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The Chemical Diet Dew and I are taking the plunge and are going to do the chemical diet in preparation for our holiday in September. Here are the details... Day One Breakfast Black tea/coffee 1/2 grapefruit 1 slice of toast 2tsp peanut butter Lunch 4oz tuna 1 slice of toast Black tea/coffee Dinner 3oz cold meat 1 cup of string beans 4oz beetroot 1 small apple 4oz vanilla ice cream Day Two Breakfast Black tea/coffee 1/2 banana 1 slice of toast 1 egg Lunch 4oz cottage cheese 5 saltine crackers Black tea/coffee Dinner 2 hot dogs 4oz broccoli 2oz carrots 1/2 banana 4oz vanilla ice cream Day Three Breakfast Black tea/coffee 1 small apple 5 saltine crackers slice cheddar cheese Lunch 1 HB egg 1 slice of toast Black tea/coffee Dinner 4oz tuna 4oz beetroot 4oz cauliflower 1/2 small honeydew melon 4oz vanilla ice cream So here we are at the end of day one. I'll give you a quick run-down of how today has gone. Breakfast I don't like tea or coffee, but when I do drink it I always have plenty of milk and sugar. Not today though, it had to be black. Yuck! I'm also not keen on peanut butter but 2 teaspoons wasn't going to kill me. By the end of breakfast I was glad the worst part of the diet was out of the way. Lunch Lunch was rushed as we were going to the cinema and didn't have long to get ready. We'd left it until the last minute to eat because we weren't hungry after having breakfast quite late. The tuna went down nicely, as did the toast. The coffee and water was a struggle and my stomach felt like a washing machine afterwards. Still, the film was OK and I only spent 30 minutes of it dying for the loo! Dinner Definitely the best meal of the day, and I was really ready for it by the time it came around. It was also surprisingly filling; I was feeling full as I ate the apple and still had the ice cream to go. It's nearing bedtime now, and I'm starting to feel a little peckish again. I'd normally have some supper but it's not in the diet, so tough cookies (hmmm, cookies...). No chocolate, yoghurt, biscuits, not even a small alcoholic beverage (not even for medicinal purposes). Ah well! Let's see how I feel in the morning. Day two in the chemical diet house. Breakfast was an improvement on yesterday, with an interesting mix of banana and egg to go with the toast. The coffee was still awful, but I'm getting used to it. Lunch was inadequate, with only 5 Ritz crackers and some cottage cheese to rid me of the taste of the black coffee. Damn, maybe I'm not getting used to it after all. Strangely, the hunger subsided as the afternoon went on. Maybe it had something to do with having other things on my mind. Dinner was actually enjoyable, especially the hot dogs. Banana and ice cream also made for a nice dessert (and no coffee in sight)! Again, coming up to bedtime and the hunger pangs are coming back. I feel like Alex the lion from Madagascar when he starts seeing steaks. Hmmm, steak... *licks lips* Last day tomorrow! Day Three - The Final Countdown Breakfast Coffee: Yuck. Still. Apple: OK. Crackers & cheese: Yum! Still got that washing machine stomach though. There's something not right about having 3 drinks (~0.75L) before 9am. Lunch Dew hard boiled the eggs last night, and made toast this morning, wrapped it in aluminium foil and we took it to work for lunch. Hard boiled egg: Nice enough. Toast: Rubbery. Not so nice. Coffee: Yuck. Still. 2 glasses of water: Washing machine. Dinner Tuna: Nice. Beetroot: Nice. Cauli: Nice. Melon: Nice! Ice cream: Nice... :) Altogether a, er, nice final meal to round off the 3 days of dieting! Now this diet is referred to as the 'chemical diet', being chemically proven to do stuff to help you lose weight, but personally I'm sceptical (as you probably guessed I would be), so I decided to do some searching around to find out how the chemical diet works. Cue about an hour of reading about various food combinations, diets, but nothing concrete saying how these foods combine to do what they do. (In fact, as I suspected, more people point out that it's just another way of limiting your calorie intake, and if you take in less calories than you burn then you will lose weight). So as I'm engrossed in surfing for the facts, the subject of our upcoming holiday came up, and Dew asked what we needed to put on the shopping list for tomorrow. And what will we have for breakfast in the morning? With all this stuff going round in my head I started poking round the cupboards to see what was missing, and trying to think about what we might need from the shop. Milk, bread, *picks up almost empty bag of nuts & raisins*, we need nuts & raisins, cheese, *eats a couple of nuts*, water, stir fry?, chicken?, *takes nuts into lounge*, does this diet really work on calories? What do we still need to work out before the holiday? *eats some raisins*. "What are you doing?" That was the question that broke me out of my little trance with the shocking realisation that, with only 90 minutes left before midnight, the official end of the diet, and with only one glass of water still to drink (per the instructions), I had 'cheated'. I absent-mindedly ate a couple of handfuls of nuts and raisins! Argh! Dew and I had been chatting about various things and both of us completely failed to realise that I'd picked up the nuts from the cupboard, brought them through to the lounge and sat there eating them in front of her for about 2 minutes before it clicked. So Dew says I've "failed", and I guess I have in a way. In my defense, it was only a few nuts and technically we'd finished the food anyway, so... Ah bugger. :) Let's see what weigh-in says tomorrow. If I've put weight on I'm blaming the nuts. The results are in... I got weighed on Sunday morning before starting the diet, and again this morning exactly 3 days later. Result: 2.5kg lost! Now whether I could've lost that just by eating less is a different matter, but definitely shows that this diet made me take in less calories than I need. ;) |
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