YellowWatermelon
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I've read posts on various parts of this website for years, and now I'm doing Exante. I didn't want to join the Facebook groups, but I did want some record and interaction of what I'm doing and how I'm feeling, so here goes.
Weight at beginning: 76.6kg
Goal weight: 64kg
Height 1.65m
In 2014-5, I gained about 2 stone due to medication, and I struggled to lose it. In early 2015, I had a miscarriage, during which I ate chocolate for a week, and then I fell pregnant again. I was about 82 or 83kg at that point, which was the biggest I'd ever been. I was worried about being obese and having a baby, so my midwife referred me to Slimming World. I started it, lost a few kilos over the first few weeks, and then craving took over. So, I went back at the beginning of 2016, baby in arms, and at my heaviest ever weight - around 90kg or so.
Slimming World was great, I had to work hard at it, but the weight came off, slowly but surely. It felt like a lifestyle change rather than a diet. I was happy to be on it for life. After about six months or so, I was down to about 80kg, and I lost another 8kg by my son's first birthday. I was only 8kg off my goal, and it just stopped working. Or I stopped doing it properly. I followed the meal plans, but I probably shifted to higher calorie things here and there, and I kept eating a little too many syns. Over the past year, I've gained and lost the same 3kg, and then, since October last year, I've crept back up to 76kg.
I'm determined I'm not going to gain it all back again. I feel like my body is not my own.
I've always been resistant to meal replacement diets, as they seem so unhealthy, but looking to Exante, it has all the nutrients, and it's similar to what people undergoing surgery have to do. I've also read that, while 95% of people regain the weight they lose, it actually doesn't matter whether they lose it on a meal replacement or slowly and surely. So I'm trying this.
My BMI isn't over 30, so I'm doing a bit of a mixture. For the first 3 days, I'm having four replacement meals a day (kind of like the man plan). This is to kick start me into the programme.
After that, I'm going to do the 1200 diet, with two sachets, one snack and a proper meal.
So, that's the plan.
Day one was yesterday, and I went for a long walk just after breakfast (low sugar banana smoothie). Chalky, but a nice artificial banana flavour - can taste the fake sugar though. For lunch I had a caramel crunch bar (nice texture, but very sweet/bitter with the sweetener), then at 4pm I had a vanilla smoothie (very chalky, not much flavour). For dinner I had lemon pancakes - one at 7, one at 8, one at 9 (good amount of food, but not much to them, and that sweetener taste was in all of it). I felt pretty hungry yesterday afternoon, and had a bit of a headache. I couldn't sleep last night but that's an ongoing problem, so I took a sleeping tablet and slept soundly.
This morning, I was 900g lighter than yesterday.
I'll post the rest of day two later.
Weight at beginning: 76.6kg
Goal weight: 64kg
Height 1.65m
In 2014-5, I gained about 2 stone due to medication, and I struggled to lose it. In early 2015, I had a miscarriage, during which I ate chocolate for a week, and then I fell pregnant again. I was about 82 or 83kg at that point, which was the biggest I'd ever been. I was worried about being obese and having a baby, so my midwife referred me to Slimming World. I started it, lost a few kilos over the first few weeks, and then craving took over. So, I went back at the beginning of 2016, baby in arms, and at my heaviest ever weight - around 90kg or so.
Slimming World was great, I had to work hard at it, but the weight came off, slowly but surely. It felt like a lifestyle change rather than a diet. I was happy to be on it for life. After about six months or so, I was down to about 80kg, and I lost another 8kg by my son's first birthday. I was only 8kg off my goal, and it just stopped working. Or I stopped doing it properly. I followed the meal plans, but I probably shifted to higher calorie things here and there, and I kept eating a little too many syns. Over the past year, I've gained and lost the same 3kg, and then, since October last year, I've crept back up to 76kg.
I'm determined I'm not going to gain it all back again. I feel like my body is not my own.
I've always been resistant to meal replacement diets, as they seem so unhealthy, but looking to Exante, it has all the nutrients, and it's similar to what people undergoing surgery have to do. I've also read that, while 95% of people regain the weight they lose, it actually doesn't matter whether they lose it on a meal replacement or slowly and surely. So I'm trying this.
My BMI isn't over 30, so I'm doing a bit of a mixture. For the first 3 days, I'm having four replacement meals a day (kind of like the man plan). This is to kick start me into the programme.
After that, I'm going to do the 1200 diet, with two sachets, one snack and a proper meal.
So, that's the plan.
Day one was yesterday, and I went for a long walk just after breakfast (low sugar banana smoothie). Chalky, but a nice artificial banana flavour - can taste the fake sugar though. For lunch I had a caramel crunch bar (nice texture, but very sweet/bitter with the sweetener), then at 4pm I had a vanilla smoothie (very chalky, not much flavour). For dinner I had lemon pancakes - one at 7, one at 8, one at 9 (good amount of food, but not much to them, and that sweetener taste was in all of it). I felt pretty hungry yesterday afternoon, and had a bit of a headache. I couldn't sleep last night but that's an ongoing problem, so I took a sleeping tablet and slept soundly.
This morning, I was 900g lighter than yesterday.
I'll post the rest of day two later.
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