Note to readers: My posts can be a tad long, just because I like to include every detail that could be considered useful, but I highlight the important points just for you.
Right so, I'm back on the diet I was on a few weeks ago, Celebrity Slim. I was a little skittish at first since the last time I did this, I lost 8 kgs, however I can remember many long nights of sitting there, fantasizing about my next allowable snack or meal, which wasn't going to be until the next day! But as they say, fortune favours the brave and I only have 10 kgs to go so I think it would be worth another shot.
Day 1
Current weight: 70.7 kgs (digital scales are mercilessly accurate, but they can also be great, for instance- it might be hard to see that you've lost 500g on a normal set of scales... every little bit counts!)
Goal weight: 60 kgs
Lucky for me I'd done this particular program before so I knew which products I needed and which ones I didn't. I ran down (well, drove... I'm not that good!) to my local Priceline Pharmacy and bought a 7-day Box of Shakes (the one with the mix of flavours, its much easier to stick to when you're also getting to taste a new flavour each meal), the shaker for the shakes, and 4 of the low-carb bars just for a bit of variety. I chose the low-carb bars as a matter of taste since I didn't particularly like the traditional ones.
On my way out I was starting to think about snacks, they can be a bit tricky if you don't always feel like an apple or pear, also just the idea that I had to choose what I was eating all the time (impulsive eater, remember) seemed like I was just asking for trouble, so I quickly ran back in and bought a few of the celebrity slim snack bars too, I'd never tried them anyway so why not.
One other good thing I can say about Celebrity Slim is that at least the products taste good, I've tried others that vaguely resembled a mouthful of chalk so replacing 2 out of three meals a day with something tolerable is certainly a plus!
I chose breakfast as my balanced meal for this first day, since I still had a box of cereal and some skim milk in the kitchen and, well, I was worried I would be hungry all day if I didn't at least start the morning with something solid.
Spacing your meals out a bit strategically really seems to be the trick here, I had breakfast at 8:00am, and was having my first shake at midday, but I still had to fit 1 of the days 2-3 allowable snacks in there. Its so hard to choose what that snack will be though when you only have one and you know it won't be until mid-afternoon that you can have another one, I went with a small slice of Light and Tasty Coon Cheese.
Its funny the things you forget, like that although the little descriptive diagram on the shake box basically says your snacks can be an apple, pear or CS Snack Bar, the small book inside the box has a much broader list of snack foods, 30g of cheese included! Even nuts, 1-2 slices of ham, tea and coffee and other fruits (I was starting to fear for my blueberry addiction but they're allowed too!).
12:00 came around and I was starting to get jittery. I repeated, "Its just half an hour, just half an hour!" to myself about 3000 times until it finally hit 12:30 and I could have my first shake. I wasn't necessarily hungry, but I'm not yet used to going long periods of time without atleast nibbling away at something.
My next snack wasn't until 3:00pm (a small handful of peanuts), but with a bit of distraction I managed to get there without a fuss, the shakes being high in fibre and protein certainly helps with the cravings. I got to dinner and had my second shake around 6:00pm.
When I workout at home, I don't usually get to do this until around 9:30pm, when the T.V is free and everyone has mostly gone to bed for the night. Around 9, I cracked a little and had about 4 pieces of shaved ham, which for the first day isn't too bad! I then did one of my one-hour Zumba Exhilarate dvd's, plus about 20 minutes of one of the original Zumba dvd's.
Showered, cocoa buttered (the savour of weight loss induced loose skin), and got to bed around 11:00pm.
Day 1 gone, and not too badly if I do say so myself :)
Right so, I'm back on the diet I was on a few weeks ago, Celebrity Slim. I was a little skittish at first since the last time I did this, I lost 8 kgs, however I can remember many long nights of sitting there, fantasizing about my next allowable snack or meal, which wasn't going to be until the next day! But as they say, fortune favours the brave and I only have 10 kgs to go so I think it would be worth another shot.
Day 1
Current weight: 70.7 kgs (digital scales are mercilessly accurate, but they can also be great, for instance- it might be hard to see that you've lost 500g on a normal set of scales... every little bit counts!)
Goal weight: 60 kgs
Lucky for me I'd done this particular program before so I knew which products I needed and which ones I didn't. I ran down (well, drove... I'm not that good!) to my local Priceline Pharmacy and bought a 7-day Box of Shakes (the one with the mix of flavours, its much easier to stick to when you're also getting to taste a new flavour each meal), the shaker for the shakes, and 4 of the low-carb bars just for a bit of variety. I chose the low-carb bars as a matter of taste since I didn't particularly like the traditional ones.
On my way out I was starting to think about snacks, they can be a bit tricky if you don't always feel like an apple or pear, also just the idea that I had to choose what I was eating all the time (impulsive eater, remember) seemed like I was just asking for trouble, so I quickly ran back in and bought a few of the celebrity slim snack bars too, I'd never tried them anyway so why not.
One other good thing I can say about Celebrity Slim is that at least the products taste good, I've tried others that vaguely resembled a mouthful of chalk so replacing 2 out of three meals a day with something tolerable is certainly a plus!
I chose breakfast as my balanced meal for this first day, since I still had a box of cereal and some skim milk in the kitchen and, well, I was worried I would be hungry all day if I didn't at least start the morning with something solid.
Spacing your meals out a bit strategically really seems to be the trick here, I had breakfast at 8:00am, and was having my first shake at midday, but I still had to fit 1 of the days 2-3 allowable snacks in there. Its so hard to choose what that snack will be though when you only have one and you know it won't be until mid-afternoon that you can have another one, I went with a small slice of Light and Tasty Coon Cheese.
Its funny the things you forget, like that although the little descriptive diagram on the shake box basically says your snacks can be an apple, pear or CS Snack Bar, the small book inside the box has a much broader list of snack foods, 30g of cheese included! Even nuts, 1-2 slices of ham, tea and coffee and other fruits (I was starting to fear for my blueberry addiction but they're allowed too!).
12:00 came around and I was starting to get jittery. I repeated, "Its just half an hour, just half an hour!" to myself about 3000 times until it finally hit 12:30 and I could have my first shake. I wasn't necessarily hungry, but I'm not yet used to going long periods of time without atleast nibbling away at something.
My next snack wasn't until 3:00pm (a small handful of peanuts), but with a bit of distraction I managed to get there without a fuss, the shakes being high in fibre and protein certainly helps with the cravings. I got to dinner and had my second shake around 6:00pm.
When I workout at home, I don't usually get to do this until around 9:30pm, when the T.V is free and everyone has mostly gone to bed for the night. Around 9, I cracked a little and had about 4 pieces of shaved ham, which for the first day isn't too bad! I then did one of my one-hour Zumba Exhilarate dvd's, plus about 20 minutes of one of the original Zumba dvd's.
Showered, cocoa buttered (the savour of weight loss induced loose skin), and got to bed around 11:00pm.
Day 1 gone, and not too badly if I do say so myself :)
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