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.