I feel like I'm getting into the rhythm of the cleanse, although it feels weird to have our main meal at lunch. Liz offered to make the main meal today, so I came home for lunch. She did a great job-- lamb chops with quinoa and kale.
I weighted 162 this morning--the pounds are flying off fast. I'm adding a few new things to our diet to increase the fiber content. Starting this morning, I ground up some flax seed to put in our smoothie and tonight I took some Bentonite clay, which is also supposed to be good for removing heavy metals from the system. We also started taking garlic pills, which are supposed to be good at removing parasites. I don't know if we have heavy metals or parasites, but what the hell, may as well do the whole thing. In for a dime, in for a dollar.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Cleanse: Day 2
Day 2 as easier than day 1. I wasn't starving when I got up, and felt full after breakfast. I was very hungry by lunchtime, but part of that was because we had a late lunch. I was a little hungry by dinner time, but felt very satisfied by dinner's juice (apples, kale, celery, broccoli, cucumber, and lemon).
I'm hoping each day gets a bit easier. My weight was up a bit from yesterday--how I have no idea, given what I ate yesterday, but I'm sure the overall direction will be down.
Again, the best thing about this cleanse is how delicious all the recipes are. I'm sure we'll continue eating them long after the cleanse is done.
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I'm hoping each day gets a bit easier. My weight was up a bit from yesterday--how I have no idea, given what I ate yesterday, but I'm sure the overall direction will be down.
Again, the best thing about this cleanse is how delicious all the recipes are. I'm sure we'll continue eating them long after the cleanse is done.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Let the Cleanse Begin
Liz and I started a 3 week cleanse today. I'm pretty excited about it I think it will kick-start us getting to our ideal weights, and let me be not over-weight by my birthday.
I've done a few cleanses in my lifetime. The first one was when I was in my mid-20s. I read a book about fasting and did a fast--I think it was for 3 days. At the end of it, I was so starving, I did just what they said not to do and ate a big meal. I still remember how much pain I was in all night.
The next one was when Katy was living with us. She had done a cleanse using a kit you can get online or at Whole Foods or similar places. With that cleanse, we had smoothies for breakfast and lunch with a mixture that came with the kit, and then had a very simple dinner--my memory was that it was a piece of baked skinless, boneless chicken breast with maybe a side vegetable. We did that for a week. It wasn't too bad, but didn't result in any permanent changes. And it was a bit boring in terms of what we ate. I think we did it again a few months later.
This one is very different for a number of reasons. First, it starts with a week of preparation, and then the clause lasts three weeks. During the preparation time, there were a lot of foods we had to cut out of our diet, like dairy, wheat, alcohol, sugar, caffeine, beef, pork, some vegetables (like corn and peppers), some fruits (like oranges, grapefruits, strawberries, and bananas, and some nuts (like peanuts and pistachios). The idea is two-fold--not eating foods that are common allergens and eating fewer acid-producing foods. The other thing was to have 12 hours between dinner and breakfast--if we finished dinner at 7, we shouldn't eat breakfast before 7 in the morning.
The preparation phase went well. We did it from Monday to Friday and both lost a few pounds. Today we started the actual cleanse. That involves having smoothies, fresh made juices, or light soups for breakfast and dinner, and a full meal at lunch. The book we're doing this from has recipes for everything we eat, to make sure we getting the right nutrients and eating the right quantities. The idea behind it it to have our bodies spend the least amount of time digesting, and maximum time detoxifying.
I thought I'd be starving tonight, but I'm not even hungry. I was starving this morning. I got up at 6 and Liz slept till 8 so I waited for her to get up to make breakfast. I was really hungry, and breakfast didn't do much to alleviate it. We went for a 12 mile bike ride and I was so hungry when we returned, I ate an apple and some almonds (the almonds ere permitted as a snack, not the apple). But I was going grocery shopping and literally was afraid of my driving skills because I was so hungry. But lunch was so filling, I wasn't even hungry at dinner time. I ate the soup I made for dinner, and though it was very light, I still feel full.
The best part is that every recipe we've tried so far is incredibly delicious! I've mad a meal plan that has us eating something different for very meal this week. That pretty much exhausts the recipes in the book, but that's much more variation than we normally have.
So here's where I stand:
I weighed 172.4 when I made the commitment to stop eating dessert and sinking alcohol on March 18th.
I weighed 166.2 on April 16th when we started the preparation phase.
I weighed 162.8 this morning when we started the cleanse.
I just need to lose 7.8 pounds to not be over-weight on my birthday, and 26 pounds to be at my ideal weight. I think the next 3 weeks will get me past the first goal and well on my way to the second!
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I've done a few cleanses in my lifetime. The first one was when I was in my mid-20s. I read a book about fasting and did a fast--I think it was for 3 days. At the end of it, I was so starving, I did just what they said not to do and ate a big meal. I still remember how much pain I was in all night.
The next one was when Katy was living with us. She had done a cleanse using a kit you can get online or at Whole Foods or similar places. With that cleanse, we had smoothies for breakfast and lunch with a mixture that came with the kit, and then had a very simple dinner--my memory was that it was a piece of baked skinless, boneless chicken breast with maybe a side vegetable. We did that for a week. It wasn't too bad, but didn't result in any permanent changes. And it was a bit boring in terms of what we ate. I think we did it again a few months later.
This one is very different for a number of reasons. First, it starts with a week of preparation, and then the clause lasts three weeks. During the preparation time, there were a lot of foods we had to cut out of our diet, like dairy, wheat, alcohol, sugar, caffeine, beef, pork, some vegetables (like corn and peppers), some fruits (like oranges, grapefruits, strawberries, and bananas, and some nuts (like peanuts and pistachios). The idea is two-fold--not eating foods that are common allergens and eating fewer acid-producing foods. The other thing was to have 12 hours between dinner and breakfast--if we finished dinner at 7, we shouldn't eat breakfast before 7 in the morning.
The preparation phase went well. We did it from Monday to Friday and both lost a few pounds. Today we started the actual cleanse. That involves having smoothies, fresh made juices, or light soups for breakfast and dinner, and a full meal at lunch. The book we're doing this from has recipes for everything we eat, to make sure we getting the right nutrients and eating the right quantities. The idea behind it it to have our bodies spend the least amount of time digesting, and maximum time detoxifying.
I thought I'd be starving tonight, but I'm not even hungry. I was starving this morning. I got up at 6 and Liz slept till 8 so I waited for her to get up to make breakfast. I was really hungry, and breakfast didn't do much to alleviate it. We went for a 12 mile bike ride and I was so hungry when we returned, I ate an apple and some almonds (the almonds ere permitted as a snack, not the apple). But I was going grocery shopping and literally was afraid of my driving skills because I was so hungry. But lunch was so filling, I wasn't even hungry at dinner time. I ate the soup I made for dinner, and though it was very light, I still feel full.
The best part is that every recipe we've tried so far is incredibly delicious! I've mad a meal plan that has us eating something different for very meal this week. That pretty much exhausts the recipes in the book, but that's much more variation than we normally have.
So here's where I stand:
I weighed 172.4 when I made the commitment to stop eating dessert and sinking alcohol on March 18th.
I weighed 166.2 on April 16th when we started the preparation phase.
I weighed 162.8 this morning when we started the cleanse.
I just need to lose 7.8 pounds to not be over-weight on my birthday, and 26 pounds to be at my ideal weight. I think the next 3 weeks will get me past the first goal and well on my way to the second!
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Day 3: Eating Out
I knew today would be a challenge--have dinner out on a day that I couldn't exercise. I'm not sure I got my calories right--it's really hard to know what the ingredients or quantities are. My first thought was to not record my food for the day. If I wasn't writing in this blog, I wouldn't have tried to recreate it. I Googled the things I ate and entered the calories, and ended up 99 calories over my goal--not bad. I tout it'd be much worse.
Here's the count:
Weight: 169--even for the week
Exercise: none
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Here's the count:
Weight: 169--even for the week
Exercise: none
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Day 2: Already Struggling
Tonight, Liz and I went shoe shopping. It was essential for me, because Emmaline, our golden retriever, stole one of my sneakers and refuses to give it up. So I was wearing heavy winer boots today despite the 70 degree temperature. I was feeling exhausted from travel, the time change, and losing an hour of sleep to daylight savings time, so all I wanted to do was to get a hamburger, fries, and a beer or two.
After a successful shopping trip--we both got cool new shoes--we contemplated our culinary options. We started with the best of intentions. We headed to a place called Karma that we'd never eaten at, but heard had really good food. It started as a raw food restaurant, so we figured it would have healthy options. But alas, it had already closed. It's relocating to a smaller location in the next town, so they must not have found an audience.
We were too tired to go to a restaurant that took much time, so we went to Local Burger. They serve great burgers from local beef. I really, really, really wanted French fries--they make incredible sweet potato fries, but Liz was being good, so I followed her path. Burger, no bun, side of cole slaw, and water. It was hard smelling the fries all around us, I have to say. But whenI got home, I discoveredI had enough calories left for a beer, so I got 2/3 of my fantasy and stayed within my calories.
Today's facts:
Weight:159
Exercise: 45 minutes with Sean, a trainer at Fitness Together
Food: 1,336 calories
I did much better thanI thought I would. Tomorrow will be a challenge. I have an army AM meeting, so I can't exercise in the morning, and I'm meeting a friend for dinner, so the calories will be a challenge.
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After a successful shopping trip--we both got cool new shoes--we contemplated our culinary options. We started with the best of intentions. We headed to a place called Karma that we'd never eaten at, but heard had really good food. It started as a raw food restaurant, so we figured it would have healthy options. But alas, it had already closed. It's relocating to a smaller location in the next town, so they must not have found an audience.
We were too tired to go to a restaurant that took much time, so we went to Local Burger. They serve great burgers from local beef. I really, really, really wanted French fries--they make incredible sweet potato fries, but Liz was being good, so I followed her path. Burger, no bun, side of cole slaw, and water. It was hard smelling the fries all around us, I have to say. But whenI got home, I discoveredI had enough calories left for a beer, so I got 2/3 of my fantasy and stayed within my calories.
Today's facts:
Weight:159
Exercise: 45 minutes with Sean, a trainer at Fitness Together
Food: 1,336 calories
I did much better thanI thought I would. Tomorrow will be a challenge. I have an army AM meeting, so I can't exercise in the morning, and I'm meeting a friend for dinner, so the calories will be a challenge.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Baby, I'm Back
I haven't posted in over 4 months. I felt like I wasn't making any progress on my goals, and I was just repeating myself. But today, I got to bike outside for the first time in 2012, and it felt so great to be outside, I decided to recommit. So this is what I'm going to do. Everyday, I'm going to post my weight, how much my weight has changed overall from today and for the week, how many net calories I ate (my goal is a maximum of 1,500), and how much I exercised.
Here's the results from today's biking:
I feel very good about many things about my ride. First, I felt in great shape--the ride was easy and fun. I know riding using the trainer all winter plus working out twice a week at Fitness Together kept me in great shape. Second, I like that I averaged 11.7 miles per hour. That feels like a great pace for a first ride. Third, I like that I got my heart rate up to 155--I felt like I was having trouble getting my heart rate up biking last year.
Here's my food record for the day:
It's hard to read--I had net 1,423 calories after my bike ride.
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Here's the results from today's biking:
I feel very good about many things about my ride. First, I felt in great shape--the ride was easy and fun. I know riding using the trainer all winter plus working out twice a week at Fitness Together kept me in great shape. Second, I like that I averaged 11.7 miles per hour. That feels like a great pace for a first ride. Third, I like that I got my heart rate up to 155--I felt like I was having trouble getting my heart rate up biking last year.
Here's my food record for the day:
It's hard to read--I had net 1,423 calories after my bike ride.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Fun in the Sun
Liz and I had a great time on vacation. We spent the week swimming in the ocean or in a beautiful infinity edge pool next to the ocean, or reading next to the ocean or a pool. Most of the time this relaxing was accompanied with margaritas, a surprising number of which were given to us for free for one reason or another.
Here's a picture of one of the pools we were in:
I took the picture in the late afternoon of one of the two cloudy days we had-- that's the ocean in the distance. They had the most unusual amenity on the beach on the other side of this pool--a bed to lie on next to the ocean. Here's Liz and a staff member by the bed:
Isn't that weird? I think it would be lovely to lie on one of those beds--with my broken back, it's difficult to lie on the sand, but I think I would be too self conscious. It seems weird to lie on a bed in public.
I took a picture of the day's activities at the beach--study it closely:
Don't you think there's a problem with the order of the activities? I mean, I think the book exchange would work much better before the beer pong, don't you?
The beach we were on is called Sunset Beach. Here's what it looks like at sunset from our deck:
We were very good about exercising for our first four days, and then we stopped that nonsense. I picked up a little digestive order pretty early in the trip, which I'm still feeling the effects of. I'm not sure if it was because of the unusual quantity of tequila I was imbibing, the food I was eating, some little bug I ingested, or some combination of the three. Anyway, I gained 5.5 pounds in the week, despite the inordinate quantity of stuff I was flushing down the toilet. I'm hoping I'm retaining fluids from all the salt on the rims of the margarita glasses. The next day or two will tell.
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Here's a picture of one of the pools we were in:
I took the picture in the late afternoon of one of the two cloudy days we had-- that's the ocean in the distance. They had the most unusual amenity on the beach on the other side of this pool--a bed to lie on next to the ocean. Here's Liz and a staff member by the bed:
Isn't that weird? I think it would be lovely to lie on one of those beds--with my broken back, it's difficult to lie on the sand, but I think I would be too self conscious. It seems weird to lie on a bed in public.
I took a picture of the day's activities at the beach--study it closely:
Don't you think there's a problem with the order of the activities? I mean, I think the book exchange would work much better before the beer pong, don't you?
The beach we were on is called Sunset Beach. Here's what it looks like at sunset from our deck:
We were very good about exercising for our first four days, and then we stopped that nonsense. I picked up a little digestive order pretty early in the trip, which I'm still feeling the effects of. I'm not sure if it was because of the unusual quantity of tequila I was imbibing, the food I was eating, some little bug I ingested, or some combination of the three. Anyway, I gained 5.5 pounds in the week, despite the inordinate quantity of stuff I was flushing down the toilet. I'm hoping I'm retaining fluids from all the salt on the rims of the margarita glasses. The next day or two will tell.
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