Cleansing day 2

Today I woke up with a headache bordering on migraine.  It was bad.  My neighbors son as talking about pink cupcakes and I suddenly could picture the white cupcake with gobs of pink frosting and my mouth started to water.  I thought it was a LONG day as far as food goes, but looking back at the day it really wasn't so bad.  The temptations are still there, but I feel good over all and the bast part is that from yesterday to day I lost 2 1/2 lbs.

Here is a breakdown of toady's meals.

Breakfast: 2 turkey sausage patties, 1 whole hard boiled egg and 1 egg white, 1/2 cup of sliced strawberries

Snack 1: This got skipped

Lunch: Spinach salad, with about the same ingredients as yesterdays

Snack 2: 4 oz of sliced turkey

Dinner: a great salad with lots of fixings

Drank 12 oz of water, roughly.

I finally took 2 IB at 9:30 so I could function.

Here is how my body is reacting...My muscles have been twitching, I have had headaches, I have felt nausea and lack of energy, I feel lighter and not as tired.  Even though I haven't felt like I've had a lot of energy, I still don't feel like I need to take a nap in the middle of the day.  I'm not working out though, so this might be different if I was.  Tomorrow is my last day and it should be interesting b/c I am going out of town.  Traveling might be tough, but I am determined to stick it out.  The Tuesday I get back I will be back to the gym.

Sugar

Is it possible to be addicted to sugar?  I have a migraine and all I want is something sweet.  My muscles are all twitchy and my head hurts.  This cleanse is doing something and I think I will like how I feel when all is said and done, but right now I feel pretty crappy.

Cleansing day 1

It started out not too bad, but as the day went on it became harder and harder not to snitch a little here and a little there.  I didn't, just so you know.

Today for breakfast I ate a veggie omelet with green peppers, mushrooms, green onions, carrots, spinach and a tomato with 4 egg whites and a 1 yoke.  On the side I had 1/2 a cucumber

Snack 1 was 1/4 cup of unsalted chopped walnuts

Lunch, garden salad: tomato, cucumber, alfalfa sprouts, lettuce, carrots, spinach and broiled chicken breast with a teaspoon of lime juice over the top.  I also ate a banana.

Snack 2 was 1/4 cup of sliced unsalted almonds

Dinner was a spinach salad with tomato, spinach, 3 hard boiled eggs (only 1 was an entire egg, the others were just egg whites), mushrooms carrots and green peppers.  I put about 2 teaspoons of balsamic vinegar over the top.

Snack 3 was 1 banana

I don't know yet what I'm going to eat tomorrow, but I'm sure what ever it is will be interesting.  Also, in all I drank 15.5 cups of water.

The hardest part about today was not eating my kids leftover mac and cheese.  I put it in a Tupperware dish to save for them tomorrow.

Cleanse

I'm starting a 3 day cleanse today.  It's a metabolisim jump starter.  It cleans out toxins from your body and aids in getting you off complex sugars.  It's mostly veggies and protein.  You can eat all the veggies you want and all the protein you want with only 2 servings of fruit and all the water you can drink.

***Did you know that you should drink 1/2 your weight in water a day?***  I didn't know that until recently.  When you work out you should drink more than that because your body needs to replenish itself.  anything less than this and you run the risk of dehydration.  Most people are dehydrated and they don't realize it until it's too late and they are super thirsty.

As soon as I can get my printer working I'll scan the cleanse in for you to see.  Look for it under the nutrition tab.

May, what does it bring?

May...I can't believe that it's already May.  Soon I'll be saying I can't believe Summer is over.  But for now let's focus on May.  A new month can bring many great things.  It can symbolize the end of old habits and celebrating new ones, it can mean starting new goals or it can simply mean a new month to put off what you know you need to do, but don't want to.  For too many this is the case.  For me it was the case for a long time.  "Oh, I know I need to change things in my life, I just like chocolate too much or I just don't have time to."  Yes, I had those thoughts.  Today though, today means that I'm not going to give up chocolate just because, it means I don't have to eat all my kids Easter candy in one sitting, I can indulge once in a while.  Today means moderation in all things.  I think that is really what it comes down to.  Not GIVING up the things you love, but cutting back a little and noticing you don't have to eat a cow to feel full or satisfied.

I ate a great breakfast this morning of banana walnut oatmeal with 1/2 C strawberries and hard boiled egg whites from the Easter eggs we dyed.  I took that multi-vitamin and drank a cup of water.

Today will be a great day, b/c it's my life and I'm taking it back day by day!