Fast Forward – reflection & lessons learnt

 

Having had time to reflect on Fast Forward I have come up with a few lessons that I learnt from it and things that I intend to change…

 

• Portion sizes – it as made me realise that maybe my portion sizes have been too big. Although full of free foods I did used to have a fair bit. This as made me realize that maybe I don’t need so much. The FF portions are tiny and defiantly not enough to fill me up. I think I need to aim for somewhere in the middle.
• Water – This is something I started doing a few weeks ages ago as part of 777 but continued throughout FF as its also recommended for the FF plan. The aim is to have 1.5litres of water each day. I have been aiming for 2 litres and I can definitely see the positive effects.
• Variety – I think too often we forget just what foods are out there. This week I have been really restricted in just what food choices I can make. After a few days I really got bored of the same foods. Equally I realized I tend to snack on the same fruits all the time, just because it’s easy or cheap. It as made me look forward to all the lush syn free Slimming World meals that are available. I will now make more effort to try and vary what I am eating. Whether this be the meals, fruit or snacks.
• Don’t skip meals – only been able to eat little and often as made me realize I need to stick to this in future and try not to skip meals or I am likely to feel hungrier and eat more than I need to.
• Make time for breakfast – Due to not been a morning persona and working a lot I tend to grab and go on breakfast but I am going to make more effort to have a proper breakfast. If I don’t have time before work I will make sure that I take something with me
• Determination& focus – definitely the key to success! To get what you want, you need to be clear about your aims and go for it without letting anything get in your way.

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So, yesterday I was gutted! I had done Fast Forward and only lost 2lb! ALthough I did get my 5 1/2stone award it was overshadowed by how gutted I felt. However I have had time to think about it and I have looked back over my weigh in record. Last week after 3 days on FF I lost 3 1/2 lb, this week 2lb. SO really from 10days I have lost 5 1/2lb. Now for the last few month I have struggled to loose, as I have had tiny losses, maintains or gains so haven’t made much progress. This 5 1/2lb over the last fortnight is more progress in a fortnight that in the 3 months since beginning of February. Looking at it like that it seems much more positive. I am still not feeling great (especially after reading something this aft that seemed like someone gloating/a bit of a dig) but I can;t let it get me down. I have 6lb to go until target and I really wanna get it asap. I just need to up my game, try anything and everything to find something that works and keep going.

This week I am going to try and keep my syns around the 7 mark where possible and have much more speed/superfree. I am also going to act on my lessons above. So today (an Extra Easy day)I had breakfast of hifi light and a banana (usually it would have just been the hifi and a fizzy drink). Lunch was a pasta pot at work, I did want salad with it but none was available 😦 . And in the interest of trying something new I had pizza chicken…it was lush! I increased the amount of superfree that I would have usually had with this type of meal and halved the amount of actifry chips that I would have normally had. It was so nice! FF as really made me appreciate proper food again! So far today I have had 6.5 syns (1.5 for a options hot choc, 3 for pasta sauce at work, 1 for tiny amount of extra virgin olive oil, and 1 for low fat salad cream). I am absolutley stuffed! If i get the munchies later I have strawberries on standby!

Fast Forward day 10 & weigh in

 

It’s the last day on Fast Forward – Yippee!! I woke up still feeling bloated, I have felt like this for a few days now. Hence the reason I changed things around to avoid bread and fizzy drinks and have increased my water intake even more. As soon as I got up this morning Is was naughty and scales hopped again. I think it’s because I am so wound up by what the scales have been saying despite trying so hard. Anyways they still haven’t budged and are showing a 1lb loss. I really hope is just bloating and my scales. Am hoping its just my scales ,think the hubby is too as he’s started his diet at the same time and he says he’s only lost a lb ye made loads of changes. I will be gutted if the Slimming World scales say that later today after trying so hard on Fast Forward.

I tried to vary things for breakfast and actually made an effort to not just grab something on the go. So this morning I had weetabix and skimmed milk. It’s a busy day at work moving things again, so plenty of body magic! By mid morning though I was hungry and ended up having a Satsuma. Lunch is a repeat of me weighing a jacket potato from the canteen and having it with tuna & sweetcorn. As I write this I am feeling rather hungry and my stomach is making random noises screaming at me to feed it. At least it’s the last day of FF today! I still need to think and plan carefully what post weigh in treats I want. Although if it’s only a small loss I probably wont allow myself any treats! I want something nice that I haven’t been able to eat over the last 10 days, but something that is low in syns to stay on plan.

Evening update

So weigh in didn’t exactly go as well as I had hoped. I lost 2lb. Yeah I know that’s a loss, and on a normal week I would be more than happy with that. However considering the fact I have followed Fast Forward for the last 10 days, I have been 100% on it too, I was gutted. I had heard that the average loss is 4-7lb…and I lost 2! Although the loss meant I got my 5 1/2st award it was kinda overshadowed by how gutted I felt.

Just befpre weigh in I had got weighed at home, which showed a similar result. I needed to call to the shop and ended up buying lots of chocolate…and I mean lots…1 large Cadbury creations jelly bean bar, 1 cadbury creations cookie bar, 1 large Cadbury oreo bar and a teasers bar! Yup a lot of chocolate! Oh and a low cal pasta salad. SO I got weighed and straight away I was hungry and craving proper food after following fast forward. I tried to be naught…I ate the pasta! Lol A bit after I did eat the teasers bar which was the best option from the rest (9 syns). The hubby as inherited the rest! Yup, I tried been naughty because I felt crap but even then I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I guess since joining slimming world my mindset really as changed! By the time I got home after a training session for the voluntary work with SJA I was hungry so we stopped off at the Chinese. I ended up sharing a chow mein with my hubby (I’m guestimating 5 syns for my share).

Tomorrow I a fresh start. I will be back on the normal Slimming World plan choosing between Extra Easy and Green days but trying to have minimal syns t avoid a gain following such a restrictive time on Fast Forward. Post weigh blow out is done and dusted and I will get back on it. After all I have 6lb to target I would hate to throw it all away now.

Fast Forward day 9

Woohoo the penultimate day, I have survived! I have come to realize that the hard part about this isn’t so much the small portions…it’s the lack of variety, and becoming bored with the food as well as psychologically knowing I can not have what I want. It goes back to the whole ‘the more you can’t have something, the more you want it’. The last few days in particular have been hard but now its just tomorrow and then weigh in tomorrow evening and it’s done. I set myself that challenge and I can honestly say I have stuck to it 100%, and no matter what the outcome I am proud of myself for actually sticking with it even when the going got tough! Although I scale hopped again today (yeah I know, bad habit) and although it shows a loss it wasn’t showing a great one. We shall see what tomorrows official weigh in at Slimming World says.

This morning was fruit for breakfast again (melon, strawberries, kiwi and banana) which really filled me up. Lunch was the tuna jacket option (you may remember me explaining this in a blog entry a few days ago) It was the same issue of having to take weighing scales to work to weigh out the jacket potato! That really is how strict I have been on this. When Slimming World say Fast Forward is a food optimising corset they really do mean it! This is another reason that I am glad that I have stuck with this, it as really renewed my enthusiasm for normal food. I will never take food optimising meals for granted again! The issue I have now is deciding what to eat on Thursday when I can go back to proper food (although I will still be cutting down sys and portions to reinforce these last few weeks on FF).

Tea tonight was the micro meal option (this is what I mean about lack of variety on FF – especially with the 8 unit meals). Tonight it was a low calorie cottage pie served with loads of green beans with salt & pepper (for some reason I have developed a taste for salt & pepper on veg ever since my doctor told me I needed to increase my salt intake as I have low blood pressure which causes fainting episodes). As I write today’s blog I am currently curled up on the sofa with my laptop and a cup of highlights hot chocolate (my final 1 unit snack for the day). Although I have liked having my evening hot chocolates I cant wait to get back to having a good ol’ cuppa tea (no milk on FF!)

I am still feeling really bloated today again (that’s been for the last 4 days now, the downside of having so much bread which I don’t normally eat at all). I am wondering if that may be the reason for the scales not been very nice. Theres nothing I can really do about it now though. I have had no bread of fizzy drinks today and I will do the same tomorrow in a last ditch attempt to get more lbs off tomorrow.

9 days down

1 day left!

Roll on weigh in…

Fast Forward day 8

It’s the final stretch now of Fast Forward, the home run! It’s day 8 and I have until Wednesday to go. The end is in sight! I really started to struggle over the weekend, I think more so because I had time to relax and think about food. This goes back to what I said right at the beginning of this challenge, that I believed it to be psychological and requiring mind over matter. I also struggled because of social situations I found my self in (nights out and a day out with the hubby). I did start to feel really guilty yesterday that we had gone out for the day and were avoiding little coffee shops. If that day out had been on a ‘normal’ day after our walk we would have stopped off for lunch. Sunday evening is always take away night in our house too as it’s the only night of the week we can guarantee we will be off together. Fortunately the hubby is been supportive also put himself on a diet this week.

I had a sneaky peak on the scales this morning. Not great really. They show I have lost 1/2lb. Which following a week on Fast Forward isn’t really anything. I am hoping that’s normal fluctuations Also the fact I seem to be getting bloated from so much bread (you can imagine the results and lack of certain activities, TMI I know lol), even though I am drinking much more than the suggested amount of water on FF. I’m still going to see this out through until Wednesday evening when I jump on the Slimming World scales. I the mean time I think I am going to avoid bread Tuesday and Wednesday and make sure I stick to the unit options that do not have any bread at all. Hopefully this will be possible.

I had been awake quiet a lot of the night with toothache so was quiet tired when I had to get up for work. To start the day I had 2 glasses of water. I had planned on having an apple but just couldn’t eat it due to toothache. As soon as I got to work there was no time to think about food through. I did get to a challenging point mid morning when I had to attend a meeting/ presentation where there were bacon sandwiches and lots of fruit on offer and I had to resist. I even had to resist this huge plate of strawberries! If this as been a normal Slimming World day I could have joined in and eaten the melon, bananas, strawberries and grapes on offer. Fortunately I resisted and got through to lunchtime, which were a chicken sandwich and a banana. Not much, but enough to put me on.

Due to a late finish at work I didn’t have time to grab tea before heading off to cadets, as I was only home 5 minutes. Just enough time to pick up a highlights hot chocolate sachet and a bag of skips (a 1 unit and a 2 unit FF snack). By the time I got home it was quite late and I was definitely ready for tea, which was a low calorie pasta micro meal and carrots.

Before having tea I made the mistake of scale hopping again thanks to this mornings result. Not good. It showed just half a pound off! Gutted. This is day of Fast Forward! You hear of people losing around 5lb at least. These challenge as been really hard and I have stuck to it 100% and even deprived myself in social occasions and turned things down. To loose just that would be a real kick in the teeth. I know that’s not the weigh in that counts though. But it’s just made me feel really down about this now. A tiny loss like that just isn’t worth the 10days I will have out myself through for this! Really need a pick me up now.

Fast Forward day 7

I have now completed a full week on Fast forward and I am now on the home run until weigh in on Wednesday. The weekend as proven to be quiet difficult for a few reasons. Firstly that I have had time to think about food, or lack of food. Secondly because I have done a fair bit of body magic so I have worked up an appetite and thirdly because the husband as been at home so I have had to think about food for both of us.

 

Despite a late night last night where we headed off to watch a local band (where I stayed on the diet coke!) it was an early start to the day today to spend the day in the Peak District. Breakfast was a few pieces of fruit. I love hill walking but it isn’t really something my hubby as ever done so this was his first experience. I usually I go out walking with my parents or friends. His first reaction when we parked up in Castleton was one of ‘seriously, you expect me to walk up that!’ You may have read my previous posts where I have mentioned that my hubby as recently put himself on a pre-holiday diet and joined a gym due to the holiday countdown so this was part of getting him involved in fitness activities. We had a fab day walking up Mam Tor and the surrounding area. A good 3.5 hours of body magic! Although the day started dry it started raining about half way through but we did not let that spoil our fun and even stopped to eat our lunches in the rain at the top of Mam Tor. We had plenty of fun walking and the hubby loved exploring the caves at Odlin mine. The best part…be enjoyed it and is up for doing it again 🙂

By the time we headed home in the late afternoon I really was feeling the hunger. I only had 9 units left on Fast Forward though so knew I couldn’t have anything. I did have an hot chocolate to warm up (1 unit). I tried to occupy myself whilst the hubby caught up on football. BY the time I tucked into tea (a low calorie curry micro meal with carrots and an apple) I was ready for it. So much so that I was still hungry when I finished. As I write this I am still quiet hungry and no units left so I can see an early night coming on. A week into Fast Forward I am starting to feel it now. I am trying to keep motivated by focusing on weigh day ad how much I really want to get to target. I am really hoping this as been worth it as I have really started struggling on this plan.

3 days to go…

Fast Forward day 6

Day 6 on Fast Forward began in the same hectic way that most of this week as done. In relation to following Fast Forward it really is helping to been so busy so I don’t have much time to think about food. Definitely mind over matter. I did not have time to eat breakfast. I did take fruit but never ate it. Instead I go straight on with this morning’s task… packing up and moving lots of heavy boxes ready for the room move. 3 hours later I headed home. Although I had to go into work on a day off at least it was body magic so doing me some good!

By the time I got home I was rather hungry (my own fault for not eating breakfast!) I couldn’t wait to tuck into beans on toast followed by a Satsuma. After this it’s been basically just a chill out day spending time with my hubby, catching up on tv and just generally relaxing after the week that I have had so not much really to report today!

Evening meal was the 8 unit pasta option tonight. Basically it was pasta, onions, mushrooms, peppers and tomatoes but the usual FF small portion. Surprisingly for the small portion I was filled up. I really am learning on this FF journey that I really should cut down my usual portion sizes.

I’m off out with the hubby to watch a local band this evening so a case of satisfying myself with a diet coke again! First though I had time for my remaining FF meal – toasted bagel, quark & cherry tomatoes. The hubby had one too, although a bigger portion than me, and he also enjoyed it. Think he is finally getting converted to healthier versions of food.

I’m over half way through this journey now and the lack of variety is now started to get a bit boring and I am longing for a ‘proper meal’! I can’t wait to be able to cook up a syn free curry or diet coke chicken. Roll on Thursday evening! Although I will be learning from this and dishing up a smaller portion.

6 days (nearly) completed…

4 to go…

 

Follow Friday day 5

 

Day 5 of Fast Forward, the half way point. After today I have until Wednesday to go which is my next weigh in. Although the hard work wont stop there. In order to minimise the possibility of a gain the following week (due to this week and a half been very low calorie and so strict) I will be following the normal Slimming World plan but stricter than usual in order to ease back into it and protect any loss I may get next week. It’s going to be hard but will be worth it in the long run.

Breakfast today was a apple and a glass of water. Throughout the morning I drank water. This morning wasn’t as busy as some of the other mornings so I did start to feel a bit peckish but just tried to ignore it. Lunch was more fruit. This time it was melon, strawberries, banana and a kiwi with natural yogurt. I have to admit, just 30 minutes later I was hungry. I have a late finish at work too today so I can see it been an hard afternoon. This is really the first time since starting FF I can honestly say I have felt very hungry. I just need to remind myself that its just for 5 more days and that the results will be worth it.

I also need to call at the supermarket after work to buy the food I need for tea and for the weekend. Shopping whilst been hungry and trying to resist will be another challenge that I will have to overcome.

By the time I finished work I was rather hungry. The shopping trip wasn’t too bad, thankfully I knew exactly what I wanted The only issue was several of the things I needed to make up the 8 unit FF meals weren’t available. I think some are now discontinued. This means I can’t have those meals, which really limits the choice I have. So far that’s the worst part of FF!

Instead of the usual evening meal of a low calorie micro meal and veg I opted to make the chilli tonight, as I didn’t have to rush out. I was shocked by how little the portion was! It was fairly nice but very dry (it was made using just turkey mice, garlic, chilli powder, paprika, and onion). It should have also had kidney beans but I don’t like them. If I had been making chilli on Extra Easy I would have also had chopped tomatoes, peppers and baked beans. Because it was so dry I ended up adding soy sauce to the rice making for a rather strange mix! Despite the small portion it did seem to fill me up. Its made me think as it was less than half of the portion size I would usually have, although I would have bulked it out with lots of speed veg.

Although initially I felt full an hour later I was really hungry. Not good. This really is the first time since starting FF I can say I have felt like this. This could be because I opted to switch things around and only have a 1 unit snack for breakfast as I wanted to have a 5 unit light meal for supper due to the long day and staying awake until later. It may also be because I haven’t been as busy I have felt it more. At least I am half way through this journey. About 7pm I remembered I had not had the salad/veg unit today, so I made myself a small salad of salad leaves and cucumber with French dressing. Not much but it curbed the hunger.

Not having to rush out to my voluntary work or work extra meant time for body magic (yup, Friday night…that’s how I roll!). Tonight it was ‘Ab burn’ and ‘aerobic body sculpture’ and some sit ups…safe to say I ache! To keep my work outs varied I tend to record them of the Fitness tv channel on sky (free workouts for those of you who have access). Following that I was defiantly peckish so time for a snack of cheese on toast. To be honest it didn’t really fill the hole but was better than nothing.

Ow comes the torture. As soon as I have uploaded this I am getting changed and heading to the local as the hubby as decided were going for a drink. Translation…he drinks, I sit there nursing a diet coke fantasising about the vodka behind the bar!

That’s 5 days done, tomorrow is the weekend. I will be having to go into work in the morning to pack up my classroom ready for the big room move…plenty of body magic there! so that will keep me busy and stop me thinking about food. The rest of the weekend however will be a challenge!

Bring on day 6…

Fast Forward day 4

Day 4… bring it on!! Following last nights weigh in I am feeling quiet positive. Although I know it is going to get harder I am hoping the results will be worth it. I’m hoping last nights WI results are an indication of what to expect. If I can get a similar result next week I will be happy as it is a massive step up from the tiny losses and up and down and basically maintaining that I have been at for the last few months. I would love to get 3lb off as that would get me my next award (5 1/2 st) and into the next stone bracket. Hopefully been determined to get that result will keep me focused. At the moment although Fast Forward is hard in that it is so strict and anti-social I am not finding it too difficult due to been so busy and working loads. The challenge will be the weekend and I will be over half way through so I will probably be getting fed up of the same meals and lack of freedom. Also my hubby is not working this weekend so we would normally be off out for the day/meals out etc. This won’t be possible whilst on FF so it will also be challenging for my other half. We wont be able to have meals together and if out for the day everything will have to be prepared in advance and taken with us. If I can get through the weekend its on the home stretch then until weigh in Wednesday. Although that seems so far away at the moment!

It was such a busy start this morning! A glass of water before leaving the house, a can of sugar free red bull en route to work (an habit I really need to kick but it’s the sweet taste I enjoy when living of salad/veg on FF!). I had taken fruit to work to have for breakfast. The second I walked through the door my to do list tripled and I just did not have time for anything. So I got through the morning by drinking water at my desk. No time to feel hungry!

It really as been a busy and stressfull day at work today so I didn’t get chance to eat until lunch time. I had taken lots of fruit for breakfast & morning snacks but just did not have the time so it looks like they will be my evening snack or I may swap them for another snack of the same unit value depending how I feel later. For lunch I had a bagel, quark and cherry tomatoes followed by strawberries

By the time I got home I was fairly hungry, I’m guessing more due to not really having the time to eat, not because of Fast Forward. Tea was a low calorie micro meal (chicken pasta) and green beans followed by a apple. Another yummy tea that filled me up J

Now I have been doing FF a few days now I think I need to be careful to make sure I vary my meals to stop it getting repetitive. Although most evening meals will be the micro meal option I am going to try and keep those as varied as possible too.

Day 4 complete…Bring on day 5!

6 days to go!

Fast Forward day 3

So day 3 beckons which also happens to be weigh in day. I’m rather exited but also quiet nervous too. I’m hoping the scales move in the right direction. I’m fed up of maintains or gains when I have stuck to plan. It as been suggested by family and friends that perhaps I have reached my natural weight and should just stick to it. Part of me kinda sees where they come from in that this is really the smallest I have ever been and i’ve been stuck now for several months. Also, even prior to joining Slimming World at a size 22 I was the skinniest female in my family. But I set a target for a reason and I am determined to get to it! To reach that target I need to looses a further 11.5lb.

 

I never really eat or drink much on weigh in days, and I am guessing I am not the only one. I tend to stick to a hifi bar for breakfast, fruit as a mid morning snack and a jacket potato and fruit for lunch. After lunch I tend to only have sips of water and definitely no fizzy drinks after about 10am. Surely I’m not the only paranoid about these things or have strange weigh in rituals? I also make sure I always get weighed in leggings and a vest top each week so that I am in the same lightweight clothes, and I must aim to go to the loo first lol… strange the things that we do!

 

Breakfast today then was a glass of water, sugar free red bull and a banana. Nothing really exiting i’m afraid and trying to keep it light.

 

If you follow my twitter you may have noticed me getting rather stressed last night/this morning, that’s because I am a massive Take That fan. I had pre-ordered Mark Owen’s new solo album, which also gave access to pre-sale tour tickets if the album was purchased before a certain date (which I did). Anyways you were supposed to get an email with a pre-sale code on Tuesday evening to access the Wednesday morning pre-sale ahead of Friday’s general sale. So I waited and waited. Nothing others on twitter/Facebook had got there’s but I still had nothing. I was not happy! I figured it must be delayed with lots been sending out. I checked all my email accounts and junk folders. Nothing. So I emailed universal. No reply. I checked my emails early Wednesday morning. Still nothing. By this point I was frustrated and gutted that I therefore would probably would not get tickets as due to work I wouldn’t be able to access the internet for general sale. So as a last resort I figured I would ring Universal who I preordered the album from. Nearly 30 minutes on hold later (by which time I was ready to give up) I got through to a lovely man who sorted it all out for me. He gave me the link and code over the phone and emailed it through to me too. I never did receive that original email though! The it was a case of waiting until the on sale time. Cue constant refreshing on the link…an experience many people will know well! Fortunately once the site opened for ticket sales it was all relatively quick and stress free. Thanks to the nice man on the phone at universal I now have tickets to see Mark Owen in Sheffield J

 

This cold that I have shows no signs of vanishing and now I have a horrible sore throat and cough to go with it. Not good when my job involves so much talking. Worst thing is I can’t even have any soothers for my throat as they are normally syned and therefore I cant have them due to following the Fast Forward plan. Plenty of water it is then! Not good really when I try not to drink lots before weigh in!

 

It was interesting trying to sort lunch as I did not want any bread (another pre weigh in superstition) so I planned for the jacket potato option. This involved taking my kitchen scales to work to weigh the jacket I got from the canteen. I think the lady in the canteen took pity on me when I asked for just a jacket potato as I got one much bigger than usual. Sods law then that I had to take it back to my desk and weigh out the bit that I could have. The accompanying tuna, sweetcorn and salad leaves had all been weighed out at home. It’s a good job really that some of my colleagues I have also follow slimming world or I’d seem completely mad! So far today its pretty much just what I would normally have on a weigh in day so no feelings of hunger.

 

The Evening update

Well so far it’s paid off! I got a loss at weight in… 3.5lb off which is a very good loss for me! That’s from 3 days on the 777 challenge, 1 day on extra easy and 3 on fast forward. Straight after getting weighed I tucked into the sandwich in my packed lunch and had a drink of hot chocolate. I was definitely ready for it. This week’s loss now means that I need 1lb off to get my 5-½ stone award, 3lb off to get into the next ‘shoe size’ and 8lb to get to target. So a few things to aim for. Definitely hoping I will get the 5 1/2stone award next week. There is even a sticker at group with my name on it waiting for me 😉

 

Straight after group it was off to class training for St John Ambulance so it was a late finish. At least I had the crisps and chocolate to eat on the way home. I’m still not understanding how Fast Forward can work with crisps and chocolate, but at least it is working so far!

 

3 days down, 7 to go!

Fast Forward day 2

That’s day 2 of Fast Forward pretty much complete, so that’s 2 out of the 9 days competed! I have decided that to try and keep my blog as a true reflection as to how I am feeling as the hours/days progress on FF I am going to write these posts on my mobile as the day goes on and upload it on an evening.

As predicted me and mornings just did not happen. Not helped by the fact that I really wasn’t feeling too well (man flu!) and didn’t have a great nights sleep so I struggled to get home. Fortunatly I was having fruit for breakfast today so it was brekkie on the go! As soon as I got up I had a pint of water, an habit I have gotten into since the 777 challenge. Then it was a case of an apple and can of sugar free red bull en route to work. I did also plan on having 2 satsumas but due to been busy and not feeling hungry I have left these until later.

Lunch was a bagel topped with quark and cherry tomatoes followed by strawberries and washed down with a bottle of caffeine free diet coke. I did actually feel fairly full after the bagel but I know I wouldn’t have chance to eat again for a while so I ate the strawberries to keep me going. I really am starting to think that the key to this Fast Forward is psychological. Only 2 days in and I’m realising that maybe at times I eat because I can, not because I am genuinely hungry.

By 3pm I was feeling a bit peckish so had one of the satsumas before rushing to a meeting, still leaving one until later. I really don’t know if it’s because I have been so busy or due to having cold but I haven’t really felt too hungry at all today, I hope I am doing this right!

Evening meal was a low calorie convenience meal of cottage pie and green beans with an apple and a glass of water. This made for quiet a large portion and I felt absolutely stuffed afterwards (and still no sign of that Satsuma been eaten lol). It kinda made me think whether I was doing this right as I really haven’t been properly hungry at all today and from all the things I have read about FF people feel really hungry and in cases end up going to bed early because of it. So far in 2 days that’s not happened yet (although yesterdays celery incident wasn’t pleasant lol). The worst part of this evening was sat watching tv whilst the hubby ate pork & noodles followed by giant smarties cookies! And he was doing so well on his diet yesterday too. I think this is the hardest thing so far, having to have separate meals.

By about 7:30pm I was feeling peckish so the Satsuma finally got devoured whilst catching up on tv programmes I had recorded (Grimm mainly), whilst the hubby was out for the evening. I had planned to do some body magic this evening. However thanks to this dreaded cold which as got onto my chest and flared up the asthma I decided against it. I did manage some squats and sit ups though so better than nothing.

I was really looking forward to my evening snack which I saved for after completing some work I needed to get done. Tonight’s snack was a cup of Cadburys highlights hot chocolate with rich tea finger biscuits to dunk in…yummy! All whilst watching Vampire Diaries and the equally yummy Damon 😉

Throughout the day I have made sure that I have also drank plenty of water. So far I have had: 4 glasses of water and 2 500ml bottles in addition to the other drinks that I have had through the day (1 diet coke & 1 sugar free red bull oh and the hot chocolate)I will probably also have at least one more glass of water before bed. If not two.