Chemical Diet - Day Three

Day Three - The Final Countdown

Breakfast
Coffee: Yuck. Still.
Apple: OK.
Crackers & cheese: Yum!
Still got that washing machine stomach though. There's something not right about having 3 drinks (~0.75L) before 9am.

Lunch
Dew hard boiled the eggs last night, and made toast this morning, wrapped it in aluminium foil and we took it to work for lunch.
Hard boiled egg: Nice enough.
Toast: Rubbery. Not so nice.
Coffee: Yuck. Still.
2 glasses of water: Washing machine.

Dinner
Tuna: Nice.
Beetroot: Nice.
Cauli: Nice.
Melon: Nice!
Ice cream: Nice... :)

Altogether a, er, nice final meal to round off the 3 days of dieting!

Now this diet is referred to as the 'chemical diet', being chemically proven to do stuff to help you lose weight, but personally I'm sceptical (as you probably guessed I would be), so I decided to do some searching around to find out how the chemical diet works. Cue about an hour of reading about various food combinations, diets, but nothing concrete saying how these foods combine to do what they do. (In fact, as I suspected, more people point out that it's just another way of limiting your calorie intake, and if you take in less calories than you burn then you will lose weight). So as I'm engrossed in surfing for the facts, the subject of our upcoming holiday came up, and Dew asked what we needed to put on the shopping list for tomorrow. And what will we have for breakfast in the morning?

With all this stuff going round in my head I started poking round the cupboards to see what was missing, and trying to think about what we might need from the shop.

Milk, bread, *picks up almost empty bag of nuts & raisins*, we need nuts & raisins, cheese, *eats a couple of nuts*, water, stir fry?, chicken?, *takes nuts into lounge*, does this diet really work on calories? What do we still need to work out before the holiday? *eats some raisins*.

"What are you doing?"

That was the question that broke me out of my little trance with the shocking realisation that, with only 90 minutes left before midnight, the official end of the diet, and with only one glass of water still to drink (per the instructions), I had 'cheated'. I absent-mindedly ate a couple of handfuls of nuts and raisins! Argh! Dew and I had been chatting about various things and both of us completely failed to realise that I'd picked up the nuts from the cupboard, brought them through to the lounge and sat there eating them in front of her for about 2 minutes before it clicked.

So Dew says I've "failed", and I guess I have in a way. In my defense, it was only a few nuts and technically we'd finished the food anyway, so... Ah bugger. :)

Let's see what weigh-in says tomorrow. If I've put weight on I'm blaming the nuts.

[ The Chemical Diet | Day One | Day Two | The Morning After ]