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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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Stitch Your Favorite Fruit on a Sweater

The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.” 

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them. 

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits. 

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves. 

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit. 

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy. 

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]