Time flies. Today is already Thursday. My husband is working in San Clemente but he's only working there this week or until he can go to some Metrolink train training. The carpenters have to be certified when they work on a train project. So he's not yet certified and until they hold that class he can't go back on the jobsite or the company gets fined. He has Union Carpentry school next week anyway which he HAS to attend. He has to study for his Class A license too. He passed most of those truck driver classes. Now that he's got most of the licenses that are required, he has to train on actually driving the buses to pass the driving part of the test. It will be a blessing but we'll be seeing less of him on Sundays and Fridays. I am sure God will bless him for helping others.
Yesterday I had a much better day that originally anticipated. I am out of meds though so I need to call the pharmacy to see if my OB approved my Metformin. I didn't make yesterday a full protein day because I had some veggies in my chicken soup but it's ok. I was ready to have some veggies. I worked out at the gym for an hour and a half and I think I burned almost 400 calories. I sat in the sauna for 10 minutes. I do my after work out stretching in there. I was sweating like a hog yesterday. Within a minute of working out on the stairmaster I felt my sweat dripping which was awesome becuase it usually takes me 6-7 even 10 minutes before that happens. I went on the bike, treadmill and also did some weight training.
Overall everything is getting better day by day. I had breakfast early this morning with Alexis. I am able to eat more carbs as of today so I had 1 whole egg and 1 egg white, peice of whole wheat toast and a slice of turkey ham (grilled in pam). It was very satisfying. I need to get away from eating the yolks...I know on ALL my eggs. I didn't think I was going to be satisfield with the egg whites but I was! I need to buy some egg substitute at Costco this weekend. I think the Albertson's brand substitute eggs are much better I seem to remember.
Ok so for the loss - I am down to 245.6 which makes total loss so far 4.4 pounds on day 4. I am going to work out all week to. It hasn't been as much as I have planned of course but I just need to get better organized. I will today. I am making my priority list right now of things to do. Until later. God Bless.
I was on the hunt for grilled type of veggie recipes and I found two really good ones that I added to my recipes site. I was also reading the biggest loser site and they went over BBQ'ing. Two things I learned is you can brush your veggies with a little olive oil and vinaigrette and they turn out moist and delish. Also, when the BBQ fire is down for the most part, add some fruit to the grill and let it cook slowly. They recommended a pear or peach. I think a pear would be so good! Add some fat free cool whip on to that and you have a hot pie type dessert. I think today we might try and BBQ. I have some chicken breasts I wanted to BBQ for salads and for my main protein.
As of this morning I am down another .08 pound almost a pound! My weight is now 246.4.I only worked out at work and not the gym yesterday cause the meds are really kicking in. The nausea yesterday was horrible. I didn't think I would of been able to keep things down if I would of gone to the gym. I was active all day though so today I will drag myself to the gym even if it means being sick. I have to shake these side effects off of they are going to keep me down. My migraines are returning as well which totally sucks! I'll have to work around them too. I am sure they are more like sugar headaches...or lack there of.
I am just really feeling it today. I think I might request a day off later this week. Maybe Friday. I'll see where I am at when it comes to workload. Anyhoo.....God Bless.
I am on day two of protein day and I am feeling pretty good. I am supposed to take 2 vitamins a day and I have to remember to freeze them cause I keep tasting them and smelling them. ICK! Anyway, I had a good eating day yesterday. It was sort of stressful though cause I had so much going on but when my husband got home from working, I was able to run out to the gym with Alexis and I had a really good workout. I actually stayed on the stairmaster for 20 minutes which I have never done before. My hip/joint was hurting for some reason though but I think it just needed to pop into placce or something. It was weird. I got on the treadmill after that and walked it off. I did some weight training but had to cut it short because I had to go to the Ladies Missionary circle meeting at 7pm. We basically get assigned a missionary from out in the field and when they come to visit we give them a decorated shoebox filled with goodies. I picked a missionary from Australia, a male.
I weighed in this morning to a 2.8 pound loss. All water but it's a loss. I was SO bloated. I had chinese food on Saturday for lunch. On Sunday I had a big salty breakfast, a 1/2 chicken bake and hot dog from Costco for lunch and I can't even remember what I had for dinner. On Sunday night before we left to church I was sweating and it was raining outside. Then I felt my knuckles sort of tight. By the time we got to patch and were with the bus kids, I had to take off my coat and take my blood pressure pill (which I NEVER do) cause I figured my blood pressure was way sky high. I think I just pushed it a bit with the salty weekend food.
Yesterday I was driking lots of water and man I was in that toilet all day. I was getting tired of going but I felt like I was deflating! Relief.
So anyway, I am no longer 250 (that number is super hard to type). I was just thinking on my drive here to work, wow it's going to take a loss of 47.2 to get to where I was at before which was 200 pounds. I wasn't near happy at that weight but I remember starting to feel and look pretty good. It's going to be a little bit of a journey to get there but I will hopefully be there soon enough!
Till later. God Bless.
2 Corinthians 5:19
"That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation."
This weekend was full of revelations. I'm not going to say much about it because it's going to sound like a bunch of bull. I come back to check on someone's weight loss progress only to find they have given up. Don't get me wrong, I've done this many of times and I am sure if someone out there reads my blog (hi Florence!) they've thought the same thing.
All I am going to say is you are going to see WEIGHT L O S S happen in the next few months.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefor if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new
God bless
My son has been sick for the past few days. I had to give him a bath before I went to work yesterday. He apparantly threw up at some point at night from coughing even though I set the humidifier. He got "stuff" everywhere. It was something I was not looking forward to cleaning up at 3:15am. Anyway, I got him bathed and changed, his bed cleaned up and put him back to sleep with my husband. I went to work and was super busy all day. My day flew by. I got to have lunch with my co-worker with was a blessing and off to home I went.
I made some carne asada tacos for dinner with some mexican soup, cleaned up afterwards and sat on my bed and did some bible journaling. I read Proverbs 23 and chapter 1-4 of Exodus. I never realized how interesting Exodus was! I probably went to bed at 8pm. My family was watching a movie and I just needed to get some rest. I have not caught up from my sleep from being up with my son late at night. The rain was coming down really hard, it was literally storming which we don't see very often in Southern California. Before dinner we even opened the door to watch.
Workouts have been non existent obviously but I'm not getting down on myself. Health comes first and I knew that if I didn't get enough rest I was going to catch what was going around. I need to build my immunity system up to combat the sickness all around me. Everyone at church is sick too!
I am SO into biggest looser this time around! I think I mentioned that already but it's ok! I can't believe the Pink team got sent home! Sucks that the whole competition part of it gets people that deserves to stay kicked off. I guess that's how the whole thing goes. I've NEVER watched the biggest loser religiously but I love it! It really gives me motivation that it can really be done. One of the guys from the balck team was in tears over loosing over 50 pounds in 4 weeks.
Anyway, I guess that's it. I need to get back to work because I have tons more work today. OH! I was able to wear my jeans yesterday and I was comfortable in them! It felt really good! Chat later and God Bless!
I started taking my Metformin medication again yesterday because my period is so off! It keeps coming and going. Very irritating. I'm working out eating good and so I figured it would help with some of the occasional cravings and also to do what it is mostly help me do, control my insulin levels. I will start to loose more weight this way as well which is good! I weighed myself this morning and was dissapointed...but of course I only started to be very serious a couple of weeks ago so...I wait..and I will be patient. I am super sleepy today though usually the result of the meds for the first few days. The nausea is kicking in too.
My son is sick so he's home with me today and he's quite the complainer. I am super busy at work and he's got diarhea so the diaper changes are exausting! Anyway, I gave him a bath on my break and put him to sleep. Luckily he slept for a while and he woke up in better spirits. Now he's watching the movie CARS. He is such a boy. Anyway, I am going to eat my home made chicken soup. These are all the organic things I bought at the farmer's market including chicken. It was a small chicken but perfect for the soup!
Have a nice weekend. God Bless.
WOW~ My meeting with the Health Coach went better than anticipated. I was super nervous when I walked in to meet him. I saw a scale sitting on the desk similar to the one I have at home (the one that measures body fat as well). But I quickly got over it and he made me feel super comfortable. He was impressed with my knowledge of foods and basically my body and what worked for me. We went over some nutrition stuff briefly and made me set realistic goals. You know me and those crazy goals (that I can never meet by the way). Anyway, I told him I was sort of clueless on workouts. I didn't know WHAT I should be doing and how much. There are so many contradicting reports out there. SO he made a workout schedule for me!! I meet with him again in one month and he asked me to try and get at least one training session with a trainer at my gym so they can show me how to properly do the workouts on the machine.
I went to the gym tonight. My husband made dinner (a healthy dinner) and it was really good! I had already chopped up the meat and stuff but he still made the effot and when I came home dinner was on the table. How NICE!!!
Work has been super hectic but today I went in to the office and it was nice. I also went to a time management seminar and I didn't think I would learn new things but it was an eye opener. I had a lot of personal revelations while I was there.
I had my annual review and I am supposed to be due for a good raise. I don't know how good but it's supposed to be alright. Then our monthly bonuses are going to start kicking in soon. Instead of getting a quarterly bonus it's going to be monthly which will add $3200 to my salary. Not a lot of money but that's babysitter money!!
Um what else??? I have to make a note of this because I am SO bad with writting baby stuff down. Gabriel started to officially walk last week. FINALLY! The kid is almost 16 months this month! I can't believe how long it took him to walk. Scary thing is this KID IS SOOOOOO BULLHEADED. I mean he's pretty bad. He is NOTHING like my other kids. He will climb on anything if he can pull his little body up, he's there. I find him all over the house, on my huge bed, my dining room table, on window sills, I mean it's scary. I have to constantly be chasing after him. He got an official BOY haircut this week and he looks adorable.I'll have to post a pic soon. His hair got really long and it almost looked like the kid had a wig on. He he he....anyway gotta go...gonna spend time with my hubby because tomorrow he starts another job (with the same union) GOD BLESS!
I dragged my butt to the gym last night and I felt great. I feel that I need to step it up a bit. I am going to do this gradually though. I don't want to dread going to the gym because my workouts have become too strenous. Alexis went with me upstairs (where all the equipment is at) for the first time and she loved it! So we're going again today but earlier. It was pretty packed when we showed up and got worse by the time we left. I sat and relaxed in the sauna for about 10 minutes.
I went to the grocery store to grab a few ingredients we needed for lunch and dinner and rushed home to watch the biggest loser only to find out that there was an outage in my area. Sheesh! So I was super mad and ended up taking a nice shower and going to bed. I had to get up at 3:00am to be here at work by 5:00am. I switched my days this week because I want to go to a seminar they are holding here at work on Time Management. I am also meeting with a health coach in about an hour! I am scared and excited at the same time.
Anyway, I need to find out what went down on the biggest loser last night so chat later. God Bless.
I need to go back to my post where I said I was going to work out 2 hours a day to get that motivation back. I've been making excuses left and right and I am doing something about it. After I work out I feel GREAT and like I accomplished something! My husband is supposed to start going with me and if he doesn't go with me I am going alone!
I feel lame writing this....I really do....because I am not doing my best....I feel like a hypocrite.
I went to workout yesterday after I got off work and it felt great! I can't wait to get some of this excess weight off of me so I can get the courage to use the exercise ball and some other cool stuff they have. Right now I am working on just cardio although I will start some strengthening workouts next week possibly even tomorrow Saturday. I'll go early so I don't flake out on doing some of those workouts.
Eating has been pretty good. I still think I snack too much and I am going to log my foods on Fitday right now to get a reality check. The food I pre-cooked the other day came in handy last night. I didn't have time to cook so I whipped out some frozen veggies and steamed them and heated up the chicken. I made a spring salad (salad is chopped and washed already) and made my own dressing with olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette. My husband even liked it! Lauren was here yesterday, she got sent home from school cause her shirt was too tight. She has big boobs for a 15 year old and they tend to be a bit sensitive to what she wears. She does it on purpose though cause she knows what clothes make her boobs stand out and the shirt that she had on yesterday was one of them. On the other hand though I understand where she's coming from. You can't wear a cute shirt without looking like you're trying to flaunt them. But oh well that's the life of a big breasted girl.
One of my good buds is having some marital problems and I feel for her because of the pain and suffering that one goes through during this difficult time. If I have any praying readers will you pray for her and her husband? We all have ups and downs in our marriages and it's just plain hard.
My marriage overall is great even though I have been complaining about my husband so much lately. I don't know if I am just extra sensitive because I started my monthly on Saturday. I mean the things that we go through are pitiful things. It's more like bickering and childish fights. I say that because we have gone THROUGH IT in the past. Our church actually saved us from divorce and is probably the reason why we are still married after 10 years. The things we have learned there took the attention off some of the happiness we expected to get out of this world but never found. Just when you think you have it all, you'll notice, there's something missing. That something is not materialistic either. Some people don't believe in God, but I on the other hand think He is THE almighty, like John 8:12 says "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."
As I went to the alter yesterday at church, I prayed that He forgive me for not putting Him first in my life like I should have. We ask God to do things for us and to help us through this and that and we haven't felt His presense because we have not sanctified ourselves. We are so filthy in our lives, we are so involved with the things of this WORLD that we don't realize when God's trying to speak to us. I am going to start listening. I need Him now in my life more than ever and I hcan only pray that He shows up. God Bless.
Gosh I was so overwhelmed today! I had to make breakfast and lunch this morning before my daughter went to school. She took salmon for lunch and apparantly changed her mind about liking it. Too fishy for her I guess. I wanted to make some crab cakes but I need to find a good recipe. I think she'll like those.
I am busy at work too and it's just nuts all around. I am going to the gym today for a while so I can't wait. I need to wait for my husband to come home though at around 3:30 and I will be ready to go once he get's here. I am going to cook dinner on my lunch break so that will be handled. Tomorrow is church so I need to be prepared early in the day.
I watched biggest loser last night and I felt so bad for them because a lot of them didn't loose that much weight. I knew that the couple that got eliminated where going to go because they seemed very determined to loose the weight regardless of what was going to happen. You can see how hard it is for them to leave their little one's behind. It's almost a treat to be able to come home and loose weight with your loved ones around you.
Well I guess that's it for now. God bless.
I'm at work today and I walked in to a brand new flat screen....nice! I love my job. They are so fricken nice to me. They let me work from the comfort of my own home and they like me!! I haven't been here for like 3 weeks though because the holidays were landing on Tuesdays which is the day I am supposed to come in. My boss didn't require me to come in any of the other days so that worked out nicely. I like to come in once in a while.
I can't tell you how different I feel! I can't. My attitude after this fast has changed 100000%. It's like the negative and depressing ME was flushed away down the toilet (excuse the pun)! It may rear it's ugly head later but for now I feel positive and I am going to continue to tell myself that I can do this. I am a good person that deserves to look the way I've only dared to dream about my entire life!
This season I am watching the bigest loser like many other people and I have my husband hooked too. He's getting inspired by it all. He sees the really big guys on there loosing the weight and although they are in a different atmosphere where all they think about is loosing weight and they have like hours upon hours dedicated to working out, we can loose at least a quarter of the weight they are loosing on the show. Instead of spending so much time glued to the TV, we can spend that time doing active things. That includes making more time to read our bible.
So I did two things yesterday. My job has this healthy gig thing going. Counselors come in and try and help you loose weight ot get healthy if you are at ideal weight. They help you set a healthy goal and they have this 1:1 coaching too. They have Yoga classes in the building! They have a walking club AND they give you gift cards for joining and working out during the month! They've been sending those e-mails to us for months and months and when I got one yesterday my eyes were opened and I thought "why don't you JOIN one of them"? So I did!! I've joining the walking club on Tuesdays at noon. How spesh is that? For extra money on my gift card, I can journal my workouts and my dietary intake so the counselors can help you modify any if needed. Wow..I'm taken aback.
The second thing I did was sign up for The Bigest loser blog thing-a-ma bob. The nation loosing weight thing....yeah that. I signed me and my hubby up. I'm going to be blogging on there so I can stay in the race. Who knows maybe they have some special prize. That would be nice.
Anyway, what else is up? Oh I was out and about running errands after I picked my daughter up from school and dropped her off at home so she could do her homework and she calls me and says "Mom I am ready to start tomorrow" and I asked her what she meant and she continued "I was buttoning up my school shirt this morning, and remember how it was really loose on me when we started to loose weight?....well it's TIGHT on me now and I'm not comfortable like this so I want to start healthy eating tomorrow" and I told her I was glad she made that decision on her own and I would be there to help her along.
All in all it's been a great week to start. Many people are excited like me and they say that statistic show that 80% of people make resolutions and only 20% accomplish their goal. I am going to be that 20%, me and my family anyway. God bless.
Yes I am ending the fast today. I don't know what happened to my body yesterday but I was extremely weak! I kept dropping stuff (including the maple syrup all over my kitchen floor, yes the expensive maple syrup!) and I debated all day whether I should quit. I asked my family to go with me for a walk to the park. It was on the verge or raining so we hurried and got dressed in warm clothes and took about a mile walk. My son was bored beyond belief in the house so it was a good idea to get out of the house. I felt a bit better when we got back. I took a nice hot long shower and relaxed. I started to feel a bit more dizzy as the day went on though even though I was drinking my lemonade drink AND I had not gone to the bathroom AT ALL.
I got a phone call from a family friend from church and she organized a ladies get together at her house (which included food) I told her I would try to make it because at this point I felt super dizzy. But I decided to go because the ladies in my RU group would be there and I didn't want to feel guilty about not going. PLUS, I got to get out of the house for a few hours. By then I decided it was time to end my fast. I wasn't plannin on eating there so I bought a veggie soup at the market next to her house.
I had a good time but I was still dizzy. It was so bad at some point I kept loosing my balance. I did have some spinach salad and a taquito and I was scared all the way home on how my stomach was going to handle it. Well the spinach salad came back up. It felt like it was in my throat the whole time. Anyway, I drank my laxative tea this morning to get the last of whatever is old in my stomach.
I've felt really on the edge lately. I've been snapping at my husband so much about things these past few days (I wrote about one instance from Friday). I know I am MOM and MOM handles lots of things and I can but sometimes it would be nice if I got some help! I do everything on Sunday mornings from ironing, breakfast (feed Gabriel also), cleaning, getting kids ready for church (which includes, hair combing, socks, shoes, teeth brushing, face cleaning), Buttoning husbands top shirt button, fixing collar....then there's ME. I know I am feeling sorry for myself and I shouldn't but I will sulk for now....anyway, I called my husband ungrateful this morning. He got mad, I walked out and didn't go to church with them. I know it's really childish of me but at the time I was REALLY mad. I convinced myself that darn it I should be mad, I got home from my ladies get together yesterday and the sink was piled high with dishes which I didn't do till now....and boy was I mad washing them.
Anyway, I gotta start slow with my eating but I ate an english muffin and a piece of bacon for breakfast. My stomach is feeling it right now. Alright well tomorrow I start a low carb diet AND my two hour a day workouts. WHICH I WILL DO. I will do it. I am NOT going to come on here and give excuses on WHY I didn't do it. I want to get out of this fat body ASAP. I am sick and tired of being fat already. There are no excuses whatsoever anymore. Can you tell I am still mad? LOL....Ok cheering up now.
God bless.
I am definitely in toxin removal mode I can tell ya that much. It was the worst day to be out and about yesterday too but I had to still how up for my RU group of ladies. I was NOT feeling it though because I was freezing cold and my stomach was just messed up. I had to keep going to the bathroom and it was pouring rain. I usually get home at around 10:30pm. Because we only took one car and my husband shuttles the folks with no car home, I had to wait for him in the auditorium with my kids, running around being crazy and all I wanted to do was come home. I will never go in one car with him. It took way too long and it caused some friction between him and I last night. I didn't have enough of my drink so my sugar was already low and I got upset with him because he can't have a normal discussion without getting defensive so I went to bed. The result? A massive, low blood sugar, brain hurtin' headache. It hurt! I feel so dehydrated this morning too. The first thing I did was hook me up some of my special drink. I feel better.
It's still kinda early for a Saturday but I am going to work a few hours today because I got REALLY busy at work yesterday. Well I have to work so gotta go. I'm sure I will be back later. God Bless for now.
I was hungry all day yesterday and at night I felt so super sick. I felt like I was getting a cold. I am going to be entering a stage of purging toxins from my body so I may feel all of these symptoms randomly throughout the day. The one thing that has not left me are the headaches. I've had at least one a day. Today I didn't wake up with one though. But I am sure I will have one later in the day.
I've been trying not to stress although yesterday late morning I felt like a madwoman. I was just MAD. I was just waiting from someone to say something crazy to me so I can chop their head off. I calmed down after recognizing this. I told Serg I wasn't in a very good mood and he made me feel better.
Went to church last night and felt ok. My stomach was making all sorts of noises though and I am glad I took some water with me to drink.
**Grosse section**
I am still getting rid of solids and I have officially not had any food for 5 days! I get stomach cramps galore when I wake up but immediately feel so much better when I'm done. I am still craving food. Like I am dying for some home made hot wings. But MOST of all I am craving a veggie sandwich with alfalfa sprouts. I found a delish recipe and am posting it on here so I can come back when I am cleared to eat solids again (I think on day 13 or so). I also want some hummus REALLY bad. I went to the farmer's market this past weekend and had a taste of some organic jalapeno and cilantro hummus. At first I thought it was a little expensive but when I really thought about it, it was not bad, $4 for a small container. I've found that with hummus it's really hit and miss when it comes to taste with many brands. So far the only one I've liked is the one from Costco but they don't carry the brand I like anymore!! The other one is the one from Trader Joe's and that one was about $4 and half the size of the one from the farmer's market. I wanted to go back this weekend to get them but it's supposed to rain and rain for days starting today AND my first day to eat solids won't be until next Saturday *sigh*. So I won't be going back to get my fix for another week.
Here is the recipe
Cucumber Sprout Sandwich
Ingredients
2 slices whole wheat bread
2 tbs. cream cheese, softened (I'm going to add hummus instead)
6 slices peeled cucumber
2 tbs. alfalfa sprouts
1 tsp. olive oil
1 tsp. red wine vinegar
1 tomato, sliced
1 romaine (cos) lettuce leaf
2 tbs. pepperoncini, sliced
1/2 avocado, peeled and mashed
salt and pepper to taste
I think I am going to add an evening post daily. Most of the time, my mood changes by the time I am done with this post! I am such a rollercoaster, from feelings, to body changes, to everything else. Anyway, hope you have a blessed day.
Whew...seems like the days are sort of dragging. Today feels like Day 5 and not 4. The rest of yesterday was ok. I was sort of hungry yesterday and I was reading that when you get hungry to take SIPS of the lemonade drink and not drink the whole thing at once, which I was doing. I found that it worked! I got hunger pangs and I took a sip and that did the trick for at least 1/2 an hour. I just drank the drink for about and hour and a half and I found that I drank a lot less. I can have up to 12 8 oz drinks of it but if you are trying to loose weight in addition to the cleanse you have to restrict that a bit. But I do have to drink at least 6 of the drink.
I found that when my nose smells food or is around food my body automatically starts to get hungry. I had to cook dinner, not once but TWICE yesterday and it was a bit hard. Just automatically putting stuff in your mouth without thinking is hard. I even made cookies to torture myself a little more. He he he. I had to make dinner for one of the ladies at our church that had a miscarriage. All the ladies are taking her dinner all week long and it was my turn yesterday. I made her some yummy spaghetti, garlic bread and my special cookies. The garlic bread smell is what was getting to me. I LOVE garlic bread. Smells delish. Anyway, I then made the SAME thing again for my family. I haven't been sitting with them at the table which is hard! We're use to eating dinner together every night and Alani keeps asking me why I'm not sitting with them at the table.
I can't wait to be done because of that. I hope the days fly by. Today is supposed to be another hard day. I'm taking today off to run some errands and get some laundry done. The only one up at this point is Gabriel.SO anyway, hopefully today is not hard. I am going to try and be out and about so I don't think about food 24-7.
My sister in law lives next to me and she has a big back yard and she's moving to Arizona so we are hoping that we can move into that house so we can hook up the back yard! Remeber I mentioned planting out own garden? Well that would be ideal. Then in the summer spending time back there would be SO great! So we will see. :-)
I'm still alive..just kidding! Of course I'm still alive. Just reading my post from yesterday reminds me of that horrible headache. I actually woke up with another one and had to take another exedrin. I don't know how this is going to affect my fast but I hope it's not in a bad way. I just can't take the headaches. They are not regular headaches, they are migraines and they keep escalating to an unbearable point and I can't take it. They get so bad that I start to feel like I am going to throw up.
I was in bed and sitting for a LOOOONG time yesterday. I did what I had to do at home and went to sleep while my daughter and husband went grocery shopping. I made them chili cheese hot dogs for lunch and fed my little one. I slept for about 2 hours.
My husband mentioned how much sleep I've been getting since I started this fast and it's TRUE! Remember I complained about how bad my sleep was getting? Well it's much improved and my nasal passages are SUPER clear. I just took and deep breathe right now and I can't tell you the difference!
I still miss eating food. I miss chewing I think and snacking on stuff. I keep trying to convince myself that I don't need this detox and I can just eat low carb. But I realized yesterday I would not of appreciated doing low carb if I wasn't doing this fast. I know that after slowly getting off I will appreciate food so much more!
I haven't weighed myself and I don't think I am going to until I am done. I will see if I can go longer than the 10 days but I am so totally looking forward to eating a nice bowl of hot soup next week. So we'll see. I might just keep chugging along. I am sure if I see nice weight loss results I will continue until I get off the super extra fat I have on my body. Today we are going to go for a walk at the Nature Center. Basically it's like a light hike through a forest in the middle of the city. You see all sorts of herbs, plants and animals. It's really nice. I need to get walking. I haven't done much since I started due to the headaches and feeling a bit weak. Today I feel MUCH better! The drink it totally keeping me satisfied when it comes to hunger.
So here's to Day 4. God Bless.
All I can say today is UGH! I feel like pure poop. I have a migraine that goes and comes. I did the salt water flush this morning instead of the herbal laxative tea drink because I wanted to have the morning "clean out" quickly. I took a hot bath and instantly felt better but this stupid migraine came back.
I guess since your body is ridding itself of all these toxins I've gotten the 3 things I've been getting hit with the past 2 months. #1 - Migraines #2 - sore throat #3 - tooth ache. I kid ya not.
So needless to say I am not feeling so hot today. I pray that this passes and I can move on with my cleanse. One great thing is my back is not absolutely killing me anymore which was the #1 symptom to go away so I guess that's one good thing. The migraine just throws a wrench it in though. Makes me want to give up and I really don't want to. So I am going to drink some water, some cleanse stuff (it's really good) and put my head down to rest in my room away from my kids. I guess it doesn't help that I have to clean the house, cook and take care of kids while I am going through this. I am trying not to sweat the small stuff though so we'll see what happens. Alrighty, Happy New Year and God Bless.
