Day 22

Weighed in a day early because I thought today may be a bad one. Victoria Beckham knows what she's doing!! I had a photo shoot, so wanted to be lower... and saw 126.4 this morning. Even with cheating a lot this week and not really following the diet, I lost 2 lbs. OK, so I know it's a lot of bloat from pre-period stuff, but can I get a hell yes?

I'll weigh in tomorrow but I've eaten quite a lot today (porridge - 150, carrot - 30, 5 (yes, 5! Spread out) cereal bars - 550, yoghurt raisins - 200, snackajacks - 80), 1010 compared with my recent low low intake of 600s ish, so I'm not expecting it to be any lower tomorrow. I'm also off out for non-alcoholic cocktails tonight!! I did see my top half looking particularly slim in the photos, so I was quite pleased. Still look v wide in the hip area though, but I'm not sure I can do a lot about that.

How are things with you, my lovelies?

Day 20

So after last night's disaster (admittedly and expected disaster - will explain), today I woke up with a fake hangover - I don't drink but I had a headache and stomach ache... ugh.

Crisps. And chocolate raisins. And curry. And people who I like but who I don't know particularly well. So lots was consumed, I don't really want to think about the calories. I've been punished enough for it today with the way I felt. Has anyone else had that? Where you eat really healthily for a while, then when you end up eating v fatty food, your body rejects it massively? I will have to think again for next time we have a social.

Onto today - started off with a smoothie (beetroot, carrot, apple, celery, honey, cinnamon and cocoa powder - approx 170 per serving), had strawberries (50), peas (50), lettuce and carrot (30) followed by a Starbucks trip. I went for a soy cappucino with sugar free hazelnut syrup (70). Which put me at 370. Good. Got hungry at 4.30pm, ignored it, drank water, it stopped. Great. Didn't feel well on way home, good, so didn't eat. Until I felt like I should eat. So I had some porridge. I've weighed it out, I had about 100g of oats overall, made with water and sweetened with honey - so maybe 500 cals?

Putting today's total at 870.

Good, yes, but doesn't really balance out yesterday. Or the day before. But it's not with my VB diet (ie Victoria Beckham!!), which is meant to be solely strawberries, lettuce, edamame (I've been using peas) and steamed fish (I have yet to eat any fish). Lots of herbal and green tea is meant to be consumed. Again, I've not had the facilities to do this, so I've just been drinking A LOT of water.

I've varied this quite a lot - added blueberries, carrots and other low cal veg and stuck with porridge. As you can see, not really stuck to it. I've got 2 days of doing this before I will probably have to eat something else (a friend, who also has a few food issues, and I are going to have a bake fest so I can teach her how to bake, then we're going to give out what we make to friends and colleagues on a big trip without eating it ourselves. Cunning.). I can't see why my weight wouldn't go down in this time, but I don't hold out much hope for the Sunday weigh in. I bet I end up weighing much more than my mid-week 126.4, though I'd love to see that number again. On that note, I did finally have a BM today (it's been about 5 days) but not enough again. Hopefully tomorrow or Saturday...

Day 19

So I weighed myself this morning despite not meaning to do it all week, but I was feeling slimmer. Srre enough, 126.4 sparkled at me from the scales. Hooray for period bloat going down a few days in.

This is despite the chilli, rice and tarta yesterday.

Today, I have felt like it's a loss. A chocolate and caramel Rice Krispy Squares shone at me with its gold gleaming promises of tasty goodness. At 151 cals though, it's one of the better buys in the college shop. I'm having a curry tonight, I like the spicy ones so it should boost my metabolism a bit. Since I don't drink, no alcohol, and there'll be lots of dancing, to make up for my lack of gymming.

Then we shall return to the peas-strawberries-lettuce-fish of the VB diet. For 3 days at least.

I shall return.

Day 18

My flatmate knows I'm a little weight-obsessed... but we're both on this VB diet thing so I think it's ok. I did so well yesterday, tonight I knew was going to be worse since I had a couple of girls over for dinner and we ate this lovely Dime Bar Tarta.

Cals

Porridge (200)

Green tea iced drink with orange (50)

Strawberries and Blueberries (60)

Peas (50)

Carrot (30)

Lettuce

Chilli (250)

Rice (125)

Tarta (600)

1355. Could have been much worse!! Tomorrow will be quite bad with the curry night out, but I plan to drink a lot of diet coke which will fill me up massively.

I probably won't update for a couple of days, but I will get to commenting soon, I will!!! I'm also thinking about weighing myself this evening as I do feel quite light - haven't had a BM in a while though but am now on period so my water weight *should* have reduced. I know I shouldn't weigh in, but I want to, now, before the big big night out.

Day 17 - GOOD!

OK I am finding it tough to comment on other blogs when am on flatmate's laptop, so I'm being a bit quiet... she's gone to bed for now though, so I can quickly post before I head!

Day 1 of "The VB Diet" - porridge for breakfast (200 at most), strawberries (40), peas (50), lettuce (0 surely?), carrot (30), celery (10), couple of chips (20), two Britvic drinks (250). So that's 590. Pretty freaking sweet.

Admittedly, this was partly because I went to an event in the evening and drank a lot of diet coke and water. And I was told a story involving a Mars Bar and the lady place and felt really sick afterwards (story was after the couple of chips). Whatever works. I'm pleased with that. Rock on. Had I been at home, I'd have got hungry and eaten more.

I can't be as good tomorrow, as expected, since I'm having a couple of girls over for dinner and girly chats - this is clearly going to involve chocolate. I'm making a lentil chilli so will get some spices going at least. If I start off the day like I've done today though, I think that's acceptable. I'm not willing to sacrifice friendships, I'll just be a little careful.

Hope you're all staying strong, I miss reading your blogs (I will! I promise! When I get onto the library computers and don't have other people around me).

Day 16?

I've lost count. This has to be short, as I'm using flatmate's computer

Being ill helped me I think, but not loads. I'm currently weighing in at 128.4 (today is weigh in day) making that 1lb since starting 2 weeks ago. Not ideal but better than it could be.

I suppose that even though I didn't eat much yesterday, I didn't have any BMs (in comparison to Friday when I was ill in the morning, then fine all day until 11pm when I had the world's worst stomach ache)

G2G

Day 14- Start thereof

My laptop is out of action for the next couple of weeks - I'm risking this on my flatmate's (by using a different browser to her usual and then clearing the history).

Yesterday's dinner went well, I did eat more than expected but not by more than 200 cals I think, so I maybe breached 1400, but it was worth it.

This is TMI for those with a sensitive disposition - but I've had a bit of diarrhoea for the first time literally in years today. I woke up, weighed self, was 128.8, so I was relatively pleased. After drinking water and eating some porridge, I had a little toilet trauma (so didn't go to the gym), then weighed self again just to see what had happened (yes, the whole "don't weigh self for a week!" thing completely broke) and I was 127.6! Would love to see that on Sunday morning, but I guess I'm pretty much empty right now.

Next week, my plan is to eat edamame beans, strawberries, lettuce and a bit of steamed fish as much as possible - this is what Victoria Beckham ate apparently!! However, several social events, including another friend coming over for dinner... which I guess makes eating like that the rest of the time more important!!

Just keeping my fingers crossed for Sunday morning.

Rest of today - I'm meeting a friend for gf muffins from Covent Garden, but if I can make that as lunch (4pm... probably not doable) should be ok. Will bank on that being 350. Today I've had porridge - 130. Also, need to make a bit of a risotto for a picnic for ce soir, that with vegetables should be another 250, add an apple and hopefully some more veggies. That'd be a good day I think... 800 if I could manage it. Probably not. Given I'm somewhat hungry now and have yet to make the risotto.

Question - when you go out to dinner with friends, how do you make it so that they realise you're a super-healthy person but that you don't scare them with how little you manage? Also, I find it hard to overcome my "don't waste food!" mentality, so although I'm getting better in restaurants and things, I still find it hard when at home to not eat everything on my plate.