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05 August 2009

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
120.2 kg	15.9 kg	40.8 kg	Reasonably Well

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24 August 2007

Day 3 booya!

Going good now, getting into the rhythem of eating every couple of hours and drinking water. I find having a big jug of water with me at my desk at work and taking a sip of it every time I start getting fidgety.

Oh and something I didn't mention before, I am not mixing my shakes with milk. I have seen comments by people saying they mix with skim milk (which I think tastes vile) or 1%... even 2%! But so far I think they taste fine with just water as the packets recommend, the blends are pretty creamy as it is and milk would make it a little too rich I think.

Anyway...

-Review-
French Vanilla Shake - tasted REALLY weird at first, but I let it sit for a couple of minutes and it tasted better with every sip. I think the mix in this one needs a couple of minutes to let the flavour out.
Chicken Noodle Soup - Bland, bland... and bland. I needed to season the heck out of this till it was to my taste, but that was easily done and then it tasted YUMMY. I actually can't fault MediFast for making their soup this bland because it allows you to season it up to your own tastes (we all have different tolerances for salty flavours etc). It is PACKED with noodley bits and chickeny bits. You really feel like you're getting a meal out of it, the broth texture is thick and buttery rich.
Chocolate Mint Bar - eh... I didn't feel crazy about this one. And I like chocolate and mint, I think it was the amount of rice crispie bits that made it a lil flat for me. The taste was alright, lil bland (I like to taste the mint more) but I did like that it wasn't sweet chocolate tasting or waxy textured. Not bad, but not droolsomely good like the Caramal Nut.
Banana Pudding - oh god... MediFast... why on earth did you allow this to go into production?! *shudders* I am afraid I don't have a single good thing to say about this pudding. It was slimy in texture, tasted... I dunno what it tasted of really but it sure wasn't banana >.< I couldn't finish it at all so I can't speak for how filling it might be. Yuck, that's all I can say. Sorry!

I liked the Dutch Chocolate so much yesterday that I've got that for my second meal shake and have a Caramal Nut bar for my afternoon snack... boy those bars are SO perfect for that 3pm munchy feeling at work. I'm planning on trying a tomato soup later on... kinda leery about the oatmeal because I don't generally like packeted oatmeal.

I'm really glad I got the variety pack, and also glad I only got the 2 week one. It's allowing me to try a bunch of the foods without feeling like "Oh god, I hate *insert food* so much and I have 4 weeks of it". I think I'll be able to custom order my next couple of weeks and be really happy with what I'm eating instead of feeling like there's a couple of things I have to choke down haha my god imagine 4 weeks of banana pudding... Ahhh!!!

-Tip-

Balance is key - try and keep in mind that for this diet to work you want to be consuming under 600 calories and 85 carbs. If you do deviate from the packaged food, try and keep within those boundrys at least.

La Croix carbonated waters will give you that soda feeling without the cal's. So will Coke Zero, tastes just like Coke but without the sugar!

-Remember-
Look in the mirror at least once a day and tell yourself how beautiful you are REGARDLESS of what you see. Someone needs to tell you the truth, and it should be you. One day, that reflection will surprise you by reflecting the truth back.

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23 August 2007

Alrighty... so here we are on day 2. So far so good.

My review of the MediFast foods so far;

Dutch Chocolate Shake - very filling and creamy. Easy to sip slowly and enjoy.
Strawberry Creme Shake- really grainy, lil too sweet for me (but I have a low tolerance of sweet things) and not very filling. I drank it very fast and was hungry soon after.
Caramel Bar - MMMMM goooood, I cut it into little bite size peices and savoured each one, very delicious if you like reeces peices. Actually nicer! And very filling.

Other than that for my allowed meal I made myself a nice big bowl of Miso soup (japanese bean curd, very savoury and yummy and only 25 cal's a bowl!!) with some finely shredded baked chicken breast. That filled me up so good I didn't really feel hungry anymore for the rest of the evening.

So far the MediFast stuff is pretty good, it's all about habit and pacing yourself really. I am at this point feeling pretty confident I can stick to it and make a difference, however it takes about 3 - 5 days till the actual Ketosis sets in so I'm sure the hunger and food obsession will pass then (It's bad, dude I actually said "Lets watch a meal" to my husband today >.< I meant movie lol)

-Tips-

I really strongly recommend if you go on this diet to keep a few low cal snacks around for your first day. Plan out ahead and have 100 cal packs of popcorn etc stashed in the house.

It's better to ease yourself into it and be able to than to dump yourself in, get too hungry, cheat big time and then get discouraged and forget it. I find fresh cucumber to be an awesome snack, I sliced up one into big sticks yesterday and ate a couple every time I got hungry, it really helped. Today has been MUCH better because of it.

Thing is that most of us fatties have big stomachs, stretched by all the food we have crammed in them, so that's why we feel so hungry and need to eat SO much to feel full. Jumping into a diet this extreme is really hard because our stomachs can't handle the change immediately. Easing into it conciously really helps that adjustment.

If you do realize that you can't take it and you MUST eat, I strongly recommend not thinking of it as cheating and rushing out to the nearest McDonalds... plan for it, www.hungrey-girl.com has some fantastic low cal, low fat recipes on it. That way falling off the wagon won't hit you so hard. Plan for there being days you're going to crumble, and have foods in the house that won't ruin the good work you have done. It's nothing to feel bad about or feel discouraged about, we're human, we love us our grub. Just manage the impact by choosing the RIGHT foods to cheat with. A lot of the HG treats are under 100 cal's! How awesome is that?

-Remember-
You're incredible, gorgeous and smexy on the inside, loosing weight is just about letting all of that show.

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21 August 2007

Well, got my 2 week supply of MediFast today, so I'll likely start on it tomorrow. I'll keep up here to let you know how the stuff tastes and any other tips I come across. I decided to go on the 2 week run instead of the 4 week just to make sure it worked for me and I was comfortable doing it (not having side effects like exhaustion etc).

I decided to go for MediFast because of a few reasons, I studied up on it firstly because I want to make the right choice and not just keep bumbling around and taking ages getting back to the weight I'm comfortable at. It's been 11 years since I was at a weight I felt good at, I allowed depression and apathy to give me an excuse to just expand. Being this fat is all my fault. Making it right is all my responsibility.

Thankfully I've always been very healthy despite the blubber, my doctors have always been horrified to find that I don't have raging cholestorol or blood pressure. So I'm not trying to loose weight because I'm under threat of death, in fact I've been told that physically I'm as healthy as if I was at normal weight aside from my slight asthma which I've had since I was about 12.

But I hate not being able to wear the clothes I want too, or feel comfortable with people looking at me without ad-libbing their thoughts "OMG look at her flab flapping all over the place!" and feeling shamefull for being in the sight of "normal" people. I want to feel worthy of my husbands love and desire, instead of feeling like he's kindly tolerating this substandard form because he likes whats on the inside (I KNOW that's not what he feels or thinks, but that doesn't change what I worry about). I don't have any excuses to allow myself to get away with all of this jello. I have however every possible reason to loose it. I want to not be afraid of having my photograph taken, I want to be able to recognise the face I see in pictures as the one I see in my minds eye, not the puffy potato with beady eyes.

So... here goes!

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08 August 2007

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
136.1 kg	0 kg	56.7 kg	Not Applicable

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