Day 6 & 7 Sunday & Monday

Sunday

A much less energetic day than yesterday but nice all the same. Spent most of the day with Sim being sympathetic but not too much, which is how our friendship seems to work
She's very tempted to try a LL style diet as a kick start back onto being successful at WeightWatchers but she suffers from a condition where her blood pressure drops really low and she faints quite frequently and I'm not sure a 550kcal diet would be the best thing for her.

We went shopping at Asda, which was quite amusing in terms of the items I was putting into my trolley as opposed to those she was putting into hers. I have to admit hers did look a lot more appetising. Still healthy, but with juicy, succulent fruit and big fresh fish and Real Food!

Did well on the diet though and stuck to it perfectly.
Mr RB and I had a mini tiff during the evening when we went to the cinema (to see Black Snake Moan - a bizarre film that I'm not quite sure I enjoyed, but didn't hate) over a bag of peanut M&Ms! Now I think I'm pretty good with not lusting too much over the yummy foods he eats and he'd already bought himself a mammoth full sugar Fanta to slurp throughout the film but the thought of him sitting next to me with a family size bag of M&Ms, eating them as slowly as he does and then ending up having to take half a bag home to loiter round our house to lure me with their siren call from some cupboard, was too much to handle.
So after some huffing and puffing and dark mutterings he did the decent thing and settled for his bucket of fizzy stuff.

Monday

I've lost 10lbs this week! Hurrah! The drinks are on me! (only water, of course, unfortunately....)

Today's been easy, diet wise. Checked my ketones and I'm coming out as Moderate to Large on the scale of how ketonic you can get, so that's good. I'd quite like to be moderate to large in real life too rather than Extra Large to Extra Extra Large.
On a side note - how embarrassing is it when you need to be sized for work clothes?!!! We don't wear uniforms in our office (I work in sales at a fine fragrance & skincare wholesaler) but every so often management takes it upon themselves to try to conform everybody and give them random pieces of clothing bearing the company logo. So far I've got a (quite nice) fleece and a (yucky, butch) polo shirt and I've seen a (plain geeky) sample baseball cap hovering round waiting to gain approval. Having colleagues trying to subtly ask what size I think I'll need after going round the 'Smalls' or 'Mediums' is just the most cringe-worthy thing and being asked to join in and try them on for size is even worse. *Shudder*

Anyway - along with my ketostix I'd ordered a sample pack of bars from the company Go Lower. They looked quite tasty and Mr RB said they didn't taste too bad for low carb, low GI food so I might buy some of those towards the end of my diet when I'm weaning onto real food again. I've started to love my shakes though - they're really filling and nice and tasty. I also love not feeling hungry ever. Or hardly ever anyway. The water is just great at tackling this and I'm almost hitting the 4litres a day which, for a lass who's only pure water intake was half a cup to take tablets with, is pretty damn cool! Hurrah!

Went swimming tonight and did 15 lengths which I know isn't a lot but we only had 25 mins before we had to be out of the pool, I'm a complete weakling and not very good at swimming, and is 5 more than I've managed the last few times so I'm quite pleased about that also.

Lesley - thanks again for all your comments and wise words. I'm taking a Sanatogen Gold every day to make sure I'm getting the RDA of lots of vitamins. It's a freakishly big pill so it should cover most of the bases! I'm hoping this is enough, but I'll pop over to Mel's blog and ask her advice anyway. I really liked that about LL that you don't have to worry about anything at all nutrionally - from meal planning to making sure your body is receiving all it needs is taken out of your hands which must be lovely. I will reassess how my home made plan is doing every 2 weeks I think to make sure I'm still on the straight and narrow and will go and ask lots of questions of Mel to try and emulate her success.

Right, I'm off to have a wee read of other people's blogs and then to bed and to sleep on a pillow of inspiration! (Crikey, did I actually just write that?!!!)