Drop a Jeans Size Diet - Days 7, 8 and 9
After the crisis on Sunday I decided to try a day of recommended portion sizes to see how I got on. My colleagues were as horrified as myself at the miserly crumbs in the bottom of my bowl. Needless to say I was starving only an hour after eating. And you can imagine what happened what I went to do my weekly shop after work …
It was goodies galore and troughing central when I got home. I knew instantly that there was no mileage in that approach.
One thing I did by at the supermarket was a packet of Kelloggs Special K Red Berries - a promotional pack for the Drop a Jeans Size diet. All it said was A BOWL. There were no guidelines as to weight or total calories. After digging around on the Kelloggs website I eventually found that the recommended amount of Special K to be consumed on the diet is 45g per meal. It didn’t say how much milk you are supposed to have.
Either way 45g of Special K Red Berries is 168 kcal. For Day 8 I decided to try about 170 kcal of cereal with about 100ml of skimmed milk totalling just over 200 kcal per bowl. For Oatibix this meant I could fill the bowl two thirds full at each meal - certainly an improvement, but still not sufficiently satisfying to keep you going until tea time. When I got home I did some serious damage to a pot of humous and some pitta breads.
For today, Day 9, I decided I would see what fit in the bowl and how much exactly it was worth in terms of kcal. Actually, it turns out that you can only fit 45g of Special K in the bowl - so that’s what I had - 200 kcal for breakfast. I can’t say that I like Special K Red Berries very much: the flakes are bland, the berries are tart, and the full-feeling afterwards doesn’t last very long. For lunch I had Oatibix - 60g fits nicely in the bowl without quite filling it and with 200ml of skimmed milk comes to about 300kcal. I was very hungry by the time I got home at 6.30pm but it wasn’t unbareable. I reckon I could live with 300kcal per meal for breakfast and lunch.