I was looking forward to day 3 as there was some good food on the list and I have to tell you that I have never enjoyed a breakfast as much as I did on day 3. It was a simple breakfast, took 5 minutes to make but I actually tasted and savoured every mouthful of it. Even after 3 days I notice a major shift in my thinking on food. Before I was eating food because I could and I didn’t really taste what I was eating, I would eat a packet of biscuits with a cup of coffee no problem and it was just like eating a bag of crisps. However on day 3 I chewed every mouthful and I tasted the food and enjoyed it for being food and realised it was going to fuel my body. This might sound strange but anybody who has been on any kind of eating plan will know what I mean.

I also had a few extras I could eat as snacks in between the meals I had been given, mainly fruit, but, again, fruit has never tasted so good.

I am still amazed that I am not feeling that hungry, I have had no cravings at all whilst on this eating plan and I honestly expected to have some serious cravings. Again I think it is down to drinking plenty of water and being allowed the coffee and tea, I am still having it with two sugars (my little luxury) but it is starting to taste a little sweet so will cut it down to 1 ½ sugars.

I have past the sore head stage and am feeling normal again , well as normal as I can do.

One thing I have noticed over the last three days is the amount of flatulation I have and the strength of them, I swear I hovered for a second or two when I let one out, such was the strength of it J

Day 4

Thankfully the flatulation has died down a bit which my wife and kids are pleased about.

I enjoyed every bit of my breakfast this morning, it was basic but extremely tasty. There were not as many snack foods today so it was 3 small meals with the usual water, tea and coffee. I am still surprised I am not feeling hungry.

My weight

It’s only been 4 days since I started the diet and I have seen a difference already but I know that this rate of weight loss will not continue over the weeks. So here they are the stats in graph form:

So far I have lost 6Ibs on this diet in 4 days but as David says in a previous reply on days 1 and 2 this could be for a lot of reasons and not just the diet itself, so I am not hung up on the numbers just now.

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The first two days of the Burn Fat 4 Dummies diet plan is over. The initial plan lasts for 4 weeks and after this you go back to eating normally but hopefully with a renewed education on food and motivation for exercise and eating correctly.

Starting point

Obviously there has to be a starting point so let me tell you my statistics just now

Weight: 14st 5Ibs (201 Ibs)

Height: 5ft 11ins

BMI: 28.0 (There are flaws with the BMI scale but it is still useful, you can calculate your BMI here

Goal: Lose 12 – 16Ibs and start eating a healthy diet

Day 1

The first day wasn’t as bad as I had expected. When I saw my plan for the 4 weeks, there are different plans depending on your weight, I panicked a little. I was beginning to think I had made a mistake posting the details on my blog. However I am determined to follow the plan and see how it goes.

The first day consists of eating a set plan of food, drinking eight glasses of water and drinking normal consumption of tea or coffee. As I said, when I saw the plan I thought it was a small amount to eat for the day. I thought I was missing a page or something or had misread, but no, all I had to eat for the first few days was this small amount of food.

I actually managed to do this with ease, although the cakes, sweets and bread did tempt me a lot. Whenever I felt a bit hungry I drank a glass of water. I also cut down on the amount of coffee and Tea I drank. I usually have 6 – 8 cups per day with two sugars. Today I only had 2 cups of tea and 2 cups of coffee, with sugar.

Obviously I cannot tell you what the meal plan is as that would be giving the authors secrets away. However, I wrote to the author and asked if it was healthy to eat this small amount for the first 2 days. He advised that it is not unhealthy unless it was for a prolonged period of time. The first two days is to kick start the metabolism and reboot it, so to speak.

Day 2

It is the end of the second day and I am feeling very lethargic and suffering from a sore head. However I have not been drinking as much water as I should have been. Yesterday I drank only about ½ litre of water but today I have drunk about 1 ½ litres of water. I also have not taken any vitamin supplements.

The second day was the same eating plan as the first day and although I didn’t feel particularly hungry I felt the need to eat something else due to the sore head. So I deviated from the plan and had two weetabix with some semi skimmed milk, otherwise I have stuck to the plan.

I was going to weigh myself every 4 days but I was making sure the scales were okay J so I weighed myself today. I couldn’t believe it, I had lost 4Ibs already. Thinking the scales were wrong I tried them in different places in the house and then asked my wife to weigh herself and she was the same weight as she was at the time I started the eating plan (I had asked my wife to weigh herself as a barometer to make sure the scales were okay).

So far I have not felt that hungry which really has surprised me, I think this is a mixture of motivation and still being able to drink coffee and tea. Also I have asked the author a few questions and he has pretty much answered my questions within a few hours, so I know there is support there which also comes with the Burn Fat 4 Dummies program.

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