Paris Cluff’s BodyBlog

Well day 7 was my last day today i drank OJ to come out of it.  I realized that one of my problems was that i wasn’t drinking enough of the cleanse drink each day.  On day 7 i drank a ton of it and felt great!  well the next time ill know.  I lost 8.4 pounds and i really do have a great greater desire to eat healthy foods.  After not being able to eat solid food for a week, raw tuna sounds good to me at this point lol.  I have a new diet all planned out and am very excited to work on it I don’t think i will gain much weight back… if i do it will be muscle.  I really want to work on my BF% and get that down.  the fact that i lost 8.4 pounds but only lost 1% bf is a bit discouraging I was hoping to lose more fat.  oh well.  Maybe my bf scale is broken heheh. 

I think that today was a bit of a turning point.  I wasn’t really that hungry and I really felt better.  I do have to admit i saw some junk food and it smelled good lol.  I stayed strong though!  I am not really feeling any more or less clarity than before, however i do notice i don’t have the energy i feel like i had before the cleanse.  Although today was the most energy i have felt on the diet so far.  I feel like i am back to where i was before i started.  I actually gained a little weight today but lowered body fat which is good.  I have gotten a pretty good meal program to follow once i am off this cleanse.  I think with cardio and excersise i’ll hit my goals np.  I can’t believe i have only drunk liquids for 6 days and i feel fine, strange.  Couple more days to go.

Well I’ll have to say that this is a bit harder to do than I had anticipated.  I have felt like I had the flu not that i was sick but that I was very cold and a bit cloudy.  I have lost 5 pounds as of today on the scale.  I actually started to have cravings for solid food today for the first time since I started on Wednesday.  I am impressed at how I haven’t really felt that hungry, once I start to feel hungry I just drink some of the "potion" as my kids and I call it LOL and I dont feel hungry again for several hours.  I always love challenges and this is definately one of them.  Talk to you soon.

Sorry i missed my post yesterday i have felt a bit light headed since i started the diet.  I think (hope) its just a phase as the toxins are getting kicked out of my body.  Most say that after the first few days there is greater clarity in their thinking etc. so i am hoping for that soon.  I need that anyway .  It is strange to me still i am not really hungry and i drink 5 drinks a day.  My mouth does get dry and so i do drink a lot of water.  Which means I visit the restroom regularly.  I am weighing myself every day and i lost about a pound the first day I’ll see what i lose tomorrow.  I’ll post that on the site for sure.  I try to weigh myself the same time every day so that there is more consistency with the results.  See you tomorrow.

So I read about the lemonaide diet/master cleanse while on Blaxican25’s blog then there was a response that lead me to greeneyedsmarty25’s blog where she actually has links of the formula and her day by day experience on the cleanse.  So I figure great time to start a new diet with the new year and all.

I know its a cleanse but i figure before i start a new leaner diet why don’t i cleanse out the old so I start fresh with the new.  I am going to start the diet tomorrow, well tonight i drink the laxative tea (exciting! .  I made about a gallon worth of the potion today so that it will last me a couple days.  I think i am mentally ready.  I am actually very excited about what could happen.  I do want to lose a few pounds but more importantly I think i want to get rid of the urges i have to eat the bad foods.  The report says it removes the addictive feeling to bad foods.  So here goes.

I’ll do a day by day as well just to keep a daily journal of how i feel and how it is affecting me. 

Here goes, no solids for 10 days!

BTW here is the link to the report http://healthandlight.com/TheMasterCleanse.pdf 

I will be first to admit that Cardio can sometimes be boring.  Somedays I am on my eliptical and the time flies and after what seems like a few minutes i am done with 25 minutes of cardio.   However more often than not I am 5 minutes into it and wondering if this will ever end! lol

So what do you do to pass the time while you cardio?

I have watched videos, listened to music, etc.  One of my favorite things to do actually is to close my eyes and envision that I am running across beautiful scenery.  Most of the time I am running or moving through magestic mountains or across meadows.  It is more like i am flying low to the ground but it is very motivational.  Sometimes i will use the time to contemplate new goals or just to think, I love to think. 

Anyways I would love to hear from others what they do to pass the cardio time.

Hope to hear from you soon.

For Christmas i got an electronic scale that also had a bodyfat calculator it says that it measures the body fat with some electric pulse sent through the body.  It’s called BIA Bioelectric Impedance Analysis.  The brand I got is Health-o-meter.   When I weighed in i was about 5 pounds heavier than my analog scale so I am hoping that this one is more accurate.    I just wandered if anyone has any experience with how accurate the BIA is for bodyfat analysis on these scales?

Even if it isn’t very accurate i know that it will at least help me track my progress as long as i continue to use the same scale.

Body composition is more important to me than weight because i know muscle weighs more than fat and as i build muscle i’ll start to weigh more but need it to be the right kind of weight so was excited to get a bodyfat scale to help me track my goals. 

This last 2 weeks of getting back into it have been great… My leg workout last Friday was intense, for me anyway, and I am just today feeling like i can walk without pain again LOL.  

I will get myself more involved in journaling here as one of my New Years resolutions.

It feels good to hit the weights again.  I took a several months off after some personal issues.  I realized that I needed to get back into the gym when my pants started to feel tight again.   Last year I was 145 pounds and 6.5% bodyfat, it felt real good.  I started to bulk up after that so that I could hit my goal of 170 pounds and 6.5% bf.  As you know when you start to bulk up the fat comes with it.  Before my break I was about 160 and 9% or so. 

Then life decided to send me a few trials, and my confidence dropped.  I stopped working out to focus on my business, and I realize now how much working out helped motivate me to do better in all areas of my life, i.e. my business!  My family and I have a strong faith in God and know that it will all work out but we hope sooner than later.  If you know what i mean!

When I found bb.com and I saw the bodyspace profile I thought what a great idea!  It inspired me to start again.  I started working out with the wife this week and it feels great!  I can already feel my confidence surging back.  I love the way I feel when I know I look good.  Having my own business is a challenge and confidence is a requisite so I feel like working out again is going to help a lot.

 I realize that in restarting, my muscles are not used to the weight like they were, so as I always recomend to my friends to start real slow so that you don’t get too much lactic acid build up, which makes you sore so you can’t work out for a week!  Then you get out of the habit and… bam!  You are a casualty in the world of bb.  It is better to start slow and work into the weight and so that is what i am doing,  I should see major leaps in the first few weeks/months then I may level off until I can start taking supplements again. 

The wife and I have already decided to buy better foods at the store I know diet is 80% of the battle.

I look forward to being a part of this community!