Hooray! Today I tried on the jeans and they fitted! They fit well and look great! The Atkins is working I wish I'd started on that at the beginning but never mind. I also saw my mother today and she was amazed at the loss!
Well there's 33 days left until my 40th Birthday so lets see whether I can drop another dress size before then!
Monday 21 February 2011
Saturday 19 February 2011
Not Your Daughters Jeans
I must say I'm quite a happy bunny today! I was given a pair of NYD jeans by my boss as they were too big for her. I tried them on and was disgusted that I couldn't even get them over my knees! They got put in the ebay box and I was gutted, lovely £100 jeans that didn't fit :(
Well today I thought I'd give them a try again because my husband actually said that he thought my diet was working as he had noticed that my bum looked smaller! Believe you me if he noticed then I must have lost!!!! Guess what? Not only did they go over my knees, but they went over my hips, bottom, the button did up and so did the zip!!!!! I must admit that I wouldn't be able to wear them yet but I'm well chuffed:)
I am really enjoying the diet now and have discovered a few great recipes that make life so very much easier.
The Atkins galette works brilliantly and spread with butter and marmite fills a real need for marmite toast! The other thing I tried for the 1st time this morning was a MIM (muffin in a minute) it looked a bit strange but tasted delicious!
30 grams of Flax meal (linseed)
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp splenda
1tsp cinnamon
1tsp butter
1 large egg
Put all the dry ingredients in a mug then add the egg and butter, give it a mix to combine, then pop it in the microwave for a minute.
Low and behold 1 minute later your muffin pops out with no problems! I sliced mine up and had butter on it. Fantastic!
I have heard that some people make a savoury version of this leaving out the Splenda and adding herbs and garlic instead. This savoury version can be used as a pizza base. Also they cook it in a rectangular microwavable tray and then toast it!
I also bought some Ketostix urine analysis strips this week just to make sure I was burning fat and they went the most purple ever. They really are good to give you some visual marker that things are working the way they should!
I'm off now to see if I can work my way comfortably into those jeans before next week!!
Well today I thought I'd give them a try again because my husband actually said that he thought my diet was working as he had noticed that my bum looked smaller! Believe you me if he noticed then I must have lost!!!! Guess what? Not only did they go over my knees, but they went over my hips, bottom, the button did up and so did the zip!!!!! I must admit that I wouldn't be able to wear them yet but I'm well chuffed:)
I am really enjoying the diet now and have discovered a few great recipes that make life so very much easier.
The Atkins galette works brilliantly and spread with butter and marmite fills a real need for marmite toast! The other thing I tried for the 1st time this morning was a MIM (muffin in a minute) it looked a bit strange but tasted delicious!
30 grams of Flax meal (linseed)
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp splenda
1tsp cinnamon
1tsp butter
1 large egg
Put all the dry ingredients in a mug then add the egg and butter, give it a mix to combine, then pop it in the microwave for a minute.
Low and behold 1 minute later your muffin pops out with no problems! I sliced mine up and had butter on it. Fantastic!
I have heard that some people make a savoury version of this leaving out the Splenda and adding herbs and garlic instead. This savoury version can be used as a pizza base. Also they cook it in a rectangular microwavable tray and then toast it!
I also bought some Ketostix urine analysis strips this week just to make sure I was burning fat and they went the most purple ever. They really are good to give you some visual marker that things are working the way they should!
I'm off now to see if I can work my way comfortably into those jeans before next week!!
Wednesday 9 February 2011
Atkins overtakes Dukan!
Well I've stuck to it for a month and I do not know how I've coped. The Dukan Diet is fairly practical to do I would think if you live on your own and don't work. If you live with others and have a family and work aswell you would be well pushed to stick to it unless you have only have a small amount to loose.
Let me explain by giving a few examples! I am mean't to be on this cruise phase for 193 days eating one day low fat protein and the next day low fat protein and veggies. No alcohol and after the way I've been feeling no energy! Sitting down for a Sunday lunch with the family Mum has chicken and no veggies, is this a good message to send to our children?........ At work! A vegetarian office, imagine the looks when digging in to a pile of meat ok I could have low fat cottage cheese and salad but NO dressing!
I have done Atkins before and I really enjoyed it. I think the main thing is that as long as you factor it into your carbohydrate daily count you can have most things after the initial 14 days. But even this supposedly austere phase seems like an amazing plethora of goodies. Cheese, whipping cream, olive oil, bacon and eggs and vegetables!!!! Yippee vegetables!!!!
I have been utilising some of the Dukan principles mainly the oat bran gallettes ... but with a twist! one egg, 2 tablespoons of whipping cream and 2 tablespoons of oatbran. As fas as I can work out these are virtually carb less on Akins and they taste 1000% better.
The other thing I couldn't get my head around is, how on earth do you get into a state of ketosis (burning body fat) when you are not taking any fat in. As far as Atkins is concerned this just doesn't happen unless you do eat good forms of fat. Anyway I now feel as though I'm not missing out on anything, I feel full and I have enough energy to exercise which is nice after a month of feeling utterly wiped! I also have no worries about having no alcohol as I know I can have a glass in 2 weeks and I also don't feel as if every pleasure has been wiped of the earth!!!!
I'm hopeful now that I will be able to progress so I'll keep you posted. I would like to note that I have lost a bit on the Dukan Diet but not as much as I would have expected. Need to go now Alistair the baby is trashing the house!!!
Let me explain by giving a few examples! I am mean't to be on this cruise phase for 193 days eating one day low fat protein and the next day low fat protein and veggies. No alcohol and after the way I've been feeling no energy! Sitting down for a Sunday lunch with the family Mum has chicken and no veggies, is this a good message to send to our children?........ At work! A vegetarian office, imagine the looks when digging in to a pile of meat ok I could have low fat cottage cheese and salad but NO dressing!
I have done Atkins before and I really enjoyed it. I think the main thing is that as long as you factor it into your carbohydrate daily count you can have most things after the initial 14 days. But even this supposedly austere phase seems like an amazing plethora of goodies. Cheese, whipping cream, olive oil, bacon and eggs and vegetables!!!! Yippee vegetables!!!!
I have been utilising some of the Dukan principles mainly the oat bran gallettes ... but with a twist! one egg, 2 tablespoons of whipping cream and 2 tablespoons of oatbran. As fas as I can work out these are virtually carb less on Akins and they taste 1000% better.
The other thing I couldn't get my head around is, how on earth do you get into a state of ketosis (burning body fat) when you are not taking any fat in. As far as Atkins is concerned this just doesn't happen unless you do eat good forms of fat. Anyway I now feel as though I'm not missing out on anything, I feel full and I have enough energy to exercise which is nice after a month of feeling utterly wiped! I also have no worries about having no alcohol as I know I can have a glass in 2 weeks and I also don't feel as if every pleasure has been wiped of the earth!!!!
I'm hopeful now that I will be able to progress so I'll keep you posted. I would like to note that I have lost a bit on the Dukan Diet but not as much as I would have expected. Need to go now Alistair the baby is trashing the house!!!
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