I started taking the depo shot about 4 years ago, I havent had a period in three years. Ive been considering stopping it because im trying to live naturally, so a trimonthly artificial hormone injection doesnt really add up. plus ive heard way too much info lately about how women on birth contol are 1000x more likely to get breast cancer than those who are not, and i just dont think its for me anymore. However, I was NOT looking forward to having my period again. Then today, I started my period.
It actually makes perfect sense though. I have heard about so many women getting pregnant during or after the reset, even women who have has trouble conceiving in the past! So I feel like this is just another example of how it gets your reproductive organs working right. My body is supposed to do this on a regular basis and the artificial hormones I've injected it with have messed up the whole process.This explains even more why I have been picking (on plan food at least) the last few days, as well as why i have been so emotional and aggressive lately. I definitely think the Ultimate Reset is to blame, but i am not tooooo mad because i was considering getting off of hormonal birth control anyway (ill save that explanation for post reset)
today i was a little irritable, not nothing like earlier this week. i woke up with a headache again and it came and went throughout the day. I had an early morning at the salon and had to rush to eat lunch during a break so I forgot to take a pic, but it was pumpkin seeds, microgreen salad, and avocado. Speaking of pumpkin seeds- I bit into a ROCK while eating them yesterday and now have a new tiny chip on a tooth i just had an old tiny chip filed out of. Im pretty pissed. I contacted the company. If they dont contact me back within a week I'm probably going to contact a lawyer because I am pissed. Maybe ill feel differently when im not resetting and menstruating, but at the moment, thats my plan.
one of my favorite (forced) habits im picking up from the reset is to be patient when im hungry. If i am STARVING i typically eat a couple peppers or baby carrots and hummus while I am preparing my food. Since you cannot eat for 30 mins after taking your supplements, I am not able to eat while preparing, no matter how hungry I am. And i survive EVERY time, and my food is that much more satisfying. I would like to keep this habit so i dont consume extra calories that arent part of my planned meal or snacks.
another awesome thing Ive picked up is to really chew my food. sounds stupid. when i read the quote "Chew your food, your stomach doesnt have teeth" in the manual i literally LOLed. It stuck in my mind because it was funny. Then i began to realize, as i ate, that i barely chew my food! especially when i am really hungry! i chew it just enough so i can swallow it. My stomach is having to work over time to break down my unchewed food! So, in the past few days i have made a conscious effort to chew my food better and help my belly digest. You actually get to enjoy your food a little more when youre savoring and chewing each bite, rather than shoveling and swallowing!
i went grocery shopping for Phase 3 tonight, spent $65. so thats a grand total of about $250 for 3 weeks of ultimate reset groceries. A little more expensive that my norm, but not by much at all. every single item i purchased today was a vegetable. it makes me feel great to check out with a CLEAN grocery cart :) this coming week i will be trying fennel and jicama for the first time. thats pretty exciting! i rarely get to try a new vegetable. today i had kachoba squash for the first time today and it was delicious. its actually kind of sweet! Another item added to the "i will eat post reset" list!
i still need to put away my groceries and dry brush and take a bath. last night (after i blogged) i cheated and went for a mile jog. It felt AMAZING. however, today my knee is hurting me. Ive ran 7 miles with no pain so i know its because i broke the reset rules. Sucks that i get punished every time i exercise lol but it was kind of worth it. the weather was cool (for florida, 70s) and it had just stopped raining and was so dark and quiet. The therapy was worth a sore knee today lol
dishes arent done, house isnt clean, and dog isnt bathed either, but i am saving all that for after my nutrition seminar and clients tomorrow. I hate going to bed with the house out of order, but i am TIRED today, so tired that i do not care!
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Today, emotionally, was a MUCH better day. Like feeling back to normal, finally! Coincidentally, I had Nuero feedback this morning. I woke up with a headache, though. Second day in a row for that. The thing is all the weird things that are happening to me, I knew might happen so they don't really worry me. I've spent a good amount of time trolling the support group pages reading other people's experiences. ive also read comments from people that have finished the reset that say all the BS is so worth it post reset. There are even people in there who've done it before and are doing it again! I think ill end up doing it again. Maybe twice a year. At least once.
So I was reading through some support posts and these ladies were talking about being nauseous. I was thinking "well that sucks!" A few hours later I'm makin my lunch and I was so frieken nauseous! It was like i frieken caught it! Lol I had to sit down and close my eyes and take deep breaths twice while prepping my lunch. it was not fun. But i felt a little better, ate my lunch, and felt much better. i watched a 4 part documentary that the guy who is teaching my nutrition seminar had recommended to me, today. it was awesome and I am going to post the links when i summarize the seminar for you. i learned something really crazy though that i have to share. when someone loses a bunch of weight, their metabolic rate is not the same as someone who is naturally that weight. so the person who has lost weight must eat 20% less in order to maintain the same weight as another person. this is why when i eat "normal" like my friends eat, i gain weight. I am eating 20 % too much! a light bulb went off in my head that was like, "ok, well that sucks, i literally am going to have to cut back and count calories for the rest of my life!" but there was another part of me that was relieved. i know how to be fat and i know how to lose weight. I dont know what i will do when it comes time to maintain. since i now know maintaining is going to require some constriction anyways, im less worried, coconut collard greens was a recipe for dinner. i had made it with spinach instead but it was SO good. add that to the list ill be eating post reset. today another girl in my group is going through the "ultimate reset blues". i feel bad for her, but know theres not much i can do but say encouraging words. i hope it passes quickly like it did with me! i still REALLY miss working out. and i have a confession. i had kind of a hard time picking today. i kept eating an almond here, almond there, and eventually about a half cup of almonds (yikes!) almonds are on the plan so its not a terrible screw up, but snacking on almonds all day is not part of the plan, so it IS a screw up as far as re-setting goes. trying not to let it get me discouraged. im ready for a great 9 days. im even more ready for post reset life!! Today was a MUCH better day. Still slightly more irritable than normal but SOOOOO much closer to normal than the previous couple days. I did wake up with a headache today, though. Not sure why but it went away pretty quick.
Yesterday I was highly annoyed because i went to publix for distilled water and there wasnt a single gallon on the shelf! so today i went to walmart and they had it, so i got a gallon for each day left of the reset. I wasnt hungry so I skipped the snack today. I also got to take a nice walk. Over all, it was a really good day. I am going to take a bath after I finish this. its evening, so of course i am wishing i could have a snack. maybe i will get some decaf tea and start having that at night. its deff more of a habit than anything else, so tea may just make me feel like i have sommmmmmething. and its getting chilly (ok 70s but chilly for us floridians) so a warm drink is really enjoyable. its getting easier to prep food. i am paying more attention and making double portions when the meal plan calls for the same meal 2 days in a row. it is a relief to just be able to warm something up, rather than actually cook it, sometimes. This reset requires COOKING. too many people say they cook and they actually just throw processed food together (i used to do it myself!). But now I am learning about adding all my own flavors, not flavors from a packet, and i really like it. im looking forward to eatring post reset. I am going to work a few of the recipes and a lot of the ideas into my daily life. i am tired tonight, not even sure I feel like taking a bath! Maybe ill go to bed and take one in the morning. Only 10 days left!! I cannot lie, today has been tough. Unfortunately, I didn't wake up in a better mood and am still struggling to get over this emotional low the reset has put me on.
Today i was so depressed that I actually considered quitting. Not because I cant do this, I know I can. But I feel almost as depressed as i was on a daily basis in a VERY low point in my life and i have no idea why the hell i would put myself thru torture like this. I have no patience. I am snapping on people. I am crying multiple times a day. It is not at all fun. One of the girls in my challenge group went thru this last week when she considered quitting. The other girl is going thru it with me this week. I posted in the facebook support group and got really good feedback, just reminding me this is all temporary and the positive effects this reset will have on my life and body are so much greater than what negative i feel right now. I really want to do a REAL workout. i wanted to walk my half marathon training distances, but unfortunately my schedule does not allow HOURS to dedicate to working out. I am running like 6-10 miles and i just dont have time to do a leisurely walk that far. Supposedly, post reset i will be able to run faster and longer and workout harder, and thats exactly what i intend to do. But skipping working out is really making me feel like shit. I didnt realize how good it made me feel until it was gone. I considered blogging my feelings live this afternoon when i wanted to run into traffic (ok, im kidding it wasnt that bad) but i was feeling bad enough that i would probably discourage anyone from every trying this again LOL just be aware if at the end of this i am saying it is WORTH IT, than that means i feel AMAZING, to make feeling this crappy "worth it". one thing about the reset is i am rarely hungry. I realized i eat out of habit rather than hunger. nights are the hardest. I want a snack so bad every single night. Its not that i am hungry after dinner, its just a habit. actually, ive only been hungry after dinner a few times when i had to stay up later than anticipated or had to eat early due to scheduling. Ive had a snack after dinner every night my entire life. as a kid and even at my healthiest as an adult. of course i have a much healthier option these days, but i still get that little snack in. No bed time snacks on reset! and i miss them. maybe by the end of this i will have cut my bedtime snack habit, or maybe i will be having one day 22 lol. i was a kid with a struggling mom when i was little so it very well may have been her wanting to make SURE we never went to bed hungry that started our bed time snacks. then i grew up and was very broke for sometime and i felt like i was failing at life, because i went to bed hungry a few nights. you always hear the phrase "millions of children go to bed hungry!" so we think of going to bed hungry as a horrible thing! on the reset i havent really been hungry but in life in general, if i feel the tiniest tinge of hunger before bed, i eat. i dont want to go to bed hungry! but recently i saw bob harper (biggest loser trainer) on a talk show and he said GO TO BED HUNGRY! if its bed time and your belly growls, ignore it! go to bed! its better to be hungry and asleep than have JUST eaten an sleep. The reset is helping me put that in practice. ive had a lot of stressful thoughts about life in general today, but im pretty sure its just the reset fucking with me so i am going to hold off on voicing them. My new UP band finally came in yesterday. I got to sleep with it last night and only woke up 1x to pee! i dont even want to know how many steps i took today. without my runs and workouts im sure its less than half of my norm and i dont even want to go there lol. maybe i shouldnt use it until im done re-setting after all. I dont want to get myself upset with a VISUAL of how much less i am working out. my nose isnt stuffy. no body aches today. i have been taking an epsom salt bath and dry brushing every day, though. since starting phase 2 i have only pooped once a day, which is weird for me but common according to the masses on the FB support page. a lot of people dont even lose any weight on this phase. if i dont i will just have to remind myself of the awesome internal changes, and that this is not all about weight loss, even if thats the easiest way to gauge that something is happening! Welcome to day 9! Almost at the halfway point and feeling good! I slept well last night. Something I have been noticing though is when I wake up to pee a million times I also am sweating. I was told its normal, but just an observation. Today was my second day experiencing the emotional lows. I have very little patience and am super irritable. I am seeing more of the "old Ashley" than id like to admit. I lost my patience with two different customer service reps today. I've really tried to be patient with morons over the last few months and I've done great, so it really sucks to feel like I'm moving backward. But I have to remind mysf this is only because of the reset and ill be normal again soon. Went for a leisurely 2 mile bike ride rather than half marathon trainings scheduled cross training today. One part of me is feeling like I screwed myself by letting the reset interrupt my training. The other side of me is trying to remember all the testimonis that said they were faster post reset. If doing it and doing it for real without working out is going to make me faster anyway than it should be ok. I just hate the unknown! I really enjoyed the sweet potato red pepper bisque for dinner tonight. As I've said before- I'm pretty impressed with the flavors of the food. A LOT of this is going to be worked into my normal diet. I started drinking the detox drink with cinnamon. Deff helps a little. It's only day 2 of drinking it but it was better than yesterday. No gagging. No stuffy nose today either. My body aches are still gone for the most part but I am feeling some pain in my hip tonight. Felt that a couple times in phase 1 so I know it's reset related. I also had some pain in my knee that I had hurt way back when doing insanity on concrete every day. I read in the support group that pain from old injuries is very common. It's so damn interesting. It makes sense though, that more toxins would be built up in an area that's previously had an injury. I thought in the detox week I would be using the bathroom more. Today and yesterday the ONLY time I pooped was in the morning. I also read this is common, but deff weird. I want to be flushed out! But I heard week 3 I can expect to go more frequently again. I fell off the plan last night with a handful of raisins. I put them out of sight and will do my best not to slip up again. My slip ups are small, but I'd like to keep them to an absolute minimum. Looking forward to tomorrow! I'm tired and very ready for bed tonight! First day of Phase 2. I woke up, pissed about 2 liters, and weighed in! lol -12.4lbs!!! woohoo! the great part is, i lost 12.4lbs! the sad part is, I'm still heavier than I was pre-binge week! dammit. so close though. I will be shocked if I'm not back in the 140's next week. I am going to really commit to not weighing in until monday, but it will be hard lol. so i think im going to put my scale in the car so I cant just cave in a moment of weakness.
the rest of my day didnt go quite as well. this phase introduces a new supplement- detox. It tastes kind of orange-y. it is super grainy though. it really isnt pleasant. the flavor isnt bad, but the grit and grain isnt good. The first 2x i drank it alright but the third time i actually gagged. Not loving it at all. alklalinize seems like no big deal now though, and mineralize doesnt either. So, it makes sense that by drinking this 3x a day i hope im feeling better about it by like the 3rd day of this phase. PLEASE! lol food was ok. Dinner was pinto beans and rice, greenbeans, and zucchini, and an example of a meal i thought "eh, thats going to be bland". once i actually made it, it was delicious, though! the seasoning went together really well and i enjoyed it. nothing about todays food was to die for, though. because of an emergency at the salon, i had a surprise day off. Normally, I'd spend it at the gym. But since I couldnt I thought I'd go give blood because I had been meaning to for about 2 weeks. I didnt think too much about it before I went because i never get light headed or dizzy or are tired after I donate. I typically go right back to work and am blow drying hair and everything. Once i was actually in the bed and pricked it occurred to me maybe i shouldnt be doing this right now. I looked it up and there wasnt a ton of information about it. One expert did say it probably wasnt the best idea because since youre going thru a transition its probably best to keep your blood until youre done transitioning. However, if you do it someone is going to get some nutrient rich blood. lol i didn't make the lady unhook me or anything. I went through with the donation and I felt fine after, I still feel fine physically. I havent been sore at all today. I started the day with some dry brushing. I think it's helping so ill be keeping it up. i was warned people go through emotional highs and lows during the reset, and im pretty sure today I am going through a low. today i was looking at my leg and i got a glimpse of a couple wrinkles on my calf. wrinkles in my skin. this is of huge concern to me because i really dont want to have to get surgery on my arms and legs. However, the smaller i get, the wrinklier I'm getting and I'm not sure that's going to go away. My trainer says give it 2 years but she hasnt really examined my skin. even my calves are all very faded stretch marks. I dont see how stretchmarked skin can snap back like healthy skin! i was sad about my upper thighs being wrinkly and saggy, and ive been noticing for a couple days that my inner leg is looking a little wrinkly and lumpy, and now, my calves. When I was in between I could wear shorts and skirts but now i am going to have to stick with dresses, capris, and pants. It's not like "ew im disgusting, no one look!", its like "my body doesnt reflect my hard work and i dont want anyone seeing that shit and thinking I DONT put in all the work i do." i love social media, but sometimes I hate it. I have to look at people who drink all weekend, indulge in junk food on the regular, and rarely or never workout out have better bodies than me! my body is not a display of my efforts, and it pisses me off! And now I am worrying that the gym isnt going to be able to fix my legs, and maybe not my arms either. I know this is all vanity bullshit and everyone is thinking "but ashley! youre so healthy now!" i get it. and that is wonderful. the thing is, all the effort i put in is more than is required to be "healthy". healthy works out 3-4x a week. Healthy indulges on a regular basis. I'm feeling like, if i am not going to get the results i am looking for anyways why am i counting every calorie and working out 6 days a week and trying to eat clean and running 10ks and shit? i dont have to do all that to just get by as a "healthy" person. generally, my life reflects that of an athlete. or at leave a very fit person! my body does not reflect that. I know women who were as big as me and lost close to the same amount of weight in less time with surgery and their legs are nice and tight! everyone told me " do it the right way- you dont want to lose weight fast- youll end up all saggy". then i did it the natural way andddddddd..... still ended up wrinkly and saggy. what the fuck. I think the biggest difference between me and some of those women is they had only been fat for a few years. I was always fat. My norm is not smaller. If my skin goes back to "normal" it will blow up, not shrink! it feels like this is my punishment for being so big for so long and im upset about it. the other side of me is like "RELAX! even if you do need surgery, youll get surgery!" itll be YEARS before i could afford that surgery if it goes at the same rate my tummy tuck and boobs are going at! so whether my trainer is right and itll snap back in two years, or i have to save up for another surgery, i need to get my mind right and prepared to have to be a wrinkly old lady for the next two years. I am going to need a wrap or something to be in a bathing suit at like, events. I will go to the beach looking a hot mess, but i cant go somewhere that i am trying to look good with this on display. not going to happen. unfortunately, my stuffy nose came back while I was having a sob fest earlier. bummer. I am about to make my schedule for tomorrow and take my ass to bed. i cannot wait for today to be OVER. Phase One- DOWN! Today was a good day. I woke up about an hour before I was supposed to and couldn't fall back to sleep. That's a good sign I am well rested and not exhausted. Like I said earlier in the week- I haven't felt tired on this cleanse at all besides in the evening when I am supposed to be tired anyway. Today I haven't had any stuffy nose yet. It was also the first day I was not sore and achy! I don't know if it's finally passed or if the dry brushing and Epsom salts last night really made a big difference. Either way, I am happy about that! I am sad phase 1 is over because today was the last day I got to eat the baked tempeh recipe. I LOVE that shit. I will be counting down to eating it again when this is all over. I went to an amazing nutrition seminar today, and I kind of want to blog about it. But I've decided to wait until its over (its a 3 part seminar) and that way I can do one big post about all the info rather than 3 random posts that interrupt my cleansing posts. The last seminar is on the last day of my detox. Perfect timing. I will be SO motivated to continue healthy eating having just detoxed for 21 days and wanting to put all my new knowledge into practice. For me, the key to developing a new habit is to saturate my brain with knowledge so I can no longer ignore WHY I want to do something differently. I wasn't able to commit to veganism at this level until I truly understood why meat doesn't work with my body. Now it's MUCH easier. 1/3 of the way done. In 3 days we will be at the half way point. I know this week might be tough but I'm looking forward to it. I have a lot of support on the ultimate reset Facebook pages and I'm also running a challenge group. To be honest, this challenge group is nothing like my last one. This group doesn't appear as motivated- but it may just be that they've chosen not to post much so it only appears that way. I'm trying to think of what I can do differently to get them on the ball but I'm not doing anything differently than last time. Maybe the last group just had great chemistry. Not sure, but its deff bumming me out a little bit. Hopefully as a group we still see some great loses on Monday. I'm not sure everyone is fully committed though, which is why I think they're not posting much, and that's no fun- and will show on the scale. Oh well, We shall see!!! I already packed lunch and supplements for tomorrow because ill be at the salon during it. managing the reset isn't too hard as long as you pre-plan. Since I already preplanned everything I was going to eat and do anyways, this isn't weird for me. In a sense it's a little easier because I don't have to plan what I am going to eat for each meal- it's decided for me. I'm soaking in a Lukewarm tub with Epsom salts and rose petals right now (lanabellasoap.com) and it sucks. There was barely any hot water and I don't know why! What I do know is if my muscles are sore tonight or tomorrow again I will be blaming this bath lol Today was a good day. Last night prepped all my food for today and I slept pretty well. as i was falling asleep i noticed that for the first time in almost 3 weeks, i did not have a stuffy nose! HOORAY! go ultimate reset! lol When I got home from my house call i took a hot bath and used the dry brush. both reccomended for muscle aches on the reset. it did help a lot. so those are my only issues. the amount of GOOD i am feeling definitely outweighs the bad. How i am feeling right now i would do this again, and probably will. itll be easier the second time, knowing what to expect and how to make some of the food as well as what i need or dont need that is on the grocery list( its really annoying to me that the list isnt correct. beach body has already heard from me regarding that though so i wont rant here.) It's only 10:30 on a Saturday night and I am thrilled to go to bed. I confess u "screwed up" and ate two strawberries after my bath. Tomorrow will be another long day. I'm going to the first part of a 3 part nutrition seminar, have to grocery shop, have a client at the salon, and a shitload of food to prepare and dishes to wash. I will need to be well rested. Week 1 is almost already complete! Crazy how fast time is going by! Cheated again and weighed in today. -10lbs!! i am putting the scale in the car until Monday. I cant seem to keep off it it! but the scale is the easiest way to tell if this is working so it's more addicting than usual. I mean, without the scale i know SOMETHING is going on because ive been pissing like 10x a day and 4x a night. Which is getting really annoying. But bearable. i slept about 9 hours last night. was a little easier to fall asleep without a nap, but didnt keep me from waking up to pee. i felt refreshed this morning. the only time im really tired is in the evening, which is how its supposed to be anyway so i'm not mad at that! today i am tired a little earlier than i have been, but today was my first day working at the salon during the cleanse (besides day 1- which doesnt really count since nothing was happening yet). Today my half marathon training called for a 4 mile run. Since i'm not running on the reset i walked 4 miles. I noticed by mile 2 my legs felt tired. Not at ALL normal for me. So i googled it. It turns out a lot of people experience muscle pain on the reset. its not that youre hurt, its lactic acid that is built up in your muscles being released. that makes me happy because lactic acid comes from milk (that shit is POSION! tell me one other species who drinks milk from another species besides humans.... NONE! its not natural! its not meant for humans!) and i havent drank milk in about a year and only consume it in moments of weakness when i cave in to milk chocolate or real pizza. So knowing that my body will get rid of whats been built up makes me thrilled! food today was ok. no lentil lime salad so obv im disappointed :-P the food today was yummy- but nothing that made me say OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS MY DIET PLAN. but nothing that tasted bad or too bland or made me think "i cant do this". I drank about 80oz of water today. only 64 are required so i am still drinking more than enough, but i realized how much my water consumption fluctuates. i was slightly irritable today. I know this is really common at this stage of the game. the shopping and preparing and cooking and bullshit becomes a lot when you mix it with your normal life. One of the girl in my challenge group texted me to tell me she was quitting today. I talked her into giving it another week. she has had a mess up pretty much every day since we started. shes looking at is as "well, i already messed up 5 days anyways so i might as well quit". im looking at it as "its only been 5 days. if you commit to doing the next 16 right you will get so much more out of this than doing 0 days right!" i want her to hang out because she feels like between work and baby and husband and house duties this is too much for her- and that is very justified. however, imagine how AMAZING she will feel if she does finish it?? i want to help her feel that feeling! and i also want her to get all the benefits she was doing this for- weight loss, a reset appetite, reset taste buds, a better idea of true clean eating. Another coach on my team who i ADMIRE x1million- miss Jamie Len Cumbo- aka @JUMPROPEQUEEN (on instagram- follow her for AMAZE yoga poses!!!) told me that she almost quit right around this time when she was doing the reset as well. and i KNOW jamie is not a quitter. so for her to want to throw in the towel speaks volumes about what a commitment this is. but it also just reminded me that feeling weak right now is totally normal and we're all going to get thru it if we keep why we started and what we wanted to get out of it in mind. i just binged ate for 8 days. thats the LONGEST binge ive ever gone on in the entire time ive been trying to lose weight, 22 months. the FIRST. ive done a day or 2, and maybe even 3 once, but EIGHT?! no way. that scares the shit out of me that i could slip up, and next thing i know its two slip ups, next thing i know its a WEEK, next thing i know i am 284lbs again! the only positive to that would be id have a couple thousand extra dollars from saving up for a tummy tuck i wouldnt need. other than that it would be a complete TRAGEDY. that may sound dramatic, but im so serious. to lose all the power i feel i have gained in this journey would be devestating. I REFUSE to go back. So i am resetting not only to lose a few more pounds, not only to get all the bullshit left over from when i ate animals out of my system, not only to get the toxins from alcohol and the environment out of my system, but to remind myself i enjoy clean eating and i feel my best when im eating this way and living a life dedicated to my health. work for 11 hours tomorrow. i am about to cook all my meals and pack my lunch box so theres no room for error! failing to plan is planning to fail and this chick right here- is no failure!! :-D Bring on day 6! 10:45PM EDIT: definitely annoyed right now. my body aches are terrible. i feel like ive been slumped over in a computer chair for 12 hours after running at 10k. i know what both of those feel like, and this is it LOL i mean, its bearable, but its not at all enjoyable. im reading its really common. most people for a couple days, some people for all 21. this is an "inner body workout" so sore insides can be expected. this is all so weird and makes me want to seriously learn about nutrition. how on earth am i taking herbal and mineral supplements and eating clean food and making my body clean itself out! the body and its relation to foods and nutrients is so frieken amazing! i got an invite to a 3 part nutrition seminar from Keith (the guy from Ogfit.com who helped me do my first headstand!) and was considering passing on it to put the $$ toward my tummy tuck. but i think i just decided i need to go. i need to know more about how food works with/against my body!! this is so damn amazing! going to bed now and hoping that i sleep well because tomorrow is a long day! I was in a great mood today! I didn't experience the day 4 blues at all. I actually woke up feeling very relaxed and very blessed. I slept until about 8, so normal wake up time. I woke up a lot in my sleep again though. 3 nights in, that's getting old. I was trying to rest my body as much as possible but i didn't take a nap today even though the schedule would have allowed it. Hopefully i will sleep better tonight because I'm pretty exhausted. Got to have lentil like salad again for lunch today. It is soooo good. I am in LOVE. Unfortunately I'm not sure it's in weeks 2 or 3 but if its not, ill be eating it week 4 when this is over lol No headaches, no bellyaches, less stuffy nose. Not feeling weak or hungry or deprived. I am up to 25 shakes of "mineralize" (you take between 10 & 30 shakes a day. I couldn't handle more than 10 day 1), and the "alkalinize" is becoming more tolerable. I worked at the salon on day 1, but have only been working from home since. Tomorrow and Saturday ill be at the salon again so it'll be interesting to see if that makes me hungrier, if the temptations are worse, and if its a pain in the ass to take my supplements and eat on time at work. I just gotta keep telling myself "it's only 21 days!" You can get thru anything for 21 days, so I can deff do this! I didn't do a strenuous workout today. Foam roller for about 20 mins. Looking forward to the rest of the week and my official week 1 weigh in and measurements! |