November

Well I fell of the cleanse wagon.  I had been doing so well and then boom, right on my face.  I have decided for the rest of the year I will just focus on clean eating and then maybe try the cleanse again in January.  I am determined to be in a certain weight range by the new year and can only do that with clean eating and exercise.  I need to get this under control.  I need to also get my house in order too.  I have 3 days off before heading back to work (finally feeling better…2 sick days).

Today I will focus on the Kitchen, make a grocery list, getting groceries and doing laundry.  I need to get better at this.  I can tell it is causing some strain on my poor husband and I need to use my time more wisely.  He has a big even coming up on saturday and will be stressed about it so I need to make sure to have food ready for him and the boys so he doesn't have to worry about that at all.

I am loving our new bedroom furniture so I need to make sure at some point this week I get out and find a paint colour that will look nice with the furniture.

Well I must get going and meal plan for the week.

Reflections on Week 1 of the cleanse

I was a little bit nervous heading into this cleanse because I thought I may not be able to eat the foods on the cleanse due to my fussiness but I was pleasantly surprised.  The food is amazing on the cleanse and I figured out that I can adapt things too as portion sizes are huge and with only me doing this it leads to tons of leftovers. I still have quite a few things leftover heading into week 2 so as I said before I will really have to sit down and think about my menu for week 2.  This has always been such a key for me to stay on the healthy eating bandwagon…menu planning and meal prep.  I really think that this cleanse will help me get my butt back in gear so get on the wagon again and just keep going and not look back.

On the exercise front I have done ok.  The runs/walks I did ok with but really want more strength training workouts.  I should be able to get 3 in next week (mon, fri and sunday).  The rest of the days I will use to run (saturday I have a 5K race which will be so hard but I am happy I am doing it),

The scale was un believable today when I got up.  I know a lot of it is due to the fact I have done a lot of night shifts this week and water weight but I was down 11.2 lbs…so crazy but I am so happy with those results.  This is the jump start I really needed to make me motivated to eat healthy.

Mentally I just feel clearer and have more patience then I do when I am not eating healthy which is another reason to keep this up.

Well I need to take advantage of the fact I didn't have to work my full night last night and get some work done around the house (mainly in our bedroom…we need to paint it before we bring in our new furniture).

Work and More Work

Not quite looking forward to this but I have to work friday and saturday night.  These are switches.  I will be so happy at 1930 on Nov 2 at 0730 when my crazy work schedule is over!!!!!  I know that switches that I have done really help me out but man it is so hard working that much in a row.  I have so much that I should get done around the house that I really need to take advantage of days off that I have.  Today does not really count as a day off as I had a horrible sleep and need to have a nap.

Things are still going well on the cleanse front.  still enjoying the foods and won't really have to make anything things weekend to eat as I have so much leftover from dishes I made earlier in the week.  I really need to look at stuff on sunday to see what I will eat next week so I can make a grocery list. I need to remember to take my weekly menu to work so I can make some photocopies of it (no ink at home).

I went to Jills today.  Had a great workout.  I just wish I could always go 3-4x/week.  I love the format of our workouts.  it is hard to go that often with my schedule.  I would love to go on sunday but it would be on my way home after nights but I should focus on a run instead as I have a 5K race on the 31st.  It will be a walk/run race for sure but it may give me the motivation I need to run more then I have been.

Well time to try and nap.  Have a great weekend.

mid week cleanse update

I can't get over how much I am enjoying this cleanse.  I am really liking the foods and I now know for next week to just pick and choose a few of the dishes and make those and have them through out the week since they make such big servings (will save some money doing it this way).   I feel like I am sleeping a lot better then normal.  There really isn't the time spent thinking about stuff which is awesome.  I go to sleep relatively quickly.

Exercise is going ok.  I have ran for 3 days now and tomorrow I get to go to bootcamp which is awesome.  It will be fun to see how everyone else is making out.  I probably will do my measurements when I go to class on monday.

I am not really missing the coffee and pop that much which is surprising.  Other then the 1 slip with 1/2 a bottle the other day I haven't touched any more pop.  I thought for sure I would have headaches for days but so far so good.  Just one day and I don't know if I can really blame it on the lack of caffeine.

I will probably take a look tonight at what is suggested for the menu for next week and make out my weeks worth of foods and make a grocery list.  I love having all these ideas for the meals on this cleanse.  It really makes it so much easier to get back on track.

The scale has been going down really fast but I am thinking it could be because of the time I weighed myself on the first day.  Oh well when I weigh myself on sunday I will use that total for week's 1 results.  I had eaten so bad over thanksgiving that I am not surprised that the weigh came off like it has. I know that it will slow down now.

off to make supper for the little man.

Clean Eating Cleanse

So before thanksgiving I was doing great with eating clean but  then we went home for thanksgiving and I fell off the wagon face first.  So on sunday I started the clean eating cleanse that has been all over Facebook.  I started 1 day earlier then the girls in my bootcamp class as I was starting my set on sunday.  So far I have been pretty impressed with what I get to eat and only 1 item I just could not eat.  I am going to make tweaks when I am pretty sure I won't like a certain dish.  I did make a soup though that I wasn't sure what I would think since it had Kale in it but I was pleasantly surprised by how great it tasted.

This cleanse also includes no coffee and no pop.  Last night I had about 350 mls of diet coke and I think i could have done without it.  So no more diet pop till the cleanse is over and even then I will try to avoid it as much as possible.

I finally got up a bit earlier today and went for a 3K walk/run.  I am hoping to get out 5x this week.  I wish I could get to bootcamp more but due to my crazy schedule that won't be happening.  I won't be there until friday.  When I go next monday I will do my measurements.  I want to try and do them 1/week during this cleanse.

I am going to be working 4 nights in the next 5 days so I need to make sure I pack more snack type items in my lunch so I won't be tempted to deviate from the cleanse.  It will be so awesome if I stick to this for 4 weeks.  I do know though that 1 night I will have a couple of drinks as it is a big fundraising dance that my husbands hockey team is putting on.  I need to be careful not to drink too much as I am sure my body will be extra sensitive since I am going to be eating such healthy foods.

speaking of healthy foods I need to make my supper for tonight.

Happy Cleansing :)

Week 2

I am now on my 2nd week of trying to clean things up in my diet/lifestyle.  as you know I had a great first week and just from avoiding my trigger foods I am down 7 lbs!!!!!!  that is the added bonus of eating healthy.

I had a great class at Jills today and am a little bit sad that I will be missing a few classes while we are away.  I just need to make sure I do some of her daily challenges while away and get some form of activity (run or walk) each day that I am away.

I also need to work on my attitude at work.  I tend to get caught up in the moment when talking about someone etc and I really want to stop doing that.  I would not want people to talk about me so I am sure they feel the same way.  It makes me look bad if I gossip etc.  This will be a goal that I want to reach by the end of the year.

I have a concert to go to in 11 days.  I would love to have 15 lbs off but realistically I am hoping for 10 lbs.  I am really looking forward to this concert.  2 great canadian country singers will make for an awesome show and going with my good friend/concert going buddy.

I have a lot to do today and tomorrow so I should get going…heading to the mall to see if I can get a couple of outfits to wear when down east.  Another reason why reaching my goal weight will be so awesome…having more fun shopping for clothes :)

Reflections of week 1

So I did it.  I complete my first week of being clean.  It actually wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.  I feel amazing and really want to keep feeling this way.
things that I believe helped me get back on the wagon:

1.  meal planning and menu prep
2.  a lot of self talk
3.  taking this addiction seriously

Entering week 2 with a positive mind set and lots of motivation to eat as healthy as possible while we are away.  Hopefully I will have a positive post when we get back home.

Stay on the wagon!!!!