Well it's finally arrived, I'm at goal and about to move on to refeed! It's been a journey of two parts (both slow, the second particularly so towards the end) but I've loved knowing that if I stuck to plan I would get there. It's exciting, and a bit scary! Okay, very scary.
Since I want something slow and specific for refeeding, my plan is to follow the Cambridge version, with a few minor adjustments of course. I've upped my protein over the last weeks of the diet, not quite to 810 all the time - but near enough. All along I've just omitted the milk allowance since I had no real urge for it, but the last 3 weeks have also seen the inclusion of almond milk without any damage on the scales.
In accordance with the CD plan, the next step will be to drop to 2 meal replacement products a day. I should also have a 150 kcal breakfast from a list supplied in the CD book (bought off eBay hurrah!), a salad lunch and a 400 kcal meal. In addition I can have 1/2 pint milk allowance or 150g of low fat yoghurt. Seems like an awful lot when I write it out - hope I'll manage it all. This should be 1000 kcal daily though, so not much of a leap from 810. I plan to stick to this for 2 weeks, then move up the next step.
Although I will be following the Cambridge refeed, I am developing plans for my eating post-refeed. The VLCD products have been great but I can't wait for proper healthy food (particularly more fruit and veg!) and I feel the way forward for me is 'clean' anti-inflammatory eating. I don't believe it's good to be too rigid, but my plan post-diet is to avoid processed foods as much as possible - sticking to basic untampered with foods. This means supermarket shopping will mainly be in the fruit, veg, meat and fish aisles - simple food prepared from scratch is the aim of the game. This isn't to say that I will never have a Chinese takeaway again I'll try to stick to a 90-10 rule (90% good, 10% naughty) though will probably average more of an 80-20 at best haha.
Since I want something slow and specific for refeeding, my plan is to follow the Cambridge version, with a few minor adjustments of course. I've upped my protein over the last weeks of the diet, not quite to 810 all the time - but near enough. All along I've just omitted the milk allowance since I had no real urge for it, but the last 3 weeks have also seen the inclusion of almond milk without any damage on the scales.
In accordance with the CD plan, the next step will be to drop to 2 meal replacement products a day. I should also have a 150 kcal breakfast from a list supplied in the CD book (bought off eBay hurrah!), a salad lunch and a 400 kcal meal. In addition I can have 1/2 pint milk allowance or 150g of low fat yoghurt. Seems like an awful lot when I write it out - hope I'll manage it all. This should be 1000 kcal daily though, so not much of a leap from 810. I plan to stick to this for 2 weeks, then move up the next step.
Although I will be following the Cambridge refeed, I am developing plans for my eating post-refeed. The VLCD products have been great but I can't wait for proper healthy food (particularly more fruit and veg!) and I feel the way forward for me is 'clean' anti-inflammatory eating. I don't believe it's good to be too rigid, but my plan post-diet is to avoid processed foods as much as possible - sticking to basic untampered with foods. This means supermarket shopping will mainly be in the fruit, veg, meat and fish aisles - simple food prepared from scratch is the aim of the game. This isn't to say that I will never have a Chinese takeaway again I'll try to stick to a 90-10 rule (90% good, 10% naughty) though will probably average more of an 80-20 at best haha.