As a perpetually dieting food obsessive, I'm forever thinking about my next meal whilst also planning my next diet. Is that normal? Apparently not.
Currently, I have a beach holiday looming and the bikini fear has set right in. The muffin top I've been lovingly cultivating has to go. Or at least I will embark on my 'novelty diet of the week' in a vain attempt to try to shift it. This time, I'm trying the Special K diet. The premise is simple - replace usual breakfast and lunch with a bowl of Special K, and after 2 weeks, TA DA, I'll be one whole dress size slimmer. A size 10 after 2 weeks, and 2 weeks until I go on holiday? SOLD.
I started on Monday because the girl who sits next to me at work is doing it too. And if there is one thing I enjoy as much as food, it’s a bit of healthy competition. This is how I'm getting on:
Day 1
Bowl of Special K for breakfast as planned. I'm doing well! YES!
E-normous bowl of Special K for lunch. I'm already bored, but patting myself on the back for day one's achievements. I resist office treats all afternoon, and sit smugly at my desk while those around me tuck in. Willpower isn't something I'm blessed with often so when I do have it, I revel in it.
Then I have a big fat pizza for dinner, all to myself. Day one blown.
Day 2
Special K for breakfast. Tick
Lunch time rolls round and I can't face it. Day two and I'm already on Special K overload. I have a jacket potato and cheese. Cheese! It feels so wrong, but it tastes so right. Dinner is near virtous as a result, grilled halloumi and salad. I ignore the fact that its more cheese and assure myself that halloumi is good cheese, even though its a bit squeeky.
Day 3
Special K for breakast, which was…. fine.
Lunch time I meet my dad for lunch, he works round the corner from me. I try to be good but I have a 2 course dinner instead, with bread. Useless. And then my dad gives me an early Easter present - the biggest Lindt chocolate bunny I've ever seen. It’s a kilo of chocolate, a KILO! Its bigger than my cat. I will love it more than my cat. Currently, its under my desk at work, waiting for its moment of glory. Weighing up whether I should share with the office and therefore share the calories, I'm still thinking about that.
Technically I should have Special K for dinner now, but alas, that would be rubbish, and my boyfriend has cooked a naughty curry which is my Achilles heal.
But I did go to the gym after work and pumped some iron, therefore in my head, this cancels out all bad behaviour today! Right?
Day 4
I can't face it, no more Special K, no more! I plump for a grande skinny latte with sugar free vanilla syrup for breakfast instead which fills me up until lunch. Result! TECHNICALLY, I haven't eaten anything yet today, brilliant. That means I can have a nice normal lunch…. Special K diet is officially over, a dismal failure. Looks like the muffin top isn't budging this time. On the plus side, girl next to me has also given up and I think I lasted slightly longer than her which means this wasn't all a waste of time
oh little miss, special k diet sounds ruddy awful and i always thought it was a marketing ploy by kelloggs anyway! fancy doing a cleanse next? go on you know you want to...
ReplyDeleteIzzy, have a baby, obviously this doesnt solve the slimming issue as you have to become enromous and feel really unattractive for 9 months, but you eat what you want WITHOUT feeling guily, until, you look in the mirror and find that over night your bingo wings have expanded so much that if you dare to wave you will literally take off.. BUT the good thing is when the baby is here you are so fricking tired that food is the last thing on your mind and you slim without knowing it, apart from when you faint or having a raging temper due to the lack of food.. or that just might be me. daa naaa back to size 10... well size 11, so size 10 when breathing in when wearing favourite jeans.. TRY It.. xxxx
ReplyDeletesorry my spelling is awful i am in a rush as my boss is looming xx
ReplyDeleteI'm back on the Special K diet. AS OF TODAY AFTER READING THIS, YOU WENCH.
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ReplyDeleteYou are aware that there are many different varieties of Special K that you could try in order to 'mix things up'. However this leaves me to wonder whether this diet even deserves a second try.....
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