Day 1 - Isagenix 30 day Cleansing and Fat Burning System

Start Date: April 1, 2014

After years of struggling with my weight, I have finally decided to try a "system".  I am not a system girl at all!!  I have taken some protein shakes in my past; Curves, It Works, etc.

A little over 3 years ago, I was 278 ( my highest weight and at the end of my 3rd pregnancy).  I was told after each child that with nursing I would lose weight rapidly and it would come off....but that didn't happen for me.  I stayed right around 265 for two years, maybe getting to 255 here and there.

Then 16 months ago I started skating and playing roller derby.  I tracked my calories occasionally trying to stay below 1800 calories on myfitnesspal.com , but I didn't change what I was eating or drinking that much.   In all I lost 12 lbs in 2013.  When looking at that in December of 2013, I decided to take that success and motivation to go further in 2014.

One year, 12 lbs lost in right photo.

  So in 2014 I quit drinking alcohol in the month of January and took my calorie count to 1300 a day.  I wasn't starving, I was feeling good....but slowly the alcohol crept back in and my body ballooned.  I was able to get under 250, actually I got to 240 by March 3, 2014.  Then I hit the plateau and got discouraged.  My body was changing and I wasn't always liking the in between results.  I started to drink a little more and continued to gain a bit back.   I decided to get back on board and after a wonderful anniversary dinner last night, March 31, 2014 - today I start a system.

Today I awoke and started my system:

Weight: 245lbs.
Neck: 14.5
Upper Arm (left): 16.75
Upper Arm (right): 17
Chest: 46  *down 2 inches since the beginning of 2014
Diaphragm: 40 (underbust)
Waist: 44 *up an inch from the beginning of 2014
Abdomen: 51
Buttocks: 51.5
Upper Thigh (left): 29.75
Upper Thigh (right): 29.5
Calf (left): 19
Calf (right): 20
Upper Knee (left): 22
Upper Knee (right) 23

These are my photos from Roller Derby Practice on March 30, 2014

I started my day with my Ionix Supreme as a hot tea, I like this!

For breakfast I had my French Vanilla shake (plain with no additives) and my Natural Accelerator.   The shake doesn't have a chalky consistency at all, but I think I would enjoy it better blended with a banana or something.

At my first snack I tried 2 French Vanilla snack wafers...this was not at all what I had expected.  They don't taste terribly, but don't look like food at all.

It is coming up on lunch and I have said I would eat my "meals" at supper with the family and I am hungry....I mean, yes I am hungry but I am a foodie and the act of eating is sacred to me.  I am hungry to chew!

For lunch now I will make another shake and drink more water.  I am to have 15 cups of water a day (purified) and it seems I can have caffeine free herbal tea... but not purified water doesn't count for my water intake.  I may consider having a protein bar instead of a shake one day if I really need to chew something.

I took an hour walk, as I currently have that kind of time in my afternoons and then had 2 more glasses of water and a IsaDelight Plus - Dark chocolate infused with green tea.  I like the chocolate :)  I plan to have a nice herbal tea before bed with a splash of honey.

Tonight I am planning my 400-600 calorie meal:

Chicken with Maple-Mustard glaze with cooked kale and spinach and some whole wheat bread.

I felt full, I had some non caffeinated herbal tea and my IsaFlush before bed.