In the previous post “Making my way back”, I was saying I need to rethink my approach and adjust the way I’m dieting. To this end I’ve been investigating the new CSIRO diet plan. Basically, the CSIRO have released a new FastStart Diet based on their research findings (the CSIRO are a great bunch). It seems the optimum diet is to use the ‘quickstart’ method favoured by companies like UltraSlim, and UtraFast. This involves meal replacements, i.e. shakes, or soups, three times a day for three weeks. This is supplemented by 2 – 3 cups of vegetables and 3 – 5 serves of fruit. By the way, if you follow their full 12 week diet plan they actually repay the initial $199 cost!
I’m quite inclined to follow this, at least in principle, tho perhaps, not fully. They have menus and recipes users can follow consisting of a variety of foods that look really tasty… but, as good as they look, I’m not eating them. I feel my resolve isn’t strong enough to work on that sort of regime yet so I’ll wait and follow the diet plan I’ll be getting from ‘Circle of Care’ the group doing the operation, and I hope to have had the operation before the 12 weeks are up. Hopefully after this is all over I’ll be able to eat properly *and* have lost a lot of this excess weight.
Anyway, from now on, well for the next few weeks at least, I’m going to be eating those three meal substitutes per day, but without the menu suggestions the CSIRO make. Instead I’ll be eating Cruskits and Tuna for morning and afternoon snacks. I’ll add crudites (or a small salad) with the evening meal to add vitamins, carbs and of course ‘bulk’ and see how we go. I really need to do something because the weight loss has truly plateaued and it’s irritating.
I’m trying not to get hyper-focused on food and dieting but do need to make sure I stick to the new regime, at least for the next month, because I need to lose those first 10 kilos and, theoretically, should have got there by the end of August. Can’t see that happening, but maybe in the next two weeks I’ll be a lot closer than I am now. We live in hope!
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