The Eclectic Interweb

As many of you will have been bored to tears hearing… I’m on yet another diet. Doing ok so far… but with a long way to go.

One of my problems has been getting an attack of the munchies around the 5:00 p.m. or so… partly because it’s around then I’m getting dinner ready so have food all round me. Trouble is then I eat whatever *is* round me which does the diet no good at all.

However… I remembered a diet someone was raving about a while back called ‘The Kickstart Diet’. Basically it is similar to the ‘cabbage soup’ diet which simply told you to drink a soup made out of low calorie, low carb, low GI vegetables… and little else.

One of my online friends found the recipe for me (it’s two years old now) and off I went.

The basis is chicken stock… but where they reccomend using stock cubes I went the whole hog so to speak and made my own. Having made both the stock and the soup twice so far… I understand why they say use cubes. Ok it isn’t exactly 100% healthy… but you eat so much of the damn soup you could be spending all week doing nothing but making the basic stock. Cubes would be a lot faster. Not used them yet but I *am* considering it to see what it tastes like.

Does it work? Well yes and no. My diet is straightforward enough. Two meal replacements and a mostly veggie meal but with 250 gms or protein in the evening. The idea of the soup was to provide a ‘filler’ to stop me gobbling everything in sight when I get peckish. The soup contains so much water and so little carbs that it *can* be drunk in any amount. However, on Friday night I not only had my meal… I also had 2 li res of soup!!

Now in anyones book that’s a lot of soup. But even so I lost a half kilo that day. One downside is that I was up twice in the night with a bursting bladder! 🙂 so sleep and the soup don’t go together either.

The other downside is that Iwhile I *am* losing weight faster… I’m not shrinking my stomach, so last night… after running out of soup… I ate almost an entire head of celery to try to fill me. I also ended up drinking a cup of the mushroom soup I made the folks. Actually that soup was quite nice… I shredded the remains of some cooked chicken and added it in with some fresh lemon juice. Mmmm…

Errr… getting back on track here… I spent last night knocking up another batch of stock and soup using a slight variation on the theme so other people can have some if they want. It’s actually *very* tasty.

So… that’s what the soup is about… that’s where I am with the diet… and this is me off to get the kids away to school. More later?? Who knows… shopping day today! 😀