I’ve done every diet in the book in an attempt to drop
the unwanted pounds that belong to my fluctuating body and add to my ever
changing curvaceous figure but the Cambridge diet, although the most effective
made me MISERABLE!
I knew a few people that had tried it out and were
astounded with the results. They looked fabulous and I was feeling a little
lost within myself. I had gained weight and wanted a short-term fix for my
long-term battle with food. I had a supply of Cambridge shakes and snacks in my
fridge that were going to go to waste and thought that I may as well give it a
go.
The Cambridge diet can vary depending on what outcome
you are looking for. I was extremely silly and decided to make my own decision
about what meal plan was best for me and opted for the three shakes a day, one
for breakfast, one for lunch and one for dinner. I’m not sure that any
18-year-old girl can be mentally prepared to only drink 3 shakes a day although
I was so sure that I was.
The first day was one of the hardest, most unsettling
days that I had experienced in relation to my dieting journeys. I was a bag of
emotion and I was absolutely starving. Some of you may recognise the term
HANGRY. (A feeling of such hunger that you become an absolute raging lunatic
and could very easily inhale every item of food in your cupboard, cooked or
not.) But the second day was a day that nobody could have prepared me for. I
was like a vampire waiting for my next hit of blood and I wouldn’t be satisfied
until I had drunk every sip of my shake and destroyed the carton. I was two
days in and this diet was already driving me insane!!! One day i even found myself crying into a carton because i had finished it. I had hit a new low.
However difficult, I
continued on and the weight fell off! I dropped a stone in a week and a half
and felt fantastic for a week or two until the weight just piled back on when I
returned to my reasonably balanced diet.
Don’t get me wrong; the
Cambridge diet was a gruelling experience for me because I don’t think that my
body was mentally or physically prepared to consume no real solid food. I
hadn’t spoken to a Cambridge consultant and literally pulled my meal plan out
of thin air and its safe to say that I made a bad decision.
Like all diets, they work for
some people and not for others. I was a reasonably healthy weight and didn’t
need to drop a stone in a week and a half, which is why my body felt such a
strain. I wouldn’t say the Cambridge diet is terrible and nobody should go on
it because that would be wrong but I will say, be careful and talk to a
consultant. Don’t do what I did and put yourself through mental and physical
pain. I’ve seen this diet do fantastic things for people. You just have to go
about it the right way.
A x
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