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lnrGah, I don't know quite what to say here, because I am a muddle of contradictions. I'm around 100kg, give or take a couple either way. I'm type 2 diabetic. I'm very very strongly encouraged to lose weight to try and bring that into remission, but I've been resisting that and trying to concentrate on eating sensibly to manage the diabetes. I don't believe in dieting for weight loss, because it's usually counterproductive in the long term, but I live in an environment where the pressure for me to lose weight is enormous, including from myself. So, gah. Anyway, skip the rest if you don't want to read about diet talk.
Anyway, for some reason one of the weight loss company ads got me, and I've signed up for a two-week trial of Habitual.
It's a total diet replacement scheme - three months of meal replacements: 4 soups, shakes or porridges a day, for a total of 800 calories. Which could be great or could be awful but VLC diets are supposedly good for "reversing diabetes" and I figured I could give it a go for the cost of postage, and here I am 1.5 days in and doubting myself. So far nothing tastes *horrible* but it's not inspiring. I'm tired and hungry and grumpy but to be fair that's probably not lack of calories - just lack of enjoyment and the weight of expectation of the next 12.5 days! I feel like I *could* carry on a bit longer, but that I'm almost certainly *not* going to sign on for the first full month after the free trial. Which to be fair I thought was a likely outcome anyway. I guess the only question now is do I stick it out for two weeks, or do I go make a sandwich and chuck the meal replacements away?
Anyone want a bunch of 200 cal shakes?
Anyway, for some reason one of the weight loss company ads got me, and I've signed up for a two-week trial of Habitual.
It's a total diet replacement scheme - three months of meal replacements: 4 soups, shakes or porridges a day, for a total of 800 calories. Which could be great or could be awful but VLC diets are supposedly good for "reversing diabetes" and I figured I could give it a go for the cost of postage, and here I am 1.5 days in and doubting myself. So far nothing tastes *horrible* but it's not inspiring. I'm tired and hungry and grumpy but to be fair that's probably not lack of calories - just lack of enjoyment and the weight of expectation of the next 12.5 days! I feel like I *could* carry on a bit longer, but that I'm almost certainly *not* going to sign on for the first full month after the free trial. Which to be fair I thought was a likely outcome anyway. I guess the only question now is do I stick it out for two weeks, or do I go make a sandwich and chuck the meal replacements away?
Anyone want a bunch of 200 cal shakes?
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Date: 2022-04-27 12:05 pm (UTC)I think I might be able to cope with keeping them for one-a-day if I don't manage to stick to the total-replacement scheme for 2 weeks anyway. I'm definitely not going back to calorie counting everything I eat though - I guess that's the other advantage of a total diet replacement plan - no having to plan/count/measure everything you eat.
I did consider Jane Plan at one point, because it's a we-provide-your-food plan with more normal calorie counts, but they still needed you to add your own veg to meals as well, which kind of ruined the point of you-do-all-the-thinking-for-me that I was looking for :)