Advocare Day 1 & 2

So I just wrote this whole blog post and deleted it. GRRRRRR Which means this one will be less interesting, inspired, and original.

First things first - Day 1: Complete and Day 2: In progress. So far so good. At this point I have two main thoughts.
1. I love coffee. I miss coffee. ok getting over it....
2. I hate the fiber drink. Fiber drink is gross.

Now that I got that out of my system... :)
Yesterday was a little rough for me, and I admit that I cheated twice. In the afternoon I was feeling really out of it and hungry so I had an extra snack. It was broccoli and hummus so overall not a bad addition (some extra greens and protein) but still extra. And secondly, I had a little dessert at the end of the evening. For my final snack I had some chopped walnuts with vegan mini choc chips. I love those little chips of chocolaty goodness. To make sure it wasn't too much of an indulgence (I do want results from this experience) I looked at the ingredients and such and it was very straight forward and no added sugars so I just went for it. Not the best, but sometimes I feel it is better to allow myself certain things in order to not obsess over it and binge later. My water consumption wasn't and isn't quite up to par but my word I feel like I'm swimming sometimes! I am just not used to that much liquid right away in the mornings (except for coffee, notice above) and I simply forget to really drink water throughout the day. Obviously I do when I'm thirsty, but other than that I quite literally have to remind myself and almost force myself to drink more water.
Overall, I'm still feeling a little sluggish and kind of 'out of it' but hopefully that will get better. I have taken naps both days, which is not unusual for me but has felt very necessary lately. Glad to report, thought, that I had the energy to complete a 5K this morning! I had no exactly planned well for the beginning of this 'cleanse' and a race on the same weekend. Originally I had planned on starting on Sunday, but mainly because I had enough coffee to last me to Sunday... and I decided that was a dumb reason to put it off. Running 3 miles on the morning after taking a ginormous herbal cleaning pill did not seem so dumb I guess.... Fortunately it all worked out. Many runners have a "that one time I crapped my pants" story, and I'm determined to NOT be one of them. So far so good :) Seems that everything worked the way it was supposed to before the race, so I was very relieved. (hah pun not intended) But, due to the race this morning, my usual schedule and meal plan was all kinds of messed up. Plus, the hubby wanted to go to Panera to celebrate (he did the race too and won his age group! first race!!). So, it was spark this morning, a banana and half an orange right after we finished, then the fiber drink after the race. I had intended to do the protein shake then too but saved it for this afternoon as a snack. We went to Panera for lunch where I had the Thai chopped chicken salad with no chicken. It's good stuff :)
Yesterday was a little more structured:

 Fiber drink of gritty grossness.... ugh I did figure out though that shaking it up in this really helped some of the grittiness and then chuuuuuuuug.

 One bonus to drinking more water is getting to use this really pretty water bottle that I got as a Christmas gift from one of my students. It's so nice and I love it!!

 Breakfast: 1 egg + 1 egg white scrambled with a pepper and onion 'compote' (an accident when trying to use another device to chop them up) topped with salsa and toast on the side. Ended up being a little soggy since I'm not used to adding salsa but overall a good meal that can be made even better with some tweaking in the future.

 Lunch and dinner were reheated left over veggie stirfry from a couple days ago. It's a mix of broccoli, cauliflower, yellow and orange peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, onion, and garbanzos/chickpeas. For lunch I put it with the quinoa I had left over too, but for dinner I just heated it up in this pan and ate it like that. Very yummy :)

This is the weekly sheet I made for myself to plan ahead and also to track my meals, water, and exercise each day. This blog is helping me track my feelings and thoughts as well. I am not publishing my starting weight but I did document it and am tracking the pounds lost each week as well. I haven't weighed myself today and probably won't each day but I will definitely track it throughout. I didn't have time to take measurements yesterday as my 'official' start day but I think I'll do those at the end of the cleanse phase to really chart the difference that the second phase makes. I know most of what happens now is toxins and water weight so I want to it to be actual inches lost.