28 Days ago, I started an Advocare "24 Day Challenge"
Heh heh, I lost track of what I was doing do badly, I thought I had finished it yesterday
Overall Results
Starting weight @217 lbs vs today @202 lbs; total loss is 15 lbs.
Starting Blubber Pic (Front)
vs Today
Starting Blubber Pic (Side)
vs Today
- My energy levels have been boosted
- My focus is still bad, although I think it has improved; brain is still scattered
- The constant feeling of exhaustion is gone; I now feel tired some of the time, which is a whole lot better than feeling exhausted all the time ;>
- At one point, I had dropped to 200 lbs, or a 17 lb loss, but that was the day before the 4th...see below
My Bad...
I have noted that I am three days off in my records. While I had planned to take a day off for the 4th of July, I actually dropped off the program on the 3rd, when some friends stopped over for beer....and I stayed off on the 5th to "take care of" some leftovers from the 4th. I lost track of what I was doing at this point, it seems.
Overall, it looks like I had 7 days out of 14 (the second part of the program)where I did not take the supplements as recommended and 9 of 14 where I did not exercise. I heavily overate on 3 days of the 14, and I partially overate on 8. I gained 5 lbs in that 3rd through 5th period, so if I wanted to be a smartass I could say I lost 20 lbs LOL.
I also need to do a full review of which vitamins I am going to be taking; I had my own vitamin schedule before this program, and I haven't done a full comparison of what the program has; it looks like it's a little short in magnesium and zinc (and these two really helped when I added them to my previous regime).
I stayed good for the first 13 days; 10 on the "Cleanse" portion, and the first three days of the "Max" portion, but when I fell "off the wagon", I fell pretty hard it looks like...
but I didn't stay off!
For the future
- I am going to become a distributor of this program
- Spark will replace coffee for me
- I remain on a diet
- I am going to add walking w/ a 20lb weight vest to my exercise schedule (after I almost fell out on the July 1 Freedom March); right now I'm just swimming.
- As soon as this tendinitis clears up (which I re-aggravated Sunday/Monday) I am going to add in a weight training program, Stronglifts 5x5, which is a beginner's weightlifting program.
- I will continue to post results every couple of weeks here on Steemit. This motivates me a bit.
- I am taking all this slowly; all I really want to do is to improve a bit every day
