Dieting

You can add fruit slices to water as flavouring and bruised herbs. I like fresh mint in fused in some hot water but not boiling water then left to go cold and added to cold water with a slice of lemon then allowed to steep. Big jug full days liquid intake only needs a couple of lemon slices and about 8-10 mint leaves. Drying your own mint also makes the most amazing peppermint tea

Flavoured water also works well with raspberries and strawberries, I prefer honey as a sweetener personally if preferred.

Would you tweak your plan to eat within a time frame 4-6 hours for example. Essentially it’s calories in, I’m losing weight because I’m in a calorie deficit around 300 a day, 3500 is approx 1lb. You’ll struggle to not continue losing weight on one meal a day unless you can find a way to consume 2400-2600 in a single meal, At a guess I’d say you’re currently on 600-1000 at most.

Exercise also impacts I walk the dog every day and that’s 3-500 additional calories burned, and 5-6 hours hard gardening can be upto 2000 calories.

I’ve tried more diets than is healthy and they all failed me eventually because sooner or later the body goes into extreme measures and starts over working the hunger trigger so it consumes your every waking thought. It’s basically fighting you, we gain weight by tricking it, and just overeating by a small margin a day so it stores a little it then uses this to gain a little muscle thicken bone density, until eventually it’s a big tyre!!.

You need to find a way to either consume more at one sitting or extend your sitting. In truth the next stage will be harder than the weight loss as your trying to find that equilibrium no gain no loss. Awesome achievement though Vinny, massive kudos.