February 19th 2013

Well hello! It's been awhile. Between eating every few hours and logging what I ate, I found it difficult to focus on studying for my certification exams; therefore, I took a few days away from here and any plan. And now I need another kick start because I'm around 173 (which is still in a similar range) but I'm not going anywhere else. I'm doing a detox (started today...probably an awful day to do so with my brother's birthday tomorrow and friend's birthday on Thursday!) to clean out my body and restart a health plan. This time, it's really going to happen.

This is based off of the Vegetarian GM diet. I'm also reading a few other things to see if I can combine two or more programs so that I don't have a headache by the end of Day 1 (as I have in the past when I've attempted to do this diet).

Day 1: Eat all fruits except bananas all day.

Things to remember throughout:

• Exercise at least 20 minutes (done)
• Drink 10-12 cups of water (had 4 by 12:21pm)
• Drink/eat as much as soup as you'd like (special recipe I'll post if the soup tastes good)
• No alcohol allowed throughout the 7 days
• You can drink black coffee, club soda and black tea with no cream, sugar, etc. (Now, I'm not sure if this excludes green tea but I am probably going to drink it anyway.)

I know that weight loss is typical after the 7 days, and it's really easy to gain it back soon afterwards, but I'm going to use the basis of the 7 day diet to create a meal plan for myself for the next few weeks and see how it goes. 

Quick update: I'm allowed to bike now (yay!). I just have to figure out a way to do it indoors since it's cold outside. 

Today's log:

8:30am- 1 bowl of cantaloupe (Tabernacle was right: it is not in season!)

8:30am- 1 orange

11:00am- 1 apple

12:30pm- 1 bowl of soup
3:00pm- Let me first say...I wasn't feeling well so I decided to use the format of the detox for the next few days while still eating a little bit. I had a bagel for lunch! And altogether, it was a 200 calorie meal - not bad and so satisfying!
6:00pm- Smoothie (homemade, of course) and now I am SOO extremely full right now!! 

By 12:21: 4 cups of water

Update @ 7:53am - I have 7 cups of water and 1 cup of tea (didn't meet the goal but it's a lot!)

I'll write more tomorrow about skin care...something I've been researching a lot for the past few days! It's something a lot of people (including myself) don't think about, but it's important to start planning early :)