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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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Sam X Stitch has this fun sweet treat sampler, which again would be fun to stitch as individual pieces (maybe on napkins?). In all it calls for 18 colors and measures 153 by 153 stitches. That comes out to 10.93 inches or 27.75 cm on 14 count fabric. 

Another great sampler is this one with ice cream and other sweet treats from Cute Patterns by Maria. At 119 by 132 stitches total, working the full pattern would be about 8.6 by 9.4 inches, or 22 by 24 cm on 14 count fabric, and it uses 33 colors. You can also stitch individual designs, which range in height from 35 to 45 stitches, and in width from 11 to 28. 

This collection of four sundae patterns from Stichrovia would be fun to make for a kitchen or a teen’s room. Each pattern is around 40 by 50 stitches, so they should fit in a four or five inch hoop if worked on 14 count fabric. 

Or stitch up one of the treats from Stitch Chart Studio‘s collection of seven ice cream cross stitch patterns. These range in size and in number of colors needed, but most would fit in a five or six in hoop (and one in a four inch hoop).