I can't believe
I've already been on AdvoCare for nearly a week.
I'm feeling pretty
good, all things considered.
I randomly woke up
with a sore throat on Monday, which was distressing – I can't get
sick when my temp job has me talking all day!
But
it hasn't gone any further than that. Which is great. I don't know if
that means I jumped on it quickly enough (I brought green tea into
work with me, and I made a stop at Super Supplements after work for
Sambucus and lozenges), or if it was a reaction to pollen that may
well have been released this past, gorgeous
weekend, or a reaction to toxins being moved around in my system due
to Herbal Cleanse. I dunno.
I'm
inclined to think purging my body of toxins is the reason I'm
suddenly breaking out the worst I have in months, though. I'm even
getting acne on the back of my neck and shoulders, which I haven't in
ages.
Before that, though, I thought my complexion looked fantastic.
My shoulder (along with my neck but that's nothing new) is acting up
all of a sudden. Back in January, I don't know what I did cos I
haven't actually gotten it looked at, but I somehow misaligned a
muscle/nerve or something using the rowing machine at the gym, and
now I don't have the mobility in my right shoulder that I do in my
left. At it's best it's like I need to pop it (yes; pop a muscle;
exactly), but no matter how many times I do, it doesn't get it. At
it's worst, it's like it is now. Kinda feels like I got a shot.
However, I think this is more to do with bad posture at the desk job
and less to do with shifting toxins around. You never know, though...
AdvoCare does some pretty wacky amazing stuff with your body.
On
the other hand, and I say this tentatively cos I don't know if it's
just a coincidence; but the past two days I've noticed a lot less
hair in my brush in the morning. Ordinarily my hair falls out like
the dickens. As in,
I've been quite certain that I'll be practically bald by the time I'm
thirty. But as I said, I haven't noticed as much hair falling out. So
I'll hang onto this for a while longer and see if changes at all, but
this would be incredible like you have no idea.
Also amazing, is that I can actually be awake for my temp job, which
I get up at 5:30am to get ready for (we start at 8am because we're
calling people on the East Coast, and they're already heading out to
lunch by the time we start). There is no logical reason to be so
chipper at stupid o'clock in the morning; it can only be Spark. Along
with moving out those sick-and-tired toxins, perhaps.
No inch-loss of note, yet. I initially thought I might retake all my
measurements every seven days or so, but this isn't the 21 or 28 Day
Challenge. So I'm thinking I'll wait until the cleanse is over (four
more days!) and then I'll measure; I'll measure again after the
14-day Max phase. I can't promise that I'll have weight measurements
right away, though, seeing as the batteries in our bathroom scale
have been dead for about a year now, and no one seems enthused to
replace them since we got as part of tracking Dad's recovery from his
heart attack nearly two years ago and now he's pretty well on his way
back to fighting shape (thank God!).
On that note, I do imagine that I might have seen some inch loss by
now had I been working out regularly all this time. My excuse has
been coming home tired from work (yes, even with Spark; talking to
people all day after getting up at 5:30am is exhausting; and given
that Spark has 120mg of caffeine per serving, I'm not inclined to
have a third dose of it after getting home from work around 5pm when
bedtime is strictly 10pm), and having stuff to get done on this past
weekend cos I don't feel like doing them after I get home on work
days. Since work finishes this Friday, and so far I don't have any
other temp jobs lined up, I'll definitely be working out during the
Max phase – I may even start working out this weekend, during which
I'll still be on the cleanse, but hey – last chance to move those
toxins out, and exercise (especially when you sweat) is great for
that!
But
the most amazing, important part of this so far for me is: I
have control over my cravings.
I
do tend to eat a little more than I think I should at dinner, but
this week it's mostly been because I haven't been packing myself
high-calorie lunches (lots
of veggies in the house lately, which is good for the Cleanse part of
the Challenge!), which I do intentionally, because
I expect myself to eat more at dinner. But the beautiful thing here
is that, while I'm tucking into a second sizable helping of a side
dishe, I can say "I'm gonna be done after this." And
then I'll actually stop. And
this has happened more than once.
As in, every time since like Day 2.
It's brilliant. I'm completely sold on AdvoCare just for this. And I
haven't even gotten to the MNS-C yet!!!
Why
didn't I have AdvoCare last summer?
Sarah
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