Tired of being fat, going to do it this time! Weight loss Journal

For those of you that don't know what Isagenix is, 99%of the program is replacing 2 meals with shakes and then eating a low glycemic meal for dinner or lunch of around 400-600 calories. It also has 4 days where you cleanse,( one each week) not eating a thing at all during those days and drinking some awful tasting juice they give you 4x a day to flush your system. You are also supposed to eat 2 snacks a day which they provide. They are about the size of a quarter and they are supposed to taste like chocolate but in reality they taste like chalk. Along with those snacks that taste like chalk, I'm supposed to take 2 capsules of something called an accelerator (think of a large pill) each day as well as 30 ml of something called Ionic Supreme which tastes like a more concentrated version of the awful juice which makes it taste even worse.

I also chose to start this 4 days before Christmas which was probably not the best time. My wife told me to wait until boxing day as it will be hard with all the treats around and I thought about it but decided against it as in my mind I was procrastinating again and I was really in the right frame of mind to start. I began on Dec 21st. I'll give more detailed day by days in follow up posts but here are the highlights of my past 8 days

Dec 21st
Starting Weight 237.0

Dec 28th
Weight 227.1 (-10 lbs down in first week!)

Day 1- It was very easy to follow, I had no issues. Had roast chicken and peas as my non shake meal

Day 2 -It was also very easy to follow, no issues. Although I started having to pee more that day. i didn't have any veggies that day as they didn't really go with dinner. I had 1 & 1/2 egg mcmuffins for dinner (whole wheat english muffin, egg, 1 slice peameal bacon and cheese) Side note if your kids hate eggs like mine all do, they don't notice it when you cover it with cheese, peameal bacon and of course ketchup:) They like these even thou they normally run when they see eggs at the table

Day 3- Same with the first 2 days with the exception that I had to pee constantly. That night while sleeping I literally got up to pee about 10x during the night which was extremely irritating not only to myself but to my wife as well. Normally I don't get up at all during the night. Dinner was the same as day 2, more Egg mcmuffins

Day 4 - Christmas Eve. I Figured this was going to be a hard day and the test of my willpower. Every year we host a Christmas Eve dinner with about 20 people. Snacks everywhere. Lasagna, meatballs, pastas, chocolates, pastries, cookies you get the idea. I changed things up this day. I had a shake for breakfast and then a chicken pita from Pita Pit for lunch, no cheese no sauce. I didn't want to give myself the excuse or chance to slip up and eat more than I should for dinner so I decided to have a shake for dinner. People asked what I was doing, I told them I was watching my weight and was doing shakes. I didn't mention Isagenix as I didn't want questions. I surprised myself that day, I had no issues with willpower at all and made it thru the day strong.

Day 5 - Christmas day. This was going to be harder then Christmas Eve to get thru as there would be temptation at every turn but I was determined. We wake up Christmas morning and sit down to our traditional breakfast of Cinimon rolls and doughnuts bought the day before. I make my shake and all is good, we proceed to open our stockings at which point my wife looks at me and tells me that the gifts were bought before she knew I was doing Isagenix. In my stocking was my traditional Toberlone bar, chocolate letter and other candies. Not even 8am and I have donoughts, candy and chocolate staring me in the face. We finish our stockings and gifts and I'm kept busy putting together toys that Santa brought the kids until lunch. Kids keep munching on junk food in fornt of me, chocoalte, gingerbread house, gummi bears whatever was around. I managed to not let it bother me. Around 2pm I make a shake for lunch and then was kept busy until dinner came with my kids and any company that dropped by. Dinner came and I figured it would be easy. I was planning on having peas and turkey, with a little bit of gravy and 1 homemade roll that my wife makes however my mother in law had other plans. She was not told I was doing Isagenix and proceeded to plop out my favorite desert right in front of me that she made because she knows I like it. Everyone helps themselves to the smorgasbord of deserts laid out in front of us and I sit in my chair pretending like i didn't care while there was a massive war raging inside of me. I did break eventually and had a very small bowl of Apple Crisp, I felt guilty at first but then thought to hell with it, it's Christmas! Managed to get thru the rest of the evening with no hiccups.

Day 6- I wake up and my wife threatens divorce if I don't stop peeing in the middle of the night so much. Secretly I hope that the peeing slows down as I'm going all the time due to the water intake. The rest of the day was pretty routine. With all the temptations out of the way the day was easy. 2 shakes and leftover turkey and peas for dinner. No cravings that day, as silly as it sound I think that little piece of apple crisp helped placate me for a while

Day 7- This was my cleanse day, no food or shakes. Just water and 4 servings of that awful tasting concentrated gook to cleanse the system. I figured I would be starving that day but I had no issues with hunger at all. I wasn't sure what to expect toilet wise since it was a cleanse day but I never had to go at all and I happily noticed my peeing started to slow down a bit. I also started to think I felt lighter but wasn't sure if that was my imagination or not.

Day 8 - First weigh in day.I got out of bed, undressed and got on the scale. What I saw was shocking. I was down 10 lbs. I went from 237 to 227.1. There's that motivation boost even though I know a lot of it was water weight but regardless for motivation, there is nothing better! I was very happy and the rest of the day went by like the previous days with 1 exception, I was STARVING! I'm assuming this is because I ate nothing at all the day before but I was really hungry all day and even more so in the evening. I persevered and pushed thru the hunger. For dinner I ate leftover turkey, broccoli and some gravy. Peeing seems to have leveled off some more. I'm guessing my body is getting used to all the water.

That's my journey so far. Today is one of those days where my wife is doing her 12-12 shifts. Normally I would be binging today and ordering pizza while my kids are in bed but today I've stuck with it and have no cravings at all which is great!