Slimfast Day 5

I have just returned from the gym (drum roll please!!!) and both my weight and my BMI are down! I was initially 84kg and have come down to 81.8kg which is a loss of 2.2 kg!! Woo hoo! MY BMI has gone from 31.58 to 31.2 . I guess, the later isn't much of a loss but every little helps

To be fair my last gym weigh in was in October and since then haven't weighed myself on a reliable scale . The ones I have at home are pretty useless. But, I don't care what spurred it on, have a feeling that the slimfast has definitely had some affect and the weightloss feels good. As previously mentioned in my older posts shifting the weight down rather than down up is an achievement in itself. I had almost started feeling as though I couldn't lose weight at all but my faith in myself and weightloss has been renewed today. I will weigh myself next week or the week after depending on where I am around Christmas. And , to be fair it probably won't be in the gym🙋

It's the 22nd of December 2016 and I am on my 5th day of slimfast. I started the day with good intentions and took out a banana milkshake to drink. Big mistake! I absolutely hated it but that may be because I have never really liked anything banana flavoured. Occasionally banana bread is acceptable but otherwise anything banana just won't do it for me. On the plus side hubby glugged it all down and seemed to really enjoy it:)

I didn't have the time to think about what I should eat instead I dropped my daughter to school and then headed home for breakfast. I looked up the calories in a single tesco medium sized egg and thought okay as long as keep this meal in the 200 calorie mark should be okay right?

Breakfast :  was two fried eggs and a slice of kingsmill 50 50 on its own. Perhaps should try boiled eggs next time to save on the calories.This worked out to be 273 calories which is 69 calories more than a slimfast milkshake. That being said I thoroughly enjoyed it and knew I could balance it with the other slimfast meals, snacks , fruit and or dinner in the evening.

Snack 1: 2 Sun date mejdhool dates approximately 80 calories . BALANCED ALREADY:). These are excessively yum!

Lunch : This was another chocolate crunch bar melted to perfection in the microwave with oozing chocolate. I think these maybe growing on me because I seem to be liking the taste now!

Snack 2:  Empire apple and a headache. I have had a headache since started prepping dinner for the family and haven't been able to shake it off.

Dinner : Dinner was a a cup of boiled potatoes, half a cup of boiled carrots, boiled chicken and some butter added in.

I use the myfitnesspal app as a tool to measure calories and measure out my portions by cups. According to that I should be eating 1910 calories a day to lose weight based on my weight! which is obviously about 656 or a whole extra meal on top of what slimfast is guiding me to eat.
Slim fasts calories if I stayed just on the meal replacement shakes, bar and snacks the whole day gives me a grand total of 1254 (including the 600 calories dinner).

Snack 3: I probably will have a snack bar if feel hungry at bit later. I didn't have one in the end as was to tired and went to sleep.

Exercise : The day has been intensive exercise wise. I did 13 minutes on the cross trainer and about 20 minutes of strength training.

Again, when exercise comes in I feel super tired by the end of the day and still have a persistent headache and think I will take some paracetamol before bed.

I do feel slimfast makes me extremely gassy and that has its affect on going to the toilet-which I wouldn't recommend!

Day 5 done!!! 

I am continuing with my visualisation of dreaming of myself like when I was at university and could put on the ugliest t-shirt and jeans and look fabulous-why? Because I had a flat stomach at a uk size ten. To be fair I am not aiming for that at this point -am focusing on short term goals of feeling good when I meet friends over the holidays with a few kg lost (I can actually say that now!!-feeling good)!

Are you trying to lose weight? Do get in touch and drop me a comment below.

Best ,

O