Day 12- Clean eating and shakeology....

Today is the start of my 12th day doing a clean eating and shakeology challenge. Last week was crazy, I lost 4 pounds. Since then I have been holding steady, but not losing any more weight. I am doing well. A lot of it is a mental/emotional challenge for me. There are times I eat food, and not even an hour later, I can feel the food burning off and I get a feeling like I could be getting hungry. I know though that it is NOT true hunger, but my body is eating away at my fat stores and burning off calories. I know to experience weightloss, I have to accept that and allow my body to work it's magic. It's hard at times. Sometimes I just start craving things that I haven't allowed myself to have, i.e. coke. I am trying to do my best though, every day. These changes take time and I also have truly accepted that. Or at least, I am working on accepting that. Every day is a challenge... every day, I am pushing myself to see how far I can go... through exercise, eating right, and praying through the hard stuff.

Morning of Day four

After three days of cleaning eating, I have lost 2 whole pounds. In three days! Wow, for me, this is monumental.

Last night, I had a rough time. I started to just feel like I was having a complete and total meltdown. I just wasn't feeling satisfied. I think it is directly related to lack of carbs, because I have been focusing on eating very little carbs because there aren't very many that are considered "clean". I am also counting calories. I have been keeping within my calories, and exercising every day. I am feeling positive about the changes I have made about half the day. I want to see these changes. I want to experience weightloss, but it is hard to give up the things you love. And yet, I know the only way to truly experience God's best for my life is to learn to "control" and train my flesh. That is why God calls us to fasting, in a way that is what I am doing. Fasting is about putting down the desires and lust of our flesh to focus on God and the spiritual. I would say I am definitely putting down the lust of the flesh, now I just need to focus more on God through this process. He is my strength. My peace.

Changes....

Let's see, as of sunday, I had lost 10 pounds total since starting in January. I have had some serious rough patches. Through it all though, I have kept going. I keep pressing on. I am now using Shakeology by Beachbody. It's a nice pick me up. I have quit drinking coke totally. I am currently on day 3 of a clean eating challenge by Beach body. In two days I lost 1 whole pound, so now I am down 11 pounds. I am so excited and can't wait to see where I go from here.