Right, progress report on the EODD 7-Day Detox? You want to know how I’m doing? I’ll tell you how. Great that’s how

Weight on the scales this morning, down further. OK, in 2 days, dropping from 172 to 167.2 is pretty huge. I felt fine, but went for my calipers all the same. And guess what? That drop was due to fat being shed from my body!

Fabulous. That’s exactly what I needed to know before setting out on day 3, because I must admit that I’m beginning to feel like a rabbit here! No protein? And no carbs either, but that’s easier to handle actually.

What am I saying here? That vegetarians are rabbits? Nope, they get protein from grains and legumes, thus their protein needs are met and they have no protein cravings. OK? This detox is simply depriving me of protein for 3 days and that’s fine, but I’m glad it’s over tomorrow I can already see the sliced egg on top of that salad tomorrow lunch …

Still, I must tell you that this is worth it. Eating this squeeky clean for 3 days is deffinitely not the easiest thing there is, but who said life was easy? Hey come on guys, if you keep doing the same thing over and over, you’ll just keep getting the same results over and over, right?

Step out of your comfort zones. Step up to the challenge. Grab the opportunity of life! Take charge of your now and later. Never mind yesterday, that’s gone, you can’t change it anyway so why even dwell on it? You made a mistake? You ate something not-so-good for you? OK, so repair the damage now and forget about it! Hit the gym, eat clean, appologize to yourself for being dumb yesterday and promise it won’t happen again – outside of the planned off-meal time that is – and move forward.

Maybe a week-long detox is for you? Have a look in the margin of my blog here, pick out Every Other Day Diet. Read it. Not just the detox part, that’s towards the end of the book anyway. Read the book. All of it. There’s the diet part of course, but there’s so much more in there. The mind aspect of any successful program. Ignore that, and you won’t get the best results you can.

But hey, if you’re not ready, if you don’t know what you want and why you want it, there’s no need to look for a road map, cause you don’t know where that map’s supposed to guide you to!

You first need to determine what you want. Then figure out why you want it. Then you can look for how to get there!

Me? I want a lean, muscular body with 14-15% bodyfat on it only. If that’s at 150 lbs, 155 lbs or whatever, I really don’t care. Because it won’t show. Only size shows, and size is most visible in the shape of bodyfat.

Why do I want it? Because I want to live fit and healthy for as long as I possibley can. I have finally found my soulmate, and I intend to spend a big number of years with him. Reason nr 2 is that I want to be an inspiration to all of you out there who struggle with your “weight” (yes, quotation marks, because the struggle is with excess bodyfat, not total weight). and reason nr 3 of course is that I need to be credible to my clients. Makes sense right?

Why would you come to me for help and guidance; Why would you hire me as your trainer; Why listen to me and trust me; if I don’t look like I know what I’m talking about? Well, I do. I used to weight 205 lbs. I had 43% bodyfat. So yes, I do know how you feel, I do now how intimidating a gym door can look. I know how hard it is to give up certain foods or treats that you’re now persuaded you need.

I am now at 167 lbs, not a huge drop from 205? Maybe not, but consider 43% fat to 20,4% fat, now that’s a more impressive number. And it’s the number that shows outwardly when people look at me. They see several sizes less of the same person. Heck, I’ve had a good friend literally bump into me and excuse herself as if to a stranger, she did not recognize me! That was a huge compliment!

Of course I still have my weak moments. Hey, trainers are only human too you know! When there’s a big cream puff sitting on the table … how do I resist it!? Well, depending on the day of the week, I may not have to Mid-week, I’m screwed, no treats. But on a weekend? Sure I can have that cream puff if I want it!

But you know what? Me, the sweet-toothed cake- and chocolate eater, I’d rather skip that cream puff, or the chocolate mousse, or the After Eights; and have a really juicy breakfast of turkey bacon, veal breakfast saussage (1 of each) 2 whole eggs sunny side up, a slice of whole wheat toast, baked beans and a grilled tomato for one weekend breakfast, than the sweets. Can you believe that? Well, it’s true.

But you have to want it. You have to know that you want this leaner body, why you want it, then look for the how. And when you find that out, just give me click and I’ll give you a hand.

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Dreary day. November rain is grey and sad. No squirrels playing on the tree trunks, no birds flying around chirping. Everything is just grey and quiet. On the positive side, no wind and no snow, so I’m not really complaining, just stating a fact. Besides, do I have to look out the window? Technically, no.

Weight still dropping, although of course less rapidly then the first day. Normal, it had to flatten out, I knew that. Still, 6 pounds in 3 days? And 4 days to go. Of course, the fat weight drop will be less each day from here on out, but that’s fine.

I’m keeping an eye on the calipers, it’s all good droppings. Dwindeling fatty reserves. It feels great. The norm these days would have me say it’s “awesome” but since that really means “huge and scary” I’m not using it, because it doesn’t frighten me one bit.

You know, it beats me how some say you can be afraid of succeeding at reaching your dream body? I’ve thought that over time and time again when I’ve come across this statement. And frankly, I can’t fathom it. How could I be scared of finding myself in my dream body? Back to where I was in my 20s and even better, how is that scary?

I suppose, maybe, for someone who has gained weight as a self-defense protective wall or something, the fact of not having the fat to hide inside could be scary? What will they have to hide behind when the fat’s gone? If they think that way, are they truly ready to start the fitness journey? Mentally that is. I don’t know. Honestly, this is one point in all fitness books I have big problems wrapping my head around.

Personally I am more than happy, extatic even, to shed the excess bodyfat. And the EODD 7-Day Detox has brought me a tighter feeling all over my body. More detox for 4 more days, more weight training, and on to EODD plan proper starting next week … the tougher plan for a month, then probably the lifestyle plan over the Holidays, but back to the “tough” in January. It’s not really tough, I’ve been sticking to just one treat/week for 2 years, and I remember when I was growing up my brother and I got one candy bar and one bottle of soda on Saturday night after a healthy, home made meal; and we all had one home-made desert after Sunday lunch. The few families where cookies and candy were more freely available were where the overweight kids lived. Wonder if there was a relation between the two …

Yeah, that’s the question experts are asking these days, but to me it’s pretty straight forward and common sense. Stop eating all that sweet stuff all day and all week. Cut out all the junk food and fast food. (If it even qualifies as food). Then watch the “fat genes” disappear miraculously.

(OK, I’m off on my favourite rant again, sorry – not really)

Does this mean I don’t want you to enjoy a burger or a pizza? Of course not, but does it have to be the fast-food-joints’ unhealthy variety? Buy extra lean ground beef or chicken or turkey, mix in an egg to bind the meat better, add a little 0% fat milk (skim that is), salt and pepper to taste, chopped onions if you like that (finely chopped, or the burgers will fall apart); form into burger patties and grill. Serve that with salad and … your choice, whole wheat bread, pasta, unpolished rice, baked potato or yam. You still get your burger, and it’s so much juicier and tastier than the “joint-burgers”!

Same goes for the pizza, just make some whole wheat dough (same basic recipe as for bread, there’s no need for a “special pizza dough recipe”), pile it high with tomato paste (not ketcup which has sugar in it), vegetables like peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, olives, zucchini, whatever you want; ground lean meat; and 0% fat cheese.  What I enjoyed in France, was the pizza places where they also put an egg in the center of the pizza and cooked it with the pizza in the oven. Extra proten just make sure you make an indentation so that the egg stays in place until it’s cooked.

So you see, you can have the good foods, the tastes you like and frankly even better tasting than at the take-out place.

I’m sticking to this Detox for the next 4 days of course, I’ve come this far and I feel great, so no need to quit! Besides, quitting is not an option. I start it, I finish it; unless it’s something totally unhealthy and/or dangerous. And since today I am allowed a protein … I find that the first thing I really want in that category, is an egg; not meat. So , egg it is

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Fat release slowing after day 4. Makes sense, it’s impossible to keep dropping that much fat forever. OK, unless you’re in a concentration camp, but look at the result there, even Paris Hilton looks obese in comparison. Unhealthy diet for sure. (And a hideous crime to boot!) May the world never forget.

Still, I did drop a little more, which is always positive, right? Well, unless you are bulking, aiming for more muscle and working towards that goal. Right now, I’m more focused on incinerating excess bodyfat. You should really only chase one rabbit at a time, or you’ll end up catching neither (unless they’re conjoined of course, highly unlikely!)
My “rabbit” right now threfore, is fatburn. The EODD 7-Day Detox Plan has given that rabbit a great leap to start out.  If you wonder where I got that plan from, just click here everyotherdaydiet.com/about.php and grab a copy of Jon Benson’s Every Other Day Diet. This is the best nutrition plan I have ever read (and believe you me, I’ve read more of those than I can remember the names of!). The Detox plan is actually not at the beginning of the book, but towards the middle someplace. Yes, you have to read the whole thing

Well, not quite, if you click on the bookmarks, you will find it. You can actually start the Detox Plan and read the rest of the book during that week, but I would start with the start regarless. Diet and exercise isn’t what makes a fat reduction plan work. Not alone. You do need to add a third and very important factor: your mind.

Seriously. Don’t blow this off as hogwash or a bunch of sissy blah-blah! I know it sounds like it. I know you’ll probably feel silly, corny, stupid even, doing the mind exercises, but for the success of your transformation: do them!

Jon’s Every Other Day Diet everyotherdaydiet.com/about.php 7-Day Detox Plan has made me shed, release, discard … 6,4 lbs of mostly fat in 4 days. No, that does not mean that I will do a second consecutive week of it to drop another 6 lbs!  Nr 1 I wouldn’t because there’s not enough fat left for a drop that great. My body will desperately now, fight to hold on to some fat, because genetically my survival depends on fat stores (ask “Lucy” you know, the ancestor found in Kenya? Millions of years old  or whatever …). And Nr 2, a fat reduction of more than 2 lbs/week average is not healthy.

One week of extreme low calories due to a detox plan, is ok. But no more! I know my body is screaming for nutrients right now. You wouldn’t believe how delicious those two eggs were with my salad yesterday

Still, my jeans fit again, no more “bicycle tire” hanging over the edge.  They’re even lose enough for me to tighten the belt a couple of holes from Sunday night!

But, a 7-day detox plan also includes the weekend. In other words, no treat meal until next weekend. No wine, no desert, no dollop of cream on the baked potato. Salad, lean protein, some complex carbs but of the whole grain type, and water. Lots of water.  No problem, I can do that the only hard thing, is going to be resisting deserts … but I’ll keep my favourite quote in mind:

Nothing tastes as good as being lean feels  (Jack LaLanne)

Because that is just SO true! Enjoying something unhealthy one night just hits you the next day and stays with you for a while. Sluggish feeling, mad at yourself, cotton-mouth when you wake up and for a few hours after, upset stomach … no thank you. That’s not even talking about the added fat deposits!

Have a look at everyotherdaydiet.com/about.php  over the weekend and have a good one!

7-Day Detox plan and weekend away, does that work?

Considering that I dropped a further 2+ lbs since Friday I would have to answer “Yes!” I suppose.

All it takes is focus, and a little preparation, that’s all. I told eveyone going in that this weekend I would not have any desert, no wine, nothing much “fun”  (in the sadly traditional sense of the word fun-an-food), and that was fine with everyone, and respected. No pressure at all to have anything I didn’t want.

I had prepared a bag of raisins and mandarins before we left, and I had those before each meal, making sure the meal itself didn’t contain things that weren’t on the allowed list, nor that the portions grew out of control because the food was delicious!

Exercise wise, yesterday I made 5 trips up and down the stairs with  a box full of logs for the fireplace, and I didn’t go at a slow pace either because I  purposfully made it a workoout. Later we went for a walk, and with the cccc..old wind, the fatburn had to be accelerated! In my logic anyway. I mean, if you’re cold, your body will have to burn something to keep your organs warm, what better than the excess fat? You also shiver as a result of the cold, another way to make you move to keep warm. I recently read a short paragraph on the extra fatburn you get from walking barefoot on a cold floor even!

Total drop in bodyweight overall in 6 days is 8,6 lbs. Mostly fat. Check out the Every Other Day Diet at everyotherdaydiet.com/about.php  for your copy, the Detox Plan is in there!

To find out more information on EODD – Every Other Day Diet please click-Here!

Now I have started on the Lifestyle Plan from the EODD e-book. I had originally thought of following the Extreme Plan, getting as tough as possible with myself so that I would burn as much fat as possible before Christmas, but then there’s life.

You see, the Lifestyle Plan works over 7 days. A week. The Extreme plan works over 2×4 days, which is 8. Not a week. Meaning that the treat days, the off days, the feed days, whatever you want to call them, will not necessarily fall on a day that you traditionally get together with friends and family!

Therefore, I am opting for the Lifestyle Plan, at least for now. I’ll see, maybe – quite possibly in fact – I will switch to the Extreme Plan as spring approaches. It will depend on … bodyfat percentage !

Lifestyle Plan. It’s easy. Simple as anything to follow. I printed out the page with the meal-plans and hung it on the fridge. That way I see right away if it’s a Burn Day or a Feed Day, and what/ how much of what to eat at any given meal. Not the ingredients mind you, just the food group!

Like for example one meal will say “protein + vegetables”  another may say “protein + starches, vegetables optional” or it has all three. It depends on the time of day, but I don’t have to remember, wonder, think, err … it’s all planned out and all I need to do, is follow the main plan.

And, this morning Lewis left for work with three containers of fresh fruit salads, one of vegetable salad and dressing, and two bottles of water with the juice of a pressed lemon in each. We shall see what the Detox does to the male bodyfat, now that we’ve seen the result on the female fat last week.

My progression has, however, come to a grinding halt. Not because of a flaw in the EODD Plan, not because I’m being “bad”, simply because I am a female and nature is interfering! Yeah, period time! Ain’t that just peachy! Damn, the guys just keep on the same downward trend, we aleays get a flattening out once a month. It’s just not fair!

The thing to do though, is ignore the scales for a few days, not get hung up in the numbers, and know that keeping up the Plan will get me where I want to be once this is over. I will not be stopped!

So there

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