one thing to think is the only person you're cheating is yourself - people will say "it doesn't matter" but you know yourself it does. I've cheated a couple of times this week and each time, the food wasn't as good as I was expecting and instead of feeling full, i felt empty inside as i felt i'd failed myself. if I want to eat, i should do it properly and forget LT - what's the point of investing in LT every week and then buying food on top?? the idea of food is better than the reality - we build it into something fantastic and are then disappointed - this is because we never really ate because of the taste of food - we ate for different reasons - emotional, boredom, etc etc and the food was actually incidental - it just made us feel full and stopped us dealing with any of the problems we had - let me know if I'm just talking about myself here!
When you get through a whole week of LT without eating anything, you'll realise it is do-able. Drink more water, have a black tea or coffee, ring someone, have a bath, read a book - this is the advice wonderful people on this forum gave me when i started. Nothing tastes as good as feeling thinner feels, believe me!!
Go for it from now on and keep us updated on how you're doing - it's worth it and so are you. x x x