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Report on Day 4 of the 21-Day Sugar Detox #21DSD #Paleo

28Jan12

Y’all saw my breakfast from yesterday. My lunch was meatloaf, green beans, and sweet taters:

Dinner was a salmon fillet I cast-ironed in a lot of coconut oil, and a handful of meatballs and sauteed mushrooms in homemade marinara, plus a flax-meal muffin with blueberries (blueberries are not detox legal, but neither were my strawberries from yesterday – I justify it that they were poor-quality, old, frozen fruits without much taste let alone sweet).

I was still so sore yesterday, plus dealing w/ the cold/allergy stuff. Somewhere in the middle of the day I got very dry, and I’m not sure why. My skin, eyes, sinuses, etc. It was weird, but short-lived. Lots and lots of water. I also took an epsom salt bath last night. Helped the last bit of soreness from the planks.

Got in an early morning workout this morning. <wink>

Post-Workout meal – meatloaf, eggs, green beans, and sweet taters:

Today’s food promises to be pretty epic. Part of it involves a 15-lb turkey and a Weber grill.

What is nourishing your body today?

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Day 3 #21DSD; Salt, BG, & Abs! OW!!

27Jan12

So, all in all, yesterday was great. Observations – I need more salt. I need to have some higher-carb food once a day. I have abdominal muscles. & they hurt! lol

Guess the planks really do freaking work. I feel my abs all the way down to my lady bits.

I’ve got a cold/allergy thing going on. Nothing more than really freaking annoying, because I don’t ‘feel’ sick, but I’m runny. Maybe the natural process of clearing out the dairy in my system? Maybe so.

Food was good. I packed in nutrition. Made a hunk of meat in the grokpot & cooked up green beans to go with it, using coconut oil & sea salt. Great first breakfast. Second breakfast was 6 scrambled eggs. Snack/lunch was a strawberry, coconut milk smoothie. Dinner was meatballs – that I put liver in – drowned in homemade marinara! They were an amazing color, and I really did love the flavor, even more than my normal recipe of beef meatballs. I probably won’t put liver in the pork ones, though.

Since I’m writing this up the morning of day 4, and I don’t have any pictures from yesterday, I’m including my breakfast that I’m eating between sentences:

I’m going to continue to do the epsom salt baths. I’m going to add something salty each day – pickles or olives. I was able to get to the store last night and picked up a couple of big granny smith apples which will get me through 4 days, and a handful of sweet potatoes that I will mash and have a small serving on workout days. As for the cold/allergy/dairy withdrawal, I’m taking a lot of D3. I will try a tea tree oil steam bath, but I doubt this is something that can be helped with TTO.

Bob & weave. Bob & weave.

Have a wonderful day!!!

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Day 2 Report #21DSD & WTF Did I Sign Up To Be a Short-Order Cook!?

26Jan12

I started my day pretty high on life. I made up a mess of food for breakfast – 8 eggs, 1/2 a ribeye w/ the last of the mixed mushrooms & spinach & leeks.

I was only able to eat half of what you see, so I save it for later. Had that & all the rest of the scrambled eggs w/ guac for lunch. Dinner was meatballs swimming in a quick homemade marinara.

By the time dinner rolled around I’d done a bazillion trips to the laundry room in the apartment complex, folded, put away, etc; several dozen squats, including some Goblin squats without weight; 5 minutes of plank. YEAH, baby!!

After the exercise.. again.. I felt like @ss pretty quickly. The cold symptoms reasserted themselves, and I felt tired, and cravy. Dinner was hard because I didn’t want the meatballs plain. That’s why I whipped up the marinara. I’d also thought to maybe have some frozen berries w/ coconut milk, but I never made it to that. Right before bed, I downed some more of the ribeye from breakfast & lunch, and 3 baby kosher dills w/ homemade mayo.

I had only one mug of black coffee w/ stevia yesterday, along w/ decaf green tea, and a ton of lemon water. Also took cranberry & cod liver oil today. That’s it!

I felt better by the time I fell asleep. Something about the salt in the pickles, maybe? I recall craving pickles & olives during past attempts at low-carb. I definitely lost some water retention yesterday. Eating super-clean will do that. I really wish we had some sweet taters…

Oh, and I put a big hunk of grass-fed red meat in the grokpot to cook overnight. I added an obscene amount of garlic & onion, along w/ some of the ribeye broth & some red wine. That’s gonna be my breakfast. The meat, not the wine.

Today is ‘rest’ day for exercise, but I’ll probably keep working on form for the squats, and I’m curious about doing a full-on pushup considering that I was able to do a plank yesterday. Would be amazing to be able to report that I was able to do some of those when I report in tomorrow morning.

Ok. So, we are entering an interesting time here, and I hope you’ll follow along to see if I crash and burn. rofl. I’m doing the 21-Day Sugar Detox, and Hubby is having dental work that will mean probably liquids only for him for a while, soft foods, etc thereafter – potentially for months while we wait for healing & bridges, etc. And the kids. They aren’t doing my level of detox, nor are they doing liquid/soup diet for the next little while, so guess who’s cooking for three different diets now. Yay! ROFLMAO!!! Like I said – crash & burn. Honestly, though, it wouldn’t take much for me to put everyone on the detox, with the kids getting extras in dairy & treats & rice, etc, and I’ll just put all hubby’s food in the food processor w/ broth & he can eat w/ a straw. Hey, if that’s what it takes. lol

On to day 3!!

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Update on #21DSD & I’ve got a Personal Trainer!

25Jan12

I’ve decided to keep to ~~one of~~ my original ideas to do the 21-Day Sugar Detox with only a day ‘off’ between rounds. To be honest, I haven’t been all that wonderful with it with the healing crises & extended shark week just beat the shit out of me. Yesterday was day 1 for this round, and I’ve got bone broth cooking up (the steaks were YUMMY, so the broth should be good).

I have also started working with a personal trainer. She’s got me doing exercise. Shit, sorry! I should have told you to sit down before I dropped that bombshell. Yesterday I was able to do 50 modified burpees. Today, I’m sore. LOL. I’ll be doing Goblet squats with my little 15-lb Kettlebell. She’s also helped me figure out some ways to accomplish ab work using methods that won’t irritate my back. Something else I’m considering starting up is a program called ChaLEAN Extreme.

Yesterday’s Food: Black coffee w/ vanilla extract, stevia, and cinnamon. (I’ve agreed to skip the sugar-free syrups for now.) For breakfast, I sautéed up bacon, spinach, and mixed mushrooms & put some fried eggs on top. Didn’t have lunch. Dinner was meatballs & half a ribeye. Dessert was green chai tea.

I’ve taken ‘before’ pics, current weight, and measurements. I’m also working on my “Why” statement, and I will post some of that soon.

I’m very excited!!! What’s it going to take to get you excited for your future?!

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Next Round 21-Day Sugar Detox; #21DSD

19Jan12

We are less than a week from the end of this 21-Day Sugar Detox. How have you done? I have not done as awesomely as I wanted. The detox was hard, but having shark week that approached 2 weeks in length was too much.

I want to plan better for the next round with menus, bone broth, and using some of the ingredients that should help w/ a detox (NOT the whole grains, but the other stuff I can see.)

I always keep lemon water in the house. I have cranberry & cod liver oil to help my kidneys. I will pre-make a ton of bone broth (partly because hubby is having dental work & will be on liquid/soft-foods diet for a while) so it’s ready to go if I don’t feel like cooking. I’m hoping this timing will be better for shark week. I purchased some epsom salts, too – I’ve been told that helps in baths.

The next detox starts February 1st. Gird your loins, ladies & gents! I’m going to be posting it all again. I did so much better when I posted it all in December. I will also share the play-by-play w/ any detox symptoms I experience & what I do to combat it. As always, any suggestions for things to help are greatly appreciated!

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This is for you, Nancy. #21DSD

13Jan12

Sometimes a lifeline comes when least expected, but most needed. That happened to me tonight. In a voicemail, I happened to be listening to as I dug into my dinner (you don’t want to know).. And I heard that my Mom’s dear friend, Nancy, was inspired to start the detox!

I am so excited for people who are just starting out on a healthier lifestyle. They have the world ahead. So much health and well-being in store!

And, dear Nancy, you inspired me to change the direction of my dinner. For that, I am grateful to you!!

I can’t wait to hear how you do with your detox. <3

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Detox, Healing Crisis, i.e. WTF!?

08Jan12

This isn’t my first trip down WTF Lane. In the last couple of years, I’ve experienced a lot of these Healing Crises. I’m guessing it’s worse for those of us who have really thrashed our ‘temples’ for many many years. Considering how sick I was just a couple of years ago, I’m not surprised that it’s going to be hard work to climb back to good health.

It’s like a trial by fire. How badly do you want the better health on the other side? How many people quit diets because they feel worse before they feel better?

It’s a damned good thing I’m a Taurus. <EFG>

Random thought – BAD idea to cheat while you still have excess body fat, because the toxins have a place to store, and you’ll just have to go through the same Healing Crisis when you come to your senses.

Have you ever experienced a Healing Crisis? Done a detox? What do you do to help the process or make yourself feel better in the meantime? Did you stick it out to the other side, and how did you feel then? Does knowing what you’ll experience making cheating less desirable?

Edited to add: Resource for 10 foods to help Detox. *(Skip the Whole Grains, obvs – NOT a way to help with this detox.)

This is what I’m talking about (for those of you too lazy to Google):

The Healing Crisis
AKA: The Cleansing Reaction, The Detox Reaction, and The Herxheimer Reaction

What is it?
Also known as the “Herxheimer Reaction”, this reaction occurs when the body tries to eliminate toxins at a faster rate than they can be properly disposed of. The more toxic one’s bodily systems are, the more severe the detoxification, or healing crisis. It is characterized by a temporary increase in symptoms during the cleansing or detox process which may be mild or severe. You may feel worse and therefore conclude that the treatment is not working. But these reactions are instead signs that the treatment is working and that your body is going through the process of cleaning itself of impurities, toxins and imbalances.

Such reactions are temporary and can occur immediately — or within several days, or even several weeks, of a detox. Symptoms usually pass within 1-3 days, but on rare occasions can last several weeks. If you are suffering from a major illness, the symptoms you experience during the healing crisis may be identical to the disease itself. Sometimes discomfort during the healing crisis is of greater intensity than when you were developing the chronic disease. This may explain why there may be a brief flare-up in one’s condition. Often the crisis will come after you feel your very best. Most people feel somewhat ill during the first few days of a cleanse because it is at that point that your body dumps toxins into the blood stream for elimination. With a more serious condition there may be many small crises to go through before the final one is possible. In any case, a cleansing & purifying process is underway, and stored wastes are in a free-flowing state. Cause:
The healing crisis is the result of every body-system, in concert, working to eliminate waste products through all elimination channels and set the stage for regeneration. The end result: old tissues are replaced with new. When any treatment or cleansing program causes a large scale die-off of bacteria, a significant amount of endotoxins (toxins within the bacteria itself) are released into the body. The more bacteria present, and the stronger their endotoxins, the stronger the cleansing reaction. When any treatment or detox causes the organs of the body (particularly the liver, which is a storehouse of drug and poison residues) to release their stored poisons and toxins, a cleansing reaction may occur. Any program, such as fasting, which causes a rapid breakdown of fat cells (which are a storehouse for toxins), can cause a healing crisis as toxins previously lodged in the fat cells are released into the blood stream.

Symptoms:
The healing crisis will usually bring about past conditions in whatever order the body is capable of handling at that time. People often forget the diseases or injuries they have had in the past, but are usually reminded during the crisis. There are a wide variety of reactions that may manifest during a healing crisis, the most common are:

Increased joint or muscle pain

Diarrhea
Extreme fatigue and/or its opposite, restlessness
Cramps
Headache (believed to be caused by buildup of toxins in the blood)
Aches, Pains
Arthritic flair up
Insomnia
Nausea
Sinus congestion
Fever (usually low grade) and/or chills
Frequent urination and/or urinary tract discharges
Drop in blood pressure
Skin eruptions, including: boils, hives, and rashes.
Cold or flu-like symptoms
Strong emotions: anger, despair, sadness, fear, etc.
Suppressed memories arise
Anxiety
Mood swings
New phobias develop

Easing Your Way Through the Healing Crisis:
Drink plenty of fresh water (especially water), juices, and herbal teas to flush the body of toxins. Some professionals recommend distilled water as the best. Drink from 2 to 4 quarts(liters) per day. This will help flush the toxins out of your system and speed along the detoxification.

If you are feeling fatigued, or sleepy, your body is talking to you, and telling you to rest. Be kind to yourself, and get the rest that you need.
Symptoms frequently disappear immediately after a good bowel movement, use an enema to provide relief.
For other symptoms, meditation, EFT, acupuncture or a good massage might be helpful to speed up the healing process, and reduce the discomfort.
And, on rare occasions, a reduction of the dosage or temporary cessation may be required.

Important: Always ensure your health by having a thorough medical check up: don’t assume that if you have any of the above symptoms that you are in a healing crisis: you may not be in a healing process, you may have a medical health problem.

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Day 3 of my 2nd 21-Day Sugar Detox, #21DSD

04Jan12

First day was fine. Second day I felt like poop. I had no energy, I couldn’t get warm, and I was crabby. There’s your detox. Today I feel great. I know that one poopy day out of 21 isn’t bad, but I wouldn’t mind skipping that altogether. So, after this 21-Day Sugar Detox is over, I’m going to have one DAY of a re-feed (sweet tater, fruit, full fat dairy) before going into another 21-Day Sugar Detox. We’ll see how that goes. It will be interesting to see if this helps avoid some of the detox feelings.

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Stuffed Mushrooms #21DSD

04Jan12

I took the bacon/chicken/broccoli thing from the other night, pureed 1/2 cup of it, and stuffed shrooms I’d brushed with bacon grease:

YUM!

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Report on Day 4 of the 21-Day Sugar Detox #21DSD #Paleo

Day 3 #21DSD; Salt, BG, & Abs! OW!!

Day 2 Report #21DSD & WTF Did I Sign Up To Be a Short-Order Cook!?

Update on #21DSD & I’ve got a Personal Trainer!

Next Round 21-Day Sugar Detox; #21DSD

This is for you, Nancy. #21DSD

Detox, Healing Crisis, i.e. WTF!?

Day 3 of my 2nd 21-Day Sugar Detox, #21DSD

Stuffed Mushrooms #21DSD

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