So my first week of LL is drawing to a close. When I put my jeans on this morning (I haven't worn them since Saturday - Day 1) they felt a little looser than they were, which gave me a little boost. It would probably be a 'warm fuzzy' as my mum was going on about last night. Warm fuzzies and prickly nasties she was saying, apparently it's from the LL book she received but on Wednesday the lady didn't have enough for everyone so I said she could post mine. Maybe I will receive it today or tomorrow.
Seven days of LL and what have I learnt? Let me see...
- The shaker/sippie cup you get given when you start could well put you off the diet for good. I've come to the conclusion that nothing tastes good when you make and drink it form the suppie cup. It some how mixes the smell of a perfectly good soup with a stinky, clingy plastic smell and the result is very unpleasant. Cups and bowls of normal folk are the way forward. And don't even get me started on how shit your 'shaken' milkshake will be. Lump city will prevail, which brings me on to my next point...
- Whisks are everything. I carry a little whisk around in my bag now, Mr Whiskie I call it. Whisk that bitch in to submission. The lumps will go and when they do you have have a lovely 'creamy' milkshake that is infinitely better that the lumpy one. I promise! Just keep whisking! Forks, spoons, shakers, big ass electronic whisk don't work.
- You will pee A LOT but drinking the water isn't that hard because you will start to get a horrible taste in your mouth and it will be quite dry, so you sorta feel as if you want to drink more anyway.
- Water flavouring helps make water more appetising. It is genuinely very nice. Fruits of the Forest tastes just like Robinsons Summer Fruit.
- A new flavour or bar is as exciting as Gok Wan coming to Southampton. Peanut is the BEST! Lemon and toffee are not so good.
- Thai Chilli soup taste neither thai nor chilli. Very dissappointing.
- Foodpacks at work are not as much of a problem as I thought it would be.
- Savoury drinks are my saviour. They should be called savioury drinks. I think they are delicious and they really fill a gap. So lovely and warm and delicious.
- I still miss dinners - but not because I am hungry. I think it's because it's ingrained in me to think 'Ah, just get home and have a nice dinner'. The dinner involves sitting down with my family and watching TV and so is relaxing, so I guess it's not really the food I look forward to but somehow my brain has decided to think it is. I still like having my soup when I get in. It's still nice.
- Once you get on your abstience horse, it's not that hard. You won't want to give up because (a) you worked damn hard to get in to ketosis and one little bite will fuck it up (b) putting conventional food anywhere near you will seem alien (c) you're not actually hungry so it gives you a chance to think 'Why am I doing this? Is this really the thing I want to do?' (not that I have got in that situation but when I think about cheese, chips, pasta etc that is what I think I think to myself).
- Cheesy as it is, that shit about the wall is true. You get to the top of your wall and everything seems rosy. You just get a boost of energy. I wake up in the morning now and bounce out of bed. Don't even feel tired. No headaches, no lethagy, okay maybe some irregularness of the womanly area but hey, I don't feel bad.
So that's it for the time being I think. I will let you know if I think of anything different.
Ta ta!
