Goodbye Cleanse.

Contender #1: Lazy Ass

Weight: 140 lbs

Last Week's Weight: ??

Starting Weight: 150 lbs

Loss this week: ??

Total Loss: 10 lbs

Goal: 125 (pounds to go: 15)

Contender #2: Fatty

Weight: 158 lbs (Hello plateau.)

Last Week's Weight: 158

Starting Weight: 170 lbs

Loss this week: 0

Total Loss: 12 lbs

Goal: 135 (pounds to go: 23)

Wow first month down already?! Time has seriously flown by.  I feel pretty good.  Want to know how I know I'm feeling good? Because I did a little indulging and I felt sick! So sick.  That means the cleanse has worked.  I have all the bad stuff out of my system and now when I taste it, my body rejects it. I am on the right track with everything! Weight wise I am not where I had hoped to be but I am still making progress. I have been running pretty much ever day in training for the half marathon that is in just a few weeks.  Both Lazy and I have put some weight back on, I am hoping it is mostly because of the exercise and increased muscle.  However we have still made a lot of progress! 

Last night we spent time playing outside with the kids.  The kids rode their bikes, scooters, quads (we ran after them and chased balls down the street). Then we went inside for dinner.  My niece and I made the zucchini cakes from the recipe I shared.  This was my second time making them, and they turned out better than the first time! It was so great to be able to cook healthy with her.  This is why I want to change my lifestyle so badly, not just so I become healthy and lose weight, but so my daughter and niece and nephew see me making smart decisions and learning how to make them as well.  It was also great having an assistant that could help out, you know like squeezing all the water out of the zucchini, hey it feels all icky when I do it...why not let the kid "help"?  We sat down as a family, the kids ate (well M and H ate, my little decided that running around was more fun. Her loss, this was a great meal!)  We enjoyed chicken, zucchini cakes, and steamed veggies.  It was a great day. One of my favorite days in fact. 

I've joined some weight loss forums lately just to try to see what others are doing, and see if I can connect with others who are doing or have done a paleo diet and/or gluten free diet.  What I have come to realize is that I am so lucky to have a partner to help me stay on track and motivated.  Not only do I have Lazy Ass, but I have a really amazing BF that helps keep me on track.  When I get a craving, like that oreo cookie cake thing at chills the other night, he convinced me I really didn't want it, even though I kept telling him I did.  In the end I would have regretted it, and he knew it.  So my big suggestion this week for anyone who is working on this resolution of weight loss/ healthy lifestyle etc, find a friend/family member anyone to do it with you or at least support you in it.  It makes such a difference!

Chips-and-dip-aholic

Well I really did it....I went WAY off track last night.  Not completely off the diet/cleanse, but I way overate and I'm paying for it.

Let me set the scene for you, family dinner, birthday celebration, Mexican restaurant.  I love mexican.  I was nervous at first.  Last year when I did the cleanse I think I had way more self motivation.  If my family was going out to a restaurant last year, I would skip it unless it was on my approved restaurant list.  (There are really only like 2 in the area that I feel are okay to eat at during the cleanse.)  However last night I was weak.  It was Lazy's birthday and man I have been craving Mexican.

I had no idea what I could order...everything has dairy and I already had my dairy this week.  I have been trying to limit my dairy even though it was cleared for me to eat after the cleanse last year.  Looking over the menu I thought I found something safe- the taco salad, minus the sour cream.  I left the cheese on it as it is just a little bit sprinkled on the top.  Pinto beans, lettuce, chicken, tomatoes.  Not a bad meal to be honest.

However the chips were 100% corn.  You know what that means? GLUTEN FREE.  Chips are my downfall.  I'm a huge chips and dip girl.  I don't think you can really ever go wrong with chips and dip.  Some good restaurant corn chips with in house made salsa....the best of the chips and dip family.  I easily ate a basket of chips all by myself.  Then I demolished my salad.  It was like I had never seen food before. By the end of the meal I was SO STUFFED I thought I would literally explode.

Was it worth it? Normally I would say yes, I love food.  But this time I'm really disappointed with myself.  I had a goal to hit 155 before the end of this cleanse and I am not so sure it is going to happen now as I have gained some serious weight from my fun eating last night.  Hell it was really more like binge eating. Add that to the binge eating from Sunday's game and what has happened is I have really back tracked.  Why is my motivation so much different this year than last year?

To start to compensate for my Mexican downfall from last night I went out for a run this morning.  I started out with my brisk walk to warm up sent a quick text to lazy to let her know I was out being active.  (she always makes me feel so supported and excited to run.) And then I went to put on my carefully constructed playlist.....that apparently was no longer on my phone....along with all of my music which has magically disappeared since last night.  Except one album.  Glee's Christmas album.  Well.  Some music is better than none.  At least I thought it would be. There is just something about trying to run to Blue Christmas that just isn't right.  My pace was horrible, I was not pumped up.  In fact I just really wanted to get home, get under a blanket and start a fire in the fire place.  It was really not good music to run to.  I got two miles down at my standard 15/min/mile pace.  I did not burn near as many calories as I would have liked, but I am determined to at least get back to 158, if not 155 in the next few days.

Lazy mentioned continuing with the cleanse for another month.  Unfortunately you cannot take the pills and the PaleoCleanse for more than the 28 days, on the bright side you can do the cleanse ever few months.  So my goal will be to keep up with the diet (gluten free, sugar free, soy free etc) as long as possible now instead of just staying gluten free.  I need to make up some serious ground for last night.

Half-Time! Weigh in & Hello week 3!

Whoa, half way through the cleanse already?! Where has time gone? I'm not really complaining or anything as I really really miss dairy-foods. The gluten free is getting easier each day. Although I'm still dreaming of eating some bread.  This last week was packed full of mixed berries and PaleoMeal.  I haven't been feeling that great so I've been more sedentary than I would have liked.  I have to say that overall I am feeling better. My energy still needs to make a bit of a comeback but I'm finding I am not as tired at the end of a standard day.  Although whoever said exercise gives you energy is crazy. I'm always ready for a nap when I get home from the gym. 

The weight loss has been going slower this time around than last, which I had expected but I was still hoping that I would drop a pound a day like last year. (Wouldn't that be great?!) I'm still trying to figure out how I can pay someone to go work out for me and just transfer the calories they burned into my body. Although I cannot really complain.  I'm walking around in my size 12 jeans that 10lbs ago could barely button.  Now they look great! I"m totally kicking my whale-twins butt, even if it is slower than desired. 

The next few days of the cleanse brings 3 shakes a day.  Not a whole lot of "real" food for us. Once I find my cleanse bible I will give a more detailed explanation of what is coming over the next week but it has been MIA for a few days.  

THE WEIGH IN

Here it is! Weights from the end of week 2 beginning of week 3.  

Contender #1: Lazy Ass

Weight: 138 lbs

Last Week's Weight: 140 lbs

Starting Weight: 150 lbs

Loss this week: 2 lbs

Total Loss: 12 lbs

Goal: 125 (pounds to go: 15)

Contender #2: Fatty

Weight: 161 lbs

Last Week's Weight: 165 lbs

Starting Weight: 170 lbs

Loss this week: 4 lbs

Total Loss: 9 lbs

Goal: 135 (pounds to go: 26)

My personal goal for this week is to get under 160.  I know that it is really only 2 lbs and I should have no issue with it. However in my past loss I get stuck at certain numbers.  I was stuck at 180, nothing I could do would get me below it until I plowed through it.  Then I was stuck at 175.2  for MONTHS it was so frustrating getting on the scale every morning and seeing 175.2.....175.2.......175.1 wait no 175.2.  Towards the peek of my weight loss I was able to get down to 160, but never could break it until I worked my way back up to 165, and finally at the end of last year 170.  So now I'm back to my latest plateau and I really hope I can smash this one out of the water this week. 

One Week Down! Weigh-ins & More

While cravings of cheese and bread still dance in my head, week 1 is DONE! This is really exciting.  Here are our weigh ins from Sunday.  

Contender #1 Lazy Ass

Weight: 140

Starting Weight: 150

Loss Week 1: 10lbs!!!

Goal: 125 (pounds to go: 15)

Contender #2 Fatty

Weight: 165

Starting Weight: 170

Loss Week 1: 5lbs

Goal:135 (pounds to go: 30)

Week 2 starts the shakes and the cleanse part.  Also we go from taking 2 pills of both the LV-GB pills and the antiox pills to 3 pills of each daily.  

This week our servings will be as follows:

2 Shakes a day (these are meal replacement shakes.)

PaleoCleanse: 1 scoop 2x/day

PaleoMeal: 1/2 - 1 serving 2x/day

PaleoFiber: 1tsp total/day

OmegaAvail: 1tsp/day

I am still missing the Omega Avail as the gym is out of stock! I hope that's because all you amazing Fatty and Lazy followers have run down to Club Sport and bought out our supply.  

The images of what I do have are to the right.  I am also including a picture of the PaleoGreens, which again is optional and I sometimes add them in now that the shakes make up so much of my food intake each day.  Again, the greens add servings of veggies into the diet.

So what is an example of one of the meal replacement shakes? I actually really enjoy the PaleoMeal and the fiber is not too bad when added to the shakes.  However, I'm not going to lie, the PaleoCleanse does not taste good.  Last year I couldn't even get any shake down that had it in it without feeling queasy.  I'm really hoping this year goes better.

Fatty's Fav Shake

1 Serving PaleoMeal Chocolate

1/2 Cup Frozen Mixed Berries

1/3 cup Hazelnut Milk

1/2 tsp PaleoFiber

Ice

Then if I want I add in the PaleoCleanse Serving into that. I also really enjoy having a banana in my shakes, but if I have too many bananas in my diet I do not lose weight as well.  So I try to stick more with the mixed berries for my fruit servings. 

Day Meal Plan 

 Breakfast:

-LV-GB & Antiox Pills

-Water with Cayanne Pepper & Lemon

-Shake #1

Snack:

 -Carrots

Lunch:

-LV-GB & Antiox Pills

-Shake #2

Snack:

-Almonds

Dinner:

-LV-GB & Antiox Pills

-Grilled Chicken with salsa

-Brown Rice

-Steamed Veggies

So far I have not been able to kick my butt into a gym routine although I did make it last week for some cardio.  It wasn't pretty.  I went with the bike as I needed to multi-task and read my Econ Book as well.  I set up a 3/4 split on the machine so I would have 4 minutes of a more intense level on the bike and 3 minutes to recover at a lower intensity.  I think if I had not been so dedicated to finish reading my Econ chapter I would have wussed out after 20 minutes.  Although I made it the full hour!  I was all happy with myself until I looked over at the 80 year old man next to me who was 5 levels of intensity higher than I was, and had been there for 30 minutes longer than me.  Oh and he was still going and looked like he had no intention of stopping any time soon.  Oh and he looked like he was just going for a leisurely ride on a nice day while I looked like I just biked up Mt Diablo...twice.  I was sweaty and I could barely breathe.  The moment I got up I experienced that oh so fun dizzy feeling, you know where your blood starts rushing all over the place because its used to movement and you just stop.  I think I really need to get back in shape so the 80 year old men at the gym don't make me look like a wuss. 

uh oh! mommy's on a diet and we're all gonna die!

my friend Mama Kas is doing a weight loss blog as well and posted this picture the other day. i found it fitting. now i need to find one for my husband. i'm pretty sure i could hear his eyes roll from San Francisco when i told him about this plan.

oh look! i figured out how to add a picture. i better be careful or people will assume i'm not really lazy after all. never mind. it's pretty damn obvious.