Challenge Complete

     10 days of strict eating (yes I cheated a little), 6 days of a horrible sludgy fiber drink in the AM, 7 nights of horse pills, 7 mornings of tiny capsules, plus all the spark I drank (replaces coffee and soda), all the walking and biking.... I won the 10 day cleanse challenge against 7 other people! (I think it was 7, may have been 8.) I lost 2" off my thighs, I can see and feel a change on my backside as well haha, and I can see a difference in my face but my stomach, not so much. My stomach has a lot of work to go yet though. I need to do more for that area, and eating healthier and smaller meals really isn't going to do much for it for some reason... just need to put extra work into it is all.
     Thank you to my big brother for motivating me, caring about my health and worrying about me enough to provide me with the opportunity to try this out, also for providing me with a menu plan and the food for the menu. I couldn't have done it without any of it. I am super excited to continue my journey down this road. I am going to expand my menu a little bit because I really love my Special K cereal's, but those are healthy, so no worries haha. I'm sure I will have other things as well, but nothing like what I was doing before!!
     I am really enjoying my walking, I walk to Christina's in the mornings, and I am going to continue that until it is too cold to do so. I won't have a car anyhow, so it'll be easy to do haha. I will be walking to church on Sunday's plus Wednesday evenings for youth group. I need to find a partner for evening walking, maybe some afternoon walking as well. Hopefully Michelle will be up for it soon. Maybe I can get Christina to take some walks with me. I know how much exercise helps with depression, I just have to motivate her. I know it would help her sleep at night also.
     I pray I come up with the money SOON in order to purchase more products from AdvoCare to keep going in THAT direction. I mean, yes there is plenty I can do at home and on my own. BUT-- with having quit smoking there are some products that will help me keep going. They will also help me continue to boost my system in the right direction. In 3 months I am going to try another cleanse, but I don't know if I want to try the 24 day or just do the 10 day... we shall see.
   

Advocare 10 Day Cleanse

     Well... my brother put me on this herbal cleanse, actually it's a challenge on top of the cleanse... who loses the most body mass whatever whatever I don't know all the technical jargon. I feel funny. Today is DAY 3 -- my meals are light and small and I've been getting on my exercise bike for 20 minutes 3 times a day... I feel good but my body feels funny. I plan to stick close to this meal plan after the cleanse is over, I'm going to ad milk though because I love my Special K cereal!! On the cleanse I cannot have any dairy products... I don't mind, because I know I can have my cereal after the challenge is over lol.
     So my breakfast is a meal replacement shake. My lunches consist of half a cup of fruit and a hard boiled egg, OR 2 hard boiled eggs, OR a can of plain tuna in water. dinners consist of a piece of boneless skinless chicken breast and a 1/2 a steam fresh bag of veggies OR a cup of brown rice OR OR a piece of fish with the same options. I'm enjoying it so far. I couldn't continue this every single day after the cleanse because I would get bored. But I have been researching recipes to keep the simple items and give them a little extra flavor but not add all the sugars or salts or extra unhealthy crap -- VERY EXCITED!!
     Also, I am really enjoying these Spark drinks -- equivalent to a cup of coffee!! TASTE AWESOME!! I have had the fruit punch and the citrus. It is an 8 ounce cup of water with the powder mix and boom, I'm wired for like 5 or 6 hours!! I'm planning on getting a tub of it when this one runs out. They really have some awesome products!! I can't wait to see the results from this cleanse and then continue with this new menu plan and work out!
     I am still working on quitting smoking, but I only had 2 yesterday and none today, and I haven't gone and bought a new pack either. I am trying to stay busy so I just forget about the cravings all together. It's really only boredom that gets me smoking, so I am working on filling all of my time. I started a new book, this one is about youth ministry since I started helping with the youth group at church. Hopefully this book will guide me and give me some good direction with these kids. I am still doing my 30 days of prayer thing, and I am going to continue until I have it memorized (that's the plan anyway.) I am just so excited!
     God is really working in my heart! I am expanding my horizons! I want to bring others to Christ! I want to bring young teens and children to Christ! I want EVERYONE to come to Christ!!!  ---it is super hard to contain the excitement and NOT shout out seeing as how I am at my dad's and I don't want to disturb anyone lol.
   
     I love my dads new house! I have been helping him get it organized and get ready for an estate sale (the items left with the house when he bought it.) Today I stained and clear coated the trim for his living room, in another hour I am going to be doing the final coat of that. I have no clue what he is going to have me do tomorrow, but I'm sure it'll be fun! The other day we hauled a bunch of wood out to the back to burn, then I helped him clean out his little gardener's shed so he could store the wood he is able to burn inSIDE the house, in there. We made a little space in the basement, but not a whole lot.
     Plus, he gave me a BUNCH of National Geographic's... I am obsessed with it! I love reading those! I will never get bored NOW!! wanna know WHY>>>>>>>> Now I have 1984 through 2000!!! Plus I have been getting them since 2011. AWESOME!!! I cannot wait til I have a house or a place of my own where I am able to fill all my book shelves!! It'd be nice to collect every single issue EVER, but I won't hold my breath on that one haha. I am very happy with what I have. I still have a TON of other books I need to read. I plan to read all the novels and then sell them... well... besides my antique books and any collector books I have. I am not going to part with my National Geographic's though.

VERY EXCITED ABOUT LIFE!!