Cleanse Results

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I've been DIEING to post and I know SOME of you have been anxiously awaiting this entry, so here it is....the results of my 14 day turned 17 day cleanse, but first.....

Dinner last night was DELICIOUS!  The strawberries were a hit with everyone involved.

And because I want to make you wait longer here is my menu for today:

Breakfast: 1 Hard Boiled Egg, 1 Roma Tomato
Snack: Baby Carrots and Garlic Hummus
Lunch: Leftover Pomegranite Chipotle Pork Chops w/Pineapple and Roasted veggies (carrots, mushrooms, onions, and peppers)
Snack: Apple w/Natural PB
Dinner: Scallops sauteed with veggies and garlic

Ok ok ok....so I guess I can't put it off any longer....oh wait maybe I can....NOPE I can't!  I'm dieing to tell you!!

In 17 days I dropped 25 lbs!!!!  At the end of my last challenge I was at 294 (that was a Friday, the cleanse started the following Monday) and now this morning I weighed in at 269!!!  Crazy huh?  Is it just the cleanse?  Have a discovered some magic pill?  HELL NO!  There is no such thing!  My results say a lot about a good cleanse regimen + a low carb diet + Bob Harper's Skinny Rules + (and possibly the number 1 most important ingredient to success) an AMAZING support system! 

And at the end of the 17 days I can say that I do not crave or desire ANY type of chocolate, sweets, breads, pastas, or anything of that sort.  Would it make meal planning a smidge easier?  Maybe, but only because we typically use these foods as fillers.  Remove the fillers and you have so much more room for even MORE healthy foods. Just think if you didn't eat the dinner roll how much more room you'd have for the garlic roasted veggies or for a larger helping of your protein.  If you didn't have the pasta you could have put your meat sauce over a chicken breast or grilled veggies.  Besides that those types of carbohydrates turn to sugar and SEVERAL studies have shown that sugar and carbs have the same effect on the same part of your brain as cocaine or any other addictive substance.  When your body runs low you CRAVE it.  Deprive your body, suck it up and tough out the withdrawals and the cravings subside and eventually disappear.  The taste of the food is similar to high from street drugs.  We KNOW it's good, but what it does to our body is FAR from good. 

Now some people say it's unhealthy to eliminate all carbs and they are absolutely right and I can tell you that I do NOT eliminate carbs, I just choose to get them from different sources.  Breads, pastas, rice, sugar, etc are not the ONLY source of carbs in the world.  The best source and the one I choose to get my carbohydrate fix from are fruits and vegetables.

Here's to a healthy future for all of you.  Tomorrow I will start blogging about the Skinny Rules by Bob Harper :)  Stay tuned and have an amazing Thursday!