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.

The Power of "No, Thank You"

I attended an Iftar yesterday hosted by one of our corporate partners and Im proud to say that I didnt eat anything and stuck to the plan. 🙋🙋 

They kept asking me to eat but I responded "No, thank you. Im good." and drank water and a diet soda. The Iftar event was nice and I stayed until 8:30 as planned. I reached home a bit late than I wanted and ate my last meal around 9:20pm. Our neighbor also hosted a hotpot with braai session.. so I dodged a lot of bullets yesterday evening.

Small human wave to me! whooohoo! #smallwins

Anyhoo, I read in the forum that there's a Golden Week of losses after TOM. I sure do hope so!! I need it. I weighed on the 3rd of May and planning to weigh tomorrow morning. Good luck to me...

I havent deviated in terms of food but I am guilty of the following:

• eating past 9pm
• sleeping late.. like really late last friday (3am) and I will most probably do that again tomorrow

I recently purchased a fitness band and I like how it tracks my sleep. I wanted to see how much deep sleep I get in a night because thats where the HGH gets to work. So far so good. I havent really engaged in any form of exercise, but this program doesnt require it. I want to start working on my flexibility though, just do some stretching.. wake those muscles up and eventually start yoga.