24 Day Challenge - Day 1

Well it has been a while but I am starting the Advocare 24 Day Challenge with my husband.  Today was the first day of the challenge and I felt this would be a good restart to my blog.  So first let me tell you how I found out about this challenge.  My friend from High School told me about Advocare back at our High School Reunion.  Then I saw another High School friend post about this challenge with Advocare and she put pictures with her words and I was amazed.  So I started researching the company and was totally impressed with the pro athletes that used the products and endorsed the company without pay.

In December my husband said we had to get healthy and I remembered the information on Advocare so I contacted my friend, Deonda, and said "tell me what this challenge is about?"   So she sent me to a place on the web to get the info.   (If you want info about the challenge you can go to www.advocare.com/141230885).  I made the decision to sign my husband and I up for the challenge.

Well, my husband was not happy but I asked him to just give me the 24 days and if it didn't work, we at least tried.  So we began prepping by trying the Spark drink.  I have to say I could not believe the energy and focus I got from drinking this immediately.  Then we went grocery shopping.  We didn't get anything all that different from what we normally get other than this time I didn't get any prepared frozen foods, only fresh vegetables and lean meats (we have been using lean meat for years).  Then I told my husband about is meeting I wanted to go to.  He said "No."  He explained that he would give me the 24 days but that was it, not going to go to any meeting.  Well, after a couple of days, I got him to agree.  It was so funny, he even took his IPad to the meeting, because he was "not interested."  That lasted all of of 5 minutes.  After meeting some success stories (other men), watching a video, learning about the medical board and, of course, the fact that Drew Brees uses Advocare, it was a different story.  He was hooked.  He even got upset that I didn't purchase him the optional supplements!  Go figure.

So here we are DAY 1!   And I can honestly say I feel good.  No diet foods, just healthy snacks and foods.  Of course today I had to do a fiber drink and that was not good, but it is only 3 days of that so I can deal.  A lot of this is preparing food and menus in advance so that we make the right choices.  So for breakfast I had premade breakfast bites.  These were eggs, potatoes, tomato, onion, green pepper, salt and pepper mixed together and baked in muffin pans in the oven, then frozen.  I just take one out in the morning and zap it in the microwave.  Snacks during the day consisted of fruit, nuts, and hummus.  Lunch was a salad with grilled shrimp.  Dinner was a chicken lettuce wrap and Asian cabbage salad.  All that along with 10 glasses of water and supplements.  I am stuffed.

Tonight before bed, I take an herbal cleanse.  I look forward to sharing our journey with you.  If all goes well, I may even post my before and after pictures.  Still considering that.