Dr. Oz's Three Day Cleanse: Day 3

I was miserable yesterday being hungry and tired. So I used a sleep aid last night to make sure that today I would just be hungry. 

I weighed myself this morning and was down another 1.6 pounds from yesterday morning.  I have three pounds to go to reach my goal for this weight loss challenge.

Today was pretty challenging, being I am a teacher and it's Valentine's Day. This pile haunted me today, but I stayed strong.  I let my students know that even though I wasn't indulging today, I was saving it. 

Overall, today was better than yesterday.  I think there is a big mental part of this.  The first day was new and I was motivated.   Day 2 was hard,  I really questioned whether I would make it another day. Today, I was like "This is the last day, I've got this."  

I am glad I tried this.  I tested myself.  I stuck to it.  Yes, I know it was only three days, but it really was a challenge.  I don't have much in the way of willpower.  

Here is my advice to those thinking of doing this: 

1. Do it with a friend and share the cost of the vitamins, probiotic, omega-3, almond milk, and flax seed.  That shit is expensive and you aren't going to use nearly as much as you have to buy.  

2. Do it with a friend and keep in touch throughout.  I did this with my friend Erin.  It was helpful to message each other.

3. Take a blender to work for your lunch and snack smoothies.  I bought a small one called the dash.  It works great, but it was too small for the amount I was making, so I kept making half at a time and that was annoying.  I really needed a full size blender for work.

4. Stay close to a bathroom.  Not because you are going to poop a lot, at least I didn't experience that, but you will need to pee often, even if you are not drinking a lot of water. 

5.  Definitely take advantage of the salt bath.  I was irritable by about 4:00 or 5:00 every day, when I needed to fix the dinners I wouldn't be eating for my family and had to do all my house hold crap, but I was tired and hungry.  The baths were a great time to just chill.

Where do I go from here?  I think I need to work to be more aware of the junk I put in my body.  Maybe I will exercise too, but that may be a stretch for now. 

Dr. Oz's Three-Day Cleanse: Day 2

Day 2, not as awesome as Day 1!

Let's start with how I slept last night.    First of all I had a hard time falling asleep and then I woke up in the middle of the night, soaked in sweat.  I had to jump in the shower, rinse off, change, and go sleep on the couch.  I don't know that the cleanse was to blame. I think it may be more that I just got hooked on "How to Get Away with Murder" and was watching a little longer than I should have and the night sweats... I am almost forty years old and that shit just happens.  I woke up with a headache which at first I attributed to clenching my teeth, but the headache never really went away.  

I weighed myself before starting Day 1.  I am not going to share that. There was a time a few years ago that I would have, but now that number is just too high.  Anyways, I weighed myself this morning, the start of Day 2, and was three pounds less!!  

Yesterday, I didn't feel hungry at all. Today was a different story.  I had my breakfast shake and felt really hungry by 10:00 with almost 2 hours to go until lunch.  It was like this throughout the day.  After finishing a smoothie, I would be hungry again soon.  

I am tired of drinking.  I feel like all I do is drink all day.  It's sad, when the highlight of my day is taking my multi-vitamin, probiotic, and Omega-3, because I get to chew.  It was tough to swallow the dinner smoothie.  It tasted good, but I am already tired of all liquids.  

My teeth feel furry and flax seeds keep getting stuck in them. 

Again, I was expecting a little more movement in the bowels, but no such luck.  

So overall, I was tired, hungry, and grouchy with a headache and furry teeth.  I can do this to myself again for one more day.

Dr. Oz's Three-Day Cleanse: Day 1

Today wasn't too bad. I started it by drinking a cup of green tea.  I wasn't excited about this.  I don't really like tea at all, but I put a pack of Stevia (which is allowed) and a lemon slice in it, and it wasn't so bad.

When I started making my first smoothie, I wondered about adding ice. Usually when you make a smoothie, you add ice or frozen fruit to make it cold and thick. So I did a little research. Yep, I probably should have done some research before starting, but I didn't, so it is what it is.  In my research, I came across this website.  I don't love that they are making their smoothies in bikinis, but I did learn a few things, like that yes, I should add ice and that I shouldn't have peeled the cucumbers. oops.

The smoothies are HUGE.  Each one is about 32 oz.  They take me forever to drink.  Today, I started my lunch smoothie about noon and didn't finish it until about 1:30 PM.  By the time I was done, there really wasn't much time left until I needed to have the snack smoothie, which today I chose to have the lunch smoothie again.

The smoothies are delicious, but I think flax seeds are weird!!    I love all three, but I think the breakfast one is my favorite.

I was curious about how many calories I had today, so calculated it all and it was 1,330.  I didn't feel hungry at all today.  My husband said I was irritable.  I don't think that is because I was hungry.  I think it's because he was annoying.

I was expecting a major butt explosion, so far, nothing, no tummy rumblings. Honestly, I am disappointed by this, because some times that is the only time I get to myself.  I was looking forward to sitting on the throne, scrolling Facebook, or playing trivia without someone needing something.

I am heading to my favorite part of this diet...the bath in epsom salts and lavender oil.  I love baths!  I love salt baths!  I love lavender.  I love the peace and quiet.

My Last Ditch Effort...Dr. Oz's 3-Day Cleanse

There is one week left of the Meltdown Weight-loss Challenge that I am doing.  In this challenge, I had to earn certain points and lose 6% of my weight.  I am good on the points.  The weight...not so much.  Honestly, I have been eating everything in sight.  So in a last ditch effort to try to reach that 6% weight loss, I am resorting to a 3-day cleanse.  I have decided to do Dr. Oz's cleanse.  Mainly because my friend sent it to me, and I am too lazy to research anything else.

Today I spent a small fortune buying the materials.  I had some stuff on-hand like coconut oil, lavender oil, multi-vitamins and cayenne pepper. I also decided I needed a small blender to have at work.  So with the blender and fricken expensive probiotic and omega-3 supplements, I spent close to $100.  It really is cheaper to be fat. It is ridiculous how much fruits, veggies, and flax seeds cost.  Check out my haul.

So in an attempt to make my life a little easier during the week.  I prepped my lunch smoothies bagged them up to just take to work and blend there. When I look at it all in the bag, it really is a lot of food.  Also, I had to you tube how to cut a pineapple.  In an effort to save some money, I opted for the whole pineapple instead of a pre-cut one.  

I am actually pretty excited about this, except for drinking green tea.  I hate tea.  All tea.  I will suck it up though and probably drink it while plugging my nose.  I have already warned my co-workers about this cleanse and have made sure we have plenty of poo-pourri on-hand. 

I plan to blog about this experience the next three days, so be sure to follow to get the good the bad and ugly.  I am off to have one last bowl of ice cream.