Well, it’s been 12 days since I began the Weight To Go system. I weighed myself this morning at 119.7kg — that’s a 2.3kg (5lb) loss over almost 2 weeks. And a total of 3kg lost this month. Very pleasing.
The programme is turning out to be much easier than I had expected, and I’m still finding the shakes filling and palatable, especially when mixing berries and/or bananas in with them. I’m not sure if it’s some secret ingredient in the shakes*, the simple fact of having the exact nutrients required to stave off hunger without adding too many calories, or the fact they’re so aerated by the blender, but I really feel no inclination to snack between meals.
In fact, I usually have to remind myself to have the afternoon shake as I often don’t feel hungry at all — but I make myself have it around 4pm, as it will be at least another 3 hours before dinner and I don’t want to find myself yearning for a snack. This is particularly an issue at my office, where all my colleagues seem to look for any excuse to run out to buy some doughnuts, pastries, bacon and sausage baguettes, or all manner of fried or sugary food for everyone at the drop of a hat. It’s a lovely sense of camaraderie, but a nightmare if you’re me.
A weak point for me (outside the office junkfood smorgasboard) is immediately after the evening meal. Perhaps I’ve unwittingly trained myself as some kind of Pavlovian Dog, but for some time I’ve started to crave a dessert/sweet the moment I’ve finished dinner — not even 30 minutes to an hour later. For a few nights I found myself finishing dinner at around 7:00pm and knowing that I’d need to have a shake later that evening — say around 9pm — but looking for something sweet in between, and raiding the cupboard. I now address this by having my evening shake either immediately after dinner or as soon as I feel that post-dinner craving. It works.
I’m not a strict adherent to the diet on good days, either, as I do add the occasional item to the shakes or meals (with the shakes it’s often fruit, and with meals it’s often bread to help with the soup or wet dinner cleanup) as well as alcohol, whether it be wine or beer. Though I’m naturally someone who rarely has more than 2 drinks in one sitting, regardless of whether it’s been a 2 years or 2 days since my last drink, so it’s not going to add immensely to my caloric intake.
Providing one can overcome the cost of the programme, I think this is something that one can continue over the long term. And that’s something I plan to do, finances permitting.
I’ll let you know how I get on.
* I really hope not, as it will make the eventual to normal meals extremely difficult. But a secret incredientia is unlikely: their ingredients page makes it pretty clear.
