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Day 2 : 21/03/11 : 500 calories

So today is day 2 and I stuck to the plan!

I ate: Tuna sandwich (325), Milkybar (137) and 3 sugar free blackcurrent juices that you water down (30 max). TOTAL = 492.

I also walked to and from work which is half an hour each way so I'm proud of myself there too.

Haven't really felt hungry all day, I am a little disappointed in the food choices I made because chocolate & bread are probably the worst things I could've had but I've now stocked up on healthy foods and I'm planning my meals in advance because I know the daily calories I'm allowed to eat. I think preparation is the key to success.

My sister, who is naturally skinny (UK 4), has made my lunch for tomorrow's 300 calorie allowance and has dug out the old gym equipment so I am very motivated.

H xx

The ABC diet RULES (21/3/11)

Basically here are the rules, you can eat what you want but you have to hit the daily target no more & no less:


day1: 500 calories(or less)
day2: 500 calories(or less)
3:300 calories
4:400 calories
5: 100 calories
6: 200 calories
7: 300 calories
8: 400 calories
9: 500 calories
10: fast
11: 150 calories
12: 200 calories
13: 400 calories
14: 350 calories
15: 250 calories
16: 200 calories
17: fast
18: 200 calories
19: 100 calories
20: fast
21: 300 calories
22: 250 calories
23: 200 calories
24: 150 calories
25: 100 calories
26: 50 calories
27: 100 calories
28: 200 calories
29: 200 calories
30: 300 calories
31: 800
32: fast
33: 250 calories
34: 350 calories
35: 450 calories
36: fast
37: 500 calories
38: 450 calories
39: 400 calories
40: 350 calories
41: 300 calories
42: 250 calories
43: 200 calories
44: 200 calories
45: 250 calories
46: 200 calories
47: 300 calories
48: 200 calories
49: 150 calories
50: fast

A little about me & why I am completing this diet (21/3/11)

I've always had an issue with food. I don't think for the past 3 years I've eaten a 'normal' balanced three meals a day.

I went through stages of heavily restricting my daily calorie allowence (to 400 a day) and lost 4 stone in a short period. During this time I was using laxatives and making myself sick daily.
My parents forced me to the doctor and I was put on 'Prozac' and made to see a speacialist but wasn't hospitalised. At this point I was eating normally (i.e not restricting) but making myself sick up to 10 times a day.

Gradually I started to put on weight, a lot of weight, and I am now practically binging 3 meals a day and making myself sick after it.

I would say I was 'ED-NOS' aka 'Eating Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified'. I'm either restricting, purging or binging. But I have still gained weight!!! I was in hospital due to my lungs collapsing (not related to the ED) and given a high dose of steriods for weeks which also didn't help!

So I write this now on Monday 21st March 2011 at 12st 4lbs and my height is 5'4. I am disgustingly obsese and I hate myself. I NEED some strict rules enforcing on my eating pattern, not only to lose weight but to gain back some 'control' (i.e not binge) I did attempt the Weight Watchers diet but felt that eating 1500 calories a day was binging...which then made me binge even more. I won't even go into what I eat in a day and then purge, it's just sickening.

It seems the only way I can stick to a 'diet' is if the rules are strict, like the ABC diet. Basically you stick to a calorie restriction for 50 days and the daily amount of calories vary from 0-800. For example on day 1 you eat 500 calories, day 2 200 calories, day 3 nothing...etc. It supposedly tricks your body's metabolism out of starvation mode and speeds up weight loss. I don't know how true this is but I like the way it's 50 days (so there's a finish line/goal) and also the calories change daily so there's a variety in what you can eat each day. Little daily targets will keep me motivated and once I've completed each day I'll get that feeling of being in control back....and hopefully lose a lot of weight.