My impression of this diet was that the hard bit was losing the weight, management would be a lovely learning curve where you would appreciate every meal for the variety of what you consumed after the blandness of the packs. As a man being told "Eat 4 of these a day and nothing else" is as easy as it gets, even if you don't like doing it.
Well this is not the reality of it. I appear to have lost all self control. I can eat the chicken salads, they are great, its just I am also nibbling here and there. They tell you that you can have as much chicken as you like, so I have two breasts (I would never have dont this before). Last night I had a glass of wine, the night before we had people 4 years olds staying and I ended up having a scotch. I nibbled on nuts and a few crisps, I even nibbed the end off a snickers icecream. Lastly I have been nibbling on prunes to try and sort out my digestion.
To combat the extra calories that I will have picked up with this nibbling I have been doing extra building work and dog walking and my weight is still going in the right direction but it is a concern that I will balloon. I have asked my wife to try and encourage me rather than say that I am slim enough and can have a drink. Drink leads to nuts and crisps.
Eating the packs makes you constipated, eating the packs and food is worse. You get constipated with more volume. I have never suffered in this way before and I have to say that it is very painful indeed and I think that it may be giving me piles! There are some stories best left unrecorded but this side of things is a major drawback of the diet.
I am staying in a really nice hotel tonight which has the most fantastic breakfast, I cancelled the breakfast already and will just have food packs in my room.
2008-06-03 @ 10:10