Flat Belly Challenge - Last Day

It has been 28 days of clean eating for me along with regular exercise and the results are in. Although I only lost about 1 kg my waist measurement reduced by 5cm and I feel more toned, fitter and healthier than I have in a long time.
I had the advantage of moving into somewhere that I had no food only a couple of days before starting the challenge and therefore any food I brought was challenge approved. I think it also helped not having a teenager around to be eating junk food in front of me as has happened during previous attempts to follow healthy eating plans.
I actually found the greatest challenge came from the cheat meals that were permitted each week and I found myself scrutinizing things I would never have even thought of doing that with previously. I found that homemade chocolate blueberry protein bars were enough to overcome any chocolate cravings. Being a bit of a fan of potato chips when I got a desire to eat some of those I had the healthier option of either parsnip or kale chips, although still undecided as to whether I like kale chips or not.
My intention is to continue eating in a cleaner way than I did before the challenge and am looking forward to the muscle I have been building gobbling up the extra fat that is still hanging around. Apparently my ideal BMI requires me to lose another 20 kgs although I think I would be happy with 10 kgs. If you would like to try it yourself go have a look at www.flatbellychallenge.com
Okay now for the proof that doing the challenge was worthwhile!!

Flat Belly Challenge - Cheat meals

I've been on the Flat Belly Challenge for two weeks now and I think the hardest thing so far was having the cheat meal where you can have whatever you want.
Having only recently moved into where I was living and starting the Challenge only a couple of days later I only brought food that was challenge approved so without going out it was all approved food. The recommendation in the challenge is to have the cheat meal on a weekend which makes sense to me despite having started on a Wednesday. When the Mum of the kids I look after a couple of days a week offered me a glass of wine I accepted and decided that this could be a mini cheat and I didn't even end up finishing the whole glass.
Than came the weekend and I decided that I had better fit my cheat meal in there somewhere so as I was going out thought that was a good opportunity. Mind you after all that good healthy eating I walked around the food court looking at all the options being very aware of how much fat and processed food was on offer. I eventually decided on a piece of lasagne which much to my dismay had far to much pasta layers and to be honest I didn't really enjoy it at all.
In regards to the program, well I feel as though my belly is getting flatter although I have measured my waist a number of times and that still seems to fluctuate quite considerably. I did manage to weigh myself after the first week and had lost about 1kg I think however no idea what the weight is yet this week. Mind you as I feel that the exercise I am doing along with the eating challenge is making me more toned so I'm not actually that concerned with the weight and besides my clothes appear to be fitting better.
I'm still finding the program easy enough to follow and since your eating so often never seem to be hungry although sometimes it seems like you're totally preoccupied with food and eating. I look forward to see the results the next couple of weeks bring.

Flat Belly Challenge - The first week

Hard to believe a week has gone by already and I also forgot to blog after the end of the detox like I had intended to do. I didn't find the detox part of the plan difficult at all. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the 'green' smoothies for breakfast and have had the since finishing with the addition of protein powder and also gave putting oats in it a go one morning and that wasn't too bad either.
I seem to have gone okay with not drinking coffee other than when I went to the shops on the second afternoon of the detox and I could smell coffee and all other manner of food I was now choosing not to inflict upon my body. I ended up with a slight headache after that trip however it didn't last long and drinking green teas seems to help.
So with the detox done and dusted I moved onto the rest of the eating plan. Although the protein powder I brought was only vanilla I'm pleased to say I think it is yummy! I'm a bit of a cheese lover so being able to eat some cottage cheese was awesome. I was really feeling like some chocolate so decided to make the high protein chocolate bars and oh my goodness! they are delicious. They smelt so good whilst they were cooking and if I hadn't have eaten my dinner before trying one I may well have been tempted to eat the whole tray full of them.
The one thing I was a little challenged by was the amount of meat that is needed to make up a portion of protein. Now this isn't so much of a problem for me when making dinner however when I put 100g of turkey slice on my rye bread sandwich it looked like so much meat considering in the past I would only put on a couple of small slices. Once I added the salad and started eating it was actually pretty good.
Meals aren't all that difficult to put together since I have cooked up extras of most of the things I have so far cooked and put them in portion size amounts to be taken out of the freezer and used later. Well it's time to go cook one of the other recipes from the plan - meaty muffins, so I have some more variety in what I have to eat and from what other people have said about them they are yummy.