MC 2025: Day 10

9 days 10 and lost about 4kgs. I’ve created a tracker here

This is easy and tough at the same time huh..

Easy because its simple, you squeeze your lemons in the morning that make 9 servings, and sip that throughout the day. No fuss no muss.. no plates, no cooking, not a lot of mess and dishes to take care of. AND at the end of it, you know you will be losing 1lb per day. Btw how is that? Its been that amount of weight loss per day, inspite of age or activity level??

Ive done the cleanse several times before, and ive been active this time, keeping up with my usual exercises and activities for the past 10 days. And yet, the weight lost is 1lb per day.

Difficult because you miss the taste of food. The texture, the flavor and the variety. It doesn’t help that my sense of smell got better from Day 3! I can smell everything! Even lettuce from the next table (shamefully enough I didn’t recognize that smell was from lettuce leaves :D).

Right now Im on Day 10, and Im just craving for fried food! Fried chicken.. French fries.. etc.. I know Im not really hungry. I haven’t felt real hunger yet so I know this is me, just craving the things I used to eat.

Im also surprised that I can keep up with the pilates. On  my first week, I went to 3 intermediate pilates classes and did about 20mins on the stairmaster, plus 2 sauna sessions I think. This is mostly my routine on my pre-cleanse time. No wonder I wasn’t losing weight.

Yesterday, I felt it. How better I moved in the pilates class. I felt lighter and more flexible? No.. more in flow. Or maybe the class was just easier? Lets wait for Dana to come back on Monday and will see how it is. But I do feel better.. and I love it! I don’t want to lose this feeling.. the feeling of finally progressing in your practice.

After pilates, I went for an incline walk on the treadmill for 30 mins. Tbh.. to meet my step count (which still fell short :D). This one I felt out of breath.. similar to the stairmaster… I find that one much difficult than my pre-cleanse days.

Whenever the temptation creeps in.. whether from craving or boredom, I just pull these out:

• the goal look in mind and I really get into it – i.e. think about what I would wear on Day 35, how I would look, and that simple flex on IG stories.. hey, im only human, and plus i want to stick it to someone.. hmp!
• Reason that its just food, and it will still be there after I finish easing out – and that too food in South Africa! I will be travelling soon
• Think that there are temptations everyday, If I keep giving in, then I wont get anywhere. That same temptation will be there the next day and the next etc.
• Occupy my mind by planning on how to hit my protein targets once Im off cleanse and travelling, I don’t want to gain it all back. This one really a bit of a worry. Not the protein part, the carbs part. Im guessing we will be heavy on meats the whole 3 weeks.. its just the pairing that needs to be sorted

Week 2 in, lets see how I finish this week. I hope I get down by at least 7kgs down by after Day 14, which is on Monday morning.

Day 10: Shhh.. Its All Good

"Endorphins make you happy, happy people just dont shoot their husbands."--- Elle Woods

Hey all!

The scale started to move again just a bit, so Im good..

It was too foggy today, another sign of weather change and my throat hurts and Im having colds from allergy (again!! uff).. so thats not good...

Ate my meals as planned. Deviation free.. so thats good

Definitely PMSing.. so thats not good..

But, I decided to join the Body Pump Class AND Body Combat that my fave intstructor has invited me to.. I know this is a big no-no while in Cohens but, I just wanted to see how I'll do. I feel ok to do it so I went.

AND IT FELT SO SO GOOD!!!!!

I lifted with the same weights and gave it my all for the combat class. I had sweat like never before.
I also noticed that I feel stronger and lighter. I really believe my yoga sessions had helped my muscles. I never really paid attention to stretching (for about a year) so can you imagine how constricted/tight my muscles were?? AND! YOU REALLY CANT BEAT CLEAN EATING!!

"Eat clean. Train dirty" -- Unknown

I know Im not supposed to workout while on Cohens, but my consultant said that I need to reduce my workouts so I dont feel hungry. Lets put this in my perspective, I used to do this:

1) Body Pump + Intense Cardio (pump, step, spinning) 3X a week
2) 5KM Treadmill session 2X a week

So this was my normal routine before I started Cohens. I did reduce my workouts to:

1) Yoga 3X a week

Adding this Pump and Combat once a week, is still significantly less.

How did I feel? ---The rush of endorphins was awesome! It felt so good, its addictive!!

I ate my last meal 20 minutes after my workout, which is a beef meal+crackers. An hour and a half later, I had a fruit. I didnt feel ravenously hungry after this workout.

After an hour of reaching home, the endorphins went down and I felt so tired that I slept by 11:30

Body pain was there, which was expected.. all good

Perspired a lot.. felt so good..

Did not feel dizzy nor dying.. thats good..

So all in all the day went great.. Lets just see if I can manage to get up to work tomorrow..

AND, I am thinking of doing this once a week, depending on how I feel the previous day and the day of the workout

Its all good people..