I'm half way through the diet! For some reason every time I say this the song "Living on a Prayer" comes into my head. Well yes Bon Jovi I am half way there, and maybe it is someones prayer getting me through. I don't know what it is but I never ever thought I would go 6 hours without biting into something, let alone 6 weeks. I remember one ooccasion when I was on Weight Watchers my old flatmate Greg had a Terry's chocolate orange and I was so angry with him that he wouldn't share it with me. Upon reflection I can see he was trying to help. But at the time I thought he and anyone sacrificing me of my main man Terry were evil! A few people have asked me how I'm doing it. They've said they had always tried to behave themselves and then spoilt it by giving in to something. And as I said, give me a terry's chocolate orange and I wouldn't have cared that I'd been good all week. I think thats the idea of this diet though. It's a complete detox, you know how you sometimes say "it's all or nothing", I think that's what I'm doing. I've had to sacrifice absolute everything in order to retrain myself into eating healthy. I'm not saying that everyone needs to do this, but for me personally I think I have had to do this in order to have a fresh start. Having three milkshakes a day, no snacks, nothing in-between and knowing there is no way around it will change my way of eating when I start afresh. Having got used to a strict way of having something three times a day, will mean I will be used to going for three meals a day and not thinking to snack in between. Before I ate snacks because I was bored, or they were there, not because I was hungry. That is why this is a kickstart to a healthier lifestyle. It has made me completely rethink about what I was eating before, and how much it affected me. Now I have so much more energy and my skin feels so much better. I'll not want to go ruin it for myself. I'm not saying I'm not going to have treat days, because you deserve them every once and a while. But i'll have to slog my behind to the swimming pool or the gym to work it off if I do. And it will have to be worth it.
This week I lost another 3lbs. I now have 26lb off me and i'm 2lb away from 2 stone. If I lose 3 every week for the next 6 weeks I will have lost over three stone on the milkshakes alone. I have hoped to lose 4 stone on my diet, but not on the shakes alone. I aimed to lose 3 on the shakes, and then another 1 stone when eating healthy and exercising. Sorry if this sounds confusing. Y'know sometimes you're thinking out loud and it makes sense to you? Anyway, I'm 6 weeks in and 26 pounds off me all in that time!! Who would have thought? The juice has definately been worth the squeeze. I've read a few places that ice cold water helps with burning calories so it's ice ice baby all up in my freezer. Another thing I realised that when I have finished this is I'm going to have to start buying food/condiments etc all at once which might be expensive. So i've started every week buying little things like spices/granola so much at a time, so that I won't have to go all out. Although this time I've been looking at the back of things and checking for the healthier options. It's actually nice to be in Sainsbury's again and doing normal shopping as there is only so much tea you can try. I am completely over my negative mood from the weekend. The next day I felt a bit silly, and the weigh in definately helped! As I've said, I decided to do this, no one forced me too. I have so much support on this. I think this song is in order. And another positive is, I have less time left than I have to do. The last few laps people. I can do this! Go Elton.
Tonight I cooked again! As I said before when I cooked for Jeff's birthday I had really missed it and it was a good excuse. My friend Katherine was coming round, she lives in Kingston so we only see each other on nights out and never get chatting properly, so it was good to have her over for a proper catch up. I made a chicken casserole type of thing that you make in the slow cooker. I love the thing, not as much as my mother who has probably painted and giving it a name. It was nice to get chopping and picking something to cook and pretending to be Jamie for a bit. Only thing was I had to get my lovely assistant Jess to taste it for me as I couldn't. Its funny cooking something you can't taste. She seemed to enjoy it so hoping it was ok! I got a little cheeky sponge cake because it was on offer, but that was more so I could get a high off the smell! It smelt devine. And that was enough for me. It was lovely to have Katherine over, she is working in a similar field to me so it was really nice to get some good advice from her, she gave me great tips and was really kind with them. It was worth slaving over a hot stove for! Well actually I didn't. As I put it all in a slow cooker and let it do its thang. They really are great! It's amazing how tender the chicken comes out. Oh god, I'm my mum!
Moving on. Kat felt really bad that I was cooking for her and having my chicken shake. She kept asking how I could do that, and my housemates found it strange too. I guess if I was in their position I would too, but thinking about it I think I'm just in the right mindset. It was so worth mentally preparing for it as I just don't bat an eyelid anymore. I know that I have shakes, and other people eat. I really recommend anyone trying it to mentally prepare it for it. As I said I never thought I'd be like this, I would've laughed at you while letting terry's choc orange fall out of my mouth. But I'm in a great mind frame where I just know what I want and this is how to get it. Maybe I've listened to too much Beyonce empowering songs and it taught me to be strict. Maybe it was putting the Michelle Obama poster beside my bed to help me think "what would Michelle do?" when being lazy. Maybe it's that every catholic in Derry is saying a prayer for me to get through it. Whatever it is it's keeping me going. Jon Bon Jovi said it, i'm half way there. Let's get this next stone off you sassy shakes!
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