Week 11 - food record

This is a record of all food I ate in Week 11 of the diet.

Sunday

Breakfast

Steamed smoked haddock

Peas, broad beans, broccoli

Mixed beans in pesto

Lunch

Tuna and egg Salad with tomato and cucumber.

Dinner

Gammon steak

Peas, Broad beans, runner beans, broccoli, carrots

Monday

Breakfast

1 poached egg and 1 slice of ham

Peas, broad beans, broccoli

Mixed beans in pesto

Lunch

Ham and egg with mixed leaves, cucumber and tomato. Home made vinaigrette.

Mixed beans in pesto 

Dinner

Stir fry chicken with chinese stir fry vegetables and mushrooms

Broad beans in pesto

Tuesday

Breakfast

Steamed smoked haddock

Peas, broad beans, broccoli

Broad beans in pesto

Lunch

Tuna and egg on spinach, with tomato and cucumber. Home made vinaigrette.

Dinner

Roasted Chicken breast

Mixed leaf salad with tomato and cucumber

Roasted peppers

Fried mushrooms

Wednesday

Breakfast

1 poached egg and 1 slice of ham

Peas, broad beans, broccoli

Mixed beans in pesto

Lunch

Tuna and egg on spinach, with tomato and cucumber. Home made vinaigrette.

Dinner

2 pork chops

Peas, carrots, cauliflower

Thursday

Breakfast

Steamed smoked haddock

Peas, broad beans, broccoli

Broad beans in pesto

Lunch

Ham and egg with mixed leaves, cucumber and tomato. Home made vinaigrette.

Mixed beans in pesto 

Dinner

Gammon steak.

Broccoli, broad beans, peas and carrots.

Friday

Breakfast

Steamed smoked haddock

Peas, broad beans, broccoli

Broad beans in pesto

Lunch

mixed leaf salad, cucumber and tomato. Mixed beans. vinaigrette.

Dinner

Stir fry chicken with chinese stir fry vegetables, mushrooms, peas and beans

Saturday

Breakfast

Bagel with Cream Cheese

Snacks

Chocolate (approx 100g)

Lunch (at a wedding!)

Bread roll

Shredded duck salad with plumb chutney

Roast pork, crackling, sage and onion stuffing and apple sauce ...

... Roast and Dauphinoise potatoes, seasonal vegetables

Creme Brulee with strawberries, cream and shortbread

Selection of cheeses with crackers

Dinner

1/4lb barbecued burger with salad

Cheesecake slice

selection of small cakes (lots of cake)

Drinks

2 glasses of champagne

1 pint of bitter

2 glasses of red wine

Week 11 - results

Week 11 took me up to my real target date. My older brother got married on 18th June, and I was sharing best-man duties with my younger brother. There were going to be lots of photographs, so I planned to get in the best shape I could.

I went for a suit fitting 8 weeks ago, and unsurprisingly, when the suits all arrived on Friday, mine was at least a size too big in the trouser waist, the waist coat and jacket. I should have seen this coming of course, but if anything, it proved how much change I'd managed to effect in these last 11 weeks.

As it turns out, the outfitters, Peter Posh of Shrewsbury are on the way to where the wedding was being held, and they were very accommodating, providing me with a replacement waist coat and jacket I could pick up on the way. I decided against changing the trousers as they had sufficient adjustment and any wrinkles in the waistline were concealed by the waistcoat - and it would have been more of a pain for me and the waiting family to have to get changed at the shop.

On the day before the wedding, I managed to hit my 20lb goal, slipping back by 0.2lb to 19.8lb on the Saturday morning through some mystery. However, I had got there in the end. this graph shows the progress during week 11.

The wedding went really well, and there was plenty to eat and drink. As the Sunday following was Fathers Day in the UK, I ended up taking that off as well as a cheat day, and now having just finished week 13, I've just recovered back to my 20lb overall loss.

This is more-or-less where my current story as regards the four hour body diet ends. Having spent 1/4 of a year on the diet, I'm going to take some time away from it and move back to a more regular diet. However, there are some aspects that will stay with me for some time.

- little or no milk in my diet - tea and coffee are now always black
- much reduced intake of bread and bakery products (at least until I'm on holiday in France in August)
- increased water consumption
- breakfasts will probably remain dominated by fish and vegetables. I kind've like it now.

This next diagram shows the daily variations across the whole 11 week period.

I hope you've found this journal of interest. If nothing else, it shows the exact way someone lost 12% of bodyweight in 11 weeks. If you try it, I wish you every success.

E