What A Day

Well I'm writing this the morning of day 2. I'm not quite sure where to begin since yesterday was quite a day for me. First off I should say that I stepped on the scale first thing this morning and was I surprised! Yesterday morning I weighed in at 256 lbs and this morning I weighed in at 248 lbs. I was so surprised by that that I weighed myself 4 times. I never expected in my wildest dreams to have lost 8 lbs in the first day but, there was a price to pay.

I didn't have any problems getting filled up as those smoothies took care of all of my hunger but, I did have a headache from the afternoon through last night and I felt fatigued, stiff and sore. I also would recommend to anyone beginning a cleanse like this to begin on a Saturday or even better a 3 day weekend. Don't start this on a Monday if you will be at work. To begin with I had to pee at least every 15 -30 minutes and I had to use the toilet 6 times throughout the day. This is why I'm saying don't start this at work. I also woke up about once an hour throughout the night having to pee. The worst part of the day for me was laying in bed and needing to chew something. I had a lot of problems with not having chewed solid food. Not because I was hungry but, I think because I have never done anything like this before my body wasn't used to it and somewhere in my head I have always expected to be chewing the food.

I'm also finding it a little tough not drinking coffee in the morning or having any alcohol in the evening. I've been drinking coffee first thing in the morning since I was in high school. It's been over 25 years of coffee drinking so I'm noticing that I miss that a lot. I have been using alcohol for the last 3 years as a way to reduce my pain in the evenings so that I can sleep and I found it tough last night.

Now having said all of that I can honestly say that I was truly surprised to wake up this morning and not feel as bad as I did yesterday and find that I had lost 8 lbs in 24 hours. Now I'll have to see how day 2 goes. Time for me to go make another smoothie. I'll post again tomorrow with today's results.