Crafts and Life

Breakfast – Seeded bread, butter and marmalade

Lunch – Cross & Blackwell Winter Vegetable soup with seeded bread

Dinner – Chilli and rice

Snacks – Mandarin orange, Yokebe

Supper – Ryvita and cheese

Drinks – 500 ml water x 1, 400 ml tea with milk x 5

I stayed in bed a bit longer than I would have liked as I am full of a cold/bug but still got up around 10.00 ish, had my water and tablets, started my first tea around 11.15 and at the same time had my breakfast. More tea during the day and at the moment I seem to be needing to eat something every 2 – 4 hours, I hope this settles soon as it is a little disconcerting!

Weight 22 st 6.25 lb (down on yesterday and down on the weight I was before the weekend away!)

DAY TEN

Key Theme: HOPE

PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS

Once you have stayed off the Feast or Famine Cycle for a period of time— your body knows how much time as long as you keep eating very well and on time— you will begin a gradual, irregular descent on the scale. Some people seem to be able to lose steadily at a clip of a few pounds a month overall. Most are not so predictable, losing nothing for two months, gaining the next month then suddenly going down eight pounds the month after that. Remember that no weight loss will happen if you stay on the Cycle so be persistent in eating well and staying tune in to your hunger and fullness signals. Some bodies are more resistant to change, and the wait to start losing is sometimes long— up to twelve months for some very famine sensitive ones. As long as they are securely off the Feast or Famine Cycle, the challenge for them is to stick to the basics and not get sloppy. If there is a long wait, you must wait. What else can you do? Want to go back to dieting?

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words— wait and hope.” Alexandre Dumas

Food for Thought: Permanent weight loss is slow, period.

Antonello, Jean. Naturally Thin: Lasting Weight Loss without Dieting . Heartland Book Company. Kindle Edition.