Home desk essentials - Cien Anti-Aging Hand Cream

Having a honeycomb day with Lidl's anti-aging hand cream with beeswax and Burt's Bees lip balm

My love for Cien hand cream is well known. Recently I've been reaching for the more mature offering, and here's why ...

My Skincare Regime - Evening

Proactive and reactive skin care...

Night time is when your skin repairs and rejuvenates itself, this is how I help it along ...

My Skin Care Regime - Morning

Soft and gentle morning skincare

I chop and change a lot, but this routine has been around a while now ...

Nupo Day 14 and on - Looking back and looking forward

The Nupo Diet - yes, you can have chocolate!

Well it's over! Was it worth it? I think you'll agree it was ...

The Nupo Diet - Days 7 - 10: How it feels to be on the home stretch

Random fact: @NupoIreland Cocoa shakes make me happy. It's like have a chocolate milkshake for lunch without the guilt ... #nom

— Lisa D (@Lisa_san) August 14, 2013

Lip Glosses I love (and I don't even like lip gloss)

Benefit Hoola, Lancome Gloss in Love Peach Show, Lancome Gloss in Love Scarlett Starlet, Benefit A-Lister

I'll admit it. I don't like lip gloss. But I like these ...

The Nupo Diet, 5 Days in

Cup holder fail ...

Dieting while on the move is a challenge to say the least...

Nupo Day 3

So rather than bore you with daily updates, I thought it best to write on milestone days. 1,3,5,7,10 and 14 - the last day.

Day 3 I found was when my patience was tested. No longer was this milkshakes, soups and plenty of water a fad it was going to be my life for the next while.

It's becoming strange not to have to think about food. Which I know sounds really weird. But I'm starting to realise how many of my eating habits were just that, habits. I made excuses for myself, rationalised, tried to justify so many things to myself. Ate even though I wasn't hungry, ate more than I needed to to feel satisfied.

I'm not sick of the shakes yet, thankfully. I find the veg soup is really nice with curry powder mixed in (it really does need seasoning). The hunger only creeps in around evening time. Usually around time for a late afternoon shake which I might follow up with tea and it's gone again. I'm never sitting around starving watching the clock. Today, while in Dundrum I had a non-fat cappuccino and kept a bottle of water with me, but there's nothing unusual there that's an average Saturday for me. I just resisted buying a cookie or having any of my sisters. It's the little victories in this game!

I've wanted to cheat a number of times but haven't so far. I'm keeping the chocolate shakes as treats - because if I could I would drink them all day. If anything I'm learning that I don't need to eat every time I think about eating. If that's all I take away from this experience I'll be more than happy.

What I will say about any visible results so far, it's far too early to tell. However, I was trying on dresses earlier and felt they fit really well because the bloating I often get from eating wheat/grains is well and truly out of the picture.

A word from those around me - Boyfriend has expressed his concerns that the weight I do loose will come off my chest, aka The Girls. Priorities. right?

Have you ever had to face the Day 3 diet milestone?

Would you admit to cheating on a diet?

Lisa

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Go back to Day 1                                                                                                                      See Day 5

Nupo Day 1

I never thought I would be a person to go on a diet... but here I am