Day 7 – Some Cold Symptoms, But Woke Up Better

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Day 7 – Some Cold Symptoms, But Woke Up Better

Posted on 26. Oct, 2008 by Mike in Fall 2008

Day 7 started with a few cold symptoms during the night. My throat felt dry, and my nose was plugged a little. I felt weak and tired, and didn’t sleep particularly well. But when I woke, it seemed to have broken. Lets hope so.

Last night, I was feeling a longing for food. I miss it a lot and look forward to eating again. The psychology of this process is strange. Thoughts of quitting reoccur. But another part of you knows you can do it, and you move on to something else to distract your mind. You use 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 develop the strength to deny those cravings (a beer, some chocolate, something else) that are just means to make yourself feel better in the short term. It makes you feel powerful, yet at the same time, you may feel weak because you want to quit. It reminds me of training for hockey. All that running and lifting weights, the pain and repetition urging you to quit, yet you push through, realizing the desire has passed and you’ve settled in a groove. The feeling afterwards is exhilarating.

I am sitting here waiting for the flush to kick in while I write this. I can feel it rumbling 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 in the 17s, a few days ago.

Body Mass Index

26.2 – Only a 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.

3 Responses to “Day 7 – Some Cold Symptoms, But Woke Up Better”

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25. Dec, 2008

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joan

14. Nov, 2008

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

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Tamara

26. Oct, 2008

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

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