On Monday I started the Advocare Herbal Cleanse. I do this 3-4 times a year. They recommend not more often than every 90 days. I love the cleanse! It gets me back on track. I eat a lot of food. But it's clean. No cookies, pretzels, cupcakes. . . And I was becoming a sugar monster!
The amount of *crap* I was stuffing in my mouth was shocking. I'd eat just because honestly. The stress doesn't help. Once I clean up my food choices, I feel so much better! Less fluffy - goodbye bloat! I have more energy and I sleep much better. I might be less moody too, but that's hard to judge cause my stress level impacts that quite a bit.
After 4 days of eating clean, I'm down 5.6 lbs!!! Today is day 5, so almost half way there.
(read the weights from the bottom up!)
I had let my weight creep up too high for comfort. My goal has always been to see 176 and I never quite make it. I get to 178 and start going back up. I'd like to finish the cleanse in the 170's . . . even 179.8 (my scale only weighs in even increments. . 179.9 isn't possible) would be ok! It would be a big boost to motivate me to keep my eating clean. Right now I'm rocking and rolling. I'm determined the weekend will be no different than this week. I like routine in my eating, so if I can maintain this routine and eat the snacks when I normally do I will be golden. . . I hope!
This week Advocare released a new spark flavor. . . .
I've had two so far and it's yummy. The flavor isn't as strong as I'd hoped. I like the strong flavors so I can add more water. . . but it's still really good. It will be high up on my list of favorites.
Have a great weekend!
I'm 5'10" and have struggled to find clothing that is long enough. Jeans are a continuous problem. Skirts have been impossible for a long time. Long skirts stop at a funky spot on me, not just below the knee, not mid calf, but somewhere mid calf to ankle. Basically in a funky spot that they should not stop and therefore I've never been able to wear long skirts. Through the years of trying them on, I've also that that even if they were long enough, that I didn't look good in them. I've always felt they've made me look like I have huge hips. And lets be honest I have had huge hips. That's my problem area. Earlier this summer a FB friend suggested I try Kohl's. I did and I actually found a skirt that was long enough. I didn't have a chance to wear it. I got it in early July, went to Canada, got sick. . . suddenly it's fall. But I wore it to a wedding this weekend. I called this a historic moment and had to get photographic proof. :)
It felt weird to walk around and feel the skirt at my ankles. At my ANKLES!!!! I pulled it off and didn't think I looked too dorky. I refused to wear a short dress so it was this or pants.
I started my weekend with a 3 mile run/walk on Sat. I repeated that on Sunday. Remember I had a goal of running by Oct 1st. Well I consider this success. I'm not running the full distance, but that wasn't the goal. The goal to be hitting the pavement and putting in the miles.
My lung capacity isn't the best and my heart rate sometimes gets too high. But I'm working on it and I'll get it back. It's going to take time, but I knew that going in. 6+ weeks of laying around doing nothing had to have some kind of impact.
It feels good to be working out again cause I'm fat. I see it in that skirt photo. I'm slowing reintroducing advocare back into my life. I missed it. But I cut out all supplements other than what the doc told me to take for my illness. I'm not very good at taking a lot of stuff. So I had a hard time keeping up with what I needed to take to get better. So I'm back on the wagon! I feel like I have the willpower today to get through the day without eating sugary things and without soda.
Spark helps with avoiding the soda. Advocare doesn't make a variety box. I bought all flavors and made my own variety boxes. I still have some that I'd like to sell. These are packaged in the older square packaging (except for 2 flavors), so I have a special price on them. If you've wanted to try spark, or try all the flavors, let me know. If you aren't local I'll ship them to you. Ask me about the price!
On Sunday we went to the last Cardinals home game of the regular season. There was a special for all inclusive seats and we sat on the Powerade Bridge.
I pigged out yesterday. I don't even want to think about. The scale is *so* high this morning. This was my *first* round at the buffet. I made my own brisket nachos. I went back for a hotdog and more cookies. We had Chinese for dinner. Ahh! Today is *going* to be good. I feel fat and that is motivation to be good.
I took a fun photo of a bracelet that I got on etsy.
I wear that to every game. I LOVE it!
We ride the Redbird Express to the game. Because there was also a football game in StL yesterday the traffic was awful. It took us over 30 mins to get out of downtown and let's just say I'm surprised we didn't get in a wreck. Our bus driver lady was NUTS! But we were talking to the people sitting behind us. We were in sideways seats and they were in front facing seats so it was pretty easy to chat. And suddenly I realized that the man seemed *very* familiar. Maybe he was my 8th grade science teacher? So I asked. I was wrong, but he was my teacher. He was my math teacher when I was a Jr. I had him for Trig/Pre-Calc. He was one of my favorite teachers! His voice was so familiar but I couldn't place him at first. I think since he was wearing a hat it threw me off. It was fun to catch up and also fun to tell him that I went on to get a degree in math. Now I might be looking for him on the bus next season!
I'm down 7.4 lbs in 7 days. Prior to this morning, the last three mornings were *exactly* the same weight. It's also my TOM, so I was glad the scale didn't go up at all. Today I got a good drop and I did a happy dance. I haven't been in the 180's consistently since 2012. I'm so excited. The 170's totally seem within reach and I might have to have a party!
I'm so in live with my Advocare lifestyle. I get so excited thinking about it. I need to take new full body shots of myself and hopefully I can get my hubby to do that for me this weekend. I was looking back at my photos from the beginning of the year and I'm just so impressed with where I am now. This is so freaking fantastic!!!
I love my morning spark. I swear I look like that purple dude before I have it. Of coruse today I look like him anyways, cause I forgot the hairspray. I was going to take a selfie to show of my new shirt I got at Rolex. Nope. Wowza! Frizzy hair is magnified in selfies. Forget that. I also laugh cause when I was a child I'd get up with total bed head. . . I have curly hair and it would be out of control. I was a crabby bitch till I had breakfast. I'd immediately go downstairs, pour a bowl of cereal and hold my hair back with one hand and shovel the cereal in with the other. I remember my dad once asking why I didn't do something about my hair before I ate? I'm sure he got the daggers from me. :) Now it's not cereal that I run, but Spark.
For the few readers I currently have - I'd love to spark you if you haven't tried it. I can totally mail you a pack. :)
Rock on people! Today is a great day!
It's day 3 of the 10 day cleanse. These last 2 mornings on the scale have been good. :) I really like the cleanse and I really like clean eating. However, I realize that I was eating worse than I thought cause these three days have been kind of tough. I snack just cause I want to. I eat chocolate just cause I want to. So it's good that I'm detoxing.
I'm working my way along with being an Advocare distributor. One of the things I did was create a variety box of Spark. I love Spark. I like all the flavors but I drink a mango strawberry one every morning. It's more "juice" like if you will, so I like it in the AM.
When I first tried Spark I bought a variety box. Advocare doesn't make a variety box. I bought all the flavors and mixed them up myself. 14 packs, 6 flavors . . . at least 2 of each in each box. I'm not having a ton of luck selling them though which blows my mind cause the lady I bought mine from last year sold all of hers in the blink of an eye.
But I'm going to keep on pushing on. Regardless I love the product. I love what it's doing for me. And I have my own little Advocare store going on cause of the stock I have on hand!
If by chance, I have readers that do not know me on Facebook, and you want a variety box let me know. I would consider shipping all the packs (without the box).
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