Thetrigos
Silver Member
Hi all,
I'm on day one of Exante TS today and i'm going to try and keep a diary to keep my spirits up and get some motivation, and also just because i really like writing - any excuse really!
I did Weight Watchers after having my second son just over a year ago and it's taken me just over a year to lose 2 stone, and for the past 3 months or so i've been hovering around the same weight. I was getting bored and complacent when it came to weighing and pointing everything, and to be honest i just got the point where i was really disliking food, it became an enemy, something to trip me up, skirt around and worry about.
As a result i decided that if i was going to lose the rest of this weight, avoiding it alltogether was definitely the best way. I've gotten to the point in my life where i understand how bad my eating habits used to be, causing me to gain so much weight. I'm happy now to eat sensibly and understand that i can't eat the way i used to or i will get fat again! It just feels like such a chore, eating to lose weight, and it's not working for me, so here i am. Confident i can get through the next few months on this diet, and come off it at the end able to keep my weight stable.
So. I'm doing shakes and bars. I tried a Cambridge soup off a friend once and to be honest it made me physically sick. It was horrendous! I'm not a massive soup fan at the best of times, it generally has to be the really fresh chunky stuff, and crusty white bread helps it down.
I held out until 10.30 for my first shake. I realised that i'm never massively hungry in the morning, i just eat breakfast because it's what you're supposed to do! So this morning i could concentrate on making my boys (Hubby, O who's 3 and F who's 1) breakfast and get some bits done, rather than wolfing down a bowl of cereal whilst getting nursery bags ready, brushing my hair, making lunch and trying to find my car keys at the same time.
My first shake was Strawberry. This was the one i was most scared of, as i really don't like strawberry milkshake, and it was... ok. Not amazing, but not revolting either. Manageable. The smell was the worst thing... biscuity weirdness. Anyway, it's down within 15 minutes, through a combination of sipping to start with, progressing to chugging whilst holding breath for the last bit of the glass. It's now repeating on me, which is charming.
I'm feeling a bit spaced out today, but not too bad. My mouth is so dry no matter how much i drink, which is encouraging me to drink and i don't mind because i like water and tend to drink a lot anyway. I was hungry, but the strawberry milkshake swiftly took care of that, and my appetite.
Chocolate orange bar for lunch, chocolate shake for dinner, onwards and upwards.
I'm on day one of Exante TS today and i'm going to try and keep a diary to keep my spirits up and get some motivation, and also just because i really like writing - any excuse really!
I did Weight Watchers after having my second son just over a year ago and it's taken me just over a year to lose 2 stone, and for the past 3 months or so i've been hovering around the same weight. I was getting bored and complacent when it came to weighing and pointing everything, and to be honest i just got the point where i was really disliking food, it became an enemy, something to trip me up, skirt around and worry about.
As a result i decided that if i was going to lose the rest of this weight, avoiding it alltogether was definitely the best way. I've gotten to the point in my life where i understand how bad my eating habits used to be, causing me to gain so much weight. I'm happy now to eat sensibly and understand that i can't eat the way i used to or i will get fat again! It just feels like such a chore, eating to lose weight, and it's not working for me, so here i am. Confident i can get through the next few months on this diet, and come off it at the end able to keep my weight stable.
So. I'm doing shakes and bars. I tried a Cambridge soup off a friend once and to be honest it made me physically sick. It was horrendous! I'm not a massive soup fan at the best of times, it generally has to be the really fresh chunky stuff, and crusty white bread helps it down.
I held out until 10.30 for my first shake. I realised that i'm never massively hungry in the morning, i just eat breakfast because it's what you're supposed to do! So this morning i could concentrate on making my boys (Hubby, O who's 3 and F who's 1) breakfast and get some bits done, rather than wolfing down a bowl of cereal whilst getting nursery bags ready, brushing my hair, making lunch and trying to find my car keys at the same time.
My first shake was Strawberry. This was the one i was most scared of, as i really don't like strawberry milkshake, and it was... ok. Not amazing, but not revolting either. Manageable. The smell was the worst thing... biscuity weirdness. Anyway, it's down within 15 minutes, through a combination of sipping to start with, progressing to chugging whilst holding breath for the last bit of the glass. It's now repeating on me, which is charming.
I'm feeling a bit spaced out today, but not too bad. My mouth is so dry no matter how much i drink, which is encouraging me to drink and i don't mind because i like water and tend to drink a lot anyway. I was hungry, but the strawberry milkshake swiftly took care of that, and my appetite.
Chocolate orange bar for lunch, chocolate shake for dinner, onwards and upwards.
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