I
finished the Challenge on Sunday. No after picture cos you can't see
any big difference yet – although I lost another two inches over my
body, give or take half an inch. And that's okay. I can't give a
weight at the moment because still no one has replaced the batteries
in the scale. Because of reasons I probably oughtn't know how much I
weigh now anyway; it's another point of data I don't need to obsess
over (not to mention I just got off menstruation – hooray, hormone
replacement therapy; couldn't even be bothered to make my bust more
proportionate to my body while making life hell again – guess where
I lost part of those two inches?). If pressed, I will admit I'm a bit
discouraged that I don't have the results I wanted to see, but
as I just said: that's okay. Cos those results I wanted to see, how I
looked last winter? People thought I looked unhealthy. I don't
want that. I want people to see glowing and strong and together, not
a beanpole barely hanging on and overly restricting herself to
maintain it.
I'm continuing on
the MNS C for now, and I have Spark, and now Carb-Ease Plus for those
(increasingly uncommon!) "I just want some ice cream and by
golly I'm gonna eat ice cream" (or "Dangit my parents made
pasta again" or "I think I'll bake cookies today...")
moments. I forgot to reorder Catalyst, but I figure I eat enough
protein that I'll be okay until I have money to reorder...
I
perceive my skin to look a lot better, and this may be a bit of a
placebo effect but I think there's a difference in my hair, too. I
think it's still falling out more easily than I'd like, though I
haven't been consciously tracking it for several days; however, it
does not seem so prone to oiliness – I've been able to go every
other day without shampooing/conditioning. I still rinse it out when
I take my shower on the nights I don't shampoo/condition it, but it
doesn't look the next day like I only
used water. Since there's a growing body of evidence that
too-frequent washing is really bad for your hair and scalp (can you
believe that women used to wash their hair only once a month?! And
they grew it way down to there, too!), and the delicacy of my hair
can't possibly mean that it's benefited by daily washing... (Not to
mention I've also grown out of the super-oilies of adolescence, which
makes a huge difference!) Well, don't quote me on anything, but if I
can get away with just water every other day or so, I don't mind
saving money on shampoo and conditioner!
I
feel a lot better, too.
That's what's really important here. Okay, I'm a bit gloomy today cos
I just got off a long weekend visiting Micah and Berit oop noorth and
the abrupt absence of friends in conjunction with dropping back into
regular home life is always a bit sadifying. BUT. I can definitely
say my focus is better. I'm generally happier. I had the peculiar
feeling early last week that I might actually be on the verge of
having a positive body-image... Madness, I tell you. Sheer madness.
On that note I feel much more in tune with my body's needs. One of
the oft-touted advice...es... for a healthy lifestyle is to ask your
body what it needs, listen to it, and act on that. I've judged myself
pretty good at doing that in the past. But if I screwed up and didn't
do what my body needed me to do (example: ate a humongous bowl of ice
cream rather than a little square of super-dark chocolate to deal
with a bit of stress), the consequences generally weren't severe
enough to deter me from making that mistake again. Now? Just try to
get me to attack that carton of ice cream by myself again. I won't. I
feel too awful in the following hours and especially the next day to
give such things more than a passing thought anymore.
Huzzah!
I credit the Cleanse for that. You can't know how the bad stuff's
affecting you if your system's too clogged up with previously
acquired bad stuff for the new bad stuff to get in, in the first
place!
I'll be updating my sparse population of readers on my AdvoJourney as
I keep using the products. Don't expect anything significant for a
while. Once I have some money in my pocket again, I'm gonna delve
into the Performance Elite line – see if I can't finally get in on
that muscle-building I've been wanted to do since March! Also, I
really want to try BioTools, see if that can't help with my neck and
shoulders when school's back in and I'm leaning over my desk all the
time...
Wish me luck!
Right back at ya!
~Sarah
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Other things:
I became an AdvoCare Distributor a couple weeks ago. I have my
microsite set up and everything, if you'd like to order from there
and rock your life. Please check it out! http://www.breakin2life.com/
As
I said in a previous post: If nothing else, get Spark. You won't be
disappointed. I like Pink Lemonade and Fruit Punch – I have not
tried Citrus yet, but I imagine it's good if it's like the
citrus-flavored Fiber Drink. Orange Mandarin has a slight bitter
aftertaste cold/room-temp, but it's excellent hot. According to
others, it tastes a bit like Tang – I've never had Tang, so I can't
confirm this. I'm not a fan of the Grape or Cherry flavors mostly
because while Grape actually tastes okay, it smells too much like
nasty-tasting chewable tablets I took for cold/flu when I was a
child; everyone associates cherry flavoring with icky children's
medicine anyway. I don't actually remember what Cherry tastes like,
but it's not bad...
I went down to Portland, Oregon, last night to meet the uber-leaders
of my AdvoCare team of which I am now a member yaaaayyy. Looooooots
of people... Basically a humongous mixer.
I'm registered for the AdvoCare Success School in February. I'll end
up missing at least one day of classes (boooo) but I've been assured
it is so, so worth it. Stoked!
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