I went to a vegi and vegan fair today, lots of free samples but I didn’t feel like gorging on them at all. I tried most things, wasn’t tempted to eat my sons icecream and didn’t fancy a cake at the cafe.

Breakfast – porridge with nuts and dried fruit

Lunch – avocado, spinach and 2 bits of toast with olive oil and pepper

Dinner – baked potato and tuna mayo in the pub with a pint of beer

When I got home I had some mulled wine and a couple of biccies, I didn’t really fancy them but they were there, gingerbread iced ones. 2 biccies was enough.

During the Go Lower experiment I had no sugar for a couple of weeks and when I did have some it was far too sugary popcorn that we made at home. I just couldn’t stop eating it and I felt pretty rough after for hours.

I think it made me realise that too much sugar makes me feel awful, it is just not worth it!

Breakfast – a banana

Lunch – 2 vegi sausages, a mountain of mash and some fried onions, red cabbage, pepper and garlic.

Dinner – meaty pasty, potatoes, big pile of steamed veg, mayo

Pint of ale.

Gonna take some hot chocolate to bed!

My clothes are decidedly looser.

I am now 10st, just by not eating cake and eating loads of veg. I have been drinking lots of wine too, yippee!

add half a bottle of home made elderflower wine to yesterdays food!

Today I have had porridge with nuts and berries and soya milk

Dinner, salad, pumpkin and pastry thing in Ikea with root veg, I was not tempted by the cakes!

Weighed myself in Mothercare while I was getting T a new car seat and i says I am nearly 10.5 stone with my bag and shoes – 9.5 without! Not the most accurate scales in the world!

Go Lower have finally taken the box of food, either that or someone stole it, but at least it is gone.

Today’s food diary

Breakfast – muesli with berries and yoghurt

Lunch – vegi curry with weird chickpea dumpling things in and rice

3pm snack – small avocado and mayo sarnie

Dinner – vegi curry again padded out with spinach

one coffee, 2 teas and I am about to have a glass of wine.

weight 10st 3, dieting strategy – no cakes and sugar, go easy on bread and pasta

I posted a note on the Go Lower forum saying that the diet evidently did not work for everyone as I stuck to it perfectly with no results for 12 days, but good luck everyone and I hope it works for you.

I can no longer get into the forum so I am guessing that they have removed my login details.

I am trying to give the boxes of food back to them but they are not responding to emails.

Quick update of my eating (and drinking)

Monday night – 4 pints of ale and half a slice of cheese on toast (that was day 12 of Go Lower)

Tuesday – pub lunch of a pint of beer, steak and chips, dinner of squash and chickpea curry, olive, spinach and mozerella bread and fruit crumble with oatly cream. Half a pint of beer.

Wednesday – porridge honey and yoghurt and a pasty for lunch so far.

My strategy for this week is to just eat good food in moderation. I am cutting out cakes and sweet snacks and seeing if that makes a difference in my measurements and weight. Loss of 1/2 inch so far makes me happy!

After days of constipation, hunger and a bad taste in my mouth, a weight loss of 1lb and no change in my measurements I GIVE UP!

No more Go Lower diet for me. It just did not work.

I am sure this diet works for some people, but just not for me.

On the positive side I know that I can stick to something if I really want to, so after a day or so of not thinking about food I will be blogging again, but this time I will eat a more traditionally healthy diet with loads of lovely fruit and veg.

Getting this was a bit of a hassle, it was supposed to be on the back of the leaflet.

Think I now finally have all the information I should have had at the start (fucking great big waste of time and effort) but I am going to blow it by going to the pub tonight.

The portions are larger than I have been guessing at, the Go Lower lot must have big hands.
Vegetables one portion daily

Artichoke Heart globes
Three
300g

Asparagus
Large handful
100g

Aubergine
One small
220g

Baby corn
1 handful
100g

Broccoli
Handful / florettes
180g

Brussel Sprouts
1 handful
100g

Cauliflower
Large handful
180g

Celeriac
Half
150g

Celery
One heart/five stalks (trimmed
200g

Courgette
Two -
212g

Curly Kale
Large handful
200g

Fennel
One
150g

Green Beans
A handful -
150g

Green pepper
two
150g

Large Green cabbage
Quarter
200g

Leeks
Two trimmed
203g

Mushrooms -field
Large handful /10
203g

Pak choi
Two
200g

Radish
8 radishes
100g

Savoy cabbage
Quarter
200g

Spinach
One Bag -
200g

Spring Greens
Handful or one bag
200g

Spring onions
2 or 3 onions
80g

Sweet heart cabbage
Half
150g

Watercress
One bunch
88g

Since I weighed myself a few days ago, I have no idea what I weighed at the start.

Just about to heat up a bowl of cat food lookalike for lunch, I wouldn’t have minded going through all the horrors of this if it had actually made a difference. If I had eaten properly for 12 days, cut out bread and sweet things I am sure I would have lost more and my skin would have looked better. And I wouldn’t feel like mice had made a nest in my mouth.

I am not giving up yet though.