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Fighting the temptation of a milky brew
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Battle of the bulge
Jeni Harvey28/ 1/2008
TWO weeks into my slimming efforts and things are on the up.
I’m feeling healthier, fitter – and definitely thinner – and the plan seems to be getting easier to follow by the day.
I’ve found various ‘free food’ recipes to cook up, such as aubergine parmigiana and vegetable curry, and the beauty of this is that I can eat as much of them as I want.
As I’ve piled my desk high with grapes, nectarines and bananas I’m rarely hungry and my cravings are starting to diminish – though the one thing that’s driving me to distraction is the smell of the chippy as I walk down Drake Street.
Ordinarily it wouldn’t even occur to me to want a big chip butty, but now it’s forbidden fruit it seems like the ultimate treat to my grease-starved tastebuds.
Although the Slimming World booklet would have you believe that nothing is forbidden, in reality a large portion of chips is 26 ‘syns’ and a large bread roll 5.5, which comes to more than two days’ allowance.
And however much I might think I want it, no chip butty is worth two days of abstinence from anything more ‘naughty’ than a Quorn sausage.
The other thing that’s proving hard to stick to is my milk allowance. The one thing I can’t live without is my gigantic cups of tea.
My cup is so big you could bathe a small child in it and I chain-drink – whenever one brew’s finished I’ve already got the kettle boiled for the next one.
This doesn’t fit in very well with having to stick to about half-a-pint of milk a day.
But despite my mind playing tricks on me and taunting me with pizza, chocolate, chips and curries – as well as swimming pools full of milky tea – I’ve been a good girl and stuck to the plan.
To prove it – and to help with my willpower – I’m writing down every morsel that passes my lips on a child-like diet sheet that encourages me to give myself a smiley or a sad face each day.
The devil in me wants to have a night on the tiles and then draw a face with a massive grin, downing a bottle of wine, but so far I’ve resisted.
The main thing keeping me going is the fact that I’ve lost 2lb already which proves the plan works and as this piece went to press I am hoping for another 2lb at the next weigh-in.
So for now I’m wolfing piles of fruit, whipping up butter-free scrambled eggs and grilling endless Quorn sausages, in the hope of squeezing into those size 10 jeans in two weeks’ time.
For more information on Slimming World classes visit www.slimmingworld.com or call my leader Laura Sousa on 0161 6554543.
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