Hi Everyone.......

I profusely apologise for not posting daily updates on the diet, I have gone through massive changes both personally and professionally that I could not carve out time to do any daily update on this blog, so I will do a quick summary of what happened since day 3

I continued on the diet for the required 2 weeks, not because it got better and I enjoyed the meals......far from it, at some points of the day I was more conscious of the fact that I was hungry than I normally would, below is the meal plan as per the diet:

DAY 1:BREAKFAST:Black coffee without sugar or milk/water.Quantity limitless

LUNCH:Two boiled eggs and spinach with a little salt.

SUPER:One big steak (grilled) or 3 small steak baked or boiled chicken.
Green salad - kind of fruit you like.

DAY 2:BREAKFAST:Black coffee without sugar or milk/water and one dry breadroll.
LUNCH:One medium sized steak grilled/chicken.Green salad and any fruit.
SUPER:Cooked ham/chicken in limitless quantities.
DAY 3:BREAKFAST:Same as day two
LUNCH:Two boiled eggs, salad and fresh tomatoes
SUPER:Cooked ham/chicken and green salad
DAY 4:BREAKFAST:Same as day three
LUNCH:One boiled egg, carrots (cooked or raw) and swiss cheese
SUPER:Fresh fruit and natural yogurt
DAY 5:BREAKFAST:Same as day four
LUNCH:Steamed fish and fresh tomatoes
SUPER:One big steak (grilled) and green salad
DAY 6:BREAKFAST:Same as day five
LUNCH:Grilled chicken
SUPER:Two boiled eggs and grated carrots
DAY 7:BREAKFAST:Tea with lemon and no sugar or milk
LUNCH:Grilled steak and fresh fruits
SUPER:Now you can eat whatever you want

NEXT DAY (DAY 8) YOU START OFF WITH THE DIET AS FROM
DAY 1 AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE SECOND
WEEK YOU CAN EAT NORMALLY AGAIN

Reference: www.angelfire.com/me/raingirl/diet. (DON'T WANT TO PLAGIARISE)

I, in a nutshell would not recommend it, the calorie intake is less than the minimum 1200 for females firstly, granted I lost 9kg - but I have since on a regular diet of appropriate portions of meals and regular exercise for the past 6 months lost an extraordinary 35kg and reached my goal weight, meaning I was indeed weighing in at the beginning of this journey 102kg

I got on the scale on the 15th of March 2014 and hit the triple digits, I think I died a little bit, blackout or something, because I was stunned - I knew I had picked up weight of course I am not delusional, but not to the point that I was twice the weight I was when I finished High School, I decided there and then that the triple digits on the scale are not for me.

Considering how active I was through high school and University (I was studying sport science..........nough said), I need an awesome jump start that will be encouraging, the German diet was not. I was miserable really, the only reason I saw it through is because that is who I am, I hate starting anything and not finishing it, but I sure will not be doing it again, yes I lost 9kg but I cant help feeling that I stripped by body of essential nutrients and luckily knew what is required to continue loosing weight in a health way.

I attribute my weight loss to exercise, I started exercising 5 times a week, and doing only activities I enjoy, I know enough about myself that if my exercise revolved around the treadmill I might at well move into a crispy cream and surrender to obesity, I HATE RUNNING, so I did not do it, I went to dance classes at the gym, spinning, swimming, elliptical, weight training etc; except running. I did however in the past week started the 5km Nike running training because I want to do a charity run later in the year and I like to win, charity or not. I don't hate running so far - but i don't love it either, don't know if I will, guess the jury is out on that.

In conclusion, I wanted to share my experience with anyone who cared or wanted to know (although not that successfully....:( apologies again!) my journey on a diet that seems to offer a lot of promise but does not seem practical or all that health, I cannot PERSONALLY recommend it - I was willing to put my body through that to see if it works because my curiosity far outweighs my fears and secondly I cannot say whether my metabolism increased due to it or not, all I know for sure is that in those two weeks, I hated my food and felt like I was on some trippy version of a hunger strike.

I would like to hear from anyone who tried it and what their views are, good or bad.

Good luck to anyone who is on a weight loss journey and I am happy to answer MOST questions relating to this for anyone who has a question, I will try to not be so horrific with replies

day 3

today quiet uneventful,

Breakfast: SAME AS YESTERDAY

I did not mind it either, I got so held up in my day to day activity I did not even think about it.

Lunch: boiled egg, carrots and tomatoes

I sub the tomatoes, I was not paying that game. I can't even stand the texture so had asparagus instead, much better sub, loved the carrots - refreshing really - done with the eggs now PLEASE


Dinner: chicken and green salad

same as yesterday really, except yesterday I did not have salad though so that was great.

Today was pretty bland and far as my meals for concerned - tomorrow should be better.

DAY 2 of the journey

well well well, I live another day.

Breakfast: Black coffee with a breadroll

I actually did not mind it, bread roll was more than welcome. I love coffee........"shocker".......and the breadroll was welcome carbs, barely any, but carbs non the less.

 

Lunch: steak/chicken, salad and a fruit

I chose to have steak again even though I had it yesterday, but because the evening options are chicken or ham and I HATE ham - I would rather eat steak again and have chicken in the evening. had kiwi as a fruit, may fav, I actually love this lunch

Diner: chicken/ham

HAM, blarrrrrrr, CHICKEN yeah!!!!!!!!!! and I braai'd .........is that how you spell it? oh well, braai is South African and sounds ok to me - I braai'd the chicken and it was amazing. but this actually raises concerts on the amount of nutrients I gained on this meal, it was just protein, which is great but lacks other essential nutrients. I am not hungry now but feel they will come a point where I will be starved and not be able to eat anything until dinner of lunch or whatever...........

Second concern is that with just three meals a day, how is that increasing my metabolism, I mean as far as I have learnt, having about 6 small meals a day - healthy of course - will health boost your metabolism and I guess I am struggling to rap my head around how this diet will do that.

Alas........hehehe.........I will see it through because I don't think I will hate the results and have a plan on continuing after the diet without gaining all the weight back, so I will continue.

I can't help but worry about tomorrow's plan of Tomatoes, I hate them more that ham, I think I will substitute them for asparagus - yep - I have to

lets put the west german diet to the test

PUTTING THE WEST GERMAN DIET TO THE TEST

OK, I have been going to the gym religiously now for over a year, and it have paid off somewhat. I have only done minor adjustments to my diet (i.e. reduced the amount of sugar in my coffee, whole wheat pasta etc.) nothing major though so any weight I have lost is because of the Gym.

Here is the problem, I am not going to the gym enough anymore because of work and school and I have been trying to loose 1 kg for over a month now and I think I have plateaued.

I am now looking at this differently, I need to do something I am extremely bad in, GO ON A DIET...........I mean the horror!

I am yet to stick to a diet, I was and still am a firm believer in a lifestyle change - I am not good at depriving myself of things I like but now understand that to loose weight I might have to postpone some of those treats and reduce the size significantly. well I am very slow at that change but will get there.........to do that I thought why not do an actually diet and reintroduced my favourite foods thereafter at a much reduced quantity and frequency.

Now I am hoping you asking yourself - why the west German diet, here are my reasons:

   - I have a friend that tried it and I was amazed by the results
   - I love my protein (MEAT and FISH) and will not go on a diet that will take it away
   - I go to the gym at least three times a week and need the protein repair muscles
   - I need something that will control my sugar intake because I am hopeless
   - I am in the health industry and will know if there are red flags that come up
   - I will not let my self starve on this diet - hoping that it is not the case

I am starting this today and need this blog because documenting it puts me in perspective of my goal, hoping to here from anyone on their active experiences too - a community if you will because I don't know anyone in my life that can take this journey with me.

HERE GOES:

 

DAY 1

Breakfast: Black coffee

I love my coffee, I have been know to call it my drug of choice, but I put sugar in it course if nothing else, sometimes with cream.

I luckily was not that hungry this morning, and I usually am not on most days so a cup of coffee was right up my ally to wake me up and set me up for the day ahead

 

Lunch: steamed spinach and 2 boiled eggs

One word, HORRIBLE! besides the fact that it does nothing for the pallet,  all you are allowed to put on it is salt, I don't mind the eggs actually, its the flavourless spinach that made me almost gag. I am glad it does not make an appearance later in the week because that might be my reason to quit, HATE it, it was surprisingly filling though and am glad that's over........I am however looking forward to dinner.

Supper: Grilled steak, green Salad and one fruit

Right up my Ally too, love this dinner and I am KING at making steak so, besides lunch today was a good day.

Now the question is how much do I weight, well.........I opt to not share that but rather how much I am loosing, weigh in every 4 days seems appropriate.

LETS DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTHING BUT HONESTY - WHY NOT RIGHT