Hi, new to the forum but would like to add my tuppence for what its worth!
I have lost some weight and have experienced those down days that you are now in the middle of and they are hard, very hard. I feel what worked for me, was not to fight the feeling of being down but to go with it and try to understand what it was all about. It was rarely about physcial hunger but more about breaking habits that had formed over a very long time.
I regard the shakes and flapjacks as fuel. Nothing more, nothing less, just fuel. Not particularly there to be enjoyed but more there to make sure my body gets the nutrients it needs while I get my head sorted. If you do enjoy them, that is a bonus but the real enjoyment comes from the weight loss and the weight loss happens because of the new imporoved, unleaded fuel you are putting into your body, like the taste or not!
Thats the physcial battle sorted, psychologically the battle is fought on a different front! How badly do you want this? How willing are you to train your mind to break the habits of the last few years or so? Those habits take time to conquer but TFR is the best time to examine them and face them head on. Just like now.
If you have access to a bath, get into one, lots of bubble bath, and start practising positive thinking just to get you through today or even just the next shake time. Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
For the past three weeks, I have lost one pound per week. Brutal!! I so wanted to throw in the towel but another part of me really didn't . The positive side has held up well to date but on a thread at times. I have noticed real mood swings during the day. Get up in the morning, can conquer the world. By 11am, I convince myself I am destined to fail and cannot go on........all very strange.
You are doing really well. Keep talking to yourself inside your head, you'll soon learn to listen.
Now, where's that cream cake
. Only kidding!