Or, lack of an update, actually.

I've been battling a chronic sinus infection for the past several months.  I am going to have surgery for it soon, and hopefully that will fix me up.  Unfortunately, it decided to stage a come back on Wednesday.  Which means I am battling horrible headaches, a sore throat, and laryngitis.  With all this, I decided not to finish the cleanse.  I started feeling week and dizzy Wednesday afternoon and realized my body needed to carbs before I can get well.  I've basically been home and in bed since then. I need my voice to come back.  It's killing all my fun.

I'll give the cleanse another go sometime this summer.  Once I get passed my surgery and all is well there, I

Here we go!

1 pound down when I stepped on the scale this morning.  Yes, water weight, I know.  Still, I will take what I can get!  Not as hungry as I thought I might be when I woke up.  Feel like I can tackle day 2.

8:00:  First shake.  Greenberry, water, ice, a few frozen berries. 
9:30:  Green tea.  Was feeling snacky, but the tea is fixing me just fine.
10:30:  Time for 1/2 greenberry.  Added a little Crystal Light to it, which may be cheating a little.  Easier to drink though, because I just have my shaker cup at work - not the same as the blender.
11:20:  Getting hungry.  Ready for lunch
12:00:  Lunch was nice.  Brought more salad with me than yesterday, because I don't think I had enough.  I also may have had more than 4oz of chicken.  My food scale is broken, so I just eyeballed it.  Did have my banana with lunch today.
2:00:  Green tea. 
3:30:  1/2 chocolate w/ some raspberry Crystal Light.  I don't think I like the Crystal light in the chocolate as much as I did in the greenberry.  Feeling a little tired and low energy this afternoon.  
4:30: Granny smith apple.  Yummy
6:30:  Last shake of the day.  Also had a 100 cal pack of almonds. Felt like I needed something extra, and they really helped.

That should be a wrap for day 2!  Check back tomorrow to see if the scale changes for me.

More on the plan can be found here

I've been thinking about trying the Shakeology cleanse for a while, and decided now was the time.  I've been craving TONS of junk food lately, and it's time to get over them an back to healthy eating.  If I happen to lose the 5-8 pounds most people lose, that would be okay, too.  :)  I'm actually excited about all this, so I know the time is right.

I'm having the salad and chicken for lunch instead of dinner.  A group of us at work bring our lunches and eat together.  I thought it would be easier to eat with them and have my 3rd shake for dinner.   Will be drinking  a ton of water, which is pretty easy for me.

I'll be posting regular updates here if you want to follow along with me. 

Yesterday, prep day: 
Trip to the store for green tea, salad, and fruit.  Cooked some chicken in the crock pot.  Divided my Shakeology into snack baggies - a scoop per bag - so I can take them to work. 

Today
8am: Blended 1 scoop greenberry w/ 1/2 cup frozen berries, 1 c water, and some ice.  Yum! 
9am: Green tea. I found some with mandarin orange bits in the tea bag, so it was pretty tasty, too.
10:30: I mixed 1/2 scoop of greenberry with some water in my shaker cup.  I plan on having another 1/2 scoop sometime this afternoon so I can spread them out a little more.  Feeling good.  A little munchy, but that's more of a habit I have than actual hunger.
Noon: Had my chicken and salad.  Pretty tasty.  Eating did make me want to eat more, so I also had a banana.
1:30:  green tea
2:30: 1/2 scoop chocolate w/ the shaker cup.  I miss my blender.
4:00:  mmmm  Yummy apple
8:00:  Last shake.

Good day overall.  Got a little hungry a few times, but got past it.  I don't think I took enough veggies for my salad, so I'll be taking more tomorrow.

Day one is in the books!

I've had a serious case of the grumps lately.  I start to focus on the negative and it just takes over.  I hate when that happens. 

Tonight, I planned to come home and stew in my crabby.  Do you ever do that?  Just sit and let things fester?  Ugh.  Never a good plan.  I was going to watch tv and skip any workout.  Grr.  Blah.  Then I remembered I had two more sections of Turbo Kick to learn before my class tomorrow, so there went my plans of tv and moodiness.

Started by just watching the dvd version of the workout, in bed, under the covers.  Then I started just marking the moves to the music.  Next, I got up, got dressed, and hit the workout full-on.  The music took control.  :)  Went through the entire round a couple of times, spent some extra minutes on the parts I learned tonight. 

Now I'm sitting here in a silly mood, excited to teach my class tomorrow.  Turbo people are wonderful people, and we are going to have a great time.

Some pineapple and some Turbo Kick.  What a powerful mood boosting combo! 

Don't be fancy, just get dancey!  Why so serious?

I decided to create a full website instead of just a blog.  I moved all my previous posts to this site and will be updating everything here. 

Hope you like it!