Ah oh!

Not blogged for a bit because not really been much to say and I'm still not 100%.  The diet is supposed to make you feel really great and full of vitality, so I would like the cold to go away now so that I could see some evidence of that.

We've had cheese! How fantastic is that, I don't think I have ever been on a diet where you could have cheese, well not enough worth bothering about anyway.  It is just because it is a fat you can't have it with the usual stuff like pasta, jacket potatoes or bread but it does not stop it making vegetables gorgeous.

We had it as a cheese sauce poured over vegetables.  Now because cornflour can be used in tiny amounts for thickening sauces but recommended you don't until further into the diet, the sauce was made with just milk, egg and cheese.  I was putting the sauce over broccoli, cauliflower and leek so I doubled up the recipe but the outcome was still very runny, think I need to tweek it a bit until it becomes thicker, however it tasted good, like a proper cheese sauce and we are going to have it again tonight.

Cheese sauce

240ml milk boiled and left to cool for 2 minutes
Whisk one egg and stir it into the cooled milk
Grate cheese and add to milk and egg until thickened
Pour over veg, fish or meat and bake in oven for 30 minutes
(Harcombe diet recipe book)

That was on Saturday and on Sunday we had a total blow out.  None of us felt well, all of us was exhausted and we wanted chips.  Not just chips though, I ended up with chips, pie, beans and gravy, a glass of coke and a kitkat. If I was doing it, I was doing it good.  I did not enjoy it.  None of it tasted nice and everything tasted different to how I remember it tasting.  I'm not sure if the chips just weren't nice or if my taste buds have changed but either way we threw away more than was eaten and I'm not really wanting to repeat it.  So straight back on the diet I went.  I'm probably supposed to repeat phase 1 again but I'm not going to unless I sruggle getting back into the diet.

And I don't think that will be a problem.  Went to a coffee shop and ikea yesterday and stuck to the diet to the best of my ability. While the others tucked into meatballs and chips, I had smoked salmon and lettuce with water to drink and I surprisingly found I enjoyed it and it didn't bother me as much as I thought it would.

I'm not expecting much of a loss this week for obvious reasons but if I can not gain too much I will be happy.