My 17 day 'shakesperiment'.

So today was the first day of my 17 day 'shakesperiment'. After receiving my shit in the mail yesterday and reading through the guidelines of the 'program' I decided to turn this into an experiment. I'm going to document how I feel - both hunger wise and my mood. Side effects seem to include irritability, crankiness, moodiness, dizziness, nausea and hunger. Sounds like fun, hey?

I thought I'd be able to have LnE dinners, but the program is essentially low carb, and dinner is suggested to consist of meat and veg - with little to no carbs. Most of the LnE dinners contain a high carb content, so they're out. I'll be buying some chicken breasts and steaks/marinated meats and cooking them on the George Forman Grill along with some steamed veg. Tonight, of course, is Pizza night, so I'm having a small one as a last hurrah.

I have enough powder to make shakes for the first 7 days of the 'Rapid' phase - 3 shakes a day plus dinner, no snacks. Then, I have enough of the 'Trim' shakes and snacks for a further 10 days of the next (you guessed it, Trim) phase where breakky and lunch are a shake or meal replacement bar and the snacks are a smaller meal replacement bar twice daily. The 'sensible' dinner is also recommended.

I was planning on not telling Dave, but I don't want to lie to him, so I told him tonight what I was doing. I was just going to order LnE and pretend I was eating it, but the dinner situation would prove difficult. I'm not that girl, who lies to her partner and sneaks around, so I told him that I want to do this, just for 3 weeks, to see what happens. He's not happy that I'm basically cutting out a whole food group (carbs) and to be honest I'm not sure that I'm thrilled about it either.

So why am I doing it?

I really want to know what it feels like to be on a low-carb diet. I'm 99% sure my body is going to react badly, but I'm also curious as to just how much weight I could lose in a few short weeks. I'm also curious what will happen in the following weeks - how much of the weight lost will return once carbs are re-introduced? How will my body react during the shakesperiment, and how will it react afterwards?

17 days to find out...