No! How did this happen?  Small daily fluctuations are to be expected, but two kilos?

All that I ate that was *slightly* different was a spinach salad that I ordered for a restaurant lunch.  The salad had spinach, avocado, pine nuts - all OK on the diet -  and on the top, were a few, paper-thin crispy slices of Pancetta (italian bacon).

My first three weeks on this diet were quite exciting, because every day I would get on the scales and see a loss.  I hadn't seen that sort of weight loss on a diet since I was in my twenties.

Hmm, week four - time to progress to level 2 - or is it?  The Rosedale diet book says that you can stay on level 1 indefinitely, in fact its recommended, but in week four, you can progress to level 2, if you must.

No, I don't eat all of my meals at home.

Gary packs a lunch for me, most work days.  Basically, its my small serve of protein, plus a large salad.  Everyone remarks how healthy my lunch is  (while they're tucking into their deep-fried canteen food!). 

The third week passed relatively uneventfully.  By that I mean no cravings - I’ve even started to feel reasonably full after a meal, instead of the ‘is that all?’ feeling.

Gary even commented that he isn’t missing our low carb treats.  (low carb muffins, low carb pancakes, etc - he used to adore them, but they’re not really on this diet.