Day 10

The END!  Yeah, that's right...it's the end of the cleans! I feel great and my tummy is HAPPY. Other than that today was pretty uneventful.

Tomorrow is the first day of the MNS3 and got some pointers today from Christi, my adviser. It might take a day or two to feel a difference if I feel a difference at all.I can't WAIT for got my Catalyst!!! I hear it's fabulous!!

I've been improving at my workout and been sleeping better. I hope that continues! 

OK, I'm tired and have to unwind. Goodnight!

Day 9

DAY 9!!!!  Yahoo!

Today was great. Nothing to new! Nothing to bad. I couldn't had a better workout but..whatcha gonna do?!

I have not been on the scale on 3 day's :-) it better have gone down and not up! Or I'll kick IT'S butt! I am getting stuck on my self image again though and that becomes a problem sometimes. I was talking to a person at the gym today and said to her "People are just born to be a certain size."  Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh........WHAT! This is what people say when they are in a no-go RUT! I don't want to be in a no-go rut! i want to look like an athlete for crying out loud. My friend said "Your legs look athletic." ....No! No! NO! That wont work, that's not good enough for me. I want to LIKE my pictures, and I want to like my active pictures.

So here I am...day 9 is over and was good. Movin' on..........

Day 8

Welcome to the almost end of the cleans. Day 8

So you know what I said about working out Monday through Friday and running Saturday as lone as I great good/well/great? Well I meant it but it just so happens that this morning I tweeked my back do absolulty nothing, I mean it, I put my bag (not heavy) into my truck and came back out of the truck and my back got really tight, I felt a little some think funny but I didn't really think of it. Until the tightness didn't go away. Good thing I didn't cancel my chiropractor apt like I was going to, to go to CFW. Which brings me to the next thing that I was thinking about earlier and wanted to share.

Just because your taking care of the inside by eating right and exercising doesn't mean that your done. You have to make sure your body is inline and well adjusted. With your exercising and workin' your body hard your body moves, which might be the reason why you have that pain in the hip, back or where ever.  Right now I go just about every week, I'm not sure why my back tightened up, but apparently it's telling me something and I should probably listen, like 'don't even think about missing your chiropractic appointment sucker!', and it's freaking cold outside sometimes your body just doesn't like IT!

On that note....today wasn't the best day. I had my meal replacement shake with the fiber in it and my probiotics 20 minutes before, got to work, had my oatmeal even though I wasn't hungry because of my shake (man that sucker is thick!) and then came lunch......yuck! WARNING if you have a squeamish stomach move on to the next paragraph! About a third way through there was a hair in my salad (without going any grosser) and it WASN'T mine! I'm really glad that I didn't hurl in my plate!!! So I got the manager and I was done!

I went to my chiropractor apt, then grocery shopping and had chicken for dinner. I'm still a little nauseous!!

I just realized that I don't have anymore nighttime pills (cleansing) to take, I just have the morning probiotics and the fiber to add in my meal replacement shake for the next two day's, then I start the MSN. I gotta say that I do love those probiotics :-)

Is this blog helping anyone or do you have any comments or questions? Feel free to ask in the comments section. Thanks for reading!

Day 7

MY Goodness! I'm not sure if I should be doing this through the holiday's but I'm glad I am. I like challenges, would this be working better if I were eating completely 'clean'? Maybe. I could do this again and see but hopefully wont have as much to lose/gain (gain muscle) but right here and right now, lets see what happens. I really need to stay off the scale. Along with making my insides better it's making my outsides better too. It usually takes me a LONG time for my bad skin go get better but while taking just this 10 day cleanse,my skin is healing faster and looking better (I think), and I'm on 7, so I can only see things getting better. I also haven't been eating as clean as I should be, I don't really enjoy eating clean 100% of the time. It all comes within time, and I can see and feel some of the benefits.'It starts working from the inside out,' I heard before I started this, and that's how I'm feeling.

Last week I was able to workout the whole week, M-F, because I felt good, thank goodness! I took the weekend off and will be back at CFW tomorrow and will workout this next full week as well. As long as I feel good I will workout as much as I can, Crossfit Woodbridge Monday through Friday and run on Saturday off on Sunday. That's my plan anyway.

Tomorrow I will be back on the fiber drink along with probiotics and the meal replacement. Yes, by the way, I forgot to mention that 3 day's ago I started drinking the meal replacement instead of my own protein. It tastes good and it's thicker than my normal protein. 

Day 7 was good....lets see what day 8 brings. I kinda can't wait for day 11 :-) a whole new step.

Day 6

Merry Christmas! 

So today is Christmas and I ate a great Christmas dinner and some M&M's and desert...That's the end of the day, just wanted to get that out of the way ;-)

This morning I had my meal replacement shake 20 minutes after taking my ProBiotics. I had coffee and some of my Christmas gift from my grandmother, zucchini bread :-/, it's a small one so I'm not to worried about it. I had Veggies and hummus. Then after the I went over to my parents house for Christmas. I didn't have as much water as I needed and didn't need or have a spark. My stomach is a little...ummm. irregular feeling. It will be better tomorrow.

See you tomorrow...Day 7.

Day 5

Merry Christmas Eve.

Today started out the same as the others. I had a great workout at CFW, I ate pretty well through the day and felt pretty good. I had two places to go for Christmas Eve, I went to church with my high school friend Jessica and then we went to my parents house for some wine and food, not a advocare friendly environment but ... it's Christmas and I knew that was coming.

Not  much going on on day 5, half way through the cleansing part of the 24 day challenge.

See ya on day 6...

Day 4

Lets call today ....great!

Yeah today was great, no bloating, hardly any gas, finally feeling 'regular' (people with IBS knows what that means, FABULOUS) and I felt awake...until the 3 hour drive home from work :-/ that was awful!

I made it to CFW for the 6 o'clock class and I think I had a great workout, I'm getting better at my burpees but my box jumps are getting worse, I hear it's a mental block, well I don't want to EAT it (aka face plant on the box) after all I want to keep my fabulous teeth.

Today was this first day of the little white pills in the am before anything else (empty tummy). ProBiotic Restore

Simply put, probiotics are good bacteria that confer a health benefit and are essential for many vital body functions, including healthy digestion. The word "probiotic" means "for life." Probiotics are increasingly being used and evaluated in the management of digestive balance. However, probiotics are strain specific, and thus different probiotics may have unique benefits. Your body needs beneficial bacteria for a number of things, including healthy digestion. But these bacteria are fragile. Common issues such as diet, changes in schedule, travel, and stress can disrupt your natural balance of good bacteria. Align® contains Bifantis®, a probiotic that helps restore your natural balance.*

 I've been taking the CorePlex (since the beginning):

KEY BENEFITS:

• Provides a strong nutritional foundation*
• Contains a synergistic blend of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and botanicals
• Promotes a healthy immune system*
• Supports healthy muscle and connective tissue*
• Contains antioxidants to help combat the effects of free radicals*
• Supports healthy bone structure and growth*
• Provides a comprehensive package of B vitamins
• Serves as a superior nutritional supplement
• Contains chelated amino acid-bound minerals for better absorption*

 The only thing I'm waiting on is for my afternoon sweet tooth to go away, I'm getting better but I AM a chocaholic and have a major sweet tooth so this one is going to take some time. Holiday's don't help but I'm working with what I got and doing the best I can.

See y'all on day 5.....

Day 3

Lets call today......WTF! I never said this blog would be G rated people!

This morning was good, this after noon was ok. I took the full fiber packet in my normal protein shake and ate pretty normal throughout the day. No problems, not even really tired, had my SPARK. 

I had a great workout at CFW, I'm getting stronger, it may not look pretty yet but I'm workin' on it.

All went well until I went to weigh in at Max Muscle...here is where the WTF comes in. Gained 7 pounds in one week and almost 1%+ body fat (not in a good way)! That has GOT to be wrong, wrong, WRONG!!!!! Yeah ok I had a bad weekend and some Christmas goodies once and a while but not 7 freaking pounds worth!!! FUCK! I've been doing Crossfit better and more....OK so it's day 3 and I've got to let this stuff work. Let see if this will work or if my body just REALLY doesn't like me.

My adviser said "will you stop counting numbers?!" ...Well I'm a number girl, I say. But I'll let it work for me. Apparently it works for everyone else but then again so did the Paleo challenge.....I'm putting my negative self to bed....Goodnight.

Day 2.

Let's call today...flatulence!

Day two was better than day one because at least your tummy starts to feel better, use your imagination, how do you get rid of gas... 

Today's eating looks a lot like yesterday, I had the full fiber mix in my protein stake, coffee and when I got to work I had oatmeal. but for lunch I had Pho, Vietnamese soup (YUMMY) and for a snack I had veggies and hummus.  Oh and I have a SLAM (YUCK) and had so much more energy, still a bit tired and I had my normal nap on the way home from work (car pool) but I had a great Crossfit workout which consisted of:

 Warm up; 25 Jumping jacks, 10 Burpee's, 2 sets of 15 squats, 5 pull ups, 10 lunges, push ups, run 400 meters and row 500 meters ....I can't remember what the rest of the warm up was.

WOD; 3 rounds of.... 100 meters, 50 squats, run 100 meters, 40 sit ups, run 100 meters, 30 push ups, run 100 meters, 20 pull ups.

Tonight I had sweet potato 'stew' and now I'm hungry again :-/

I also did my measurements today, with the measuring tape. I'm going to get my body fat and weight tomorrow at Max Muscle (part of the Max Muscle maintain not gain challenge) I know what my home scale say's. 

Day 2 went well, as soon as this flatulence goes away completely I'm going to feel amazing....lets see what day 3 brings.

Day 1

This morning started with my protein shake with half of the fiber citrus packet, because I have a sensitive system so I wanted to be careful at first. Chocolate protein, water, 4 frozen strawberry's and the fiber stuff. Coffee with my vitamins, joint health, C, lots of fish oil, and D. I felt pretty good all morning, not bloated, I had oatmeal when I got to work a banana a little bit later and lunch at 11:30, a HUGE salad, I love salad. I did have a skim hot coco at lunch too (it was freezing out!). After lunch I got SUPER tired, like I could have took a nap under my desk right then tired, so I had my spark (just call me sparky) with the rest of my fiber stuff. Then I started getting bloated. I ate my apple at about 3. Then went to crossfit after work (I PRed too, probably had nothing to do with Advocare at this point), I was going to get measured tonight but traffic was so bad that I could get there today. I came home, walked the dogs, fed the dogs, put some laundry in and ate dinner myself. Which was chili with steak.  So today I might have had a little bit to much of what I'm not suppose to eat BUT it was a LOT less then it has been. I didn't have any chocolate and instead of having too many sweets and feeding into it with many sweets trying to stay awake. I had one.  Don't judge me!
Tonight I'll take the 3 brown pills and see how I feel tomorrow. I'll probably take the full fiber packet with my own protein tomorrow and see how that feels. Tonight, I'm still bloated. 


Today's work out:
Push Press; 3, 2, 1, 1, 1 my PR was 65 lbs
Then:
3 rounds of 15 deadlift (w/ 105 lbs) and 50 sit ups. 10 minute cut off and I finished in 8:40

24 Day Advocare Challenge

Welcome to another one of my challenges. My name is Kerry and I am a food-aholic.


I had second and third thoughts about this challenge in the first place because it was so expensive and I've never done a cleans before, I've never used this stuff before but my brother talked me into it and it seems to work for everyone else :-/ So I thought, 'fine I'll try it and see if it works.'. 

So I have to say that this Advocare has not started out very well. I ordered my distribution kit and then my 24 day challenge kit. Well it seems that my package got stolen right from my door. I was suppose to start 2 weeks ago but I've had trouble with the re-order and it's still not in my hands YET. So I thought that I'd share a little bit about my trouble area's. My trouble area's are FOOD. Eating makes me happy. Others have other addictions; drugs, alcohol...I have chocolate, pizza and the HOLIDAY'S! I just enjoy food, whether I'm hungry or not...my brother eats to live and I live to eat. That's a PROBLEM. I'm tired of being round, feeling round and having a not so healthy self image....I do everything for crying out loud, why do I have a bad self image your asking yourself. That's easy...I want to be better at everything, I want to LOOK like a Triathlete, a Marathoner and a Crossfitter. I should have MAD abs, SICK arms and bad ASS legs, not to mention a high tight ass. I should have TONS of energy and I don't. If I lose more fat, and gain more muscle I can get faster and have a successful Ironman Triathlon in 2012 and a spectacular half Ironman in July 2011. I did the Paleo challenge and did everything that I was suppose to do and lost 1%, in like a month and a half....WHAT only 1%, next to everyone's 3% +.  Yeah, yeah I hear ya "Your not everyone else Kerry." forget that mess I'm busting my ass and NOT eating the stuff I love and EATING all paleo food...BLAH...so lets try something to kick start my body and see what the hell is up. I hear that it will change my addictions and afternoon cravings. We'll see what happens.

I'm going to try and keep this blog up again and be painfully honest with how I feel and what's going on. Other people reading this might have the same problems as me and are afraid to mention things...so I'll do it :-/ I have a few limitations and issues but I try really hard not to dwell on them.

1. 1. I have firbomialga (sp?) (that has TONS of symptoms)
2. 2. I'm hypoglycemic (blood sugar)
3. 3. I had my gallbladder removed in 2007 ... (major stomach problem sometimes. READ #1)
4. 4. ...right after I shattered my elbow and had to get a brand new shiny radial head (elbow) installed ;-/ (less strength on right side and can't straighten my arm. Painful)
5. 5. My shoulder still gives me problems from where I got THAT sewn back together (mostly due to weather)
6. IBS (READ #1)

Feel free to ask question.


My stuff SHOULD be here tomorrow or Saturday. Michele and I are starting (probably) Monday.


Good night for now.