Hi everyone,
I've been enjoying reading your posts here for a couple of weeks now, so you lovely people are partly responsible for my decision to embark on Exante.
Thank you for making it sound possible and sane. And thank you to those of you who posted welcome messages when I commented on another thread!
After very successfully losing over five stone on the Dukan diet a couple of years ago, I allowed circumstances to get the better of me, fell off the wagon, and regained the weight. This is very bad for my arthritis as well as my appearance and general health, so I need to do something about it - this time for good. I'm not in the mood for planning special meals and controlling my food intake on any of the regular diets that I have tried before (and I've done quite a few!), but I know I need to get the weight off and keep it off.
So here I am on Day 7 of Exante Total Solution. My intention is to take it four weeks at a time, signing myself up for further blocks of four weeks if I feel I am doing well on the plan and if I feel I can bear it for longer. I am using the 4-Week Mixed Bumper Pack, having a soup for lunch, a bar late afternoon, and a shake in the evening. I have also bought one sachet each of the porridge and the pasta carbonara, which I am saving in case I get very bored with the main pack.
When I placed my initial order, I promised myself that I would stick to the diet for the full 28 days otherwise the products (and money) would be wasted. Because of this, I have decided that it doesn't make sense to weigh myself before that time is up, so I plan to keep off the scales until it's time to order a second bumper pack (to see if I want to make the further commitment).
Weighing every four weeks might sound odd but, realistically, if I were to weigh myself daily or weekly, what difference would it make? If I lose weight quickly, that would be lovely, but I don't really gain anything by monitoring it all the time, since I have made a firm decision to follow the diet for an initial four weeks, regardless of the results, and a big weight loss would be a nice surprise at the end. If I don't lose as much weight as I had hoped, I would find that demoralising - and since I am following Total Solution 100% and drinking 2 litres of water every day (not counting coffee and tea), there is nothing I can do about it, so I would be depressing myself unnecessarily. And if my weight loss is erratic, watching every little fluctuation doesn't give a true picture of the overall result. Besides, I didn't weigh myself at all when I was piling the weight back on, so it's not as if regular weighing is already part of my routine.
So I'm holding out for my first weigh-in on 10th June, and the results of that will help determine whether I carry on with Exante for a second month or move onto something else. At the moment, I feel as though I will be continuing, but time will tell.
All the best to all of you.
I've been enjoying reading your posts here for a couple of weeks now, so you lovely people are partly responsible for my decision to embark on Exante.
Thank you for making it sound possible and sane. And thank you to those of you who posted welcome messages when I commented on another thread!After very successfully losing over five stone on the Dukan diet a couple of years ago, I allowed circumstances to get the better of me, fell off the wagon, and regained the weight. This is very bad for my arthritis as well as my appearance and general health, so I need to do something about it - this time for good. I'm not in the mood for planning special meals and controlling my food intake on any of the regular diets that I have tried before (and I've done quite a few!), but I know I need to get the weight off and keep it off.
So here I am on Day 7 of Exante Total Solution. My intention is to take it four weeks at a time, signing myself up for further blocks of four weeks if I feel I am doing well on the plan and if I feel I can bear it for longer. I am using the 4-Week Mixed Bumper Pack, having a soup for lunch, a bar late afternoon, and a shake in the evening. I have also bought one sachet each of the porridge and the pasta carbonara, which I am saving in case I get very bored with the main pack.
When I placed my initial order, I promised myself that I would stick to the diet for the full 28 days otherwise the products (and money) would be wasted. Because of this, I have decided that it doesn't make sense to weigh myself before that time is up, so I plan to keep off the scales until it's time to order a second bumper pack (to see if I want to make the further commitment).
Weighing every four weeks might sound odd but, realistically, if I were to weigh myself daily or weekly, what difference would it make? If I lose weight quickly, that would be lovely, but I don't really gain anything by monitoring it all the time, since I have made a firm decision to follow the diet for an initial four weeks, regardless of the results, and a big weight loss would be a nice surprise at the end. If I don't lose as much weight as I had hoped, I would find that demoralising - and since I am following Total Solution 100% and drinking 2 litres of water every day (not counting coffee and tea), there is nothing I can do about it, so I would be depressing myself unnecessarily. And if my weight loss is erratic, watching every little fluctuation doesn't give a true picture of the overall result. Besides, I didn't weigh myself at all when I was piling the weight back on, so it's not as if regular weighing is already part of my routine.
So I'm holding out for my first weigh-in on 10th June, and the results of that will help determine whether I carry on with Exante for a second month or move onto something else. At the moment, I feel as though I will be continuing, but time will tell.
All the best to all of you.
