I will keep it short and sweet today. I’ve lost 9.8 pounds and I have a before and after picture. Look what changing your diet and some exercising can do for you in just 30 days:
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Cliff Day Almost Finished: The hardest part of cooking right…
is cleaning all your stuffff. If we did not have a dishwasher, this whole detox would have gone a much different direction. I’d like to apologize for going MIA for a little bit there, life got busy. We are still doing the detox (albeit with a slip up or two, ie super bowl) and it is still going great. Dena has finished up her 30 days and she will be continuing it into the foreseeable future. I will be done on February 6 and I will be continuing for the most part. Any meals out will be anything goes and all meals at home/lunch will be sticking to the diet. Alcohol will be consumed responsibly.
So, I know youre dying to know how much weight we’ve lost, how great we now look, and all about the great things we’ve been cooking. Ill let Dena dive further into her stats when she posts, but for me now I am around 138, down over 8 pounds! I’m considering this as low as I want to go and will be increasing calories to above 2000 each day (at least trying to). Before/after pictures will be posted. I can definitely see my face looking less inflamed and the abs are back. Dena most certainly did not catch me checking myself out in the mirror.. As expected, I have been struggling most with the going to bed on time, as many nights I have to stay up past midnight to do work. I feel so old wanting to go to bed before 11.
As for the gym, my elbow has healed, just got the all clear from the doctor, and I am ramping up my weightlifting. Unfortunately, I have started getting awful shin splints, and I will be starting physical therapy on those. As for the morning shake, it is time to start adding amino acids, and maybe a touch of creatine. I have decided that it is a must to go in the morning to the gym. In fact I decided this last week when I started a blog post but never posted.
“I also need to get my ass in gear in the AM and hit the gym then. This after work at 7 is not cutting it. Just like I couldn’t do the shake in the morning without protein, I just can’t seem to get a groove going to the gym at night. Cannot emphasize this enough, remember it all about adjustment and what works for you.”Going at 7 or 8 at night is just not sustainable. Your energy is completely gone from working all day, you are either hungry or full depending on if you ate dinner, and the euphoric feelings you get from working out in the morning are glorious. My most productive days at work are after I work out.
All pictures of the food we have been eating can be found on our instagram, and we will be posting recipes later this week, Get ready to be hungry my friends.
Dena-Day 11-Time to Move!
I am not going to say that binge watching 7 seasons of Dr. Who this past Fall caused my weight gain, but there was sure indeed a correlation! While Cliff was going to physical therapy for his Tendinitis, my workouts went from hour long intense gym classes with Cliff at a new gym we were trying out (Epic Hybrid Training) to sprinting several blocks to catch the morning subway as I saw it approaching the station. When Cliff’s elbow starting bothering him, I thought he only needed to rest up for a couple weeks and I saw this as a little break for my muscles! But that turned into three months of physical therapy. I know I could have gone to the gym by myself, but I was in a serious rut and I was secretly enjoying my evenings alone watching Netflix. I could not wait to get home from work, make or order dinner, lay my expanding buttox on the sofa and watch some eps!
Everyone goes to the gym for different reasons. For me, it’s not only for weight maintenance, but it really helps me with my moods. In addition, I have loose ligaments (perhaps from doing years of dance and gymnastics as a child?) and it is important for me to keep my muscles strong around my joints or else I suffer from subluxation-mainly in my shoulders (This condition is known as shoulder instability and may result in the upper arm bone (humerus) moving partially or completely out of the socket during certain arm movements). Since I stopped working out, I have experienced a multitude of issues with my shoulder. But for some reason, it was just sooo hard for me to get back into my routine.
As the new year approached, of course one of my goals was to get back to the gym. The idea of a packed gym filled with people beginning their New Years Resolutions was a bit daunting to me. On top of that, the first week of the detox left me pretty exhausted and I could not get up the motivation to get to the gym. After about a week though, I began sleeping better and my energy went way up (especially at night for some reason). This combined with the numbers decreasing on the scale has given me that extra boost of motivation to get back to the gym! I only did a quick work out today but I am on the right track to getting back in a routine
-Dena
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