I weighed myself today and I'm 13st 5.5 so in a month since stopping the maple syrup plan I've gained 3lbs! So with a month to go until I go away for a short break with NOTHING to fit me, I'm back to doing what I did four years ago when the weight dropped off me fast. This is what I did then and what I will be doing until the end of May.
BREAKFAST Slimfast (chocolate of course!) 223 calories Cup of GREEN TEA MID AM Chocolate Option Drink 40 calories Piece of fruit OR a museli bar OR a low fat yoghurt 100 calories LUNCH Tin of BAXTERS soup any varietyup to 300 calories cup of GREEN TEA MID PM as mid a.m. 140 calories
DINNER Any meal you want eaten off a smaller plate no more than 9 inches across and NOT piled up like a mountain up to 460 calories (so a weight watcher meal and some salad is one example) cup of GREEN TEA
MID EVENING as mid am and pm up to 140 calories
Doing the above four years ago WITHOUT exercise I lost 2st 8lbs in 12 weeks but I know it probably won't have the same rapid effect now. Still at least it's a plan where you're eating regularly and having the slimfast is more convenience than anything. If you're not running around like a mad woman in the morning sit down with some wholegrain cereal and fruit.
Don't be disheartened if you're struggling, you're so not alone. Get in touch if you need someone to talk to x.x.x
I just replied to someones message after being away from my blog for a while and told them i still weigh 13st 2.5. So I though I'd get on the scales to check what I weigh in the evening and I weight 13st 5.5! So I'll see what the scales say in the morning.
I stopped the maple syrup plan after a month because my teeth were hurting and I was getting stomach pains. I could only put it down to consuming lemon and lime juice day in day out and too much acidity.
Anyway I've got a month till i go away and literally nothing still fits me. So wish me luck (as I wish everyone else luck who's struggling).
....to not weigh myself for a week (I weigh myself every morning) and I was pleasantly surprised for it not to ahve any adverse effect on my weight. I was also challenged to take a step back from the maple syrup plan and again was pleasantly surprised. i STILL WEIGH 13ST 2.5LBS! But having accepted and completed the challenge I've decided to go back to my version of the maple syrup plan and focus on the up coming holidays. I don't know how I managed to get in and stay in a positve frame of mind but i am and its working for me!
I weighed myself first thing and I weighed 13 st 2.5lbs the same as yesterday. I'm in a really good postive frame of mind and if I could be in his frame of mind even being the weight I am now wouldn't bother me. I just hate the days where I'm in such a negative frame of mind that I beat myself up mentally and emotionally so much it feels like torture.
But I feel being in a positive frame of mind I can continue this gradual loss and loook forward to wearing all the beautiful clothes I have currently confined to the wardrobe.
...I'm absolutley amazed. I was away from last Thursday until yesterday evening and although I could have at a pinch carried on with the Maple syrup diet I decided to see what would happen if I came off it. And what happened............NOTHING!?!
i WEIGHED MYSELF THIS MORNING i AM EXACTLY THE SAME AS I WAS LAST WEEK 13st 2.5lbs; in fact I didn't believe the scales so I go back on and off again several times!
This is what puzzles me why sometimes when you just eat what you want you don't gain weight and why at other times you do? Totally baffles me. Whilst I was away I had some chocolate, I even had a several packets of crisps and I had a salad every day that had blue cheese (it was orange with the blue mould through it and totally delicious), egg, and mackeral and mayonnaise. And I was drinking decaffinated coffe with skimmed milk in and a cube of sugar each time.
So today I'm back home and want to see by doing the detox for the week if it makes a difference after not being on it for five days.
