Advocare 10 Day Cleanse.

So I started the Advocare 24 Day Challenge with Taryn and I'm quite pleased with my results!The first 10 days is the cleanse phase. During that time you want to stick with "whole" foods as much as possible, avoid, sugar, white/enriched flour, fried foods, and processed foods. I pretty much ate that way around 75% of the time but one of my goals is to get my food intake to doing that type of diet 90% of the time. So that was 1 reason I wanted to start this challenge. You also have to watch your portions on this challenge as well and ya'll know if you read this blog I've been complaining about getting my portions under control. Throughout this cleanse I was able to conquer that as well! You also drink a fiber drink and take different vitamins throughout the cleanse as well. It's NOT a fad diet or some type of diet pill regime either! All in all the cleanse was a success!

And then.

Then I was off the cleanse portion of the challenge and I had a big day planned out and about with Ryan Jo. and my friend Kbz. So I planned to cheat that day. We went and had mexican and later that evening we had orange leaf. Not too bad. But i've not been so 90% since then either. I worked much to hard to sabotage my progress so I got my junk food cravings out of my system and i'm getting back to my regular organization. Speaking of... if you plan to do this challenge GET ORGANIZED! Plan around your periods girls, and plan around a lot of family functions. I didn't get very organized and I pretty much winged it the whole time. Some how I managed to keep my food cleanse appropriate but it was stressful not keeping everything on hand that I needed. So plan. plan. plan.

My problems were sneaking in a bit to much "junk" I wasn't being 80/20 with my food I was more 65/35 lol I found too many reasons to sneak cheese on this, or add butter to that. Not necessary and most things taste just fine without butter or cheese. My other problem was portions. So this challenge has helped me so much with that! Now... I also believe that if you change your foods to 90% whole foods, drink a gallon of water a day and exercise alone without Advocare you will lose weight and feel amazing! For whatever reason when I paid for this product it just jump started me and I now have my problem areas getting under control. So to me that was worth what I spent! So I advise those wanting to start losing weight but feel that they need a guideline or if your stuck in a plateau then do this challenge! It will jump start your metabolism and help you get your body and cravings under control!

Did I mention I lost 7 lbs? =)