Still Losing ... Just

Well despite the slippage last week and all that party food at the weekend, I did, amazingly, manage to lose weight - not much granted (3/4lb), but a loss is a loss and I'll accept it. So total weightloss now stands at 2 1/4lbs

Thanks to the IPD forum I found this site called Fitday which is useful for recording your food, exercise etc. Obviously being american it doesn't list all the food that we have - marmite is a good example, and trying to add a custom item can be extremely frustrating (like in the case of quorn mince which is higher in fibre than carbs, but isn't allowed to be according to the site) but it does produce some lovely graphs showing exactly how your daily food breaks down and shows the split between protein, carbs, fat and alcohol. One thing it has shown me is how much of my diet is made up of carbohydrates. Obviously since starting the diet I have restricted my intake of pasta, rice and potatoes as I know I have a problem with them (although I am still eating too much bread - but nowhere near what I was eating) but it is amazing to see how much other stuff that I eat contains huge amounts of carbs (aubergines have the same amount of carbs as a potato).

I have been reading the IPD book since it arrived yesterday and it seems to make good sense. However, I won't be starting this one just yet as I'm not sure I can afford to do it. For starters there is a huge list of supplements that you HAVE to take every day. Doing a quick recce, it would cost almost £50 to buy the required vitamins etc. from Holland & Barrett, and over £90 to buy them from their recommended supplier - and that's just 1 month's supply! I have to admit that I worry a bit about a diet that needs quite so many supplements (on the forum someone said it takes them almost 20 minutes every day to take all the tablets). They are also very insistent on eating only organic food (and under NO cirumstances any economy food ... although I do understand that). So see my weekly shopping bill increase hugely too then as of course the diet is made up of meat, meat and more meat. I shall see how the current plan works for me and then maybe move to this when I reach that plateau that always happens eventually.