After my struggles the first day of this diet, I've come to realize how easy it ended up being. I ate 1000 calories every day (that's a TON), plus the food I was eating felt like I was just snacking on delicious junk food all day (not really junk junk food, but really fatty foods that I would normally try to avoid). I spent my days eating nuts, avocados, peanut butter... Lol it was crazy...
And somehow I lost at least 4 pounds in 4 days, which is so much compared to my ~1 pound a week while I was restricting. And it was mostly fat too (TMI: you can actually see the fat floating in your urine...).
I've decided to start the ABC diet tomorrow--there's just no way I can keep myself from carbs any longer (not allowed on Kekwick). I know I'll end up cheating or binging if I do Low-Carb, so I might as well do the ABC. Depending on how much I lose in the next couple weeks, I might end up switching to the SGD.
Anyway as you can see I'm very pleased with how this week went. I lost a bunch of weight, my tummy is pretty much flat, I went through all of my jeans and will have to get rid of 5-6 pairs (only keeping a couple that almost fit me--still too big), and I ate a ton of peanut butter haha (still very happy about that lol).
The only problem with this week was that school and work were exhausting, and next week will probably be even harder. But as long as I keep losing weight nothing else really matters!
I was getting really discouraged yesterday after not losing very much weight + wanting to eat everything I couldn't (even though I wasn't actually hungry at all--the macadamias surprisingly kept me very full all day due to the high calorie content). Anyway, I added peanut butter to the end of my night, because it's a "safe" food for the Kekwick and it's also probably my favorite food that I always have to limit myself from eating. I started thinking that this diet isn't going to work and that I'm just filling myself up with fat for no reason--that I'm like the only person this diet doesn't work for (it's apparently supposed to work for everyone) or maybe somehow I'm doing it wrong (except that it doesn't seem that complicated... 75-90% calories from fat). So I decided last night that if I don't lose more than .5 pound again when I weigh myself in the morning that I would stop after day 3.
Well lo and behold! I woke up this morning and went on my laptop to finish up some homework from last night. I then had a really sharp pain in my stomach and (prepare for TMI) so I went to the bathroom and all of my "irregularity" problems from yesterday were solved! I weighed myself and the scale read 108 :D
So in 2 days I've lost 3 pounds, which is most likely more than I would have lost by restricting plus it has the promise of speeding up my metabolism and getting rid of excess fat. Therefore I'm sticking to my plan of Kekwick today and tomorrow (but I'm definitely adding my beloved peanut butter to my diet!).
I weighed myself this morning and the scale read 110.5, which is only half a pound down from yesterday. I say only because I was kind of expecting more from the Kekwick, so I'm hoping that it's just too soon to see results yet. In addition to my stomach feeling weird after I'd eat all the macadamia nuts, I've also been met with some "irregularity," which I'm also hoping is contributing to the slow weight loss. I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow....
Today was a lot easier than yesterday in terms of eating. I was able to space out my baggies of macadamias every two hours during the day. I guess since I know what to expect as far as the taste and texture, I was better able to ignore all of it and just eat them. What I did was eat the nuts while drinking about 24 ounces of water (necessary due to the taste and texture) at the top of the hour (usually lasted ~30 mins), then chew some gum + more water for the second hours (then repeat..).
Hmm so I was originally set on doing the ABC after this, but after hearing about great results by doing Low-Carb I've been tempted to switch to that. I'm not so sure though, because I'm definitely better at restricting than I am at avoiding certain foods for a long period of time (besides being vegan of course, but that's different because it goes along with my morals/ethics so I feel more strongly about it). I think I'll decide Friday when I'm done with the Kekwick, and base my decision off of how much weight I lose by then.
One of the ladies I work with today asked me if I was losing weight (yay) which I casually brushed off (I want it to look effortless lol). The same thing happened yesterday with someone else I used to work with. I'm glad that it's becoming more noticeable--I can finally notice it myself as well. My face still looks the same to me because I look at myself in the mirror everyday, but I have noticed that my hands are bonier now. None of my jeans fit me either--I officially look ridiculous in all of my clothes because they are so huge on me. But I refuse to buy new ones until I get down to my goal weight! I might buy one pair of pants in the meantime just because I look so funny in the ones I wear now, but I can't go crazy and go on a shopping spree just because I'm thinner (notice: not yet thin, but thinner...). It's happened to me in the past, whenever I lose a large amount of weight I get excited and buy new clothes. Then I stop losing weight because I become content with how I look. I cannot let this happen this time. I figure I might as well go all out and lose all the weight I need to instead of becoming content and then unsatisfied over and over again.
I managed to get through today, but I definitely underestimated the difficulty of this diet plan. I kept thinking about the calories when planning to do this, and 1000 seemed like so much that I wouldn't have a problem doing it. But the real challenge is how sick I am of macadamia nuts already, and how badly I want to take a nibble of something/anything else.
When I would restrict, often times I would take little bites of everything. A mini pretzel, a slice of an apple, one craisin, etc. until I reached my calorie limit. Or I would prepare something really flavorful so that even if I couldn't eat much of it, I would still be satisfied after eating it. But this diet is NOT satisfying. First of all, the nuts make me really thirsty so I constantly feel full of water + the water washes out any taste I had in my mouth, making me feel like I hadn't eaten anything. Also, after the first few nuts of the day, I didn't want to eat any more. So I have to force myself to eat them by telling myself that I can't eat anything else since I might ruin the whole thing if I do. Which means I'm only eating them out of necessity, not because it tastes good or because I'm hungry. And so now I'm having really bad cravings for any food, way more than when I restrict down to 200 calories.
At least the thought of having consumed 900 calories from fat today scares me into not wanting to take any risks of ruining the diet-->forcing me to continue and not eat anything else.
...well, "only" 3 more days!
It is a lot harder to eat all these macadamia nuts than I thought it would be! I got annoyed at the taste and texture about halfway through my first bag (and I've got 5 of them to get through...) I just started my 3rd, I'm really trying to spread them out over the day but I've still got 2 more after this and I won't be able to eat again until after 6ish.
I'm definitely feeling the effects of eating almost pure fat already. My stomach gets all weird after I forced feed myself a whole bag. It's supposed to force your body into flushing out a bunch of fat stores though, so it should be worth it. IT BETTER BE WORTH IT lol... I would honestly rather limit myself to 200 calories of the tasty spaghetti I had yesterday than eat 1000 calories of this, but this is supposed to result in the fastest weight loss possible.
Here are some links to an old blog of someone doing (and stopping) the Kekwick (she lost 5 lbs in 2 days...):
http://pureana.blogspot.com/2008/02/day-1-done.html
http://pureana.blogspot.com/2008/02/morning-of-day-2.html
http://pureana.blogspot.com/2008/02/off-of-kekwick.html
I am PRAYING that I don't get sick like she did...
Another link for your information:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5821136/burn_stored_fat_fast_with_the_kekwick.html?cat=5
Last night I measured out 4 days worth of food for the Kekwick diet (1 cup of macadamia nuts per day). I split each days worth into 5 servings so that I make sure to stagger how much I eat over the course of the entire day. I'm really excited/anxious about this diet because I've read so many good things about it (that it really works!) and also because macadamia nuts are tasty lol. I just hope that by Friday I don't get sick of it since it's the only thing I'll be eating all week.
Yesterday I stuck to 200 calories. I had a tiny salad (only mixed greens) for lunch and then for dinner I had "spaghetti" made with tofu shirataki<--this stuff is AMAZING! They're pasta noodles made out of tofu and one serving is only 20 calories. I had 1 serving of the noodles + 1 serving of spaghetti sauce for a total of 100 calories. If I doubled it I would have had a HUGE bowl of "pasta" for only 200 calories. I definitely recommend it (but you can't eat it plain because it doesn't have any flavor, so make sure to put pasta sauce or something on it). I got it at Ralphs, located right next to the tofu. :D
I had 800 calories on Thursday, and then 800 on Friday... and then 800 on Saturday... And then who knows (~1500?) on Sunday...
That was definitely not part of my plan, which means even further adjustments to what I had planned. I was going to do 2-4-6-8 to build up to 1000 (for Kekwick) but it looks like I've already done that... So I'm doing 200 calories tonight and hopefully starting the Kekwick tomorrow. The only thing that would stand in my way would be if I can't somehow get around to weighing out my macadamia nuts because my boyfriend or roommates say something about it. I realize now that I should've weighed them out beforehand (but I didn't want them to get stale!).
Ugh I also neglected to take my vitamins and fiber supplement Saturday and Sunday, which probably messed up my energy levels (I was sooo tired over the weekend--I thought it was just due to the travel) and also made me irregular.
On a lighter note, I did finally weigh myself again this morning and it read 111.5, which will hopefully get lower once I get rid of all the waste from the junk I ate this weekend (fiber time!).
I am sooo glad that I have to do so much walking/scrambling around during the day because of school/work. I never have any time to exercise (and yet I somehow have time to binge?..) because of studying (graduating a year early!), so I know that my activity during the day really helps out a lot. There is no way I could still be losing weight despite my frequent mini-binges if it weren't for the calories burned in the day.
My boyfriend and I were separated for Easter (he stayed with his family while I visited mine), but I found out yesterday that he tried Epsom Salt (as a laxative) Saturday night. Once he told me about it I knew that I could do it every once in a while without having to hide it from him (yay!). He knows I'm paranoid about "regularity" and "cleansing," but I figured he would not approve of taking laxatives. BUUUUUT since he's tried it now, I can use it too lol...
I've really been wanting to take pictures of my body (say weekly?) to keep track of my progress, but every time I do I hate what I see and delete it. I'm worried that I'll never like what I see because I have a hideous reminder of how fat I let myself get in high school--I have stretch marks on my hips and thighs... And no matter how thin I get the scars will still be there :(
Wow lol sorry for the long and rambling post but I just had so many random thoughts in my head!
