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Hi all,

I wanted to write a little update about how it's been going following the principals of Deliciously Ella, which I started a little over a month ago now. You can see my post about starting it, and what it involves here.

For almost a month, I stuck to it entirely. There were a couple of slips, when I didn't realize a certain ingredient was in something, like the cranberries I bought, and my brother noticed had been sugar coated!

As with any diet, though, I think it's really tough to just jump right in, and not have any slips. Especially when you're going into something that requires such a huge change, and cutting so many different items.

My slip came this past week. I had a really busy weekend the first week of August, and for the first a while I stuck completely to plan, but then on one day I decided I just couldn't come home and cook something, so I allowed myself to have one cheat day. This involved KFC, which is probably one of the worst things I could have gone for, but it tasted good, so I told myself, just one day and I'll get back to it tomorrow.

Unfortunately, this one lapse, led to several more over the next week. I was eating chocolate mini rolls, pizza, burgers. I just couldn't say no. Now, I was only eating badly for one meal a day, and a couple snacks, my breakfast and lunch remained good. The problem I was having, is that while I am feeling more energized since being on this diet, my health still isn't good. I get really tired, and often ill by late afternoon/evening time, and some days I'm still bad all day. So it's a lot harder for me, to cook something in the evening.

What I need to get into, is being more organized, and having some meals prepped that can be cooked easily, or frozen and can be heated up.

My weight loss hasn't been affected too badly by my slips. I lost a pound this past week, and a pound the week before. So now I'm down to having just one stone left to go, which is exciting.

From today, I am determined to get back on track fully, and I plan on stocking up on some good choices tomorrow, so I'm not reaching for the cake and pizza.

So, that's where I am currently. I'm still learning, but I'm hoping it'll stick soon.

As for fitness, I did 15k on the exercise bike yesterday, which was the first proper exercise I've done in a while. I need to get back into eating fully healthy and running on the treadmill! I also want to get more into pilates.

I'll update again soon on how it's going.