The Yuletide Speedloss
Cindy and I have been talking for a long time of trying some sort of detox or juice fast or some such thing. We spent... well, I spent, Cindy probably put a little more time... maybe 10 seconds researching the things and it was just one of those things that we thought might be a good idea to try sometime but who knows when.
Recently there was some sort of Groupon or Living Social or Amazon something or other opportunity to get Speedloss, which, according to the box the things were shipped in, is the "Cleanse-Detox of the Celebrities". We are still trying to find out which celebrities, but hey, if it was good enough for them, whoever they are, then it is probably good enough for us. So Cindy ordered a couple and here, on the Monday before Christmas, we are on Day 1. What better time to detox than after all the holiday parties.
Yesterday there was an article on the front page of the New York Time about the dangers of some nutritional supplements. It is, by act of Congress of course, an industry which can only be regulated after someone has actually been hurt by a product. The article talked about some poor teenager who had been taking concentrated green tea pills which had turned his skin so yellow from liver damage that the hospital said he looked like one of those yellow highlighter pens. Others put unlisted steroids in their products. In general, the products can be an unknown collection of substances with few safety tests, until, of course, someone ends up in the hospital looking like a highlighter pen.
So I went through all of the ingredients we could find in the Speedloss, and Googled any safety concerns people had for the product. Nothing looks like it will be dangerous, at least for the two days we are doing this, so we will see. Until then I will try and treat this like the second thing written on the shipping box "OMG!!! It's here! It's here! It's HERE!!!!"
Cnidy thought she ordered the JumpStart Speedloss, but the box we got is for the regular Speedloss. Cindy called the company saying she hadn't gotten what we ordered. The guy said we did. Cindy sent him pictures of the packets, which definitely are not on the JumpStart side. The guy then claimed he was unaware they had more than 1 product. Unless the packages are labeled incorrectly, the JumpStart had some Muscle something or other packet that ours lacked, so there are 2 SpeedLoss products, as explained by the poorly photocopied manual.
Hmm, highlighter yellow skin, here I come...
OMG!!! It's here! It's here! It's HERE!!!!
Day 1, Packet 1:
I am not trying this for weight loss, I am trying this as a detox, though frankly we don't tend to eat a lot of food in the tox category. Before I open the first packet, I weighed myself. 166.2 lbs. That .2 is really important. Or not.
Some sort of protein shake. We had no ice in the house, nor dairy milk, so made it with soy milk. We don't have a blender, so stuck it in an old food processor, just to make sure we got the powder all mixed up. While running the processor, I hear clunky noises and wonder what is going on. Suddenly the last few ingredients, Cocoa butter, milk fat, sugar, and chocolate make sense. There are chocolate chips in this thing.
Cool, detoxing with chocolate chips! Kinda the thing we are trying to detox from. But whatever.
Anyway, the packet claims that if we use flavored milk it will taste better, probably from all the sugar and other things that might be in the chocolate milk they recommended for blending. But it isn't too bad. Tastes kinda like a chocolate shake. The bag says "with added fat burning L-Carnitine and flavor chips". Fat-burning, de-toxifying chocolate chips! Cool!
This is also "formulated for celebrities," whatever that means. But my favorite part on the packet is the motivation section. Packet 1 has "Whether you dream of looking like Tarzan or Jane... it has been shown to help Tarzan look better in loin cloth."
Yeah! Bring it on! Look like Tarzan! Cool!
I am concerned about one thing here. I have to eat regular meals, otherwise some blood chemistry nonsense will cause a migraine when blood sugar drops for too long. We'll see how this goes.
Day 1, Packet 2:
Repeat aloud with me... "Ohm"
I will be starting all the subsequent sections with the inspirational item on the right side of every packet.
OK, now we are onto the Homeostat Plus Supplement packet. Our midmorning snack is three pills containing flaxseed oil, acai detox, and acidophilus with an 8 oz glass of water.
So far not feeling particularly hungry after the breakfast "shake" so maybe this won't be bad. We are also allowed to drink tea, particularly green tea, so I have had my second cup of that which may be keeping the pangs away.
Day 1, Packet 3:
aka. skinny %$'# Soupl! Caution: Could cause you to go ask for a promotion after consuming.
Hmm, I don't think so. OK, so we are only 3 packets in, and one was a chocolate shake and the other 3 pills, but this soup is the worst thing so far. I am not entirely sure what it tasted like, but it was not tasty. But certainly consuming the soup (labeled Edward's Smart Soup) does not make me feel so energetic and self confident that I am going to demand a promotion from my boss. Perhaps I will just look pitiful and ask for that can of peanuts on the desk.
This was supposed to be something like a tomato soup, it contains tomato powder and basil. There were little something or others floating in the soup that might have once been food, but from the ingredient list it is doubtful if they were tiny bits of vegetable, even if they had the vague semblance perhaps of being a vegetable in a former life. Perhaps hydrolized gelatin. The only concern here is the partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils. Isn't that a trans-fat? Oh well, this isn't going to be a regular part of our diet.
This came in the nick of time. I was starting to feel a little lightheaded and empty, and now that I have consumed the sludge I feel a little more full. I should expect to feel less full than normal, we are drinking everything, so the empty feeling shouldn't be a surprise. But I do keep finding myself thinking about when lunch or dinner is finally going to happen. Oh well, we can retox come Wednesday.
Day 1, Packet 4:
All the fruits and veggies you never wanted to eat!
OK, now, Cindy and I eat a lot of veggies. Our diet consists mostly of leafy greens like kale, collard greens, swiss chard, and the like, stirfried with other veggies and served over some whole grain like wheat berries or quinoa. So it really isn't the case that there are fruits and veggies we don't want to eat, though frankly we found the Ugli we got the other day was rather tasteless and not worth the premium price. But I can see never wanting to eat the veggies that came in the Super Food 5 packet.
If I listed the following powder ingredients, barley juice, spirulina, chlorella, spinach leaf... what color would you expect? Green? Right? But bright pink??? Now, I know current nutritional wisdom says the brighter the color, the more likely it is to be healthy for you. So bright pink... must be the super nutritious version of spinach.
Or maybe it is the policosanol, which, according to Wikipedia are long chain alcohols derived from plant waxes. Yum, getting buzzed on plant waxes! Either than or the fact that I am hungry.
Probably my favorite ingredients here are the "harmonizing and support herbs", whatever those might be. But I am feeling very harmonized and supported right now.
We drank this with the Juice Cleanse that came with the Speedloss. The ingredient list says water, grape juice, pomegranate juice, and blueberry juice. Unlike the Super Food, it is not bright pink and looks like iced tea. It is rather tasteless by itself, but the Super Food gave it a lot more flavor.
Day 1, Packet 5:
Chaos Calmer and PM Cleanse. Works a little like Drano... no, no, no, just kidding! Will cleanse you out and help flatten that spare tire.
OK, most of the way through the packets for the day. I feel somewhat lightheaded, there is a kind of nervous edginess which I don't think is from the sort of ingredients often found in weight loss products. I am hungry, though not as much as I might if I had been eating nothing all day.
I do like the packet comment "feel lighter, more alert and more energetic". Hopefully this packet will help me feel all of those things, though at the moment the "lighter" is "light-headed".
This can be done with their juice or water. They say drink it fast, I imagine because some people might have an issue with the taste or texture, though really it isn't that bad. It is psyllum husk, flaxseed, fennel, papaya, slippery elm, rhubarb and several other plant items that for once let me know that this is all natural stuff.
They also recommend 45-70 minutes of cardio, so I am off to the gym now. They say if you are having a hard time with following the plan that a piece of fruit would be fine, so we both ate a grapefruit. Tomorrow's breakfast starts with oatmeal so at least that bulk will help, though later on there is nothing from noon until bedtime. Very curious to see what that is like.
Day 1, Packet 6:
Celebra... TEA... Red carpets, entourages, air brushing... that's just how you roll.
So I am wondering why the very cheesy sayings on the packets. Does Speedloss think they are clever? Do most people find this hard, so they are injecting some levity into an otherwise unpleasant experience? Hard to tell. But this is one of the worst.
The gym was rather rough. I spent much of it feeling kinda woozy, but I made my way through 40 minutes on the Stair Master and then a smattering of weight lifting machines. It didn't get too bad, otherwise I would have stopped, but it was an odd feeling and I did fewer reps for some machines than I normally do because my arms just gave out. I imagine it would have been worse without the grapefruit beforehand,
Packet 6 is TRIMTeaCS, a somewhat weird smelling teabag with senna leaf, whorled mallow leaf, persimmon leaf, papaya leaf, and licorice root. It is pretty tasteless once we added a tiny bit of honey, though there is this slight aftertaste that guarantees I would not drink it regularly. This tea, and sipping their fruit juice until until bed time is it for tonight.
Day 2, Packet 1:
JUST SAY NOT! to boring oats! Upgrade 'em!
And nothing upgrades boring oats like choclolate chips and cocoa powder...
Cindy says this tastes like Count Chocula.
These are whole grain rolled outs, "super" whey protein blend, and super recovery blend L-Glutamine. And all that chocolate. This is a cleanse? I imagine a lot of people are trying to cleanse all of the chocolate they eat every day. And we have had chocolate "flavor" chips in every breakfast, maybe they are trying to give you a better vibe on the day.
And today needs it. Our two remaining packets are some fizzy drink of artificial sweeteners and some pills and from noon on we can sip fruit juice. I suspect around dinner there will be yet another grapefruit. They are good for you, right?
My concern is that I get migraines from eating sugar so am a little worried about the chocolate chips. I picked most of mine out, but rather than the 10 or so regular chips, these are chunks that seem an integral part of the oatmeal. Sugar, that substance that health folks say is somewhat like crack cocaine for us seems to be too much a part of SpeedLoss. But they have the picture of the bikini clad woman being hovered over by the swimsuit clad guy on a beach. So apparently sugar can help you get a similar situation, whether you are hoverer or hoveree.
And we eat oatmeal every morning for breakfast and it is anything but boring. Scotch oats. Flax seeds. Cinnamon. Fruit. A some yogurt. Not boring at all.
I am not sure what weight was lost, is it just the amount of food we still have in our digestive track every morning? But I weigh 164.2, so 2.0 pounds of something went somewhere. But it will be interesting to see after eating a normal day of meals if it is all back.
Day 2, Packet 2:
Just call me the Energizer Bunny!
Today isn't going as bad as I thought it might, but then I have often heard that the first day is the worst and the second day your body has gotten used to the idea so you don't notice it as much. I had a good workout at the gym this morning after the ghastly oatmeal with no feelings that I was going to keel over. I am a bit light headed, but overall not too bad.
So the current packet is labeled Kicker, Sustained energy to help you focus. It looked like Koolaid once it was in water and has a variety of sweeteners in it like polydextrose and sucralose. It has some B vitamins. And caffeine. So Koolaid with caffeine added. And B vitamins. I read on someone else's blog that this one is full of artificial sweeteners and it certainly tastes like it.
Day 2, Packet 3:
Kinda like Metabolism Jumper Cables
The last packet, from now on it is just sipping their fruit juice until bedtime. I will probably eat another grapefruit at dinner time because 10 hours is a long time to consume nothing but water and juice. No idea if this will be the worst part or whether it will not be much of anything. It is certainly hard to open the fridge and look at the avocados and hummus and greens and hot sauce and everything waiting in there for us.
Anyway, the 3 pills are a B-complex, green tea (remember that Yellow Highlighter kid), and chromium picolinate. The latter is described in the Wikipedia article on it as a "poor choice for a nutritional supplement". Despite claims it is good for weight loss and body development, no study has ever shown any effects along either line. In fact it isn't clear how much chromium the body needs, no biochemical basis has ever been found, though the Wikipedia article says "Small quantities of chromium are needed for glucose utilization by insulin in normal health, but deficiency is extremely rare and has only been observed in hospital patients on long-term defined diets.".
So that's it until tomorrow morning and an afternoon and evening of fruit juice and a grapefruit for dinner.
Day 3, no packets:
Well, that was an interesting adventure. I woke up today to find myself finally feeling hunger pangs and more light headed than I have felt. I wonder if there were some appetite suppressants or something in some of the blends, or if it was because something was coming in at regular enough intervals that kept the growling away. Our urine turned bright yellow, no idea why, definitely something we took yesterday as it is the normal color today.
My final weight was 162.8 lbs. I still wonder is that just because I don't have the food typically working its way through my system or what. Do I feel detoxed and energetic? No, I feel tired and fuzzy headed. While some might say I am fuzzy headed at the best of times, it normally doesn't come with a physical feeling of fuzziness.
We are now digging into a bowl of scotch oats, complete with cinnamon, flax seeds, blueberries, bananas, and plain yogurt. Ahh, this feels so good to have solid food once again. The blueberries are a little tasteless, but it is December 25th and berry season was long ago here and they were probably shipped from some place far away so picked before their time.
Strange to do a detox the 2 days before Christmas Day, but neither of us celebrate the day, so we don't have one of those overeating kinda meals later on today. I believe the plan is a movie and maybe some Chinese food.
Will we do this again? Probably not with SpeedLoss. It seems so cheezy, getting the packets turned out to be an ordeal, the instruction manual was a poor photocopy , there seemed to be a bunch of artificial crap. But hey, got to see what one of these things is like, probably without any major body damage.
The good aspect to the whole adventure. Cindy and I did this together and we made it the whole way through. I never thought I could give up most eating for a couple of days and now I know I can, so at least there is some willpower there.
But where are those chocolate chip cookies we baked two weeks ago? I need them and a bottle of gin.
Recently there was some sort of Groupon or Living Social or Amazon something or other opportunity to get Speedloss, which, according to the box the things were shipped in, is the "Cleanse-Detox of the Celebrities". We are still trying to find out which celebrities, but hey, if it was good enough for them, whoever they are, then it is probably good enough for us. So Cindy ordered a couple and here, on the Monday before Christmas, we are on Day 1. What better time to detox than after all the holiday parties.
Yesterday there was an article on the front page of the New York Time about the dangers of some nutritional supplements. It is, by act of Congress of course, an industry which can only be regulated after someone has actually been hurt by a product. The article talked about some poor teenager who had been taking concentrated green tea pills which had turned his skin so yellow from liver damage that the hospital said he looked like one of those yellow highlighter pens. Others put unlisted steroids in their products. In general, the products can be an unknown collection of substances with few safety tests, until, of course, someone ends up in the hospital looking like a highlighter pen.
So I went through all of the ingredients we could find in the Speedloss, and Googled any safety concerns people had for the product. Nothing looks like it will be dangerous, at least for the two days we are doing this, so we will see. Until then I will try and treat this like the second thing written on the shipping box "OMG!!! It's here! It's here! It's HERE!!!!"
Cnidy thought she ordered the JumpStart Speedloss, but the box we got is for the regular Speedloss. Cindy called the company saying she hadn't gotten what we ordered. The guy said we did. Cindy sent him pictures of the packets, which definitely are not on the JumpStart side. The guy then claimed he was unaware they had more than 1 product. Unless the packages are labeled incorrectly, the JumpStart had some Muscle something or other packet that ours lacked, so there are 2 SpeedLoss products, as explained by the poorly photocopied manual.
Hmm, highlighter yellow skin, here I come...
OMG!!! It's here! It's here! It's HERE!!!!
Day 1, Packet 1:
I am not trying this for weight loss, I am trying this as a detox, though frankly we don't tend to eat a lot of food in the tox category. Before I open the first packet, I weighed myself. 166.2 lbs. That .2 is really important. Or not.
Some sort of protein shake. We had no ice in the house, nor dairy milk, so made it with soy milk. We don't have a blender, so stuck it in an old food processor, just to make sure we got the powder all mixed up. While running the processor, I hear clunky noises and wonder what is going on. Suddenly the last few ingredients, Cocoa butter, milk fat, sugar, and chocolate make sense. There are chocolate chips in this thing.
Cool, detoxing with chocolate chips! Kinda the thing we are trying to detox from. But whatever.
Anyway, the packet claims that if we use flavored milk it will taste better, probably from all the sugar and other things that might be in the chocolate milk they recommended for blending. But it isn't too bad. Tastes kinda like a chocolate shake. The bag says "with added fat burning L-Carnitine and flavor chips". Fat-burning, de-toxifying chocolate chips! Cool!
This is also "formulated for celebrities," whatever that means. But my favorite part on the packet is the motivation section. Packet 1 has "Whether you dream of looking like Tarzan or Jane... it has been shown to help Tarzan look better in loin cloth."
Yeah! Bring it on! Look like Tarzan! Cool!
I am concerned about one thing here. I have to eat regular meals, otherwise some blood chemistry nonsense will cause a migraine when blood sugar drops for too long. We'll see how this goes.
Day 1, Packet 2:
Repeat aloud with me... "Ohm"
I will be starting all the subsequent sections with the inspirational item on the right side of every packet.
OK, now we are onto the Homeostat Plus Supplement packet. Our midmorning snack is three pills containing flaxseed oil, acai detox, and acidophilus with an 8 oz glass of water.
So far not feeling particularly hungry after the breakfast "shake" so maybe this won't be bad. We are also allowed to drink tea, particularly green tea, so I have had my second cup of that which may be keeping the pangs away.
Day 1, Packet 3:
aka. skinny %$'# Soupl! Caution: Could cause you to go ask for a promotion after consuming.
Hmm, I don't think so. OK, so we are only 3 packets in, and one was a chocolate shake and the other 3 pills, but this soup is the worst thing so far. I am not entirely sure what it tasted like, but it was not tasty. But certainly consuming the soup (labeled Edward's Smart Soup) does not make me feel so energetic and self confident that I am going to demand a promotion from my boss. Perhaps I will just look pitiful and ask for that can of peanuts on the desk.
This was supposed to be something like a tomato soup, it contains tomato powder and basil. There were little something or others floating in the soup that might have once been food, but from the ingredient list it is doubtful if they were tiny bits of vegetable, even if they had the vague semblance perhaps of being a vegetable in a former life. Perhaps hydrolized gelatin. The only concern here is the partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils. Isn't that a trans-fat? Oh well, this isn't going to be a regular part of our diet.
This came in the nick of time. I was starting to feel a little lightheaded and empty, and now that I have consumed the sludge I feel a little more full. I should expect to feel less full than normal, we are drinking everything, so the empty feeling shouldn't be a surprise. But I do keep finding myself thinking about when lunch or dinner is finally going to happen. Oh well, we can retox come Wednesday.
Day 1, Packet 4:
All the fruits and veggies you never wanted to eat!
OK, now, Cindy and I eat a lot of veggies. Our diet consists mostly of leafy greens like kale, collard greens, swiss chard, and the like, stirfried with other veggies and served over some whole grain like wheat berries or quinoa. So it really isn't the case that there are fruits and veggies we don't want to eat, though frankly we found the Ugli we got the other day was rather tasteless and not worth the premium price. But I can see never wanting to eat the veggies that came in the Super Food 5 packet.
If I listed the following powder ingredients, barley juice, spirulina, chlorella, spinach leaf... what color would you expect? Green? Right? But bright pink??? Now, I know current nutritional wisdom says the brighter the color, the more likely it is to be healthy for you. So bright pink... must be the super nutritious version of spinach.
Or maybe it is the policosanol, which, according to Wikipedia are long chain alcohols derived from plant waxes. Yum, getting buzzed on plant waxes! Either than or the fact that I am hungry.
Probably my favorite ingredients here are the "harmonizing and support herbs", whatever those might be. But I am feeling very harmonized and supported right now.
We drank this with the Juice Cleanse that came with the Speedloss. The ingredient list says water, grape juice, pomegranate juice, and blueberry juice. Unlike the Super Food, it is not bright pink and looks like iced tea. It is rather tasteless by itself, but the Super Food gave it a lot more flavor.
Day 1, Packet 5:
Chaos Calmer and PM Cleanse. Works a little like Drano... no, no, no, just kidding! Will cleanse you out and help flatten that spare tire.
OK, most of the way through the packets for the day. I feel somewhat lightheaded, there is a kind of nervous edginess which I don't think is from the sort of ingredients often found in weight loss products. I am hungry, though not as much as I might if I had been eating nothing all day.
I do like the packet comment "feel lighter, more alert and more energetic". Hopefully this packet will help me feel all of those things, though at the moment the "lighter" is "light-headed".
This can be done with their juice or water. They say drink it fast, I imagine because some people might have an issue with the taste or texture, though really it isn't that bad. It is psyllum husk, flaxseed, fennel, papaya, slippery elm, rhubarb and several other plant items that for once let me know that this is all natural stuff.
They also recommend 45-70 minutes of cardio, so I am off to the gym now. They say if you are having a hard time with following the plan that a piece of fruit would be fine, so we both ate a grapefruit. Tomorrow's breakfast starts with oatmeal so at least that bulk will help, though later on there is nothing from noon until bedtime. Very curious to see what that is like.
Day 1, Packet 6:
Celebra... TEA... Red carpets, entourages, air brushing... that's just how you roll.
So I am wondering why the very cheesy sayings on the packets. Does Speedloss think they are clever? Do most people find this hard, so they are injecting some levity into an otherwise unpleasant experience? Hard to tell. But this is one of the worst.
The gym was rather rough. I spent much of it feeling kinda woozy, but I made my way through 40 minutes on the Stair Master and then a smattering of weight lifting machines. It didn't get too bad, otherwise I would have stopped, but it was an odd feeling and I did fewer reps for some machines than I normally do because my arms just gave out. I imagine it would have been worse without the grapefruit beforehand,
Packet 6 is TRIMTeaCS, a somewhat weird smelling teabag with senna leaf, whorled mallow leaf, persimmon leaf, papaya leaf, and licorice root. It is pretty tasteless once we added a tiny bit of honey, though there is this slight aftertaste that guarantees I would not drink it regularly. This tea, and sipping their fruit juice until until bed time is it for tonight.
Day 2, Packet 1:
JUST SAY NOT! to boring oats! Upgrade 'em!
And nothing upgrades boring oats like choclolate chips and cocoa powder...
Cindy says this tastes like Count Chocula.
These are whole grain rolled outs, "super" whey protein blend, and super recovery blend L-Glutamine. And all that chocolate. This is a cleanse? I imagine a lot of people are trying to cleanse all of the chocolate they eat every day. And we have had chocolate "flavor" chips in every breakfast, maybe they are trying to give you a better vibe on the day.
And today needs it. Our two remaining packets are some fizzy drink of artificial sweeteners and some pills and from noon on we can sip fruit juice. I suspect around dinner there will be yet another grapefruit. They are good for you, right?
My concern is that I get migraines from eating sugar so am a little worried about the chocolate chips. I picked most of mine out, but rather than the 10 or so regular chips, these are chunks that seem an integral part of the oatmeal. Sugar, that substance that health folks say is somewhat like crack cocaine for us seems to be too much a part of SpeedLoss. But they have the picture of the bikini clad woman being hovered over by the swimsuit clad guy on a beach. So apparently sugar can help you get a similar situation, whether you are hoverer or hoveree.
And we eat oatmeal every morning for breakfast and it is anything but boring. Scotch oats. Flax seeds. Cinnamon. Fruit. A some yogurt. Not boring at all.
I am not sure what weight was lost, is it just the amount of food we still have in our digestive track every morning? But I weigh 164.2, so 2.0 pounds of something went somewhere. But it will be interesting to see after eating a normal day of meals if it is all back.
Day 2, Packet 2:
Just call me the Energizer Bunny!
Today isn't going as bad as I thought it might, but then I have often heard that the first day is the worst and the second day your body has gotten used to the idea so you don't notice it as much. I had a good workout at the gym this morning after the ghastly oatmeal with no feelings that I was going to keel over. I am a bit light headed, but overall not too bad.
So the current packet is labeled Kicker, Sustained energy to help you focus. It looked like Koolaid once it was in water and has a variety of sweeteners in it like polydextrose and sucralose. It has some B vitamins. And caffeine. So Koolaid with caffeine added. And B vitamins. I read on someone else's blog that this one is full of artificial sweeteners and it certainly tastes like it.
Day 2, Packet 3:
Kinda like Metabolism Jumper Cables
The last packet, from now on it is just sipping their fruit juice until bedtime. I will probably eat another grapefruit at dinner time because 10 hours is a long time to consume nothing but water and juice. No idea if this will be the worst part or whether it will not be much of anything. It is certainly hard to open the fridge and look at the avocados and hummus and greens and hot sauce and everything waiting in there for us.
Anyway, the 3 pills are a B-complex, green tea (remember that Yellow Highlighter kid), and chromium picolinate. The latter is described in the Wikipedia article on it as a "poor choice for a nutritional supplement". Despite claims it is good for weight loss and body development, no study has ever shown any effects along either line. In fact it isn't clear how much chromium the body needs, no biochemical basis has ever been found, though the Wikipedia article says "Small quantities of chromium are needed for glucose utilization by insulin in normal health, but deficiency is extremely rare and has only been observed in hospital patients on long-term defined diets.".
So that's it until tomorrow morning and an afternoon and evening of fruit juice and a grapefruit for dinner.
Day 3, no packets:
Well, that was an interesting adventure. I woke up today to find myself finally feeling hunger pangs and more light headed than I have felt. I wonder if there were some appetite suppressants or something in some of the blends, or if it was because something was coming in at regular enough intervals that kept the growling away. Our urine turned bright yellow, no idea why, definitely something we took yesterday as it is the normal color today.
My final weight was 162.8 lbs. I still wonder is that just because I don't have the food typically working its way through my system or what. Do I feel detoxed and energetic? No, I feel tired and fuzzy headed. While some might say I am fuzzy headed at the best of times, it normally doesn't come with a physical feeling of fuzziness.
We are now digging into a bowl of scotch oats, complete with cinnamon, flax seeds, blueberries, bananas, and plain yogurt. Ahh, this feels so good to have solid food once again. The blueberries are a little tasteless, but it is December 25th and berry season was long ago here and they were probably shipped from some place far away so picked before their time.
Strange to do a detox the 2 days before Christmas Day, but neither of us celebrate the day, so we don't have one of those overeating kinda meals later on today. I believe the plan is a movie and maybe some Chinese food.
Will we do this again? Probably not with SpeedLoss. It seems so cheezy, getting the packets turned out to be an ordeal, the instruction manual was a poor photocopy , there seemed to be a bunch of artificial crap. But hey, got to see what one of these things is like, probably without any major body damage.
The good aspect to the whole adventure. Cindy and I did this together and we made it the whole way through. I never thought I could give up most eating for a couple of days and now I know I can, so at least there is some willpower there.
But where are those chocolate chip cookies we baked two weeks ago? I need them and a bottle of gin.
