After the cleanse, I got off track

I haven't had the chance to post to this blog after my cleanse. But I must say that after the cleanse was over, I got off track....... Off the track of eating and living poorly that is.

The cleanse has benefited me in so many ways....here are a few:

1. Eating less. Most nights I only eat soup and salad, and am happy with it. The energetic and light feeling that I get is well worth anything that I may miss out on by eating a "typical" dinner. The light feeling is that I don't feel full all of the time and bloated from constantly eating and not allowing my body to digest.

2. Sleeping better - I require less sleep and wake up more refreshed and with more energy.

3. More energy - I exercise more, because I know how good it is for my body and my body craves it. I can work 14 hours in a day and have the same energy from the moment I wake up, until I collapse in bed.

4. Less weight - Embarassing as it is, "Mr. I lost 35 Pounds" was up to 189 pounds at the start of my cleanse. Only 13 pounds from where my chubby self was two years ago! But today I was at 178, only 11.5 pounds more than my absolute lowest.

People, my cleanse started 18 days ago! There are dozens of weight loss programs that fleece people out of their money. It must be a billion dollar industry (and I am sure Trump wants a piece of it). Save your money and follow this concept, "Eat less, Enjoy more."

5. Not a slave - I am not a slave to coffee, beer, wine or sweets. I stay off of them for the majority of the week and consume each as a reward or when I want and don't feel guilty. When I see something good that I shouldn't have, I don't feel like i missed out, I feel proud that I don't need. Okay, maybe a power trip....I'll talk to my shrink about it.

6. Clear thinking - my mind is clear and more alert.

7. My clothing isn't as tight - Enough said. Amen to that!








8. Excited about the future - I'm not walking around being a slave to food or having low energy because i will have this uncontrollable fat feeling the rest of my life. I know that I can be somewhere near 170 pouds, my target someday soon and can stay there.

Hope this helps you. Good luck.

If evenings didn't exist, I would be 20 pounds lighter

The first day of my four day cleanse wasn't bad....until evening time came around and I wanted pizza salad and a glass of wine, and maybe a cannoli for dessert. For years my mindset has been to eat well in the daytime and then enjoy the evening after a hard day of work. This isn't necessarily the way everybody thinks, maybe the Skinny Bitch doesn't think this way or have these tempations, but I do.

Growing up, my school lunch included a dry bologne sandwich, Lay's potato chips and milk. But at night, my mom made fantastic dinners. So was it embedded in me that I would live this way the rest of my life? .....not really.

The past equals the future only if you live there. I for one, wasn't very resourceful as a young man. I was like a ship with no rudder, floating into the ocean, the tides taking me from port to port.

You may ask, where am I going with this? Well, either you change the event or change the meaning. You know how everybody has opinions about everything? If you have ever talked to a policeman that does a report on auto accidents, you'll know that when they interview witnesses, each one of them has a different opinion on the same event. One says the car was driving north, the other says it was driving south! That's similar to how we look at events in our life. The only problem is that we usually choose the opinion that disempowers us.

So back to the first day of the cleanse. What can I make it mean to me in regards to eating a broth soup and green salad for dinner instead of my favorite dish? Well an empowering belief is that I am giving my body, that works so hard for me, a break, am cleansing out all of the bad stuff, will be more alert in the morning and can get more done, instead of cooking for two hours, I can study or watch football, or take a bath (which I did, and haven't taken a bath in months...I've showered of course).

Once I change the meaning, then I will look at the pattern behavior in a different way, and then create a more empowering behavior....and LIVE LIFE BY DESIGN.

Live with passion my friends.....

How to not eat pizza for 4 days.

On Day 2 of a 4 day cleanse using Arbonne's Seasource Detox Spa 7 day cleanse.

The trick to cleansing when you first get started is:

Timing - Planning your cleanse tright in the middle of a holiday or social event is not a good idea. Do it during the weekdays, or days when you are occupied. This will mean less exposure to environmental tempations, like the home refrigerator or weekends.

Have great alternatives to eat and drink: If you are cleansing, most people will rely on willpower to get you through. We'll get more into this later, but if you are accustomed to eating good food, then just eating carrots as a snack won't do the trick (can you say "boring". We created a fantastic tahini dip that was fantastic to dip our vegetables in. I was craving this. And even though I wasn't able to have pita or bagel chips with hummus, the dip was fantastic.

Willpower is not enough - You need to have pattern interrupt. For more on this, check out Tony Robbins. In that moment that you have the craving, you need to create a shift in your mindset where you move onto something else. Have you ever been talking with someone and you got distracted, and you forgot what you were talking about? This is the exact same thing. My pattern interrupt is either a swoosh pattern, or change my focus to my outcome....

Have a huge WHY - Know thy outcome. I have a picture of Luis Figo, the Portuguese International and Inter Milan Football stars photo on my computer. And it is deeply imbedded in my mind. He's my age, and his body is ripped. That's my inspiration and outcome. So I ask myself, if giving up to tempation will lead me to that outcome.

Pain and Pleasure - Another Tony Robbins-ism. To be successful at this, then the pain of not cleansing has to be stonger than the pleasure I would get from getting off of the cleanse. So I bet my girlfriend $100 that I would be able to finish the cleanse without cheating (who would know if I cheat? I would!). When I finish, I get pie on Sunday (I gave up sweets for lent). Leverage doesn't have to be huge, but just important to you.