Slimmingworld Day One proper

Ok, this is it now. I'm sticking to this one. No more fannying around, Ramage.

Was soooooo amazing to get up and have a luscious cup of tea this morning :-)

Will have to count the milk (healthy extra A allows you 350ml of skimmed milk i think). I'm gonna do this properly from today and count and weigh EVERYTHING.

Right, better get some work done.

More later,

Catharine xx

Day 3

Feeling much more settled now I've decided to switch to SW... I've lost that anxious 'what am I going to do when the chorizo runs out' feeling. Thank fuck.

Can go to bed tonight happy in the knowledge that I can wake up to a nice cup of tea and a (carefully measured) bowl of porridge. What larks!

Great doing the same plan as vaughan... We can have confessionals again after work every night 'forgive me father, for I have synned'. He always beats me though and has enough syns left for an ultra-smug cup of options hot chocolate at 9pm. Bastard.

We're having a competition - whooever loses the least each week has to do the dishes for the whole of the following week. Might have to slip a few teaspoons of lard into his dinner if he starts winning all the time though ;-)

JK of course...

Catharine xx

Day three carbunfree

I've gone off the rails.

Just been to tesco and bought strawberries, peaches, grapes and BANANAS.... Soooooo carbtastic and mr atkins would NOT approve. But these are all free on slimmingworld :-) waaahoooo!!

Grapes taste like sweeties. And I feel NAUGHTY.

Not sure what I'm having for tea yet, but I know it isn't going to contain cream or butter. Just loads of lovely veg and lean meat and beautiful, beautiful RICE. 

Vaughan's very relieved I'm not doing atkins anymore. He says cos he thinks it can't be good for me, but I can't help thinking that it's cos he can't stand another night sleeping next to the breath monster.

And the thought of making his own tea...

Slimmingworld rocks. (For the next 2 days anyway).

Catharine xx

Day Three

Oh and I forgot to mention this ridiculous banging headache which I've had sinvce yesterday and woke up with again this morning!

Day Three

I've gained 2lb! Arg! I'm not surprised with the amount of fat I've been eating. Thought it was a bit too good to be true!

Scared to carry on now... What if I keep gaining 2lb every day?!

Really don't know what to eat today now.... Vaughan told me yesterday that my breath smells like bacon that has been left out in the sun :-(

Plus, making tea last night was a nightmare cos vaughan can't eat oil, cheese, butter or meat over 5% fat on his plan, so my moussaka was really bad for his diet. Don't want to have to cook two different teas every night, so might just switch back to slimmingworld, which tbh, feels soooooo much healthier.

Maybe if I do slimmingworld and ride my bike every day I'll lose weight?

Just gutted about the £90 I spent on food. I won't be able to eat any of it on SW. I'm just gonna have to freeze it and get it out next time i have a cheese and wine night with the girls.

The thought of eating meat and eggs again today makes me want to puke anyway.

Ok, back to healthy fruit and veg and pulses and lean meat :-) Yay! That  feels so much better already :-)

Will continue blogging I think... It's good to keep track, and adds a bit of accountability... I won't go scoffing cakes if I know I have to tell you lot (that's if anyone is actually reading this which is unlikely).

Peace out

Catharine xx

Day two 6.45pm

Is it REALLY only day two? Ffs

Just had the moussaka which was DELISH :-)

Still got a banging headache... Can practically hear my fat cells popping! Belly is still big and bloated.. So there goes the wheat/bread theory... Its clearly just fat. Great.

Got roquefort and chorizo to snack on later if i get hungry.

I still really want a nice cup of tea.

Day two 3.30pm

So much for 'lunch'. Was starving so just had 4 ready cooked chicken thighs and a bit of roquefort.

Head is starting to bang... Apparently that means the 'ketosis' process is starting... So all my nasty fat cells are currently imploding - worth having a headache for i think. 

Need to guzzle more water - have only had one bottle today. (Supposed to be drinking 8 glasses). Have had 2 massive cups of tea but according to mr atkins that doesn't count towards it.

Guzzle guzzle.

Looking forward to mousaka later.

More then, 

Catharine xx

Day Two... 1pm

Feeling vile....

Just scoffed 4 peanut cookie things that I made last night out of the Atkins recipe book... made with peanut butter, double cream, pecan nuts and stevia... surely that can't be ok??

That's my lunch anyway... no more munching til teatime, where I will embark upon a carbfree, cheese-laden moussaka (sorry Vaughan).

Catharine xx

Day Two Carb-free

Well yesterday went ok... Though I think I might have over-eaten slightly (all that cheese and salami in the fridge was just toooo tempting). Plus the novelty of being able to eat tonnes of cooked meat and cheeses went to my head a bit... Just weighed myself and I'm already 2lb down from yesterday, so SOMETHING seems to be happening...

Woke up feeling really potsy today though... I'm hoping it's not the diet. I had a broken night's sleep (a wasp broke in to my bedroom and held me at knife point) plus I'm due on... so the potsy-ness could be due to those factors, or just general unexplained potsy-ness that I get all the time... so not gonna blame the diet just yet.

Not much to report as I've not eaten yet... Am dying for my morning cup of tea again :-( Will just have to have it made with cream instead of milk.. it tastes a bit claggy made that way - I can't even stand semi-skimmed milk in my tea usually, so this is going to take some getting used to. But hey ho, it's a small sacrifice if it's gonna make me skinny :-)

So breakfast today is going to be poached eggs with smoked salmon (ambassador, you're spoiling us) with a small amount of spinach and mushrooms (will have to count the carbs there, but I can't go without my veggies).

One good thing about this diet, I've noticed, is that I'm so busy feeling sinful over eating tomatoes and spinach that I have no time to think about the REALLY sinful stuff like chocolate and cake. Psychology is everything when it comes to dieting and giving things up... so if it works that way I'm happy to go with that.

"Oh god, I've been really naughty today - I binged on tomatoes."

Surely this psychology has got to be good for my body?

More later (post-lunch no doubt).

Catharine xx

Day One Carb-free (Later that day)

Ok, so I've just been shopping and spent £92 on cheese and meat... this had better make me thin.

Had scrambled eggs (no milk but didn't hold back on the oil) with a WHOLE PACKET - yes a whole packet (125g) of mozzarella for breakfast and didn't feel hungry til about 2pm. I also had one tomato with it, and just counted the carbs (you're allowed 20g a day and a tomato contains 2g).

I have just munched 3 ready-cooked chicken drumsticks. Not having to peel the skin off felt weird, but turns out it tastes pretty crap anyway. Also gobbled a nice wedge of brie before I realised that you are only supposed to have 180g of cheese a day and I ate 125g this morning - oops. A nice bitter green tea should cancel that out?

Tea is gonna be chicken stir-fry out of the Atkins book (basically chicken breast, a variety of oils and some green veg).

This may not be the cheapest diet out there, but so far I'm eating like a fat bastard and not missing bread at all. The only thing I'm craving is a nice cup of tea. I've bought some single and double cream for cooking (bizarre that this is allowed, but I'm looking forward to creamy scrambled eggs in the morning :-) ) ... so gonna try a bit of that in my cup of tea and see if it works.

Wish me luck

Catharine xx

Day One Carb Free

This is really for no one else but myself... I can't think of anything more dull than reading someone else's diet diary... but I fear if I don't write this, I won't stick to this carb-free malarky for longer than an hour.

Ok, so day one on the carb free train...

I've decided to do this because I need to lose about a stone and fancy trying something a bit different. Slimmingworld / counting calories is all well and good, but the thought of no olive oil for the next month makes me wanna cry. It's 5 weeks until my best friend's wedding, and I do NOT want to be the fat friend in all the pictures. So I figured this was marginally easier than sabotaging all the girls by sneaking into their work and filling their packed lunches with chocolate and lard.

So CARB FREE. Hmmmm. I spent last night reading all the Atkins shizzle and it's gonna be hard. No fruit? No veggies apart from a little bit of greenery now and then? This flies in the face of everything I hold sacred and dear. No cake, no chocolate, no crisps... THAT I can deal with. But to suddenly have to hold a tomato as a sinful object just seems wrong... but hey ho... If it makes me thin, I'll do it.

So....

So far today I have forsaken my beautiful first-thing-in-the-morning milky cup of tea for a green tea. BITTER. That's all I have to say about that. Now, after being up for a couple of hours, the hunger wolves are gnawing and I'm wondering what the hell I can eat.
Normally, I'd go for porridge or toast, but now that is considered food from the devil himself, I'll have to rethink. Eggs are about the only thing I can think of. With lots of butter. Ok, things are looking up.

More news as it comes in.

Catharine xx