Day 8 - This is life now

This Isagenix caper is beginning to feel like a good habit to be having. I don't think I need to do daily updates now, as most days are the same. Shake days or cleanse days, only two types of days. In real life, there are heaps of different types of days, but the basis is the same.

This morning we slept in (love being on holidays!), headed out for some mid-morning shopping, and came home around lunch time. I'd bought some prawns and had some veggies pre-cut from earlier in the week, rustled them together with some quick noodles and called it a meal. After putting it in to MFP a little later in the day, it came out to about 750 calories, which is too high. The recommended intake is 400-600 calories for the 'knife and fork meal', but I could have easily done with half the amount of noodles. Another lesson learned. The meal kept me completely satisfied though, so that's a major plus. Learning to have a delicious meal that ticks all the boxes is definitely difficult.

I've started a list of foods or meals that I want to eat, foods that I probably shouldn't eat, but still want to eat. This list will be used on the couple of 'free' days I have allowed myself over the course of the next few months. You see, yesterday, I set some guidelines for myself. I sat down with my diary and mapped out the next few months. You heard correctly. The next few months.

With 60kg to lose, I'm going to be on the 'losing weight' plan for a long time before I get to be on the 'maintaining weight' plan. Isagenix has plans for every goal, but this specific weight loss bit is the one I'll be following for at least 150 days. That's 5 30-day blocks. So I picked 5 days in that 150 days that will be free days. Days where I don't take the Isagenix products, and I eat whatever I want from the list I'm writing as I go. Chances are, when they come up, I'll choose right. But sometimes I'll choose wrong, and that's okay too.

There are some public holidays, long weekends, and other special occasions in that time, and I've tried to work my free days around those occasions. It's not a foolproof plan, but it allows me to put off 'being off plan' until those times as I've scheduled them in. Giving myself a time to look forward to, a chance to rebel. I find that if I say I'll never have xxx again, I want it all the time, but if I say I'm not having xxx until next week, it doesn't seem so bad. Delaying the gratification.

The next free day is Australia Day - 26 Jan. So until then, I'm on a cycle of shake days and cleanse days. Monday is my first weigh-in on the program, and I'm excited and scared to see what it will show. The weekend in town was a bit of a glitch, but I'll be happy with a loss on Monday morning.