Daily Download: Week Three: Tuesday

Well...life has officially gotten in the way of my blogging for the past few days...to recap because I know you are waiting with bated breath to hear how the cleanse ended up. Well, we ended the cleanse early on Saturday afternoon. My comrades and myself realized that it wasn't worth us being miserable and that we had given it a great shot and had some good results.

I lost 4 pounds {due to choosing not to eat anything because the meals on the plan were terrible} and overall my body felt good. However, I was constantly hungry and thinking about food throughout the entire five days and the lack of caffeine really made work days tough. Am I happy I did it - 100%. Am I proud of myself for sticking with it for 5 days - absolutely. Would I do it again...not unless I was prepping for an awards show where I was up for the best actress nomination for a Golden Globe...

Since then I have eaten some not-so-good-for-me food, but overall I've been making relatively good choices. The bad:  Family dinner at the hubby's dad's was pasta and garlic bread on Sunday night. We went to a movie on Monday and I didn't have buttery movie theater popcorn {instead I opted for the nachos w/ jalepenos...I know, not better, but did you note that I didn't have movie theater popcorn?!?!}. I've had a couple glasses of wine since coming off the cleanse. But I've also eaten more fruits & veggies and I'm eating smaller amounts at meal times - so that's a good thing, right?

So while I know that inevitably I'm a cleanse quitter...it was a great...er, good...an experience and I'm glad I tried it. And most importantly, I'm glad that I had a couple people to go through it with because had I not, I know I wouldn't have even made it to day five. Now it's back to tracking what I eat, making a BIG effort to work out {despite the fact that my head starts bobbing around 9pm each night} and making better decisions. I still need to get back into bikini shape and there is no time to waste!

Breakfast: 32oz lemon water {not room temp, but I'm going to keep this part of the cleanse because it forces me to at least get 1/2 my necessary water intake in right away in the morning}, a hard boiled egg and a vanilla latte {ugh, I cannot pick this habit back up...Le Peep is too close to little man's day care and they have a great coffee bar}

Banana

Lunch: had a lunch meeting, so instead of going to the buffet {which is where my employees usually pick}, I steered them to JBs Cafe. I had an egg white omelet w/ ham & green pepper {no cheese!} and two pieces wheat toast w/ butter, water

Diet Mt. Dew

Dinner:  chicken salad w/ celery, two hard boiled eggs, mustard and a dab of light mayo {no bread}, glass cab sav

Piece of dark chocolate {I figure if I need something sweet, having some small bites of this around is better than me shoving a Hostess cupcake in my mouth, right?}

Water:  80oz approx

Exercise: none yesterday - I debated staying up after little man's 3:30am feeding to work out from 4am-5am, but was exhausted. Planned to hit the gym after the little guy went down for the night, but after working all day, an Angels board meeting and catching up on a few work emails I just didn't have it in me.