Today I am joined to others of like mind on the same journey

So, today starts pretty much like most recent Tuesdays, I weighed myself and am at 203, which is 7 pounds below my usual starting point for the last year of cleansing and shakes regimen.  Last night I joined up with a small group of people working to build Isagenix and gain their health back, and we are going to be accountable to each other for a lot of the effort that normally I have to motivate myself to do.

So this morning, I am starting my recently arranged weekly two day cleanse, but I feel a whole lot better about where I am starting today because I am joined by several others who are also desirous and committed to change their lives, and we have the most awesome blend of minerals, enzymes, proteins and vitamins to do it.

The best part is that the effects most people notice using Isagenix are so real and lasting that this business has built a strong foundation of people who started for the weightloss and have gone on to be millionaires or at least financially free by showing others what they did. Hundreds of people have become free financially by freeing themselves of health burdens, how many businesses can claim such a wonderful vision and pattern?

So today I embark on a new leg of my journey, but with a new determination to make the most of this not only for myself, but for as many others as I can bring along with me. 

My primary goal is in about two months, by mid October 13, to be at my goal weight of 185. 

The benefits I see just of accomplishing that will potentially be to improve my diabetic condition or even be rid of it, to become more fit as my body becomes better at burning fat, and more energetic to increase my exercise regimen, and to look and feel better for my forever partner, Holly, who has for years worried that my health might take me away from her before we could enjoy the life we have imagined together.

I'll keep you posted.

While I did not stay below 200 lbs yet, my new plateau is 202

I was disappointed that while I dipped below 200 for one day, my weight still climbed back as high as 206 during the following week, actually two weeks now, since I did not cleanse last Tues Weds.  

 

Fortunately however, my new eating habits seem to have kept me more in the low end of that range for most of the last two weeks, so it at least seems that I have dropped below the 210 plateau and once I cleanse again these next two weeks should be able to drop well into the 190s.

 

Holly and I have begun shopping for more raw and wholesome foods we can incorporate into smoothies to augment the progress we are making with the Isagenix cleanse and shake program.  Diets can have quicker effects on the weight, but are usually short-lived because they are not true lifestyle changes, and often the benefits are reversed because people get back into their old patterns of eating.

 

I am set on a new path and Holly and I are getting ever closer to being 80% raw fruit and vegetable, or lightly cooked to preserve the nutrients, and a lot less meats.  There are a lot of ways to get the full complement of proteins our bodies need, and one way is the Whey protein shakes I get one or two of each day I am not cleansing.  Not only does it have a full array of amino acids but many of the enzymes necessary to help digest its components, including lactase for the whey protein which is much better for muscle building than soy protein.

 

I may do another entry for tomorrow as I weigh in for another couple of weeks of Tues Weds cleansing.  This morning I was at 202 which is exciting because I have not done anything for the last two weeks except work at eating better.  This morning I am eating some figs we got from Trader Joes during our healthy shopping spree over the weekend.

 

I am restarting my Blog, and am pleased to see the difference a few years have made

I am currently very committed to using Isagenix products and eating more raw, whole foods than ever before.  I am excited to say that as of this morning, my weight going into a Two-Day Cleanse of Isagenix, was 201, which makes it almost a certainty that I will break through the 200 barrier for the first time in years of trying to gain my health back.  It will actually be the first time I have been healthy and below 200 since Holly and I met 24 years ago, though I do not remember how long after marrying it took me to pass up 200 on my way to the height of my weight problem, about 245 at its worst.

 

Most of my adult life I have had difficulty with my weight, but at age 28, I truly liked the way I looked and felt, and so here I am at 52, approaching an opportunity to get back to that weight and possibly buy back some of my health in the process, since I have been told repeatedly that most of my issues revolve around the extra weight I carry around.

 

So I am back and heading downward in weight and upward in health.

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