So I've decided to do the Shakeology 3-day cleanse...again. This round was partly planned yet partly spontaneous. I planned at the outset of this round of P90X to do a Shakeology cleanse between Phases 2 and 3, but when I finally made it to the Phase 2 recovery week, I was no longer sure. Last time I did the cleanse I was in the low 180s and used the cleanse to effectively get myself below the 180# threshold, and it worked; I haven't been back to 180 since. However, this time around I'm in the mid 170s and am still gradually losing weight on my diet, so I'm concerned that a cleanse now won't be as worthwhile.
So at the beginning of the week I was no longer sure that I was going to do a cleanse like I had planned, and that's where the spontaneous part comes into play. I got on the scale this morning and weighed in at 174.x pounds, down from 176.x yesterday, and decided to go for it. If my weight is on a downward trend, then now is the perfect time to ride that trend out. Plus starting now gives me two days over the weekend to recover to more normal eating habits. I learned last time that going straight off of the cleanse into Phase 3 is not a good idea.
At any rate, I'm 3 shakes down into Day 1 of the cleanse, and so far so good. It's important when doing this regimen to effectively employ your meal timing. After all, you only get four meals a day (three shakes and a salad), so the spacing of those meals becomes important. For some reason I wasn't planning properly and was somehow adding in an extra meal. It wasn't until I put it on paper that I realized what my meal timing needed to be: 7a, 11a, 3p, and 7p. I'll get to eat my salad in a little less than two hours now, and I've got to say that I'm looking forward to eating some solid food. I'm also curious to see how satiated that salad will leave me between 7p and when I go to bed three hours later.
I'm not feeling particularly hungry, but the thought of not being able to eat again till 7p is more annoying than anything. For someone who has been fasting every weekend for 24h, this is not too bad, but again, it's the thought that I "can't" eat something that bothers me the most. Not that it's hugely different from when I'm eating normally; after all, when I eat at 1p I tell myself I can't eat again until 5p. Then again, I'm typically not hungry until 5p when eating normally.
I'm modifying from the strictest sense of the cleanse a little--I'm mixing my Shakeology with 1 cup of low-fat milk. It ups the calorie content a little (though I'm still below 1200 cal/day), but more importantly, it ups the protein content of each meal to almost 30g. One of the things I want to make sure of is that I don't neglect my daily protein needs.
Other than that, I was concerned about how low my carb intake would be every day--119 g/day. It's really not that far off from the 130 g/day minimum recommended by the American Dietetic Association, but such a low carb intake might explain why I was feeling the way I was when I did this the first time.
Well, I'll log in tomorrow and write about my Day 2 experience, but so far so good!
So at the beginning of the week I was no longer sure that I was going to do a cleanse like I had planned, and that's where the spontaneous part comes into play. I got on the scale this morning and weighed in at 174.x pounds, down from 176.x yesterday, and decided to go for it. If my weight is on a downward trend, then now is the perfect time to ride that trend out. Plus starting now gives me two days over the weekend to recover to more normal eating habits. I learned last time that going straight off of the cleanse into Phase 3 is not a good idea.
At any rate, I'm 3 shakes down into Day 1 of the cleanse, and so far so good. It's important when doing this regimen to effectively employ your meal timing. After all, you only get four meals a day (three shakes and a salad), so the spacing of those meals becomes important. For some reason I wasn't planning properly and was somehow adding in an extra meal. It wasn't until I put it on paper that I realized what my meal timing needed to be: 7a, 11a, 3p, and 7p. I'll get to eat my salad in a little less than two hours now, and I've got to say that I'm looking forward to eating some solid food. I'm also curious to see how satiated that salad will leave me between 7p and when I go to bed three hours later.
I'm not feeling particularly hungry, but the thought of not being able to eat again till 7p is more annoying than anything. For someone who has been fasting every weekend for 24h, this is not too bad, but again, it's the thought that I "can't" eat something that bothers me the most. Not that it's hugely different from when I'm eating normally; after all, when I eat at 1p I tell myself I can't eat again until 5p. Then again, I'm typically not hungry until 5p when eating normally.
I'm modifying from the strictest sense of the cleanse a little--I'm mixing my Shakeology with 1 cup of low-fat milk. It ups the calorie content a little (though I'm still below 1200 cal/day), but more importantly, it ups the protein content of each meal to almost 30g. One of the things I want to make sure of is that I don't neglect my daily protein needs.
Other than that, I was concerned about how low my carb intake would be every day--119 g/day. It's really not that far off from the 130 g/day minimum recommended by the American Dietetic Association, but such a low carb intake might explain why I was feeling the way I was when I did this the first time.
Well, I'll log in tomorrow and write about my Day 2 experience, but so far so good!
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