On to phase 2

Sorry about no blog yesterday but as I started to feel a bit better the rest of the household decided to go down with it, so an early night was called for.

I have to be honest, I really struggled with the diet yesterday. I still felt quite nauseous and I really wanted something sugary, the chocolates and cakes in Tescos were just shouting at me to buy them....all of them.  And I was very tempted.  I was strong but could have cried at the thought of what to eat at the next meal.  I asked the forum for the diet for some advice and it sounds like I could have been experiencing candida die off. This is where I would have had a serious overgrowth of candida (which is possible when I look at the symptoms) and suddenly starving it by following the diet starts to kill it off and it creates a lot of the symptoms I felt for the last couple days.  This could also explain the sugar craving as the candida was trying to get something to feed on.  Or it could just be that I had a virus and being ill made me feel like that.  Either way I made the decision to start stage 2 a bit early.

I've started by introducing milk.  I had porridge made with milk for breakfast, I can't say it was scrummy but much nicer than made with water and I've had a decaf coffee with a bit of milk in this afternoon. Having read about phase 2, it is more complex to get your head round. The main rule is not mixing fats and carbs at the same meal. This is because of the way your body breaks them down and stores them.  Once I get my head around it it will be fine but at the moment it seems very strange.

As for the greater variety of food on phase 2, it is advised to introduce them slowly over time so you can see if any of them give you symptoms or stops weight loss. This would indicate an intolerance and you leave them a few weeks before trying them again.

My weight loss will slow and as some of it came off while I was ill I am expecting I might gain a little or plateau during the first couple of weeks.  But as much as I want and need to lose weight,  it is also important to me that we eat real food, so we don't inadvertently eat horsemeat or worse!

Today's food

Porridge with milk for breakfast
Tin of tuna and cucumber for lunch
Salmon, crudites and homemade zatziki for dinner

I'm going to cook a curry tomorrow from the recipe book, see if we can make anything exciting.  We can't have chicken and rice with it as that would be mixing, it is one or the other. Fingers crossed that it is tasty