I want to give a meal replacement diet a go. My friend is doing Herbalife but the cost of it is shocking. I lost the will to live when the rep tried to include vitamin pills, yet the basic product gives 150% or thereabouts of rda of vitamins, plus the supplementary powder product gives 130% rda of vitamins. They rambled on about why women needed them , i think i must have been glaring at him as he eventually put the pills away. Anyway the cost for 2 weeks basic product and 1 month supplementary product was around 108 euro, if i wanted a months supply of each it was 162 euro!!
I went home and looked up Exante, they have an offer on, 68 shakes and a shaker for €49.95 but it has to be shipped to the Canary Islands where I live so ive no idea how long it will take, maybe 3 weeks. I had an email suggesting delivery by Thurs or Fri this week, but im not holding my breath on that one.
The local supermarket do a similar diet meal replacement system by Deliplus thats cheap and alright i suppose except it contains sugar (doh!) so im using that twice a day until the Exante turns up.
Edit: turns out doesnt contain sugar. Result!
Its monday, i started it today. I weigh 99.5 kilos, my goal is to be somthing less than lets say 90 kilos. By August. I was 104.5 kilos in January when i saw my doc.
Im diabetic type 2 on glucophage maximum dose and its starting to fail me. Im dreading the day i have to go on insulin. Im sure it will be fine but i want to put it off as long as possible. In Jan i thought the day had come, blood tests came back not good hba1c put me at around 13 and i was feeling bloody grotty. I also had a nasty food poisoning called Campylobacter for which i needed treatment. The diabetic nurse called me back a week later and suggested a supplementary drug called empagliflozin . You need to lose weight she said. Right. Ill go on a diet, i promise. The b***h wrote that down on my notes.
I go back in March for another blood test, first thing she says when i sit down ‘ how much weight have you lost?’ Bugger, it came back to me, the promise to lose weight. Im stammering some pathetic excuse as she is pushing the scales towards me. I get on, im 99.5kilos. I lost 5 kilos!!! How in the hell...??? Something to do with food poisoning no doubt. The new blood test though wasnt so good, not much improvement. I bargained with her to give me till August.
Im still 99.5 kilos and its June , i have to get my ass in gear or they will take me off this new med (which is bloody expensive by the way) and probably put me on insulin. So.... Exante
My friend, lets call her ..... Kate , was very excited that she started her herbalife diet on Sunday.
Look! she said, i bought these great snacks!
Why? I asked her as im looking at the back of the pack and work out 311 calories for the pack of crisp like triangular.... things.
They said i had to have 2 snacks a day.
Fruit Kate, they meant fruit...
Ive suggested we have a weigh in at my place on Saturday morning as i have electronic scales and she has no scales. She is now suggesting a weigh in a 2 weekly intervals. Im not giving in.
I went home and looked up Exante, they have an offer on, 68 shakes and a shaker for €49.95 but it has to be shipped to the Canary Islands where I live so ive no idea how long it will take, maybe 3 weeks. I had an email suggesting delivery by Thurs or Fri this week, but im not holding my breath on that one.
The local supermarket do a similar diet meal replacement system by Deliplus thats cheap and alright i suppose except it contains sugar (doh!) so im using that twice a day until the Exante turns up.
Edit: turns out doesnt contain sugar. Result!
Its monday, i started it today. I weigh 99.5 kilos, my goal is to be somthing less than lets say 90 kilos. By August. I was 104.5 kilos in January when i saw my doc.
Im diabetic type 2 on glucophage maximum dose and its starting to fail me. Im dreading the day i have to go on insulin. Im sure it will be fine but i want to put it off as long as possible. In Jan i thought the day had come, blood tests came back not good hba1c put me at around 13 and i was feeling bloody grotty. I also had a nasty food poisoning called Campylobacter for which i needed treatment. The diabetic nurse called me back a week later and suggested a supplementary drug called empagliflozin . You need to lose weight she said. Right. Ill go on a diet, i promise. The b***h wrote that down on my notes.
I go back in March for another blood test, first thing she says when i sit down ‘ how much weight have you lost?’ Bugger, it came back to me, the promise to lose weight. Im stammering some pathetic excuse as she is pushing the scales towards me. I get on, im 99.5kilos. I lost 5 kilos!!! How in the hell...??? Something to do with food poisoning no doubt. The new blood test though wasnt so good, not much improvement. I bargained with her to give me till August.
Im still 99.5 kilos and its June , i have to get my ass in gear or they will take me off this new med (which is bloody expensive by the way) and probably put me on insulin. So.... Exante
My friend, lets call her ..... Kate , was very excited that she started her herbalife diet on Sunday.
Look! she said, i bought these great snacks!
Why? I asked her as im looking at the back of the pack and work out 311 calories for the pack of crisp like triangular.... things.
They said i had to have 2 snacks a day.
Fruit Kate, they meant fruit...
Ive suggested we have a weigh in at my place on Saturday morning as i have electronic scales and she has no scales. She is now suggesting a weigh in a 2 weekly intervals. Im not giving in.
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