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.