Filed under: Uncategorized
Today has been the biggest test to both my will power and determination…. let me explain.
The day started off a little rocky. I was a miserable git all day… felt really tired and down. I think it might be due to the fact I felt like i’ve lost nothing this week and is a bit discouraging.
Anyway, we all leave work and head off for the departmental Christmas doo. First we all go to a pub, and everyone gets the beers in… except me of course that stuck to water. Easy enough!
Then came the hard part… the Sushi restaurant. Table for 5, four eating gorgeous smelling food and one with a ready made Cambridge shake. To make it harder, all the food is constantly whirring around a carousel next to the table. I stayed strong, and looking back I think it shows how far mentally I’ve come. A few months ago, I wouldn’t have been able to just sit there and watch all the lovely food going round without going on a cookie monster !NOM NOM NOM! spree. But I sat there, happy in the knowledge that I was stronger than to give in to a few moments of pleasure followed by a lifetime of knowing how weak I was.
I am Genuinely Proud of Myself.
Then came the Ice Skating… outside, 10:30pm at Somerset House, Charing Cross – London. With all the will power in the world on my side, I’ve learnt that it doesnt help Ice skills at all, for in a whole hour I managed a mammoth 3 laps.. and a stint in the learners section… That might go on the list… learn to ice skate. If I can do this batty diet and sit in a crowded restaurant without even so much as a wanting look, I can glide on frozen water with a couple of knives jammed into the bottom of a boot…..ok, maybe not.
Filed under: Week Five
Today has been quite eventful!
Week 5 if Add a Meal Week. This means that you can actually have food!! (not a lot, 2oz of chicken/fish/cottege cheese and veg. I had my first one today… 2oz of Tuna in Springwater and some cucumber.
Before I would have looked at that little meal and inhaled it in about 2 seconds… but it was a strange sensation to take my time, enjoy every bit of it… and be completley stufed afterwards – short of it is, I very much enjoyed it.
I am a little worried about keeping the weight loss momentum up, as a couple of people on the MiniMins forum have seen significant slow down of weight loss during that week. So, I’m replacing one of my foodpacks with the add a meal instead of having the reccommended 4 packs and the meal. I did however buy some extra packs, just in case.
After work, I went for a “networking” drinks/food meet up in the city… lots of drinks, food and very influential people. I was introduced by a friend to everyone as “This guy has lost 2 stone in a month!” everyone was interested about the diet, and I regailed them of tails of what it’s like not to eat for a month.I was very good and resisited all the snacks being offered by waitresses and all the free wine and beer… and stuck to the water. I did however step it up and go for the sparkling water, just to live on the edge a little.
At about 8pm, I looked in my bag to find my ready made banana shake.. and I had left it at work. Shit. I got home at about 1:30 am and went straight to bed… not good, I should have had the extra shake.
I feel very well behaved 
Filed under: Week Four
Well four weeks in… thats one month.
I can’t believe I haven’t eaten food in a month!… this is too mad to think about!
Went in for my weigh today with Diane my counsellor… and I have lost another 7 Pounds this week! Amazing stuff!! – Today I am really pleased.
Tomorrow is Add a Meal week…. where I can add small meals for that one week… then back the norm. I am a little worried about it slowing down, but we’ll see
Filed under: Week Four
After looking in the mirror after getting dressed this morning, what I saw was a guy wearing a T-Shirt that was way to big for him. So.. I went through my usual work clothes rotation and found the same thing… all too big!
For the first time in ages… I opened the “neglected” drawer. A drawer full of clothes that are uncomfortable, or too tight. I picked up a tshirt that I haven’t worn for two years (even then it was too tight to wear out)… and put it on. It looked FANTASTIC, I looked fantastic. It really showed off what I had lost.
So off to work I went. As an IT guy, sometimes walking around the office can be minefield – people throwing their computer problems at you and forgetting them when you get back to your desk…. but today, everywhere I went people were complimenting me and asking about the diet… really gave me a boost as last night I had a couple of bloated hours where I felt it wasn’t working for some reason.
Looking forward to the next week!
Filed under: Week Four
Week four… nearly a month has gone by on this madass diet.
got weighed for the first time last night… now, the diet counsellor warned me that it weighs a couple of pounds heavier, and take off a pound or two becuase of the intese water drinkage through the day….
The scales say 18 Pounds lost… give 3 Pounds for water and end of day and the scales weighing heavy… thats 21 pounds in 21 days.
YES!
Filed under: Week Three
This week as been quite uneventful really! Been plodding along with the shakes etc as usual.
On Monday mornings, the office buy a box of Croissants for everyone to tuck into… I found this on my desk:
..Left very kindly by my co-worker Andy… but of course my dear readers – I refused, stayed strong, didn’t want to eat it at all!
This week I’ve noticed that around my chest and arms, my clothes are getting way to big! I’ve also noticed that belly and thighs are not shrinking as quick as the rest of me. Legs, face, arms, chest, back all look much better. Hoping that the rest of me will catch up soon – I have a cocktail party soon, and would be amazing to wear that jacket that’s “too small”
Filed under: Week Two
Another weekend….
Been quite active actually, very diet heavy.
SATURDAY:
I decided to try an experiment, put my will power to the test. Shopping. The only thing I have entered a super market for in the last two weeks was for some tobasco sauce (which according to the Internet is allowed) for the soups….. but today, I went on a weekly shop with Mum to the haaauuggge ASDA in Havant. Walk in the door, and you are immediately greeted with a cafe full of tasty goodies… didn’t blink an eyelid… then proceded past the bakery full of warm bread and then the cooked chicken/ribs/other stuff counter…. was fine…. The only section where my will power fell to hardly nothing… was the electronics section.
I headed over the the George clothes bit, where for the first time in a long time I was able to actually try on stuff that fit me! … the temptation not to buy any new clothes was strong, but I want to buy even smaller clothes.
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Loads more wood needed to be split this weekend for the log burner that heats out house… that must have burnt about 700 calories… knackered me out a treat.
Just out of interest, I have just tried some clothes on from the back of the wardrobe that last fit me in the summer of 2005…. and they fit even BETTER than they did then, and I HAVEN”T EVEN FINISHED WEEK 2!!!!!
Sorry again ladies and gents for the lack of posts, but not much has happened!
Got my second lot of Cambridge goodies – Love them!
People are already commenting on the weight loss, this thing is incredible!
This winter being particularly cold, I’ve put off buying a coat because I look like fool trying on coats in shops. Out of interest, I dug outa couple of jackets that havn’t fit for a year or two to try them on. One of them fit quite nicely *ALREADY* and the other, I couldn’t do the buttons up. So.. mum very kindly took it to the dry cleaners for me. 3 Days later, it comes back… and the buttons do up!
Yesterday at work we had a “Strategy Day” which involved being locked in a board room and talking about what needs to be done in the IT department for the next year. Lunch time rolled around, and the company had Marks and Spencer deliver a massive lunch platter which looked and smelt gorgeous. Normally on a diet.. i would have just gone “ahh one sarnie/scotch egg won’t hurt”… but I didn’t, I happily slurped away on my Chicken Cambridge soup whilst the others munched away… and it felt fantastic. Of course the only draw back of being in meetings all day and the amount of water being consumed results in grandad-esque trips to the toilet.
Also looking at Gyms to join… I figure visits to the gym will start building muscle ready for when the weight goes and kick this diet into hyperdrive!
Filed under: Week One
I originally planned to be posting every day… oh well!
Wow, the end of my first week on the Cambridge diet. The time has flown by! I am surpised how easy this thing is, taking food out of my life is proving to be the best desicion I’ve made. I’ve definitley lost weight this week, of course you loose a lot on the first week because of the body using up the glycogen it has stored, and all the water…. but I feel great. Clothes are already getting looser, and my face looks thinner.
The actual food packs are quite enjoyable, the only one I dislike is the “Cheese and Broccoli” one, which I think is pretty good going. I have left my spare Cheese and Broccoli at work, so if I happen to forget a food pack, it will teach me a lesson.
I went to the MPH Car Show in Birmingham which was good fun, had a shake in the morning and took a bar and two ready made cartons with me…. water at the show was £1.80 a freakin bottle!!! Something very strange happened there – Bushmills Irish Whiskey had a stand there, promoting their products with two hyperactive Irish men telling a small crowd of people the story of how the distillery came to be etc. Whilst diverting my attension with the antics, another one came out with a tray of Whiskey samples. With my mind occupied on the dancings paddys, without thinking, I picked up a sample and drank it. About 5 mins later, the reality hit me. I felt so disapointed and panicked! I asked the guys how much they had put in the samples, and they said it was 10ML… frantically phoned home to get mum to check the calories… apperently it’s not alot. I was walking around all day anyway. It’s funny, if they said to me “Would you like one?” i would have refused quite happily… I’ve put it down to being a victim of very clever PR instead of a lack of judgement.. i’ve learnt my lesson.
Ketosis – I am in full swing. I’ve reached the highest ketone mark on the sticks, and it’s amazing to see some of the science there in front of your eyes.
People are being generally supportive… My student friends are being supportive, My best friend Chris is being great, Dad was even supportive and interested! Mum an Sister are beig amazing, they are even re-arranging dinner times so the smell isnt wafting around the house. Mum has also decided to cook a “christmas soup” for xmas day, so we are all having soup in one way or another – I love the support – However, I can easily cope with food being around. People at work all had KFC and one of my MPH car passengers had a Burger King in the car – i genuinly wasn’t fussed! I do however have one craving…. the chicken doner kebab… i miss it. Certain work people are being a little less supportive. Alison, Magda and Sam who I work with are being supportive, and I think the world of them for doing so. Some however are badmouthing the diet and saying how stupid it is. I just tell them to stop being so ignorant, because thats exactly what they are being. Especially as one of the culprits reccommended the drug “Zenecol” to me.. (Zenecol makes you “poop” 30% of your body fat, with such side affects as Anal Leakage etc) to which I then ripped into with a torrent of defense.
My spirits are high, I’m not tempted or craving…. I’m actually enjoying it!
One Thing I forgot to mention:
this diet – is all in your head. I mean, you even get to notice how food is around you. For example, in a deli before I would look a the tuna and think “ahhh look at that!”… now, stepping back i can see that it has been sitting out there most of the day etcm and see the lack of care that is taken to things that ultimately fuels our bodies.
I know it’s weird, but i’ve also been having strange dreams!…. I had a dream I was in an airport in Portugal (I’ve never been to Portugal) and I ate a biscuit…. it was horrifying that I had cheated on my diet… I had a similiar dream again a few days later!! – I think the mental work was begun, amazing how the brain mantains itself!
Filed under: Week One
09:15am – Just ate my first Cambridge bar, I went for the Chocolate orange… this thing is amazing!! It’s really stodgy, so I think these could make a great breakfast. Looking at the neutritional values etc, I think it’s wise to start with this earlier in the day so you can burn the calories throughout the day. Drank a pint of water as well…
15:05 – Popped to Argos and bought a Braun hand blender thing to make sure I get a smooth soup. I figure buying a cheap one and leaving it at work is alot better than carting one in each day. So… I get back to the office and mix up a cup of “Oriental Chicken” Soup. I am pleasently surprised! The texture and initial taste is quite different – but after two or so mouthfuls, it’s very likeable. I’ve also polished off another two pints of water today… thats three. Im thinking of moving my desk nearer to the toilet…. Already looking forward to my shake update this afternoon!
16:25 – Just mixed up a chocolate mint shake (cold)…. oh my god… I wish I knew about these things before hand, they are brilliant! I’m definitely ordering these again.
20:30 - Got home from work, HUNGRY. So made my last meal pack of the day… Spicy Tomato Soup. When making it, it didn’t smell very nice – but after making it exactly as the instructions said, it was actually nicer than the chilli.
Today was a lot easier than I anticipated, I kept drinking waster like a mad thing and it seems to be ok. It’s 10pm and im feeling a little tired now though I have to admit.
