KimmyK1's re-feed diary

[Kimmyk1]

Day 1

Starting weight: 57.2 kg

Have had an interesting day with the reintroduction of bread and increasing portion sizes.

I added in blueberries as my good fruit and was amazed at the amount I had to eat

I also had to increase my old vegetables and old protein which I spread out over two meals. After my chicken and vegetable soup at lunchtime (and the first piece of toast I have had in 20 weeks), I felt incredibly full. I think it was more the increase in vegetables that left me feeling full rather than the piece of bread which I had toasted. I didn't feel any horrible effects from the bread but after reading other refeed diaries if the weight suddenly jumps up, I will know the culprit

Tonight for dinner, I increased my protein and found it very filling. The first time in 3 or so weeks that I haven't still been hungry.

Still keeping up my 3 ltrs of water a day. I want to make a conscious effort to keep this good habit up!

[ceburoo]

Hi Kimmy welcome to re-feed land. I have been here for ten days and today was the first day that I felt that the additional veges was too much but that is the rules so be it. I always toast my bread coz I feel (not proven) that it is not so heavy (doughey) as plain bread.
Hope everything goes well for you.

[lindy]

Hey Kimmy,

Congrats on making it to Refeed. Sounds like you too are enjoying the extra food. Just curious as I do love my seafood and New Zealand does have some nice seafood... were you limited as much as to the types of fish you were allowed to eat ?

Anyway congrats for making it this fasr and good luck with the trip. Have a great weekend.

[Francesca]

Hi Kimmy

Welcome to this wonderful corner of the forum - where we get to experiment, add, subtract and find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Don't worry too much about the bread. A few of us seem to be having a rough time with it, but lots of people don't see any ill effects from having bread so you shouldn't expect to have gains because of it. I will keep my fingers crossed for you!

[Kimmyk1]

Starting Weight: 57.2 kg
Today's Weight: 57.0 kg

Had a good day up until lunchtime where I added in pineapple and a slice of bread to my meal. Within half an hour of lunch my tummy was quite crampy and I felt like I needed to stay close to the toilet. I am not sure whether this was the bread or the pineapple so tomorrow I will not have pineapple and just one slice of bread and see whether it still reacts the same way. I am not really too worried about giving up either if it is a problem.

I increased my protein and vegetables in my evening meal. Discovered that a tin of tuna is not really the weight it states on its tin! So had to add some more from another one. Felt comfortably full afterwards, to the point that having a piece of fruit later on was a bit of a task.

Thanks for stopping in Lindy, Francesca and Ceburoo. It is great having some company on this exciting part of my journey.

[Kohinoor]

Hi Kim,

Sounds like it's all good here in refeed land so far - great stuff !! That "full" feeling must be nice for a change eh? How long is your refeed?

It's good news too, that you'll be "done and dusted" and learning to maintain by the time Xmas gets here. Good work

Koh