I’ve mentioned before how much I love the Channel 4 show ‘You Are What You Eat’ presented by Gillian McKeith and that I have bursts of determination to eat healthily. Well today I had one of these bursts and decided to browse Gillian’s website for inspiration on how to put this into action. I was happy to find a 7 day Nutrition Plan and managed to pursuade two of my collegues to give the plan a try next week, starting monday morning. I was filled with new found hope that I may loose a few pounds, and feel better too. After noticing that we’d have to get up at 7.15am every morning, we were still not deterred (though the whole idea did seem a tad less appealing), but we were still enthusiastic to give it a good go.

So I started writing a shopping list for the first day, which we planned to buy on sunday afternoon. It was quite hard to do (who’s heard of spirulina or miso soup – I certainly haven’t, and I was still on day one of the nutrition plan). I then decided it may be easier to order online rather than spending hours searching the aisles at the supermarket. I logged onto Tesco’s and compiled my shopping list for the three of us for the first day. Apart from the fact that some of the foods weren’t even recognised, when I reached the end and checked my basket, I was shocked to see that one day’s food for the three of us was going to cost £51.42! That’s £359.94 for the week!

Well that’s the end of my burst, back to my normal eating routine I guess – I’m now feeling disheartened, but glad I didn’t spend hours in the supermarket aisles to finally reach the checkout and realise I couldn’t afford to eat like this for a week! Why is dieting such hard work?

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