Formulated diets – Michael’s experience
May 20th, 2008
Hi folks, Michael here, need to tell you about a new diet that I am currently trying.
It’s a formulated diet made up by a chemist, that basically is high protein and low carb, I learned about it from a lady at work who lost 25kgs, and this was a lady who is also an athlete.
I started it at the first week of April, and I was surprised just how much excess weight I was carrying, suffice to say that when I go back to Europe each year I now need to be careful as my mother is a chef and my father an accomplished cook, well except for curries that I manage to do better than him, much to his dismay.
Anyway back to the story, the chemist ran through the do’s and don’t s and I was shocked as my favorite vegetables and Sally’s I might add, were off limits, namely Peas, Pumpkin, Potatoes and Sweetcorn/Potato. Apparently peas are high is sugar. The formula went with 2 litres of water a day, a formulated shake made with water for breakfast, vegetables or fruit for lunch plus their soup and for dinner 220 grams of meat any kind plus three cups of vegetables. I headed off to the butcher and they have a lovely selection of beef, my favourite is the sirloin marinated in red wine and garlic topped with pepper corns and wrapped with bacon, now this is not a cheap cut of meat think $44 per kilo, but well worth it. They also had some lovely pork and lamb, which I must say is also another favorite, as is Salmon, the Atlantic kind not the “tuna” kind we get here in Australia.
Well after two weeks I managed to lose 4kgs, now I must quantify this as I am a winemaker and not a day goes by with out me having my nose in a glass of red, well as Sophie Marceau says, life’s not worth living if you can’t feel alive!, and I must say never put so eloquently. Anyway the nest week I stabilized and nothing came off as was expected, then in the last 2 weeks another 2.1 kgs disappeared.
The weekend brought nice weather so out on the bike and a 40km ride, which I might say lets your legs know your there as today whilst l was walking up a few flights of stairs I could feel the twinge in the thighs letting me know that they had been working.
On the whole the diet is easy to follow and its pure discipline and I guess re-education, however there are a couple of caveats, one is I refuse to give up the Red and the other is Coffee as she tried to convert me to decaf, I tried but I had to have one real cup per day, after that it really was not a problem.
Anyway I’ll sign off, it you want any more details then feel free to post a comment and we will get back to you.
Cheers
Michael
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