My wife is very kind. She has started things off by giving me a lie in. It's basically less time for me to realise just what I'm getting myself into...
What I'm getting myself into is the Harcombe Diet. My wife has been trying various options for the past few years - not for weight reasons, but because food seems to send her a bit crazy (yes, more crazy than women are apparently legally entitled to be). This one was "proper science" and we should "do it together". I like to think of myself as being quite open minded, but diets have always got my goat. This is mainly because I have the taste buds of a 7yr old child, but also I just don't like not being in control of what I eat. But it was important to the wife, so I agreed to at least read the book.
That was a while ago, but we found ourselves on a hot holiday a few weeks ago, and I'd finished my book, so the diet book was all that was available (I believe somehow my wife orchestrated this but I have yet to come up with a sensible theory to support this). To my surprise, I was unable to find very much to find fault with this plan, other than the author spends far too long repeating herself (I suspect to justify it being a book and not a leaflet...).
The headline is this - for the first 5 days, we can only eat meat, eggs, veg (no potatoes) and live yoghurt, and 50g of rice a day. No limits on those things, but nothing else. After the 5 days is up, we can slowly introduce other real foods, like fruits, milk, wholemeal bread, until we've lost the weight/cravings we were trying to lose. And that's it. You see now my leaflet comment... (though to be fair there is a lot of science behind this I won't bore you with/run the risk of copyright infringement more than I am already!).
So here we are - day 1. And we've decided going to a music festival is the best way to distract ourselves. Which was a good idea until we realised that eating lots of food and drinking is a big part of most festivals, and this is no different. We bravely fought the cravings for a few hours, but then trudged home. Eating fritata (no idea if thats how you spell it - basically omelette with bacon and green beans) just wasn't doing it for me.
Finished the day with bolognese and rice, which to be fair wasn't very different to my normal dinner (save a bit less rice). Still, hoping the rest of the 5 days goes easier than this...
