Well today was not a good day. Even witht he flaxseed reduced I suffered from stomach cramps for about 8 hours. YUCK> My dear friend Prairie Lady read to me today about flaxseed not to be used if you have had stomach ulcers or gall bladder problems. I have had both in the past.

I have decided to drop this part of my detox.

Well, I survived week 1 of my detox. I actually felt pretty good until Friday. I had noticed prior to that some tummy cramping after taking my ground flaxseed. Thursday evening I had a lot of cramping and the same Friday morning. Friday night was horrible and by Saturday I was feeling totally under the weather. I tried to put the ground flaxseed on my salad at dinner and it did not help the cramping started again and this time it was horrible. I felt bad all of Sturday and most of Sunday with flu like symptoms which according to the detox is all signs the detox is working. I actually slept most of Saturday and slept in very late Sunday morning. I was feeling a bit better Sunday night and a bit better today.

I skipped the flaxseed all day Sunday. I took 1/2 the recommended amount this morning and was doing ok but the cramping is starting again. So, is the cramping necessary for the detox or do I cut the flaxseed altogether? That is the question. I handle the oil alright but not the ground flaxseed. I think I will find an alternative for this.

Results last week. Lost 3 pounds, sleeping has improved. 

The detox has not been to hard to stick to. Probably because I had already been doing low carb and adding fruit back has been a treat. I have been getting stomache cramping after have the cran-water with flaxseed in the morning and evening. I choose not to do the mixture last night or this morning. I will add some flaxseed to my dinner salad instead and see if it is easier on my tummy if taken with food.

I am not sleeping through the night yet. I do feel pretty good, not getting sluggish in the afternoon and omiting naps. I did sleep a solid 4 hours last night.

The next 2 weeks I be doing a liver detox. This will mean strick eating habits and exercise guidlines. Here is the basics of my plan.

Eating;
No Sugar
Only Stevia
1 pinch of salt per meal
No Pork
No dairy including cheese
No process foods
No grains
Taking Supplements
Adding flaxseed oil and ground flaxseed to my daily routine
I do get to eat certain fruit
Drink Detox Tea
Drink hot lemon water before Bfst
Drink a mixture of Cranberry juice and water through the day. A total of 64 ounces.
Eat eggs daily (eggs rich in omega 3)
4 ounces of protein at dinner and lunch
Eat all veggies except potatoes

Exercise:
Around 30 Minutes 5 -7 days
Low Impact exercise (I am not allow to let my heart beat go above my 60% max rate) This allows the antioxidants to heal my liver, not my muscles after a difficult workoput
No strength training

Sleep at least 8 hours. I am going to try and go to bed earlier and get up earlier.

I am doing because I may have a fatty or sluggish liver. I do have many sympthoms that could point to this problem. I am doing the detox to try and jump start my liver just in case I do have a problem.

I lost 13 pounds the 9 weeks of doing low carb. I did take a few days off and was exercsiing as well. I lost 11.75 inches. I went from a tight size 14 to a size 10. I do still have a spare tire as I have fat around my belly. My next post will tell the new eating plan I am doing and why. I wanted to update this post just for my own records.

I thought I would update for the month of May. I have done low carb the entire month of May. I did take one day off this week because we were traveling then I did very low carb the next day. I am still doing well on exercise. Except for the week I had Jury duty I am still exercising 6 days a week (I am now on week 13 of consistant exercising). The week of Jury duty I only got 5 days in.

I plan taking my measurements again on Monday. When I weight last Monday May 26 I had lost 8 pounds since doing low carb.

I am keeping my carb count 25 or less.

My goal now is to loss another 32 pounds. This will put me at the weight I was at in 1996 when my weight struggle began.

This is week 2 of keeping my carbs under 20. I am experiencing some problems with it.

I am getting headaches and I am very tired in the afternoon. After doing some research I think it is because I was way low on my carb intake on Monday and Tuesday. I am now trying to increase the carbs and add an additional salad each day.

I choose to do low carb because I think my body is being resistant to weight loss and I felt like I have 2 choices to try and jump start my metabolism. The first is to go low carb. The second was to drop my calories down to 1200. I choose low carb because I do not like being hungry and I felt on 1200 calories I would be very hungry.

Last week was very encouraging and I hope this week will be as well.

My daughter and I were able to make a low carb cheesecake to help statisfy my snack urges.

I reached both goals. I exercised 6 days and kept my daily carbs below 20.

Although going low carb is hard. It was worth it I lost 3 pounds.
Now I am motivated to go another week on low carb.

I also measured today. It has been 4 weeks since I measured and I am very happy with the results.

Here are the results.
Chest -.5"
Under chest  -.75"

Waist -.75"

Belly button -.75"
Hip -.5"
Hip to Hip (I measure from 1 hipbone to the other) -1.5"
Thigh (upper) 0
Thigh (lower) -1.5"
Calve -1
Bicep 0

Total lost 7.25 inches

This week I have decided to go low carb. I am doing this to push my body over this hump. I have been reading that when you do low carb you begin to lose weight in your mid section. I am hoping to get rid of the love handles.

I am back into my size 14's again after gaining weight and moving up to 16's. I am giving my 16's away because I am not going back to them.

My goals are to exercise 6 days and keep carbs under 20 grams each day.

Monday - No exercise, carbs 14

 Tuesday - 50 Mins exercise, carbs 11

Goals
Exercise 6 days
Average Weekly Calories under 1600
Low Sugar
No CaffieneAlthough I struggled a couple of days with sugar the week came out fairly well.

I exercised 6 days and average cals was 1598.

I lost 1 pound.

Week 6 went well I exercised 6 days and averaged 1551 calories for the week. I decided to cut out all pop and to reduce my sugary snacks. I accomplished this goal.

Week 7 I exercised 6 days. As far as eating goes I took 2 days off while on a ladies retreat. I did portion my food on the retreat and tried to not over eat the snacks but I did endulge myself. Who could pass up home made truffles. Not me. I did well the rest of the week on sugar. I still not drink any pop.

 Weekly Average Calories were 1319 for the 5 days I counted.

I dropped caffiene this week and as well.

Last week (week 5) went well. I met both of my goals I did exercise 6 days with a minuim of 45 Minutes each day and my average calorie intake was 1684. I did lose 2 pounds which puts me 1 pound under the weight I started at 5 weeks ago.

This week ( week 6) my goals are exercise 6 days adding abs of steel 3 days. My Average Calories goals is to keep it under 1650. I will not drink any pop and reduce sugar.

Today is Saturday so far I have done well this week. No POP  This is huge for me. I am a person who enjoys my pop. I stopped drinking diet pop last April so I have been pretty good at limiting myself to 1 can a day of regular caffiene free pop. Giving up this 1 can is hard  but I want to get metabolism jump started.

I have been doing well on reducing sugar. Most days so far I have had a few red hots and about 4 hershey's kisses.

I have exercised every day so far and have added my abs twice. I will exercise today and do abs as well.

Friday was indeed a struggle as my dh was not in the best mood because of lack of sleep and it put me in a crumby mood for awhile. I tried real hard to not let this effect my eating and I did achieve that  . Since I am an emotional eater I feel like this was an accomplishment for me. I also did not feel like exercising but I forced myself to do that as well.

It is now Saturday. I feel better emotionally and hope when dh gets up he will feel rested. I am praying he will sleep most of the day and catch up on his sleep.

Tuesday - I did not drink any pop to make up for yesterday. I did well on Calories however, I did not eat enough veggies. I did eat fruit, just need to up my veggie count. I added level 3 to my cardio max workout and it was tough to get through but, I made it.  I ate a sundae cone and had a helping of kisses yesterday. I am going to try and limit my sugary snacks to one helping a day and 1 can of pop.

Calories 1668

Exercise - 50 Minutes Cardio Max

Weekly Average so far 1700 (needs to be in 1600's)

This is the beginning of week 5. I increased my exercise yesterday to level 3 in the power sculpt. It was a great workout. Yesterday my eating was not so good. I drank 2 servings of pop. I limit my self to one. I also kinda picked most of the day with only one real meal. I need to do much better today. I really feel my metabolism has kicked into high gear. Since Friday I am almost always hungry all the time. I even have had to get up in the early morning to eat an oatmeal bar. The scale showed 1 pound weight loss however I gained 2 last week so that does not mean much to me.

Exercise 50 Minutes  Power Sculpt

Calories 1732

I know it has been a while since I updated this blog. I am not real good at keeping up with my blogs.

Since November I unfortunately regained some of my weight.

I am getting my focus back on getting healthy. I have been exercising 6 days a week using the Biggest Loser DVD's. As well as keeping my calories in the 1600's as an average each week. I have been doing both of these things for 4 weeks. I set a 6 week goal and at the end of the 6 weeks I will re-evaulate my goals.

As of the beginning of week 4 I had actually gained 2 pounds. Although there is no doubt I have lost inches. I will weight Tomorrow (Monday) and see what my body accomplished in week 4. I hope to measure as well.

Next week I will up my workouts to level 3 and will exercise 6 days for 50 Minutes each day. Calories will still be a weekly average in the 1600's.

I am going to try and use this blog to post my struggles so I can have a place to record my thoughts and feelings.

One day last week I lost my battle with chocolate but my cal count for the week still balanced out.

Here is my update on this 6 week goal through week 4

Week 1 Exercise 6 days  Weekly Average 1611
Week 2 Exercise 6 days  Weekly Average 1644                                     

Week 3 Exercise 6 days Weekly Average I did not save this # but it was  aprox. 1650                                                                                                  

Week 4 Exercise 6 days  Weekly Average 1657

I lost 3 pounds last week.

Goals for this week
My goals are the same average less than 1450 calories, exercise Tuesday thru Saturday. Now I will add abs on days I am not doing pilates or another dvd with abs in it.
New goal - exercise at least 60 Minutes on 3 days or more.

As far as the lst week's challenge: cut dessert in half I will try. My current snack has been something I can not really cut in half. So my goal will be to either drink pop or eat my snack each day. I will stcik to this.

Challenge for the Week- Go to the store and find a veggie or fruit you have never had. Take it home and search it online if you need a recipe... And try something new

Monday (day 20)
Exercise no
Calories 1150
No Snack - 1 can of pop

Tuesday (day 21)
Exercise 65 Minutes total. (35 Minutes Upper Body, 15 Minutes walking, 15 Minutes Abs)
Calories 1425
Snack (no pop)

Wednesday (day 22)
Exercise 20 Minutes Pilates
Calories 1586
Snack and Pop  

Thursday (day 23)
Exercise 66 Minutes total (56 Minutes Strength trainging and aerobics, 11 Minutes Abs)
Calories 1450
Snack and Pop


Friday (day 24)
Exercise 57 Minutes Pilates
Calories 1470
Snack (no Pop)

Saturday (day 25)
Exercise no
Calories 1470
No Snack - 1 can of pop

Sunday (day 26)
Exercise no
Calories 1592
No Snack -1 can of pop

Weekly Average: 1449.7

I did fairly well this week. I only did 4 days of exercise so next week I will do 6 days to kinda balance it out.

Still working on either a sugary snack or pop. I also did not do the veggie challenge I will carry that over to next week as well.

My goals are the same average less than 1450 calories, exercise Tuesday thru Saturday. Now I will add abs on days I am not doing pilates or another dvd with abs in it.

As far as the challenge: cut dessert in half I will try. My current snack has been something I can not really cut in half. So my goal will be to either drink pop or have my snack each day.

Part of my goals are to keep these goals for 30 days. Exercise Tuesday thru Saturday and average below 1450 each week on calories.

Monday (Day 13)
Calories 1454
Exercise no


Tuesday (Day 14)
Calories 1483
Exercise 15 Minutes abs 35 Minutes upper body
Snack (no pop)

Wednesday (Day 15)
Calories 1387
Exercise 60 minutes DDR 15 Minutes Abs
Snack (no pop)

Thursday (day 16)
Caloris 1304
Exercise 20 Minutes Pilates
Snack (No Pop)

Friday (day 17)
Calories 1527
Snack (1/2 serving pop)
Exercise 35 Minutes Cardio Live (abs included)

Saturday (day 18)
Calories 1205
Snack and Pop
Exercise 60 Minutes DDR
No Abs (Abs are very sore)

Sunday (day 19)
Calories1770
Exercise None
Snack and Pop

Weekly Average 1447.1

goals met

Exercise Tuesday through Saturday. I am going to not allow myself to watch any of my favorite TV shows unless I have exercised.

Eat healthier. I am going to count calories and will continue my food journal.
Calorie goal between1400 and 1450 average over the week

Monday
Calories 1288
Exercise No

Tuesday
Calories 1405
Exercise 35 Minutes Upper Body

Wednesday
Calories 1570
Exercise 20 Minutes Pilates

Thursday
Calories 1855
Exercise Painting 60 Minutes, 10 Minutes Abs

Friday
Calories 1420
Exercise 1.5 Hrs Sanding Walls

Saturday
Calories 1320
Exercise 60 Minutes Painting, 20 Minutes Pilates

Sunday
Calories 1252
Exercise no


Weekly Average Calories 1444.3

goals met for this week.