Cabbage Soup Diet!

It's day 3.

Yesterday was hell. I was looking forward to vegetables until I realised I'd have to eat them for breakfast. This did not feel normal for me and I felt really lethargic at work yesterday.

I found a site online that strongly recommends having a protein shake in the morning with this diet. So now it's day 3 I'm having fruit and veg all day. I love the combination of both, really quite normal for me since I'm vegetarian anyway. I had my protein shake with breakfast of fruit and felt tons better today, could concentrate and felt more energetic.

So tomorrow is bannana shake day, I think the highlight of this diet.

I have to say that my tummy does appear flatter. I'm also not craving food as much anymore.

I'm aware that this is a fad diet. It's sort of an experimentation for me, if by the end of this I can see visible improvements I will at least have more incentive going on a better diet.

Finally I'm finished the diet and I lost 4.5 kilos, which is about 9.5 pounds. I'm happy with the result, lost that belly fat I've accumulated. I'm determined now to eat a lot healthier and to exercise more because I want to tone up a bit.

I would recommend the diet as a short term thing, if you can handle eating cabbage soup all week and restricting what you can eat. If you have a big even coming up in a week and want to squeeze into your dress then it's worth doing.

Update: So I managed to lose 5 kilos on this diet. After day 7 i went out and bought some really great healthy recipe books and I haven't put that weight back on. In fact lost another 2 kilos just from eating low GI and low fat foods.

I guess I could have just eaten better and exercised more right from the start instead of the cabbage soup thing, but losing all that weight in one week really gave me the incentive not to put it back on again.

I went 'shopping' the other day which involved me getting some old clothes out of storage. I couldn't wear them because they were too small, now they fit me again.

Now I have to start exercising. To be honest I really hate doing it because I'm exhausted by the end of the day but I really want to tone up. I might start cycling in to work again and just do some weights at home.

Here are some of the books I've been getting. Great recipes because most of them are really easy to make which is important for me because after a long day at work I don't really want to be spending too much time in the kitchen:

http://www.symplytoogood.com.au/