Newcastle diet

At almost 3 weeks I’d lost 11 pounds. However last night, I spiked a high fever, with weakness, nausea and blood in stool. Ironically it arrived on the day my vegan protein bars arrived and I had my first one, so I’ll not be going near them again either, just in case.

So the newcastle diet 800kcal is no more, I’ll likely once I get my lanscoprazole opt for 1400-1600 kcals instead, with carrots and peas being a mainstay. Also kimchi isn’t bad if it turns out to be an ulcer. I’ve had this before, but they couldn’t find the cause 3 years ago, the timing of the comeback seems pretty sus to me, so I can’t recommend the diet if you have had problems in the past, but that’s empirical evidence and guesswork.

Weight loss for the week : 3~4 pounds

Still tough to do, contrary to what’s stated in the book, you do get hungry, you do get more used to being hungry but it’s still there.

If it wasn’t for the diabetes benefit I’d have stopped by now and raised it up to around 1200kcal, which is perfectly doable without ever being hungry.

Looks like you’d lose roughly a stone and a quarter over the 30 days, I’ve been keeping a record of my weight per day, mostly it stays the goes down or stays the same for a day. For consistent results, when you first wake up, in the same attire I’ve found gave the best results, also you weight the least :)

This is not easy to do. I’m struggling with ‘cheating’ on it, mainly to get to sleep, three times this week but I’ve come up with a solution that should work.

So main meals.

3 times a day. USN Diet Fuel Strawberry UltraLean 2 kg, Diet Protein Powders, Weight Control & Meal Replacement Shake Powder. 350ml of water, the shake is real nice but does contain milk. This makes up 600 calories total at 200x3, lasts around 3-3.5 hours before getting hungry again.

Then 2 tins of carrots, or one small tin of peas if I was feeling generous. Oh sooo deckedent! This is around 100 kcals, 140 if peas.

On a carrot day : baseline is 682 kcal. On a peas and carrot day : baseline is 724 kcal.

The rest is Diet coke, monster and diet club orange. For reference, diet coke is the least calories maybe 4kcal per 1000ml, Monster is 22 kcal, diet club is 60kcal. Yup gotta count them too…

I have cheated 3 times with a protein bar at 240kcal, just so I could sleep. Though now I split the bar and avoid diet club, so that puts me back to around 800kcal.

Weight loss for the week : 4 pounds / 1.8 kg.