I know it's not Friday yet, but I wanted to let you know what I am doing. I've been using the Bodybugg and counting calories for the past month. I've gotten pretty good and knowing how many calories are in foods and I now know that my resting calorie burn is 2800 to 3000 calories a day. I also know now how many calories I will burn in an hour depending on my heart rate during a workout. So, I don't think I need to keep track of the specific numbers anymore. I am still going to be posting every Friday with my current weight, loss amount, updates, and things I learn along the way. But, I won't be posting the spreadsheets anymore.
Now to get to what is going on this week...
I went off my diet this weekend during my mini weekend vacation, but I still kept my food around 3000 calories. Although I allowed myself to eat whatever I wanted, I found that I still didn't eat very much.
I want to reboot my mind and body this week, so I will be doing a fast and body cleanse. The body cleanse part is easy, I got some cranberry pills (click here for benefits) for my kidney cleanse and urinary tract health, I also got an herbal colon cleanse that will do a genital cleanse over time (click here to see what WebMD says about them) , and my normal Alive! vitamins.
Another way to clean out your system is to do a fast, which would also shrink your stomach. DO NOT DO BOTH THE CLEANSE AND FAST AT THE SAME TIME. ONE OR THE OTHER.
For those of you that are interested in how to do a fast safely, this is how I do it...You want to becareful when you plan out a fasting of food, because your body does not like shocks to the system. I break my foods into the normal categories of sugar, dairy, meat, and vegetables. I put fruit and carbohydrates into the sugar category because carbohydrates get turned into sugar quickly when you digest them and fruit is obviously a sugar, natrual sugar, but still sugar. Now I have to do a gradual decline of my food in preparation for the fast. Here is the break down:
Day 01 = Eat or drink anything
Day 02 = Remove sugar from diet (including all carbonated soda's, even diet soda), also remove all outside toxin's (smoking, alcohol, etc...). I can only eat dairy, meat, vegetables, and only drink water
Day 03 = Remove dairy from diet. I can only eat meat, vegetables, and only drink water
Day 04 = Remove meat from diet. I can only eat vegetables and only drink water
Day 05 = Remove vegetables from diet. I can only drink Superfood (I like Odwalla Original Superfood) and water (click here to see what WebMD says about superfoods)
Day 06 = Remove superfood from diet. I can only drink water
Day 07 = Add superfood to diet
Day 08 = Add vegetables
Day 09 = Add meat
Day 10 = Add dairy
Day 11 = Add sugar
During the entire process (including day 6) I am still taking the Alive! multi-vitamins. On day 6 when I am only drinking water is where the actual fasting starts. I usually only do one day, but it is okay to increase that time. I would suggest that if you try it yourself that you do NOT go over 3 days of only water, even though you are taking the multi-vitamins. Although this is a good way to clean out your system, you don't want to damage it by not eating for too long.
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