Day 15 - start of week 3

Liz -

25% of the way through, that sounds good doesn't it - well it does to me!. The side effects kicked in this week for me and I had my first few bad days. Overall i've not felt many effects other than positive ones but after a rough couple of days this week I wondered if this was all worth it. I then remembered why I'm doing it and i've pushed through and I'm very glad I have done. A 5lb weight loss this week and I'm pleased with that. I didn't think I would loose that much this week as I know your body soon gets used to diets and the weight loss slows down quickly. I thought to myself so long as I loose 1–2lbs a week I would be happy. So i was astonished when i lost 5lbs, I couldn't quite believe it.

It's been a good day today, I went to the gym first thing - just what i needed to wake me up this morning. I had a good workout (although my arms may disagree). Came home to a nice chocolate tesco shake to start the day, we then had vegtable curry at lunchtime and added some cauliflour rice to this to bulk it out a little. I must admit Mike's veg curry is amazing! tasted so good.

We spent a few hours with Mikes mum & sister today and the subject soon turned to takeaways, curry, chinese, even just macarroni cheese - the sounds of these all made my mouth water and I just want 1 takeaway, i'm so desperate for one, 1 wouldn't harm would it? the problem is it would, and i'm doing this for Mike. I got into such a rutt with takeaways i don't want to go back to that. I don't want to be the weight i was. I don't want to live that lifestyle and feel unhealthy. I want a new start for myself, a healthy start, a new lifestyle & a new way of eating & living.

Another 2 shakes to go today and a good nights sleep and the thought of a takeaway will soon be gone. I can do this -1 stone in 2 weeks. I've got

this, start of a new lifestyle here i come!

Mike -

Back on track today. Had a great nights sleep and was back to my less grumpy self this morning. Another 6lb shredded this week and a stone and a half in total so far. I want to keep motoring on though and get myself in the best shape for a long time. A quarter of the way there now for the first and probably hardest phase. To me it’s flown by, only really one bad day but the discussions about my old habits of takeaways are still difficult. Had a nice relaxed day, chilled morning, had my mum and sister over for lunch where me and Liz had the rest of the vegetable curry I made yesterday, peaceful afternoon apart from the odd 5 minute outburst from Jack and then this evening I am settling down to finish David Copperfield while Liz works and Jack sleeps. Last words from me are that I feel so good right now, I had a wobble for a few hours but my body feels good, my brain is more alert and receptive. I don’t want to slip back to bad habits once we have achieved our goal.

Carpe Diem 4L