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Chocolate Diet Update

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This is a progress report – for my Chocolate Diet Challenge (Read about it here)

If you haven’t been following the challenge, it is basically a meal replacement diet program for 8 weeks. The fun part is it’s all themed around chocolate.

Taste:  I like the taste of the meal replacement shakesthe berry ones are really nice too. I just add water to mine to reduce the calorie intake but I am sure with milk it would taste even more indulgent as the brand name suggests.

I have NEVER felt hungry on the meal replacement shakes in fact making sure I have a little something in between shakes has been a struggle as I don’t feel like eating. I also find that at night-time I don’t want sweet things, I don’t even eat the little chocolate they give you to indulge on at night-time. So I am getting my chocolate hit each day but from the shakes.

I have to admit I have not been exercising but then again I have not been sitting still either. (I have 2 kids under 5)

So how much weight have I lost?  2.5 kgs – 3 kgs  in 23 days but some of those days were Easter which meant skipping the shake due to peer pressure whilst on holiday. 🙁

This week I am going to try to exercise more and see if I can shift a little more. I seem to have a very slow metabolism so I would have expected anyone else on this challenge to have lost much more than me but you check out their posts for yourself.

Tina Gray  2.3kgs

Mummahh 2kgs

 

 

 

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These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.