Day 2 of 7 - Detox Challenge

 

Day 2 Meals

31 July 2018

I thought I wasn’t going to run this morning, I mean where will I get the energy to run with no carbohydrates in my diet and I told the coach as much last night. Boy was I wrong! He told me my body with covert the stored fats and use that as fuel. So run I should. So my excuse was just that, an excuse. A lame one at that that.

I had an 8km run. One I sort of enjoyed than the previous one itolo. And my before work morning routine was easier as I had prepared all the day's meals last night, including the kiddies lunch boxes which was my fav chicken mayo sandwiches. Cabanga nje preparing  a mea you love, but you cannot even eat. 

Breakfast was a fruit smoothie: banana, apple, pear, naartjie and cucumber

Lunch: Butternut and pineapple. Only managed to munch half of what I had prepared and I was full. 

Supper: boiled cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and carrots plus an ovacado

Am struggling to find the right words to describe this day. I drank twice the amount of water I drank yesterday but I just wasn’t feeling well.  I don’t even know how I was feeling. Fuzzy. Slight headaches. At times I swear I had body shakes (emangozolo) kinda. Believe you me, I wasn’t craving anything in particular but I just felt sick. 

Then coach sent us a message on the Whatsapp group and asked, "What are you guys having for lunch and how are you feeling?'' I wanted to reply, and tell him I have a headache from hell and I am dizzy and I want to quit. While at the same time afraid that the others will think am a coward If I came out in the open and shared exactly how I felt. So I waited for the others to respond. Someone replied "I have a bad headache". You can imagine the relief I felt. Hawu! I wasn't suffering alone. Sisonke mosi. Hahaha. 

Considering everything I went thru today, I could say Day 1 was a walk in the park while today was a day from hell. The explanation I received was to the fact that the body is reacting to the salt withdrawals. Drink lots of water they said, it will get better. Drink lots of water I did, but I was still feeling crappy. It kinda helped that I took a nap after work before my soccer practice at 1800hrs. 

This basically means I had a double dose of exercise today. Great Gugu, you're on fire girl!

NB: worth noting is that my appetite has suprisingly gone down. I had just a  couple of spoonfuls of my supper and I was FULL. Yes on just veggies and fruits. Do I miss meat? 

 I don't know how this detox thing works, but I do know am learning to be disciplined and to resist all kinds of temptations. I did say NO to an offer of Flying Fish after soccer practice. Lol!

Also I've noted that if the people closest to us realise how committed we are to this they give us their support. On Monday my colleagues bought all all sorts of delicacies and for once I could not share the food with them, but explained my detox challenge. Today when they drove out to buy lunch, they bought me grapes and ate their "yummy" meal in another room.  How considerate! 

Also, Today's supper was prepared by Sbe, a good friend of me -  see how much support is in Gugstar's World. They believe in me. They are rallying behind me. I can't let all these people down, but most of all I can't let me down. 

Here's to Day Three. 

My Fitness and Weightloss Journey

I want this my body back!

     

My First Ever Detox Experience

When I relocated from Tshaneni to Simunye to be closer to work a year ago I left behind my strong support system of gym buddies and running partners. As you can guess I became more and more uninspired to run or do gym. Fitness levels dropped and I was on a major weight rebound. But, what the heck? I told myself I’ll be back on the grind in no time. Days became weeks. Weeks became months…and so on and so on. And now I look like an over inflated balloon that could pop any second.

But the sad reality hit me two weekends ago. I was at this function and when later that evening people sent me my photos I wanted to wail out loud. I knew I had picked up some weight, but what lay before me was just horror. I couldn’t just understand how I had neglected myself this much and I knew right then and there that something’s gotta give. I cannot be a female version of Humpty Dumpty. I refuse shem.

Then came along Nsizwa’s weight loss and fitness challenge, wich I stumbled on on facebook, and with no hesitation I jumped on board. This is exactly the kind of a challenge and motivation that I needed to work on my fitness levels and weight issues once again. They always say Big is beautiful, but hey it’s unhealthy as well. Why can’t we be both fit and big? We could lie to ourselves all we want but we all ought to live healthier lifestyles and shed off unnecessary weight. Big or not. There I said it, Shoot me!

This week we all started on the 7 day Fruits and Veggies detox challenge. I’ve never done this before nor anything remotely close. This is a first for me. But I knew that if I had to start somewhere, it could very well be with this detoxing gig.

Here’s a Food to Avoid During Detox Diet Week List that was sent to me:

• ·         Red meat, chicken, meat products like sausages and burgers
• ·         Milk, cheese, polony, eggs, cream butter, margarine
• ·         Any food that contains wheat
• ·         Crisp snacks,  chocolates, sweets, jam and sugar
• ·         Processed foods, take aways
• ·         Alcohol
• ·         Tea or Coffee, fizzy drinks, oros, liquid fruit or any other fruit juices
• ·         Salad dressing, mayonnaise, salt and sugar
• ·         Potatoes or sweet potatoes
• ·         Cigarette

See the madness I signed for? If you know me well enough you know my love for junk and alcohol. There are always sweets or a chocolate in any of my bags. And I will not say much about alchy for now. Hahahahahaha!!!

                                

Day 1 of 7 (30 July 2017)

Pity I had to start off this detox thingy following a rather hectic and rough weekend. Could have used this day to nurse my weekend’s ailments with shisanyama and twist granadilla. Sad. Right? Maybe not! I was up by 4am for my morning run. Had a 10km or so run, might I add the longest 10km I’ve ever run. It actually was a walk. The longest 10km walk. I realised once again how stupid the body is, you stop doing something, it forgets as well. You’re back at one. I’ll explain this some other day when I have the energy.

Breakfast: green smoothie. Only drank half of it anyway and hated the taste. The rest went to the drain.

Lunch: this was so much better. Had an apple, banana and a naartjie.

Supper: steamed cabbage and carrots, lettuce with tomatoes dressed with fresh lemon juice and an avocado. All of this tasted so awful without the salt, but am trying as hard not to cheat. 

It must have drank about two litres of water today. 

I was telling Lilly earlier in the night that I was near tears as I prepared supper for the family. Issa torture of some kind to cook something you can’t even eat. Even the rice smelled divine I swear. And for the first time I realised just how everyone in my household is such a junk eater. We even have a junk cupboard. See, my temptations are all over in this house.

But as I lay me down to sleep tonight I just cannot believe I pulled through. Not a single cheat. None. Zilch. I couldn’t be more proud of myself. Day 1 out of the way!

Yipeeeeeeeee!!!