Day 7 - Some cold symptoms, but woke up better
Day 7 started with a cold symptoms last night. My throat was dry and my nose was plugged a little. I felt weak and tired and couldn’t sleep well through the night. Finally when I woke it has seemed to have broken. Lets hope so.
Last night I was feeling a longing for food. I miss eating and I look forward to eating again. It’s funny the psychology of this process. You have those thoughts of quitting - quite often actually. But you know you can do it, your move on to something else to disctract your mind and you play mental gymnastics to calculate how much longer you have to go, how good you feel now and how good you will feel after the lemonade diet. You learn your strength to deny those cravings that are just means to make yourself feel better like a beer, some chocolate or any other need. It makes you feel powerful, but at the same time sometimes you feel week because you want to quit. It reminds me of traing for hockey. So many times running, or lifting weights, you want to quit, but you push through, and soon that desire has passed and you get in a groove. And the feeling afterwords is so uplifting.
I am sitting here waiting for the flush to kick in while I write this. I can feel it rumbbling below.
Photos - Front, Back, Side Relaxed, Side Flexed and Gut Pinch
Height in Inches
72.5 - Of course this is never going to change, but it comes into play in calculating my Body Mass Index and calculating Body Fat Index as well.
Weight
196 - Down 1.6 pounds from yesterday.
Body Fat Index
23.4 - Down from yesterday, but doesn’t explain that reading a few days ago in the 17’s.
Body Mass Index
26.2 - Only small improvement.
PH Balance
6.6 - Nicely settled on the alkaline side of the Balance (Check that, It seems that 7.1 - 7.4 is a healthy state). I need to check this again after I flush and brush my teeth and tongue. The scale goes from 0 - 14, and 7 is balanced.
Heart Rate
66 - Good resting heart rate.
Systolic Blood Pressure
123 - I was expecting higher because of my cold symptoms. This is more like it. A nice reading.
Diastolic Blood Pressure
72 - A nice improvement here too.
Temperature
Average - Need a better reading. My blood pressure machine takes a simple reading.
Waist in Inches
35.4 - the same.
Belly in Inches
37 - Down a half inch. Doesn’t seem like much but you can really feel the difference.
Chest in Inches
41.7 - same.
Biceps in Inches
14.2 - Slightly lower.
Leg/Quad in Inches
23.2 - basically the same.
Gut Pinch in Inches
3.9 - Improving a litle every day.
December 25th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
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November 14th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Hi,
I know you guys aren’t “experts” but I’m on day five, 3rd cleanse, and I have a terrible cold since yesterday! I don’t know what to do. My feeling is that food wouldn’t really help, and what better to drink than tons of vitamin C, but I feel like shit and want chicken soup. Any advice? The book says nothing about this.
Thanks,
Joan
October 26th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
We’re almost there! Honestly, I didn’t think we’d make it this far. For us, the WORST is tv commercials, especially the ones showing big juicy hamburgers. Your mind does play tricks trying to convince you of ways to cut the fast short. My husband Michael and I have both had dreams about “cheating.” One involved a burrito consumed whole, another, a box of chocolates! We are experiencing almost the identical reactions/effects you are, minus the flu-like symptoms. (A friend who did the cleanse two weeks before us reported feeling “hungover” the first two days.) We eat generally pretty healthy & organic and have eliminated most harmful products from our home, so maybe we’re cleaner inside than we thought. He did have a bad headache the first two days, but chalked that up to quitting coffee cold turkey, whereas I tapered off. I, oddly, have had a strange, intense anxiety the past two days, not so bad today. I did read on some other site somewhere that this can be a side-effect, possibly due to the body’s reaction to thinking it’s starving. Who knows. We have been doing some short runs every other day. Our small town of Bisbee, AZ town has lots of fun stairs to run, so we tackle those slowly. There’s definitely more energy overall, but a noticeable lack of intensity & strength. We are sleeping better and waking up more alert and refreshed. Most of our hunger is in the evenings about 5-9pm. Michael has experienced about the same weight-loss you have. He’s at around 185 right now. I have only lost 6 lbs (!) BUT, (and here’s for you women out there) I am also about to start my period in a few days and am retaining fluid just like always. I expect to shed another 5 lbs immediately after it starts. I haven’t noticed any weakness per se, but we’ll see in a few days… I feel as if I have lost more than just the 5 lbs though and my pants are fitting looser for sure.
Keep up the good work! Thank you again for the great site. -Tamara & Michael