaves, with some coriander leaf mixed through it (my favourite garnish leaf, I missed it!)
- A good splash of balsamic vinegar (probably more than the recommended, but I LOVE vinegar in the way that some people love hot sauce or ketchup etc...I put it on everything! I was SO excited to hear I could have it!)
It was SO GOOD. I never thought such a simple little salad could be so satisfying and flavourful! I had it for lunch rather than dinner. I'll have the maintenance bar at 5 or 6 o clock, and that'll be dinner.
I'm going to have this exact meal for days 2 and 3 as well. I want to keep the palate pretty strictly cleansed and not start going mad for different flavours all at once, because before you know it, I'll be thinking "GEE I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT A CHEESEBURGER TASTES LIKE, I'D BETTER HAVE ONE AND FIND OUT!".
