Day 1-4

Sorry I'm writing this late, but I had some "technical difficulties" with the internet at home this week.

Days 1 and 2 are, in my opinion, the hardest of the 12 day Wild Rose D-Tox.  These are the days when I'm craving EVERYTHING I can't eat, especially the junk food: chips, chocolate, fast food.  These are also the days during which you feel exhausted, run down, like the first few days of a cold.

Day 1
Day 1 was ok, I had made sure that I removed all of the things I wasn't allowed to eat from my house; all the junk food anyway.  The one thing I forgot was the small bag of Lays BBQ chips I had in my desk at work.  After I struggled with that all day, I ended up crushing them all and throwing them out... Will power FTW!  When I got home from work I made supper, and had planned on doing the Cardio-X DVD from P90X, but I wasn't quite feeling up to it, so I went for a 2km run instead and finished up with pushups, wall sits, calf raises, and a bunch of different styles of crunches.

My starting weight is 216.5lbs, on my 6'1'' frame, and I took the dreaded before photo, so here it is:

Day 2
Day 2 is much the same as Day 1, just with less cravings.  I cooked some extra food so I'd have easy lunches for the rest of the week, but the highlight of today was definitely the chinoa-jumbalaya (recipe coming later) that I made for supper.  I wanted a workout today, but just couldn't... After supper I laid on the couch to let it settle for 30mins before a workout, then woke up 4hrs later.

Day 3 
I'm starting to feel more like myself again, not so run down, more energy.  Today, I decided cheating was ok... Not a big cheat, just a little one: balsamic vinegar.  I made a spinach salad and wanted some dressing, so I made a simple balsamic vinaigrette with about 2tsp of vinegar.  I'm ok with that.  I also weighed myself today, and I'm down about 4lbs since starting!  After supper I finally got around to that Cardio-X DVD I've been trying to do since day 1.

Day 4
My energy levels are back to normal, and I'm feeling the benefits of the detox already.  No more snooze button 5 times, when my alarm goes off I'm ready to get up.  I had another small cheat today: Sriracha hot sauce on some leftover chinoa-jumbalaya.  Today I did the same workout as I did on Day 1, 2km run and a bodyweight workout at home.

Overall, so far, I'm feeling pretty good about everything so far, but I'm just getting started.  I really love this detox as a starting point because you see results in the first few days, which just motivates you to keep going.  Lot's more to come, follow along!