Liver Diet Day 1

Total calories: 548

I got up fairly early today because we had a lot of running around to do.  

I was still quite full from last nights pig out but after 30 minutes or so, I thought I'd better have my first yoghurt of the day.

I picked a Mullerlight fat free strawberry flavoured one.  It was, well, not great.  I've never been a lover of yoghurt but I've had better tasting ones!

I also had a cup of coffee - I had to measure out 200ml of milk and store it separately in the fridge - that's my allowance for the day.

After breakfast, we hit the shops.  We had to pay a visit to the vets, The Pound Shop, Tesco, the Co-Op and Iceland.  By the time we got home, I was starving.

Once the shopping was put away, I warmed up a tin of weight watchers chicken, potato and leek soup.  I added some herbs to jazz it up and it was very nice.  I then had another yoghurt, this time, a toffee flavoured one.  This one tasted worse than the strawberry.  I'm now getting a little worried that the soup and yoghurt diet may not be the diet for me.

The afternoon was spent helping to clear out Ash's room.  What a tip!  We still hadn't finished by 6:20pm and my stomach was beginning to ask for food.  One thing I've noticed today is that I can clearly tell when I'm properly hungry.  Not picking has made this very clear to me, something that has never really been that clear before.

This time, I had two tins of weight watchers soup - hearty vegetable broth.  I won't buy this one again as it was very bland, but it did fill me up.

I'm going to wait until later to have another yoghurt because I've bunged one in the freezer - I'm hoping fat free yoghurt tastes better frozen!

I'm also waiting for my sugar free ice poles to freeze.  I've got a major thing for them at the moment.

It hasn't been difficult to stick to the diet but having said that, it is only day one.  John has been great and even offered to eat his steak sandwich in the garden but I said no and enjoyed a nice cold pint of water while he chowed down.

Day one is almost over and I'm still alive lol! 

Footnote:  I started to feel ill later on in the evening.  I felt very lethargic and got a headache.  I tried a couple of the ice poles and they had a strange taste to them but John said they tasted fine.  I also started to smell an odd gassy/chemical smell but John couldn't smell anything.  By the time I went to bed I felt worse and the headache got pretty bad.  I got up with it as well.

The Last Supper

Today has been a funny day.  I feel as if I've been in limbo, waiting for tomorrow and the start of my liver diet.

I've done some checking and worked out that consuming 4 Weight Watchers soups and 4 Mullerlight yoghurts will give me an approximate intake of 764 calories per day - if I can't lose some weight on this two week diet, there's no hope for me!

My husband has been very kind and understanding and bought me my favourite take-away for dinner, peri peri chicken with rice and salad (yes, I do eat salad).

After dinner, I began to panic, realising this was it - after tomorrow there would be no more eating and drinking the stuff that I'd been feasting on for most of my life.

It's a scary prospect.  I won't even be able to pop a french fry into my mouth!  I'll have to think about every single item that I eat and drink for the foreseeable future.

My lovely husband, sensing my change in mood,went out and bought me a bottle of Crabbies and a large block of chocolate.

Strangely, I didn't enjoy them as much as I thought I would and this made me feel very annoyed as I'd consumed these extra calories for no reason.

Tomorrow is a brand new day for me and I've been making plans to keep myself busy for the next two weeks, doing jobs around the house and having a clear out.  I'll be making regular posts from now on with what I'm eating and drinking and how I'm feeling.

The countdown has now begun...

A Greedy Weekend!

The beginning of August is both a cause of celebration and sadness.

It's my wedding anniversary on 1st August and the anniversary of my mothers death on 4th August, so I always approach this particular month with very mixed feelings.

This year however, I've been in a much happier frame of mind, probably due to the excitement of my coming surgery and my husband decided that he would be taking me out for a nice meal, just the two of us, to celebrate 17 years of married bliss.

We had a lovely indian meal on the Saturday and planned to go the cemetery on the Sunday, but then, my in-laws decided that they wanted us all to go out for a meal so we ended up at the Harvester Sunday afternoon.

We had a drink while we waited for a table and then stuffed ourselves silly on salad, ribs and profiteroles.

I did not intend to make such a pig of myself and felt rather guilty afterwards, especially when the in-laws refused to let us pay!

I am now on the last week before I start my liver diet and will be going shopping for diet soup, low fat, low sugar yoghurt, sugar free ice pops, squash and jelly.

I would also like to add that we went to the cemetery and tidied up my mum's grave, laid flowers and remembered her in an appropriate manner.  She's been gone for 14 years now and I still miss her very much.