A day on the diet

I’m still wasting away on this diet, having lost 2 stone 4lb so far.  (A stone is 14lb, so that’s 32lb in total).  Only 8lb more to go before I hit my target of 11 stone, which will take me into the ‘healthy’ range of the BMI.

I’m losing between 1-2lbs a week, but that has been prolonged by the fact that I hit a plateau just after Christmas when I stayed around the 12 stone mark and spent six weeks dieting but seeing no change at all.  Fortunately, according to the garmin index body fat scale it then started to shift again in February, and I’m back on the regular loss of 1-2lbs a week.

I don’t know that I’ve managed to locate what makes this diet work.  It’s certainly not calorie counting, because I can eat as much as I like of certain foods, and we even get “oh, well, obviously you haven’t been eating enough,” as one of the standard pieces of advice for people who don’t lose weight in a week.  One of the rules of this diet is to eat often and not allow yourself to get hungry.

That suits me down to the ground.  I think the secret of this diet is some kind of combination of low-fat and food-combining.  But whatever it is, it results in meals that are big, tasty and filling, and no need to go without snacks.  I thought I’d show you a typical day, so you could see.  Bear in mind that I’m a vegetarian.  The lack of meat is not the diet’s fault but mine 🙂

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Mirrored from Alex Beecroft - Author of Gay Historical and Fantasy Fiction.