I have just begun an Advocare 24 day challenge, yesterday was day 1. I will try to blog about my experiences related to the challenge as well as what I eat and the results at the end. and possibly at intervals along the way. I am 5'8 and my weight was 175.4 to begin the challenge, my goal weight is 150lbs. I hope that through my experience you will be inspired and encouraged to try it for yourself. I am a distributor of Advocare products so if you are interested please contact me.
Day 1 - Sunday Jan 8th
Herbal Cleanse phase
Woke up at around 6:50AM and drank a Mango Strawberry Spark on an empty stomach. Got cleaned up and at about 7:30 drank the Citrus fiber drink. It doesn't taste bad at all but the drink is very thick so by the end of it it is difficult to get down. The drink doesn't necessarily taste good either though so it truly is a challenge to get it all down. I washed it down with 8 ounces of water and a Banana. I was very full.
By about 9:30 I was hungry again and for my Mid Morning food I had a Gala Apple and a hard boiled egg. Once again I was full.
* It is a regular thing at our church to have cookies and punch after the service. I out of habit grabbed a chocolate chip cookie and in the middle of breaking off a bite I remembered I wasn't supposed to have it. However I did not have the will power to put it down so I told a friend who then took the cookie from me. It wasn't easy.
Lunch was a little late today because I was busy I began cooking around 1PM after frantically trying to figure out how to get a complex carb without having to go to the grocery store. I had planed on doing black beans but did not realize the time it takes to prepare them from dry beans. So instead I just had 4 ounces of Chicken and a half cup of green beans boiled till the water is almost gone with a touch of olive oil and black pepper. I was a little less full than I was after the morning regiment but I was still full.
The difficult thing is not the portion sizes at this point the difficult part is the lack of salts or sugars other than the natural sugar in the fruits. My energy was low, must be why the spark is so important for the cleanse stage. I had to take a nap.
At around 5PM I drank another Mango Strawberry Spark as recommended in the afternoon as well as a portion of sunflower kernels.
Dinner was around 7:15PM and a neighbor gave me a can of black beans to use as a complex carbohydrate. I once again had 4 ounces of chicken as my protein (its quite a bit of chicken) Green beans as my veggie but this time I mixed the chicken into half a cup of black beans. I was really full this time.
Once again though somehow I was hungry again by around 8:45 so I had another apple and a glass of sleepy time tea.
* Every commercial for food had me drooling I wanted salt and grease of fried chicken so bad.
Took the herbal cleanse pill packet and went to bed.
Day 1 - Sunday Jan 8th
Herbal Cleanse phase
Woke up at around 6:50AM and drank a Mango Strawberry Spark on an empty stomach. Got cleaned up and at about 7:30 drank the Citrus fiber drink. It doesn't taste bad at all but the drink is very thick so by the end of it it is difficult to get down. The drink doesn't necessarily taste good either though so it truly is a challenge to get it all down. I washed it down with 8 ounces of water and a Banana. I was very full.
By about 9:30 I was hungry again and for my Mid Morning food I had a Gala Apple and a hard boiled egg. Once again I was full.
* It is a regular thing at our church to have cookies and punch after the service. I out of habit grabbed a chocolate chip cookie and in the middle of breaking off a bite I remembered I wasn't supposed to have it. However I did not have the will power to put it down so I told a friend who then took the cookie from me. It wasn't easy.
Lunch was a little late today because I was busy I began cooking around 1PM after frantically trying to figure out how to get a complex carb without having to go to the grocery store. I had planed on doing black beans but did not realize the time it takes to prepare them from dry beans. So instead I just had 4 ounces of Chicken and a half cup of green beans boiled till the water is almost gone with a touch of olive oil and black pepper. I was a little less full than I was after the morning regiment but I was still full.
The difficult thing is not the portion sizes at this point the difficult part is the lack of salts or sugars other than the natural sugar in the fruits. My energy was low, must be why the spark is so important for the cleanse stage. I had to take a nap.
At around 5PM I drank another Mango Strawberry Spark as recommended in the afternoon as well as a portion of sunflower kernels.
Dinner was around 7:15PM and a neighbor gave me a can of black beans to use as a complex carbohydrate. I once again had 4 ounces of chicken as my protein (its quite a bit of chicken) Green beans as my veggie but this time I mixed the chicken into half a cup of black beans. I was really full this time.
Once again though somehow I was hungry again by around 8:45 so I had another apple and a glass of sleepy time tea.
* Every commercial for food had me drooling I wanted salt and grease of fried chicken so bad.
Took the herbal cleanse pill packet and went to bed.
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to you through Jesus Christ, and that you will always remember Jeremiah
29:11. – For I know the plans I have for
you declares the Lord, Plans to Proper You and not for harm, Plans with Hope
for the Future.
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