lorrs.mcd
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Well, day one is pretty much done and dusted so I'll give a wee overview of my day.
Got up, went to shower and weighed in then. 18 stones 10 pounds and 6 ounces. Eeek! Not that it was any surprise; in recent months I've been a bit crazy with the comfort eating. I'd say the past couple of weeks have been filled with nearly daily food binges where I seem to be trying to eat for Scotland. Not fun at all - especially with the recent development of having hip pain and having probably the worst eczema outbreak since I was about 10 years old! It's all the sugar I've been eating, no other excuse there. I have a week off work this week so I decided it's probably a really good time to get into the swing of things before work distractions get in the way and give me 'excuses' to not start it.
Anyway, I weighed in and got dressed, after that I headed off downstairs to make up my first Exante product. Now, I was on Exante before, about a year and a half or so ago and I have a fair idea of the flavours I like and dislike so when I bought this box I went with 50 strawberry shakes plus 7 porridge and 7 pasta carbonaras to try out. So this morning it was the porridge; firstly - I definitely didn't make it properly. It more resembled very watery wall paper paste but I decided to eat it anyway. It tasted ok to begin with but I got to the halfway point and it started to leave a horrible aftertaste which was reminiscent of the Exante bars I hated so much the last time. I tried to choke it down but ended up leaving about 2 spoonfuls as I started retching. Great way to start the day! This was followed by lots of water and, I know we're not meant to have it, but a pellet of sugarfree gum. Ah well, things can only get better...
I went up to visit my Granny this afternoon and drank a black coffee with sweetener up there. I was tempted by her sweets and cakes (she's tiny, always been thin and munches through sweets and cakes all day and really struggles to put on weight, why didn't I inherit those genes???) but I managed to stick with the coffee. After that I came home and had a strawberry shake around 2.30pm this was fine, it didn't taste of much, I'll add a sweetener tomorrow methinks. I made it up in the shaker bottle which I think will be fine for work and days when I'll be out but I'll use the stick blender in the future. This was followed by a fair amount of water and a peppermint tea.
Around 5pm I started to get pretty hungry and my tummy started to feel like it was twisting in knots but I was trying to hang off as long as possible before making the final meal of the day. I'm house sitting at my parents place this week and there's lots of food around to tempt me. I started to get a headache and generally was beginning to feel pretty rubbish. I drank more water then had a big glass of dr pepper zero but this just gave me indigestion. Headache, indigestion, hunger and feeling sick from hunger all at once, not fun at all. So I decided at 6pm it was time to make the pasta carbonara. I was a little dubious about it as I'd started to browse the forums and loads of folk were saying it was horrible. However, if it was rubbish I was ready to bin it and have a shake instead. So I made it up by taking the little by little water adding approach with zaps in the microwave and lots of stirring and I was pleasantly surprised as it turned out fine!
I think I'll be ordering more of the pastas.
I'm also somewhat intrigued by what people have been saying on these here forums. When I did Exante the last time I hated the bars and so, it seemed, did lots of other people here on the forum but this time round a lot of people seem to like them. I wonder if they changed the recipe at all? I'm not sure I'm brave enough to test out that theory by purchasing them as they really used to make me heave. I've also noticed a lot of folk saying the chocolate is nice. Back when I did the diet the last time the first batch of chocolate shakes I got were lovely, really really nice tasting. Then it turned out my nice chocolate shakes were a faulty batch (people were finding them too sweet) and they corrected the error and next thing they started tasting terrible, as bad as they smelled! No matter how many sweeteners I tried, I could never get them tasting nice again. Anyway, I'm also tempted to order a sample of chocolate to see what I think now. I'll be ordering banana flavours too and maybe vanilla, it was a bit hit and miss last time. I can't stand the soups so I don't see much point in trying those again. At least the pasta carbonara is good and the strawberry shake is alright
So yes, that was today, about an hour after eating my pasta I got hungry again so I distracted myself with a magazine then fell asleep for a few hours. Hence why I'm wide awake and up typing this at nearly 3am!! Now I'd say I'm mildly hungry but the plan is to drink a glass of water and go back to bed.
Oh and I have a metallic taste in my mouth already but still hungry so I don't think I'm quite there with ketosis but hopefully it won't take long. Tomorrow, I'm picking up my boyfriend then we're heading for loch lomond for a walk so I'll be taking my shaker bottle with me. Here's hoping tomorrow is a good day!
Got up, went to shower and weighed in then. 18 stones 10 pounds and 6 ounces. Eeek! Not that it was any surprise; in recent months I've been a bit crazy with the comfort eating. I'd say the past couple of weeks have been filled with nearly daily food binges where I seem to be trying to eat for Scotland. Not fun at all - especially with the recent development of having hip pain and having probably the worst eczema outbreak since I was about 10 years old! It's all the sugar I've been eating, no other excuse there. I have a week off work this week so I decided it's probably a really good time to get into the swing of things before work distractions get in the way and give me 'excuses' to not start it.
Anyway, I weighed in and got dressed, after that I headed off downstairs to make up my first Exante product. Now, I was on Exante before, about a year and a half or so ago and I have a fair idea of the flavours I like and dislike so when I bought this box I went with 50 strawberry shakes plus 7 porridge and 7 pasta carbonaras to try out. So this morning it was the porridge; firstly - I definitely didn't make it properly. It more resembled very watery wall paper paste but I decided to eat it anyway. It tasted ok to begin with but I got to the halfway point and it started to leave a horrible aftertaste which was reminiscent of the Exante bars I hated so much the last time. I tried to choke it down but ended up leaving about 2 spoonfuls as I started retching. Great way to start the day! This was followed by lots of water and, I know we're not meant to have it, but a pellet of sugarfree gum. Ah well, things can only get better...
I went up to visit my Granny this afternoon and drank a black coffee with sweetener up there. I was tempted by her sweets and cakes (she's tiny, always been thin and munches through sweets and cakes all day and really struggles to put on weight, why didn't I inherit those genes???) but I managed to stick with the coffee. After that I came home and had a strawberry shake around 2.30pm this was fine, it didn't taste of much, I'll add a sweetener tomorrow methinks. I made it up in the shaker bottle which I think will be fine for work and days when I'll be out but I'll use the stick blender in the future. This was followed by a fair amount of water and a peppermint tea.
Around 5pm I started to get pretty hungry and my tummy started to feel like it was twisting in knots but I was trying to hang off as long as possible before making the final meal of the day. I'm house sitting at my parents place this week and there's lots of food around to tempt me. I started to get a headache and generally was beginning to feel pretty rubbish. I drank more water then had a big glass of dr pepper zero but this just gave me indigestion. Headache, indigestion, hunger and feeling sick from hunger all at once, not fun at all. So I decided at 6pm it was time to make the pasta carbonara. I was a little dubious about it as I'd started to browse the forums and loads of folk were saying it was horrible. However, if it was rubbish I was ready to bin it and have a shake instead. So I made it up by taking the little by little water adding approach with zaps in the microwave and lots of stirring and I was pleasantly surprised as it turned out fine!
I think I'll be ordering more of the pastas.I'm also somewhat intrigued by what people have been saying on these here forums. When I did Exante the last time I hated the bars and so, it seemed, did lots of other people here on the forum but this time round a lot of people seem to like them. I wonder if they changed the recipe at all? I'm not sure I'm brave enough to test out that theory by purchasing them as they really used to make me heave. I've also noticed a lot of folk saying the chocolate is nice. Back when I did the diet the last time the first batch of chocolate shakes I got were lovely, really really nice tasting. Then it turned out my nice chocolate shakes were a faulty batch (people were finding them too sweet) and they corrected the error and next thing they started tasting terrible, as bad as they smelled! No matter how many sweeteners I tried, I could never get them tasting nice again. Anyway, I'm also tempted to order a sample of chocolate to see what I think now. I'll be ordering banana flavours too and maybe vanilla, it was a bit hit and miss last time. I can't stand the soups so I don't see much point in trying those again. At least the pasta carbonara is good and the strawberry shake is alright
So yes, that was today, about an hour after eating my pasta I got hungry again so I distracted myself with a magazine then fell asleep for a few hours. Hence why I'm wide awake and up typing this at nearly 3am!! Now I'd say I'm mildly hungry but the plan is to drink a glass of water and go back to bed.
Oh and I have a metallic taste in my mouth already but still hungry so I don't think I'm quite there with ketosis but hopefully it won't take long. Tomorrow, I'm picking up my boyfriend then we're heading for loch lomond for a walk so I'll be taking my shaker bottle with me. Here's hoping tomorrow is a good day!
