Set yourself exact times to have your products / meals. If you're struggling to make your daily allowance last, tell yourself you can only have your products at set times, e.g. 9am, 1pm, 4pm & 8pm. If you're hungry before product time comes around, fill up on water, or a nice hot cup of tea, coffee or Golden Vegetable mix.
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If you prefer to eat in smaller meals, you can halve your products. Bars & bites are easy to graze on, but you can also make up half a shake, soup or any other product at a time.
This way, instead of having only 3 or 4 meals a day, you can have six or eight small meals. If you want to split any sachet products, measure out half the sachet each time and mix with half the amount of water.
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If you like a bit more flavour with your products, you can add anything (except salt!) to your products or meals. So, whether they be dried or fresh, think about incorporating chilli flakes, black pepper, chives, oregano, worcester sauce, balsamic vinegar, curry powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, thyme, lemon juice.... anything calorie and salt free.
(Our salt intake is something we should all be trying to limit, and it also causes the body to retain water, so it's an all round no-no for slimmers like us!)
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You can use the Mix A Mousse powder and water flavourings to make jelly sweets to nibble when you've used up all your products. These all count towards your water intake for the day and can be consumed on top of your daily products.
Find the recipe below.
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Use the Mix A Mousse to turn your milkshake into an 'Angel Delight' mousse for a tasty dessert.
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Make sure you're getting enough calorie-free fluid. Our Plan recommends a minimum of 2.25ltrs per day, but our needs are very individual. I usually suggest my slimmers aim for 3 ltrs per day.
You can make this up from still or sparkling water, our water flavourings, black tea and coffee, fruit and herbal teas. You can add a slice of lemon or some mint for flavour. You can add tablet sweetener to your drinks if you like, but steer clear of powder sweetener. If you are on a Step with a calorie allowance you can add milk to your hot drinks and even enjoy the occasional diet fizzy drink.
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Combine and mix products to make variety. There are all sorts of options, you can find some ideas below.
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Try to spend some time on activities that completely distract you, and ideally give you something to keep your hands busy. Whether that's reading, craft, playing an instrument, or housework, do whatever keeps you busy between products.
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Use the social media links below to get some inspiration from other slimmers already on plan. You will see loads of success stories, and probably meet quite a few people just starting their journey, just like you. Reach out to them, it makes all the difference to surround yourself with like-minded people.
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Stay in touch with me! I am here to support you all the way. If you have a question about how to cook your meals, how to work out quantities, how to make things a bit easier on plan, please just send me a message!
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No question is too daft! Your first few days will be a bit of a shock to the system. Your body will need a bit of time to adjust, whichever Step you start on. Just pace yourself, take things slowly and don't put too much pressure on yourself. Don't do any new strenuous exercise regimes for the first couple of weeks, just take a nice gentle walk if you need to get out and about.
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Once your body has worked through the first 4-5 days, you should find signs of hunger will gradually subside, and over the next couple of weeks your thoughts will turn to food less and less. Due to the good level of hydration and the intake of vitamins and minerals in the products you will be getting every day, you should find that your energy levels increase, you feel much more awake and motivated to get up in the morning! Those horrible feelings of lethargy and bloatedness you get from a carb-heavy diet will soon be a distant memory!
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Just one day off the plan can take four whole days to put right! That means you would have to go through the first few days and all those horrible bloated feelings again just for that one day off track. Try your best to stick to it 100%. If you have a special occasion coming up and you want to relax your diet for the day, let me know and we can have a chat about stepping you up for a few days around it, so you can have something delicious, and not have to feel guilty about ruining all your hard work.