Weekend update 9-15-08
I am soooooo glad to be eating food again. 2 days is a long time to eat a few veggies and water. I fixed the Chick Pea recipe posted here on the blog and ate that several times. It makes 4 servings and I ate it all over the weekend. Besides that, it was all ice water.
I drank a little over 3 gallons of ice water (16 – 24oz bottles of water: which adds up to almost 400 extra calories burned heating the water). I was peeing like a racing horse. I’m sure you wanted to know that!
With the workouts that I did, lots of yard work, a little walking, and a half hour on the stair climber mode of my elliptical I burned a total of 1800 calories over the weekend.
I consumed approximately 600 calories each day with the Vegetables. The Isagenix Cleans drink and the Isagenix “snacks”.
I’m not 100% sure what my stable metabolic rate would be, but the FDA estimates that the average body needs 1800 calories each day. I think that I need less than that because of my sedentary life style in front of a computer all day. But we’ll go with 1800 for arguments sake. So, that means that I was short 1200 calories each day that my body needed to get internally instead of from food, and that tallies 2400 short fall over the weekend.
So, total calories expended is
400 – water heating
1800 – workout
2400 – diet shortfall
4600 – Total Calories burned over the weekend.
That means I should have lost just 1.5 lbs. And just about any one would tell you that most of what I would have lost over that amount would be muscle or water.
Here is what happened to me.
I lost a little over 8 lbs and the body fat measurement dropped by 2%.
Basically my body was able to give up more fat than the standard mathematics would have otherwise suggested would have happened. To me this is further proof that one of the many reasons we have a hard time losing weight is because of toxins in the body that the fat is required to store away to protect us. As we cleans our bodies of the toxins our bodies are able to release more fat simply because it is not needed any more. I highly doubt that it was water weight give the total amount of water I ingested. I could be wrong, but I would have had to peed about 11 gallons of water over 2 days. That seems even less realistic to believe possible than just losing 8 lbs over the weekend.
Now, I’m not a doctor so I cannot give an official position or recommendation on this, but it sure works for me and it makes sense to me.
I also found that despite the very hard weekend (stress wise), I was able to stick to the cleans a lot better because I knew I was going to have to report it today. So thanks for your help! You kept me honest.
To our future success.
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Comments
Hi Jon! Good to hear from you. This is just the half way point. But progress is being made. Hopefully this will be an inspiration to others as well. Thanks!
Great!Thankr for your kind information.I will try to follow this.One of my friend has also said that little workout and stair climbing can also help to burn calories.
The information provided about the calories is nice to see the article and the main thing one should drink water more than 3 gallon which is good for health and for the skin protection
Let me just say, that as the spouse, I really do feel guilty for eating regular food while he does these cleanses – but this guy is one tough cookie and he is now to a weight that we haven't seen him at in . . . well, I can't remember, so that is how long it has been. We're going to have to take his suit in to have it altered to fit him better pretty soon – and get new belts since he is on the last belt hole. It is great to watch and support, because I know how frustrated Matt's weight has been to him all these years.
I do try to keep in mind what we eat as a family, so that the meals I and the kids are having are not Matt's favorites to make him long for them. So we plan meals that we all enjoy to be on days and at times when it is more reasonable for him to eat them with us. This really is a family effort – we don't use word like “diet” with the kids – we talk about eating healthier, Daddy being stronger and able to play more as he gets healthier – because we don't want to start an obsession about food and diets – we want healthy practices for the whole family. So we still have desserts and plan free food days for celebrations or outings, but I think the key is how we talk about it and act about it. Food is not our enemy – our attitude about food is our enemy.