Absolutely!!!
-now I eat 2 meals a day instead of 4 on my 5 normal days.
- I don't eat breakfast anymore except a late brunch on weekends with family.
- I only eat bread on weekends and its the best sourdough or Turkish I can lay my hands on.
- i cook 95 % of our food from scratch and freeze individual meals in those cheap thin rectangle takeaway containers from the $2 shop for when I don't feel like cooking (checkout
http://www.skinnymomskitchen.com - I learn so much from there) ( part of me feels bad for being environmentally unfriendly using these containers but I like the thinnest ones as they take up so little room in the freezer and are the perfect size meal for everyone and I figure its healthy home cooked food with no take away packaging
- I eat real salted butter on toast now with no guilt, just dekight.- just on weekend at brunch,
- I eat chips again - salty potatoe crisps, toobs, cheese and bacon balls.- the whole family of 5 shares a big packet once or twice a week.- these were a banned guilt food before 52.
-I still don't desire cornettos,magnums ,ice cream , chocolate ( I'm a savory girl) but happy to provide then on Saturday family night for kids and hubs.
- I don't feel like I have to eat fruit now. I only used to eat it because I felt I had to but now I know its calorific and I feel I get the benefits of vitamins and fiber from my daily berocca, meatamucil and loads of colorful veges daily.
-i now have 2 alcohol free days a week.
- best of all is 'help yourself to dinner Friday nights'- kids have typical 2 minute noodles, baked beans,eggs,cheers on toast ( I don't care really) what do I have?
Cheese and bacon ball crisp, white Costello cheese with quince paste on sour dough toast and a few cheaky pino grigios and a few sparkling wines total bliss and still losing weight.
All and can say is 52 is no guilt sustainable weight loss. My enthusiasm hasn't wained in 7 months because its sustainable and it works!
Xxx julianna