The Weekend

Typically a Saturday night for the last few weeks would have featured an Indian takeaway with all the works, that's right... I'm talking a naan and poppadums. Or at the very least a Co-op pizza, chips, coleslaw and a Magnum. However this Saturday was a completely different story, one that I will be retelling again and again until I reach my goal weight.

It's funny how things become a habit. They say it take 28 days of repeating a task before it fits in to your daily routine and becomes habitual, I feel like some aspects of the CWP have already become second nature to me...even after just 5 days on the plan. Drinking water like a fish has definitely become a new habit to me, as has blogging about my day in order to stay motivated! I hope that by making these small changes in my life now by the time maintenance (step 5) comes around I will have added a long list of new habits into my daily routine which will all help to constitute a healthy new lifestyle for me. The little habits I find myself developing (like not snacking between meals, controlling my portion size and not acting on my hunger with the nearest fast food item) will completely change me as a person by the end and help me to keep the weight off forever. The CWP has become more than just a diet for me, its like learning about eating and food all over again! Training your brain to pick up these new habits can be tough, especially with old habits like a Saturday night takeaway dying hard, but I know 28 days later I will not only be much closer to my end goal but closer to finally leaving old habits in the past and allowing new habits to become my happy and healthier future!


Below I have left info on my meals (and my mum's) for the day as well as some pictures of my evening meal! Day 6...bring it on!

Moi
Breakfast - Porridge (Apple and Cinnamon Flavour)
Lunch - Pasta (Spaghetti Bolognese Flavour)
Dinner - 130g Tinned Tuna, 125g Plain Cottage Cheese (less than 5% fat), 80g Spinach & Asparagus
Evening Snack (drank at 9pm) - Shake (Toffee and Walnut Flavour)
Drinks - Drinks - 1.5 litres water, 500ml sugar-free squash, 1L CWP Water Flavouring (Summer Berry), 3 cups of coffee with sweetener and 1 cup of tea with sweetener.

Comments: Dinner made a nice change today. Tinned Tuna is definitely a game changer. You are allowed the equivalent of 2 tins for your protein rich food item as part of your meal on Step 2. Instead I decided to have just the one and half of the cottage cheese allowance (TOP TIP - go with the less than 2% fat cottage cheese if you can get hold of it as you can get more than what I was allowed!), Not too much to report food wise as I didn't really have any new CWP products today!

Mum
Breakfast - Porridge (Original Flavour)
Lunch - Shake (Vanilla Flavour)
Dinner - 130g Tinned Tuna, 125g Plain Cottage Cheese (less than 5% fat), 80g Spinach & Asparagus
Evening Snack (drank at 9pm) -  Vanilla Flavour Rice Pudding
Drinks - Drinks - 1.5 litres water, 500ml sugar-free squash, 1L CWP Water Flavouring (Summer Berry), 3 cups of coffee with sweetener and 2 cups of tea.

Comments: Dinner was really lovely today, the rice pudding was not. I hoped it would taste like a mixture of the vanilla shake and a CWP porridge but nope...it was awful!