My Journey Continues

I am so excited to update you guys on my progress on this journey. Like I stated in my first blog this journey is not just about my physical health but my mental health as well. I think that since I started, I have been more social. I have been going out with friends and getting out the house. I haven’t let those little things upset me and I’ve honestly just been happy. With that being said,  I’m pretty sure that some of this happiness has to do with my health. The last time I weighed in which was about two weeks after I started my journey, I had lost five points. I took this an inspiration to kick it up. So let me tell you what I have been doing.

1.       CALORIES- I have been watching my calories and I am on a 1700 calorie diet (recommended by my fitness tracker). I have let go of those empty liquid calories and increased my water. Fast food has been limited. I use to eat fast food everyday on my lunch break and sometimes I would eat it again for supper. This was a no –go and I’ve had more money for other stuff too.  However, there have been times were I have had no other choice than to go out for food during lunch hour but I leave the fries and substitute for a side salad. Oh Yeah! I’ve increased my vegetable intake. I have at least one serving of vegetables a day. At one point in my life.. most of my life I didn’t eat vegetables but may every 2weeks. Yeah It was bad people.  I must say this has my digestive track regulated.

2.       EXERCISING-  I have been doing Zumba 2-3 times a week in addition to some strength training for about 30-40 minutes 2 days a week. I want to do a little more with my exercise and plan to crank it up within the next week or so. I feel like I can. I feel like I’m ready!

3.       MEAL REPLACEMENT- Most recently I have been venturing out to try new things I can add to increase my weight loss goals. I discovered Special K protein shakes. I have a hard time working breakfast into my diet; however, I want that metabolism boost so that it can start working early on. Therefore, I tried the French Vanilla shake as a meal replacement. It worked well both Friday and Saturday. I believe that I will continue this but not every day because protein shakes are expensive. I have to tell myself that $7 for 4 meals is not bad when I would spend that on 1 meal in fast food.  The first flavor I tried was French Vanilla. It was nasty but I swear it wasn’t good as I feel it could have been. However, I learned from a co-worker that is better than all others. Next step is to try the Milk Chocolate flavor. I also plan to try the milk chocolate slim fast version as well.

4.       DETOX/CLEANSE- The reason that I am really excited today. A girl I met through a mutual friend told me about the ITWORKS GREENS. She had a special going on so I decided to try it. Let me start by saying this SHIT is nasty!!! However, I decided that I wasn’t going to write it off quite yet, especially since I committed to three months of this crap.  So I tell her it is horrible and I was about dead yesterday when I mixed my first packet in my V-8 Pomegranate juice (it’s nasty too).  So she told me she would ask her friend about the smoothie she uses. Well after giving me her recipe, I tweaked it a bit by changing the juice and made my own version. It is delicious. I think that this is something that I can do every day.  

      My Recipe: 8oz of Ocean Spray Berry Medley, handful of spinach (I doubted this), handful of mixed berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries), pineapple chunk, 1/3 of a banana, and of course the Berry flavor green mix.  It doesn’t look good but it is.

If you would like to try it out or check it out visit my page http://robdrekashaw.sharewraps.com I think I get a free wrap or something if you purchase something. Lol

I must say that I am satisfied.  Now, my birthday is next month on October 26. My goals I to lose 10 more lbs which makes a total of 15lbs by then. If I lose more that is fantastic too. Thank GOD there are no holidays in between. Well good people now that I have shared these things with you, let the journey continue.

With A Sincereheart