LL Daily - Days 7&8&9

Hello and sorry for delay. Am still on track and following the programme. Well done to me. Amazed I have done it. I DO have willpower! Although I am not actually feeling hunger (due to ketosis - but I hadn't quite believed the hype!); I am not feeling deprived. So will keep on keeping on - One Day At A Time - ODAAT...

Monday - 1st weigh in - bit disappointed - 2.5 lbs off - was expecting about 7lbs. Most people have a 'big' loss in 1st week (although most of that due to water loss - since glycogen in the body is stored with 4x its weight in water and all the glycogen gets used to before ketosis kicks in). So let's see what happens next weigh in...

Tuesday - no worries - stuck to the plan and not feeling worried about weight loss speed but am monitoring weight morning and evening - so maybe I am worried about it!! By the way - no headaches this week. Keep thinking about the cleansing properties of this programme as well as the weight loss aspect. Thinking about my eating habits previously my body must be in shock right now!

Wednesday - food packs planned - I do this the night before and settling into simple routines.

Knitting - it continues! & a friend suggested I oversew the lbs pounds lost each week into the part of the knitting I am on at that time. I am a new knitter and all I am doing is knitting a small throw made of 3 long 10" strips so oversewing the numbers will work well I think. A motivator to look at every day when knitting and a trophy to remind me of the journey when complete. Will get a photo up in the next couple of weeks.

ODAAT
TFR x

LL Daily >>> Day 1 - Yee ha!!

1. DAY ONE - feeling excited, apprehensive, positive. Can I do this? YES I CAN!

 

BEST choices from here on in...

2. Made dodgy 2 choices* before 8am – to have cup of tea ½ sugar and a little milk – couldn't face wasting all the milk! Then a detox tea with tiny dab honey. Think the detox tea isn't 'ok' due to lemon flower so they'll go – plus honey and milk then binned. Cleared out lots of other stuff over weekend and last night. Empty looking fridge!

3. Was concerned that the 2 drink choices weren't great and debated them but 'rebellious child'** may have reared her head?? Yet to learn more about that! Anyway – I make the choices. & I chose these last 2 before throwing out the honey and milk. So seeing the 'throwing out' as a 'ritualistic food tie severing' to start the morning... a positive thing!

4. FP's*** planned for day – shake, shake, soup, chilli. Soup (minestrone) and cup ready for work; shaker and shake ready (wondering if chilled water best?) - taking vanilla so could have warm with coffee??? Berries shake for breakfast and chilli for tea. Will eat every 3 or 4 hours starting from breakfast time. Also 1 litre water bottle ready to be filled with LL juice.

5. Goal of the day - to do the progamme. Simple. Imagine how proud I will feel this evening.

TFRx

* On LLT only black tea or herbal teas from leaf only are allowed - this is to promote ketosis which is affected by intake of carbs and citric acid (in fruit/flower teas)

** Reference to an ego state used in 'Transactional Analysis' and something I will learn about in bid to change eating behaviour.

***FP's = lighterlife foodpacks

Oh man!!!!!

Well... I did have 3 published posts since last weekend. Which I deleted in error. & it seems possible to retrieve via lots of complicated cache manipulation but no simple 'undo' click option within blogger. I. am. frustrated.

So here's what you missed...

• I am contemplating contemplating the LighterLife (LL) diet.
• I need to lose weight - health and vanity reasons. More about WHY! here
• LL seems extreme but I think I need it - again  WHY! here
• I met the LL counsellor last weekend - would involve abstinence from actual food for 2 months combined with therapy to crack my behaviour with and around food.
• My BMI is almost 32; it could be 26 by the time I go on hols in August. Ultimate target would be BMI 24. I am 5'7 and 14st 4lb.
• Am also investigating the Cambridge Weight Plan - like LL without the therapy.

Decisions decisions... I intend to use this blog to track my LL (or CWP) journey with all it's challenges and my results.

Thanks for reading
bee x