GNC Total Lean 7 Day Fast Loss – Day 6

Weight: 259.6  (+0.6 lbs)

Mood:  Feeling so much better!  I think I’ve finally beat this head cold.  DH (Dear husband) and I have done really well on this fast the last week. We haven’t felt unduly hungry, and while the shakes can be a little gritty, their taste is pleasant.  The other day I heated my chocolate shake up on the stove as hot chocolate – it was really comforting.  The “pre-cleanse” drink tastes an awful lot like mild orange juice.  I’ve also noticed during the last 6 days that gotten satiated much faster during dinner than before.

DH has asked me to fast a little longer with him while he is going through a job interview, so we’ve decided to do the 7 day fast for another week.  For the next three days, however, we are also going to fast from the dinner portion of the plan.  Instead, we are going to replace the regular meal with a raw meal.  Today, we are going to make green smoothies.  My husband also wants to try a recipe we found from Living Raw Food, the Pineapple Cilantro Shake.

Once we’ve made these, I’ll post pictures and reviews (although we’ve had the green smoothie already and it IS SO GOOD!).

GNC Total Lean 7 Day Fast Loss – Day 5

Weight: 259 (-0.8 lbs)

Mood: I am still fighting off this cold, but I can’t believe the impact this fast has had.  My husband has also noticed weight loss; he’s told me he’s lost about 5 lbs so far this week.

I am hesitant about so much water weight loss, so I hope that at the end of the week we can take the momentum we’ve created here to push us onward.

GNC 7 Day Fast Loss – Day 4

Weight: 259.8 (-.8 lbs)

Mood: Much better than yesterday.  I took some Nyquil, so I’m getting this germ-y stuff out.  I did not take the Superfoods supplement yesterday, and my water intake was lower than normal.  Overall, I am very surprised with the results so far.  I think that my excess salt intake over the last month or so in playing into this large weight loss (from retained water), but I’m definitely going to take what I can get!

GNC Total Lean 7 Day Fast Loss – Day 3

Weight: 260.6 (-2.0 lbs)

Mood: So Tired!  It probably has nothing to do with the fast, I seem to have caught some sort of head congestion bug.  😦

Not much to report today, as I am not feeling well.  Still planning on completing my regimine for today.

GNC 7 Day Fast Loss – Day 2

Weight: 262.6 (-2.4 lbs)

Mood: like a small snowball beginning a descent on Mount Everest.

My weight already fluctuates by 2-3 pounds everyday, so this is not unusual, but I’ll take it!  I’m very interested to see what the difference is in my weight day-to-day on this GNC plan vice my normal daily work week.

**Update:  While I am completing the Fast Loss, I am also taking a multi-vitamin as well as a SuperFoods supplement.

GNC Total Lean 7 Day Fast Loss

Weight:  265.0 (+7.6)

Mood:  😥

The following isn’t going to seem very related to the subject of my post, but in the interest of keeping myself accountable through my struggle, I need to summarize recent events first!

I think the number in red says it all.  I need help; more help than I can give myself obviously.  My husband did me a huge favor and contacted the medical facility where I participated in the weight loss fast and found out some great information, so I will follow up on that this week.

Where did I go wrong (lessons learned)?

First, I wasn’t diligent in my calorie tracking.   Tracking at work is easy enough, but once I got home it was a completely different story.  I over indulged and tracking was not a word in my vocabulary.  Also, I haven’t been exercising.

My husband and I went to Santa Barbara this weekend.  It was picturesque, as usual, but meant “eating out” for every meal.  By the end of the weekend, I was definitely feeling the effects of my “celebration of food.” 

– My hands were swollen from all the salt/water retention

– I felt bloated

– I gained weight (Surprise!)

So where does “GNC Total Lean 7 Day Fast Loss” come in? 

Well, my husband saw the kit online and was interested in using it as a “fast.”  Remember when I mentioned going on a fast here?  Well, my “detox” isn’t working (read: I’m bucking my own system!) and my husband wasn’t participating in it at all, so this is something we can do together.

Today marks our first day on the kit, and each day you take the following:

– a complement of pills taken in the morning: Green Tea Complex (for enhanced metabolism), 2 Waterex(for maintaining water balance), 2 burn 60 (for burning calories and increased energy)

– 2 daily shakes at 180 calories each, which the GNC guy recommended we mix with milk (for about 280 calories each).  This is supposed to be combined with a sensible meal plan totalling 1500 calories per day.

– 1 Pre-Diet Cleanse drink to be taken at night.  The GNC guy told us that it tasted like OJ.  The drink is a fiber, fruit, and veggie based toxin cleanser and nourisher.

I know I need this kick in the pants, so I’m really hopeful that doing this together with my husband will get us up and going!