No more diet...

...well not for this week anyway. 

I'm sure I've mentioned it once or twice but it's my birthday this weekend. It was always my intention to diet until my birthday then stop. I know that I've lost a lot of the weight I set out too and overall I'm feeling happy with how I am now looking but should I go back to how I was eating 8 weeks ago? It just doesn't seem right for some reason & I certainly don't want to put the weight all back on. 

From this Friday I can eat whatever I feel like over the weekend, it is my 30th after all. Then I have a big night out with friends next Saturday so plenty of bad food & lots of alcohol then but then what? 

It feels wrong to go back to what I used to eat. I'm thinking that this diet has almost become second nature, more of a way of eating & less a diet. 
Now that I'm at the weight I set out, I'll probably not take it as seriously but whilst I'm enjoying the Slim Fast diet now, I think it'll continue.

The 2 litres of water is absolutely something I'd like to carry on, maybe not being as strict with myself over it but I already can tell my body is feeling healthier for it. 
My general feeling is that I'll see how I go, if I fancy cereal I'll have it, if not it'll be the shakes. If I want to treat myself to a nicer dinner, I can but won't go crazy. As my running is also increasing in distance and intensity I don't think the odd cake will kill me either. 

I actually don't fancy too much of what I used to have, a lot of this diet is about moderation. I have the Lindt Lindor chocolates, one or two of those a day won't make me obese so why not treat myself to them, just no need to eat a whole family bag of revels in one sitting (I actually could but I won't!)! 

 

I'd be interested to hear if any of you have also been on a diet and how you incorporated it into your life after the actual diet ended. Or do people just stay on one lifelong diet? That seems a little dull. 

I'm sure I'll be writing more about how I get on but for now I'm going to enjoy the weekend ahead and especially my trip to Prezzo with the girls from work on Friday! Pizza & Rose here we come!  

Diet Disappointment

I’ve been on a Juice+ Complete diet for the past 4 weeks. This consists of a protein shake for breakfast with rice milk, fruit snack, another shake for lunch, raw veg snack in PM, less than 600 calorie meal containing no carbs & drinking 2/3 litres of water per day.
I’ve also been running except the last 10 days when I was unable to due to injury. I took some before photos & weighed myself using the boots BMI machine.
So today was the 4 week deadline.
I took my next phase photos & compared them to my initial ones, in my eyes no change although I can see a lose around the chest (I’ve barely got any so this is not an area I wanted to lose it!).
I thought I’d check out the weight situation anyway & see so off to Boots I went before work.
I’ve lost 7lbs & 10% of my body fat. This wasn’t as much as I would have liked especially because I’ve really been trying so much.
So I have another 3 weeks to go until my birthday & I’ll be continuing the Juice+ for two weeks then doing a final week of slim fast. I’d really like to have lost a stone in total so need to work really hard for the next 3 weeks.
Thankfully I’m back running so that will certainly help.
I’ve got a very small dress to wear as one of my birthday outfits so have to get toned to wear that for sure!

Watch this space & feel free to spur me on in anyway.