Hi, it's going okay at the moment,
Well weekends are usually my problem, especially not eating with my family when they are having treats, but we did go to a cafe today and I just had a coffee and I forgo my usual treat. And that went okay.
So if I can do it once, I can do it again. i have been to cafes twice in 2 days, watched others eat and just had a drink instead. I thought I wouldn't be able to do it without feeling really hard done by, but I found just drinking was enough to feel involved.
I know I'm in ketosis I'm not hungry and I can forgo treats. I even made myself not have a bar early in the day, twice today because I know I will want to eat one slowly throughout this evening, so I will save it for later.
Forgoing pleasure and deferring it to later is not one of my strong points, so feel vaguely impressed I had some self control!
I also read the s&s booklet on their site and it was talking about needing to have a strong mind and a strong will to do the plan and get into and stay in ketosis. It's helped to focus my mind *
That and I know that doing this for 3 days is good, and doing it for 6 weeks and losing over a stone is great but not getting complacent has always been my problem,
the last time I did this seriously, it took over 20 weeks, so at the moment I realise that if I actually want to get in a normal range I need to concentrate on this for the next 5-6 months & do the refeed properly.
When I lost it before I fell pregnant did quite well, but put on loads during the very stressful first year of motherhood, so I didn't refeed.
I don't want to look to far ahead, but I am committed to doing this now, at least 140 days of trying to manage my eating with a Vlcd. So far so good, but aware I have 137 days of this journey left =)