A few posts ago I talked about how I was trying to focus on strengthening myself and whatever that meant to me, and what not. A handful of months ago I started having higher blood pressure issues, I mean I totally get it, I feel like I am on pins and needles all the time, anxiety through the roof! So I have been trying hard to figure out how to lower this sucker. I've been doing yoga often, took salt out of my diet, trying to stay away from processed foods, and so on. I really wasn't seeing the blood pressure get better. Friends of ours had gotten into the advocare stuff and when I was pregnant with Lua we went to their first get together information night, and I always kept that in the back of my mind and wondered if it would really help or if it really works and what not. Well 24 days ago I decided I would give it a shot because my blood pressure wasn't really improving and I felt like this may be the kick that I needed to get into gear maybe?? It started well, but I had a lot of setbacks! Like one, a husband! and second a vacation to Florida! So I know I didn't do my best, but in the first few days I could tell I for sure had more energy, which was something I was lacking in my depressive state, especially in the mornings. But for weight loss and measurements, I really wasn't seeing anything, I did notice my blood pressure got slightly better! Which is great! I was feeling a little defeated though with the rest of the results not kicking in and at that point I decided to keep my sugar intake under 30grams a day, Yeah we watched fed up and it seriously got to me! After the first few days of actually tracking how much sugar was in our foods, I seriously dropped my craving for sweets all the time! I enjoy my banana pancakes, but that right there if I add peanut butter is 3grams, maple syrup (which I stopped using after the sugar deletion) is like 6 grams, and there are actually 12 grams of sugar in the meal replacement packs advocare gives if you do that for lunch, and that right there is almost the recommended amount of sugar women should have! Anyway seeing the numbers helped me to be able to skip out on the extra treats! Instead, make sweet smoothies and snack on those :) . Well anyway, tomorrow my 24 days are up, so today I decided to see how I did although I kinda assumed it wasn't going to be great, I mean we did just get back from Florida and although I tried my best it wasn't the perfect way of eating. The results are, I lost close to 5lbs and an inch all over, I'm pretty shocked!! I thought I would tank this, but that is a good start! But the best is the fact that I can think a little more before diving right into crappy food because my mood is bad. Just because I feel like crap, running to something that will make me feel better for 5 seconds, will only make me feel even worse 5 hours later :( I also gained something more from advocare which will have to be talked about at a different time. But for those of you who are wondering, I believe it is a good program, it has loads of vitamins and helps you look at the food you are eating. I highly recommend it, and I also recommend the cutting out the added sugars too! I haven't seen what my blood pressure is lately but I will have to check on that soon.
Thanks for the jump start advocare!
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