Cleanse - Day fifteen

I must say, I've been feeling fantastic the last few days.  Especially Thursday, Friday and today.  I must say the cleanse is only part of it.  I do a lot to improve my health.  I don't know when my health problems started, but I'm estimating right around 20.  I did a lot of (what I know know to be) unhealthy things at that time:  birth control pills, diet pop, too much processed food, and not enough regular exercise, to name a few.

Well, over the past 7 or 8 years, I've really changed a lot of those habits.  I don't drink pop at all now, I take no artificial hormones (a lot of my problems are hormonal), the only drugs I take are an occasional headache reliever (which I haven't been needing much lately anyway).  I also stopped eating fast food as often as I used to, and started eating a LOT more home-cooked meals.  Breakfast and dinner almost every day, and many lunches, too.

Then a few months ago (beginning in November, 2010) I began getting really serious about making myself a healthier person - I got really just determined that I AM going to do this, I will lose weight, and I will prove to myself (and anyone who says it can't be done) that diet, exercise, healthy supplementation, and plenty of water can really change your life.  So I started exercising 3 to 5 times a week, drinking a gallon of water a day, eating a salad for lunch every day (I worked hard to make it a very tasty salad, not boring at all), and I almost totally gave up sugar.  I say almost totally, because I feel it is unnecessary and unreasonable to totally deprive yourself of occasional snacks.  And between November and March, I lost 25 pounds.

At the end of February, I was in a car accident, and that really threw me off track.  I was in pain for a few weeks - then the pain kept getting WORSE because I wasn't getting any treatment.  So my exercising went out the window for a while.  Then when I started exercising again, it would make me hurt more.  So it was very frustrating.  I was starting to feel like I was going backward, and it was getting depressing.

Well, for the past few weeks, I've really made it a point of getting my treatment - that means my chiropractic adjustments three times a week.  Then I started this cleanse.  Along with the cleanse, I went back to my healthier diet.  I have to give thanks to my co-worker, Kim, for sort of yelling at me one day because I was complaining about hurting, and she said she wasn't surprised, since I hadn't been getting my treatment the way I was supposed to!  So I'm thankful that she said that, and I'm glad I listened to her!!!

So I believe that getting my recommended treatment from my chiropractor and starting this cleanse really helped me to get my determination back, which is why I'm putting my diet back in line.  Which is helping the cleanse work better.  Which is going to help me get back on track with my goals of getting truly well!

We had a little cake this weekend for our anniversary.  Like I said, you can't totally deprive yourself!  But now the cake is gone, so my excuse is gone, too.  hahaha!