Day 1

Today Bryce convinced me to join his Resolution Challenge.
I have a bunch of health goals, tho the main ones are short term rather than long term, such as this cleanse I am on. However, I do want to make a commitment to working out 3-4 times a week, so that is my goal for the year. So I had that in mind before this talk of the challenge came up, and have already started on that.

Why, you might ask, do I have these health goals? Well, let me tell you:
This year I turn 30. This is slightly scary to me.. and I figure I've been lucky so far to be in such good shape as I am, and it's probably only cuz I'm young and resilient and all that. Working out for me has been difficult in the past few years cuz I find it exceptionally boring to run on a machine for an hour. When I was growing up and in university and stuff, I played a ton of sports; Volleyball, Soccer, Karate, Aikido, Track and Field, etc.. so I was always in shape, but it never seemed hard cuz I was having fun doing it. Once I wasn't on those teams anymore, workouts were much more whimsical and unscheduled.. which translated into nonexistant.. lol
So anyways, now that I'm going to be 30, I figure I better get my act together.

I am starting out the year with a cleanse. It's a 12 day detox diet and herbal supplement thing. Here are the details:
http://www.wrc.net/wrcnet_content/dietplans/d-tox_diet_12day.htm
I can't eat any flour, sugar, alcohol, mushrooms, dairy (except butter), or peanuts, or tropical fruits. There's a ton of stuff I can eat tho, so it's fine. I think the hardest part so far is the flour.. I eat a lot of things like toast and crackers and stuff usually.

I might keep track of my foods for the whole 12 days, just for kicks. so here is the first few days of the year:

Jan 1st:
Not on my cleanse yet. I woke up hung over sometime around noon, then we went for breakfast by 4pm and I had steak and eggs with pancakes with a ton of syrup, and tea. For "dinner" since it was only a few hours later and we were at a movie, I ate half a bucket of gross theatre popcorn. the end

January 2nd:
Workout: 20 min on elliptical trainer, weight reps on military press, biceps and triceps 3 sets of 12 with skipping rope in between each set for 100 count. Stretching.

I wasn't on my cleanse yet, but I didn't eat any sugar that day, I mainly had leftovers from the turkey dinners and the new years eve party. The only sugar I had was whatever was in the cranberry sauce (which I made from scratch, so it wasn't that much)

January 3rd: started Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox (12 day cleanse) .. I have to stick to a diet with no sugar or flour etc. plus take supplements twice a day
Food eaten: 3 eggs – scrambled with Thyme, Oregano and salt
mint tea
1 cup of almonds for snack throughout day
1 cup of Greens+
2 bok choy steamed with ginger and a touch of sesame oil
A huge salad with red leaf lettuce, orange pepper, cabbage, red onion, carrot, tomato, with fresh lemon juice and tarragon olive oil for dressing. A few slices of cold smoked tuna on top
An apple with tahini dressing
Ginger, clove, bay leaf and lemon boiled in water for tea.


More to come as the cleanse continues