Breakfast – Chocolate hazelnut bar, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water

9am – 600ml flavoured water

Lunch – Mushroom soup, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water

Afternoon – 600ml flavoured water

Dinner – Country cottage pie, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water – The cottage pie and the vegetable chili are my favourite meals. They both feel like I’m having a proper meal which helps when the family is sitting down to one!

Supper – Mint chocolate shake and 600ml flavoured water – I warmed the shake up and it was just like a hot chocolate treat at bedtime 🙂

I woke earlier than usual for a Sunday morning and for some reason, I seem to have lots of energy. Instead of slobbing on the sofa for the day in my PJs, watching tv with the kids, I have the urge to get showered and get out in the garden.
It’s only 5 past 9 and this is unheard of for me!
I’ve already had 600ml of water and I’ve just sent Kaycee to refill my bottle for me 🙂 The water flavouring has really helped me reach my water goals. I’m not sure I’d find it so easy to drink 4 litres of plain of water a day.
I plan on keeping up my water intake after this week now I know I can do it.

2.30pm – I actually did spend the morning in the garden 🙂 I took down an old fence that was rotten and sorted out loads of rubbish. There’s still lots more to do but I feel great because I went and made a start after putting it off on a daily basis!

The afternoon didn’t go as well. I started to feel hungry around 4 pm so I drank more water. I didn’t want to have my next packet until everyone else had their dinner which was going to be around 6 pm. Being hungry put me in a grumpy mood!
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Breakfast – Chocolate trufa bar, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water


Mid-morning – 600ml flavoured water


Lunch – Chicken soup, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water


Afternoon – 600ml flavoured water


Dinner – Spicy noodle nosh, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water

Supper – Beautiful banana shake and 600ml flavoured water –

It’s been another good day 🙂 I’ve been on plan 100% and went over my 4 litres of water. I did wake with a headache this morning but I get them quite often and don’t think it’s anything to do with the plan. I think it’s down to my pillow as my neck hurts when I get the headaches after sleeping. I must hurry and get a new one!

Breakfast – Chocolate cream cookie bar, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water – I saved the chocolate cream cookie bar for last as I thought it was going to be the nicest but I should have saved the hazelnut one till last! It was ok and had a crumbly cookie base with the creamy bit on top but I prefer the chewy bars. It still left a slight aftertaste though.

Mid-morning – 600ml flavoured water

Lunch – Mushroom soup, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water


Afternoon – 600ml flavoured water


Dinner – Vegetable chilli, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water


Supper – Creamy chocolate shake and 600ml flavoured water 

My final day is done 😀

I’ve found the whole week much easier than I thought it was going to be. I thought I’d be craving food by day 3 but I was totally fine.
If I could afford this plan every week, I’d be extremely tempted to stick with it. From what I’ve seen from the people on the Facebook group, if you stick to the plan 100%, you can average around a stone a month weight loss.
I have 12 stone to lose and it would be wonderful to be able to get to my target by this time next year but the cost of the plan on top of the groceries I still have to buy for the rest of the family isn’t feasible for me at the moment.
If I were single I’d definitely switch from grocery shopping to New You shopping!

I’ve been on a very low calorie, meal replacement diet this week, sent from the lovely people at

DAY 2

Day 2 Breakfast – 600ml flavoured water. Mug of black coffee with 2 tablet sweeteners and 1 muesli bar.

I have to say I didn’t enjoy the muesli bar. Much like the lemon bar on day 1, it left a funny taste in my mouth and I had to use the flavoured water to take it away.
It did do the job of stopping me from feeling hungry until lunchtime, though.
I had the bar around 7.30am and didn’t start to feel hungry until just after 12.

Mid-morning – 600ml flavoured water and a black coffee

Lunch – Chicken soup, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water – As with the mushroom soup it tasted nice and wasn’t at all powdery. I ate around 12.30 and started to feel slightly hungry just before 4 pm.

Mid-afternoon – 600ml flavoured water

Dinner – Pasta broccoli followed by a hazelnut shake, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water – I’m glad I only got 1 pasta broccoli because I didn’t enjoy it. It wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t the nicest either. The hazelnut shake, however, was delicious 🙂

Supper – Chocolate cream wafer and 600ml flavoured water – I love love love the wafers! They were a real treat and hit the spot nicely.

Water intake – Around 4 litres using the water flavouring and black coffee.

THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

I had to cook dinner for Ant, the kids and my father in law today as he comes to us every other Thursday for dinner. I found it really hard not being able to sit and eat with them. I wasn’t hungry at all but seeing big mounds of bacon and mushroom pasta was very hard to resist!

Apart from having to cook for everyone, the other downside is having to make lots of trips to the toilet! I’m not used to drinking so much water and I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to go!

DAY 3

I don’t have any more snacks now so it’s just the 4 packs each day left (you’re advised to have 2-3 snacks a week).

Breakfast – 600ml flavoured water, black coffee with sweetener and a mint chocolate shake – The shake was lovely and I don’t feel hungry at all.
I’ve got a shift at the charity shop this morning so I’m taking another 600ml of flavoured water with me and I’ll be having a coffee while I’m there. That’ll be just over a litre and a half I’ll have had by lunchtime 🙂

Lunch – Chicken soup, 600ml flavoured water and a black coffee.

Mid-afternoon – 600ml flavoured water

Dinner – Chicken noodle curry and 600 ml flavoured water – I was told when the order was placed that this was more like a chicken noodle soup which was fine with me. It tasted lovely 🙂

Supper – Chocolate hazelnut bar and 600ml flavoured water. Again, the bar had a nice flavour but left an aftertaste. I think it’s probably just my taste buds though because everyone in the New You Secret Slimmers Facebook group seem to love them 🙂

I went over my 4 litres of water again today 🙂

THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

I’ve gone over my 4 litres of water today, only by about 200ml but it surprised me that I went over the target so early in the evening.

I’m sure I’m going to the toilet more today than I did yesterday; it gets quite annoying having to go again when I only went half an hour ago!

DAY 4

Breakfast – Chocolate trufa bar, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water – I’ve decided to have the bars for my breakfast now instead of saving them for the evening because even though they taste nice while I’m eating them, I keep being left with an aftertaste that I’m not keen on.

Mid-morning – 600ml flavoured water

Lunch – Strawberry shake, black coffee and 600ml flavoured water – I love the strawberry shake. It smelled lovely while I was mixing it and tasted even nicer!

Mid-afternoon – Black coffee and 1200ml flavoured water

Dinner – Vegetable chilli and 600ml flavoured water – The vegetable chilli was really nice and it felt like I was having a proper meal, it had a bit more substance to it than the previous products I’ve had.

Supper – Warm vanilla shake with added coffee and 600ml flavoured water – I saw that someone in the Facebook group had made a kind of latte using the vanilla shake and I thought I’d try it instead of having the plain shake. It was gorgeous!
There seem to be quite a few different ways people have found to use the products, such as mixing to a dough and baking instead of adding the full amount of water, which I’m sure helps to keep it interesting.

I went over my 4 litres of water again today 🙂

THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

I’ve been totally fine again, I haven’t had the urge to eat and I haven’t been hungry but I do have to be careful not to eat without thinking! A couple of times I’ve gone to taste something while cooking for the family then realised I can’t and had to shout Ant to come and check instead!
It’s amazing how many times I automatically pick at foods in between meals without realising it. It’s almost like my hands are on autopilot when I’m doing anything with food, some of it always goes in my mouth, whether I’m hungry or not.

I know I’ll be conscious of this in the future now so if nothing else, this week has been good for bringing it to my attention!

3 days left to go and I’m excited to see the results on Wednesday 🙂

If you’ve read my blog before you’ve probably seen some of my weight loss posts.

I’ve lost 8.5 stone with Slimming World but I’ve put a stone back on and haven’t been doing very well for the last year and a half so I figured trying a very low calorie, meal replacement diet for a week could be just what I needed to give me a boost and get my head back in control of my eating.

I was sent a weeks worth of food from New You as well as a couple of snacks, some water flavouring and a mixer bottle.
I’m starting my week from today and using my weekly weigh in at Slimming World as my start weight.
I’ve told my consultant that I won’t be on plan this week so any weight loss next week doesn’t count towards any Slimming World rewards like Slimmer of the Week (turns out that won’t count anyway because I gained this week and you have to have a loss or maintain the week before!).

Right, enough of the backstory! Here I go, wish me luck 🙂

In the box I received:

1 Beautiful Banana TFR VLCD Shake

1 Very Nice Vanilla TFR VLCD Shake

2 Creamy Chocolate TFR VLCD Shake

1 Sensational Strawberry TFR VLCD Shake

1 Heavenly Hazelnut TFR VLCD Shake

2 Mint Chocolate Shake

3 Mushroom TFR VLCD Soup

3 Chicken TFR VLCD Soup

2 Vegetable Chili TFR VLCD Meal

2 Spicy Noodle Nosh TFR VLCD Meal (Spicy Spaghetti)

1 Country Cottage Pie TFR VLCD Meal

1 Chicken Noodle Curry TFR VLCD Meal

1 Pasta Broccoli TFR VLCD Meal

1 Chocolate Cream Cookie Flavour TFR VLCD Bar

2 Chocolate Hazelnut Flavour TFR VLCD Bar

1 Luxurious Chocolate Truffa TFR VLCD Bar

1 Luxurious Milk Chocolate Truffa TFR VLCD Bar

1 Lemon Yoghurt TFR VLCD Bar

1 Muesli TFR VLCD Bar

1 Wafer Chocolate Cream Wafer for Weight Loss

1 Cream Onion Soya Chips

1 Blender Bottle Wire Shaker Ball with Pink Lid

Drop a Jean Size E-Journal

1 Berry Blast Water Flavouring

Start Weight – 23 stones, 11.5lbs


Day 1 Breakfast – 500ml Water with Berry Blast Flavouring – I have to say, this berry flavour is really lovely. I have trouble drinking plain water and the flavouring made it really easy to drink the 500ml over a couple of hours while I was at Slimming World this morning.

Lunch – Mushroom soup and cream onion soya snacks – I enjoyed the soup. It has a lovely flavour and wasn’t powdery at all. I was really hungry at lunchtime and didn’t expect a small bowl of soup and a packet of crisps to do anything to stop it but surprisingly the hunger totally went.

I filled my water bottle numerous times and sipped on it throughout the day. I also had 3 black coffees with 2 tablet sweeteners in each. Black tea and coffee is fine but you have to use the tablet sweeteners, not the powder.
You can also have some skimmed milk if you have to but I drink my coffee black anyway so don’t need the milk.
I had about 4 litres of water today.

Dinner – Spicy Noodle Nosh and Creamy Chocolate Shake Shake – The noodle dish was very tasty and the shake was lovely and creamy. It had a nice chocolate flavour as well and wasn’t powdery.

Night Time Snack – Lemon Yogurt Bar – I wasn’t too keen on this one I’m afraid. It’s not too bad but I was left with an aftertaste. It is nice and chewy though. I’m hoping the chocolate ones are nicer 🙂

I can honestly say I’ve found it easier than I expected. I haven’t felt hungry and I’ve enjoyed all but the lemon bar but I did stare longingly at the cottage pie I had to cook for the rest of the family for dinner tonight.

I’m not dreading day 2 as much as I was day 1!

I’ll be back next Wednesday with a roundup of the rest of the food and how I’ve got on each day as well as the result of my weigh in 🙂

Please Note: I was sent the products in return for an honest review.