Too Good to Last:-(

Thanks everyone for your kind words about the McDonalds challenge, but I've got to confess the first excitement about conquering Optifast is pretty much gone now. I was ok until Thursday, when I was suddenly absolutely ravenous, but I put that down to a day of irregular meals and just soldiered on (I'm pretty certain my OH was calling me "Major Bitch" under his breath!!).

Since then I have really struggled - often not so much with real hunger, but certainly with head hunger. Absolutely sick of sweet flavourings (especially artificial sweetener), and craving savoury things so much that I actually resorted to sucking on half a teaspoon of Vegemite just to get that salt fix. Why is it that the optifast people can make a vanilla shake taste salty (while pretending to be sweet - yuk!) but can't make a decent soup or savoury snack???

Enough whingeing! There are a lot of positives happening if I stop to think about them.

OH (picture a cross between Steve Irwin and Scotty Cam) is not the type to sit down for long and have a conversation about anything other than the latest specials at Bunnings. But I took the counsellor's advice, and started talking to him in bite-sized chunks - and he seems a lot more relaxed and realistic about the whole thing, so things feel a lot better on that front.

People at work are being fantastic (even the ones who werea bit phased by the idea at first) - and I even had on of the newer girls fess up to me that she had her stomach stapled years ago, but hasn't told anyone at work but me - she has been really sweet!

Last but not least, I have actually LOST WEIGHT - and that is feeling really good! So maybe I can deal with just one more week of Opti (and Vegemite!) LOL!