Saturday 2/26

Ok so I tried to get measured but I didn't think it was fair to the 24 day challenge since my body was still swollen/sore from 2 hours yesterday & was even more ticked after another 2 hours today of working out.
As I said in my in between post that I can visually notice that my love handles are almost gone & my clothes are fitting better. I'll get on that scale when I feel good & ready. LOL as long as I look thinner & feel way better does it really matter?
    Anyways, JT protein shake for breakfast.. I think it's my last as that shake is just not good tasting... such a shame that it's 5 times more expensive than Advocare & I can't tell any difference between the products other than the fact that it doesn't taste good. Possibly will pawn it off on the MIL since she possibly might like it. Gave the hubby the ...well we won't go there... let's just say that stuff isn't going to be used anymore. Being off the Advocare vitamins & not having a V-16, Oasis or Spark today I've felt kinda draggy. Could just be the slightly altered sleep schedule but I'm not going to take my chances. I'm going to get back on the vitamin packs. I'm going to try the appetite control formula this next time. I think that the Max pack 3 did an ok job.. but would like to try the appetite control as that is still my biggest weakness.
 Naptime... yeah... I guess I needed it.
3pm~ Lunch was some leftover mac & cheese with the chicken sausage, more of the remaining veggies & 1 choc. yogurt granola sandwich dessert. & 10 oz. of dark chocolate almond "milk".
9pm dinner-pork serving with green beans & 1 small baked potato with a tiny dallop of low fat Smart Balance sour cream, small amount of buttery spread & chives. 1 choc. yogurt granola sandwich dessert.
 Ha ha I fooled you... I'm going to use the will power to only have 1 dessert if that a day... I wanted to do it though... :( but  I won't undo what I just spent the last 3 months doing... I made it thru ALL 4 major fat laden eating holidays & have lost weight I can do it. I'm almost 50% of the way to my goal weight. Which is much further than I thought I'd be by this time.

Wrapping up comments from Challenge...

You know what, I forgot to weigh myself today 2/26...I'm fairly confident that I lost 12 lbs. during the 24 day challenge. Most of which were during & a few days after the cleanse. I did try to remember to get measured. But the person who did my 1st measurements wasn't available before I had started working out in the AM which is when you need to get them done as once you start moving they get bigger as blood rushes thru them. Probably better that I didn't I did 2 hours late at night for a charity Zumba Fitness party & then did 2~30 min sessions & 1 hour today & my muscles were already swollen & ticked at me.
      I will tell you a few things I've noticed. 1 that I am finally starting to feel like my love handles are almost totally gone from the front view of me. I've not felt all that hot being off of the multi vitamin pack as I feel that they were making a nice balanced difference. I'm going to be buying & trying the appetite control pac next... Shakeology tastes different but the Advocare shakes taste WAY better. My clothes have continued to fit better & better this month regardless of the scale. Please also take into consideration that I've added another 2-3 hours of classes on all of which are toning/sculpting Zumba classes which has kinda ticked my body off this week too thankfully not all my classes had people show up to them. I know that even compared to last month that I can no longer eat as much food & have continued to find that less & less is needed especially if it's healthy food. I have discovered that dairy products in general has caused me to have excess gas... ( I know very unpleasant, but for quite some time I had thought it was an allergy to mushrooms & not the dairy)  The vitamin combinations that I've been trying isn't working nearly as efficently & w/o taking either Spark or V16 (caffeine free) I've felt kinda draggy all day long. I even took a nap. Possibly chalking it up to late night Friday doing so much getting to bed late & all morning on Saturday too working out & getting up earlier than usual. Either way I'm fairly confident it was the Advocare vitamins that was helping during the 14 day metabolic restore. I will be continuing to use the vitamins & Spark (or V-16 or Oasis) & will keep everyone updated on products etc. I think the Catalyst is what is trimming everything out so much at this point. I also will be having the meal replacements for breakfast as they are just so easy & quick to do in the AM & are truly great tasting & healthy. Choc. is my total fave flavor but all 3 are really REALLY tasty... Sorry I keep going on & on about them but they are just the BOMB... I've also heard from some other people that have added hot water to them for hot cocoa shakes. MMMM. Haven't tried that yet but possibly as it's snowing a ton again outside & isn't warm either.

FRI 2/25

8:30am Advocare Probiotic max pill. 30+ min prior to Advocare Choc. protein shake. Every time I drink this stuff it keeps tasting even better I swear! So very very glad I only had 1 easily accessible to me!
I've put together a collective package of varied brands both Advocare & some other lines of vitamins/herbs etc. to take throughout the day careful to ensure pretty much everything was there but not double coverage. 1 biospec energy vitamin (I'll get the scoop on what it's called when i'm at home), 2 multi-vitamins, 2 calcium/D vitamins, Advocare 2 Omegaplex (during lunch as fish oil should be taken with food)
9:45am 1/2 packet of Spark Pink Lemonade flavor (very tasty but doesn't beat the grape flavor)
1 cranberry & 1 chickweed herbal supplement 30 min. prior to lunch (I've done a lot of research on the filling characters of chickweed) but it's harder than heck to find sometimes...
Lunch~12:30pm 1.5 cup of creamy chicken & wild rice soup... hee hee... ok so a naughty item isn't all that horrible is it every once in awhile? & a reasonable amount too & a small banana.
5pm~ 1 medium Banana &
 Choc. Shakeology shake... going to try a new brand~ ok tasting.. different than Advocare but I still think seeing how Shakeology is more expensive that the Advocare does taste better both in price & in taste.

3 Catalyst once I'm sure there is going to be a 1 hr. toning class at Shake N' Shed (nope no one showed). If not.. the 2 hour Zumba Fitness party will suffice... I won't be dancing the whole time so don't think I'm like crazy workout chick or something... usually the instructors sit part of the time during that 2 hours & cluck in the back waiting their turns on stage networking & such.
Dinner at 10pm.. yeah, hubby waited for me to come home to eat. fake ground veggie "meat" in a different hamburger helper dish. Extra pasta was added to it & onions & made with almond "milk". Just had a tiny bit. Also, frozen fresh tomatoes from the garden mixed with some frozen summer squash & onions from a bagged frozen veggies. 1 choc. yogurt granola sandwich dessert. Really really need to stop myself from even having just 1 a day. I know they are much healthier than other desserts but still 180 cal. each still doesn't verify for the fiber & probiotics in them.

Last Day of 24 day challenge 2/24

Ok so apparently my will power stinks the past few days. They brought in fresh muffins from Festival foods. I had 1/2 of a cranberry/nut muffin. Caloric wise about equiv. to the protein shake but I'm positive not as healthy. I'm doing V16 again today, I like the taste it's kinda like a mimosa without the champagne in it as it's bubbly & is similar to a carbonated beverage but is in powder form.
Rice noodle bowl for lunch mushroom flavored.
1:30 snack 100 cal. pack of cheese & 20 grapes.
3pm 20 more grapes. :) I like grapes, too bad they're so expensive. V16 is working well... well as well as I'd expect it to w/o caffeine in it. At least the bathroom isn't constantly calling which is why i've never been very good with caffeine.
4pm 1/4 of a different muffin... in hind site the one I had for breakfast was much yummier...speaking of hind site I think I felt some of that go to my butt...
Zumba tonight at SNAP 55min session.
Dinner was box mac N cheese 1.5 cups made with almond milk & 1/2 of the butter requested. Added organic chicken & apple "hotdogs" mixed into it. 2.5 cup salad with 1 HB egg 1/2 avocado, 1 bleu cheese olive 5 regular olives & organic garlic spinach dressing. 1 choc. yogurt granola sandwich dessert. Really have to get in to get weighed & measured before exercising... :( Have no clue when the same measuring person will be in tomorrow so I'll have to call.

Wed 2/23 2nd to last day!

Berry Advocare protein shake for breakfast (was good but personally choc. is better)
Advocare V16~ good energy with no caffeine, totally a great product.
 Lunch salad, HB egg & a few green olives, a tiny amount of pita chips, basalmic dressing (1 bleu cheese olive) & 1 slice of pizza (I forgot to mention yesterday if it's leftover pizza I NEVER eat the crust if it's just regular crust) aka. cheese stuffed doesn't count, I'd totally eat that. LOL
snack 1 clementine, 1 apple, 1 double stuft Oreo & 1 banana. Ok I was really hungry... notice the order I ate them in... really need to start bringing fiber/fruit bar or fiber drink for afternoon munchie attacks.
30 min ZIC & then 1 hour ZT & 1 hour Z (hoping that someone shows up for at least 1 of these classes) wondering when other instructors or people are going to start looking at my schedule & then freaking out or something... thinking I have no energy to be teaching all those classes.

Tues 2/22

Choc. breakfast protien shake. 2 slices of leftover pizza, Greek yogurt for lunch, fruit for snack.
Dinner was 1.5 cups hamburger helper (super lean meat) added mushrooms made with almond milk (lower in fat, higher in lots of other good stuff & non-dairy) & a  2 c. salad. granola sandwich with frozen yogurt for dessert. 30 min ZIC.

Day 10,11 & 12 Sat-Mon- 2/19-21

Ok so just to be brief on this since I fell behind. :( Sat 2 hours of Zumba 2- ZIC sessions 1 regular session. Lunch at KFC buffet... yeah naughty this weekend but came to find out I could hardly eat anything at all without feeling overly full. Picked skin off & got veggies & was REALLY good at the buffet. Even overly full. I did have a choc. mousse torte piece. Dinner was sushi & shashimi. also. Miso soup & a small salad. leftovers were saved for lunch on Sunday too.
   Sunday Breakfast was the protein shake. I had multiple hours of various exercises & Zumba with certification on Sunday. Lunch was a few leftover sushi pieces, 1 HB egg & 1 greek yogurt pack. I also added some rehydrate, Catalyst & a SLAM into the water mix with all of the exercise going on. Dinner... 1 HB egg, 4 BBQ chicken wings & 3 slices of pizza (hamburger, green olives & mushrooms) insane $10 tip for the delivery guy as he risked his life in the 17" of snow to drive 5 blocks to deliver the pizza. Vitamin water to wash it down I can't ever tell if any of that stuff works it's totally not like Spark or the V16. (out of filtered water at this point). Once again ate too much food & totally not surprised. Snowed in & I'd be darned eating fruit & fiber bars & protein shakes for dinner after working out about 6 hrs. :P
    Monday~ cup of processed fruit. :P & 2% milk (only thing available) 1.5 cups of healthy granola, cherry & choc. chip mix from Target (good thing we picked it up on Saturday night)
More sushi for lunch from Trader Joes. Darn them little sugar cubes of rice at least the fish is totally healthy for you. Dinner was leftover pasta, salad & a good cut of steak. Granola sandwich with frozen yogurt for dessert. No classes.. no one showed up for 2 hours of them. I did stretch out & work on some choreo. Was very sore from Sunday.