Make sure you don’t make the same mistake!
Okay. So I have officially been on the protocol for five days now. And I will go back and blog my week’s journey. But before I do that, I wanted to give the following suggestion:
Get accustom to eating specific, portioned meals every day. And begin to cut down your portions to the healthy size, not our usual over-sized portions. I know we don’t have to go on a diet before doing the protocol but I find that because I was really reckless in the way I snacked here and there, eat morsels of food as I cook and finish off kids’ plates, doing the VLCD (very low calorie diet) portion of the protocol has been a challenge, more so mentally and habitually rather than physically. So if I can turn back the clock, I’d start eating smaller portions and begin to count my calories at least 14 days before I start the protocol. I suppose this is sort of similar to Kevin Trudeau’s phase 1 in his book. And I attempted to do as much as I could prescribed in his book. But alas! I don’t have the iron will nor the lifestyle to contend with all of those changes in one month. If I had to choose one thing to change, it’d be to eat less and watch what I put in my mouth rather than just picking up whatever appeals to me around the kitchen, whenever I want.
I have not be able to blog about my first week because we moved to a new house this past Sunday and we have not had any internet access. But my bff, Jules, has a great VBlog!
It’s a toss up now, between her and Mamacloc!
rebecca said,
August 12, 2008 at 5:11 pm
are you hungry all the time? I’m going to start it today…. do you recomment this diet?
motheringtao said,
August 15, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Hi! I’m going to post about my mistakes. I’m sure those mistakes were the cause of my hunger pains. I’m not hungry all the time. But I AM craving food all the time. There is a difference. And learning to distinguish hunger from craving has been a huge learning lesson for me. I think it’s a great tool to take from this protocol for the rest of my life.
I am losing weight, though. I’m on my 11th day and I’ve lost 9.2 lbs. It’s pretty amazing.