Bad Hair Week!

I have had a very strange week.  It's like there are two of me.  Yes, there may be enough surface area/ matter to create two human beings - small ones that is.  This past week there have been two emotional me's.  I have been great on the outside.  Got up, worked out, been chipper at work and in meetings. And I have truly felt chipper, not just putting on a front.  I must have been dealing with subconscious things that were different. I say that because if there is one things I've learned in my life, it's that junk food makes me feel like I can handle tough emotional situations.  That's one of the things that I am trying to change in my new lifestyle.  However, this past week there has been this inside part of me that has an uncontrollable craving for junk food.  I have a little something to satisfy the craving, then I have an uncontrollable crave for something else.  Of course these cravings are for starches, sugar, and dairy.  All the things that helps me stay overweight and zaps my energy.  It has been non-stop this whole past week.  I'm sure part of it is coming off my yeast detox improperly.  I was supposed to slowly introduce things back into my diet and hold off a few weeks on the starches and sugars.  Instead, I ate anything I wanted and then some at my birthday bash.  Now the yeast cultures are happy to be multiplying in my system and they need more starch and sugar to do that.  Now I have to do the whole flavorless food for three weeks again :( to kill them off again.  This time, I will be smarter and slowly reintroduce things into my system.
I'm not sure what else is going on emotionally.  We have all watched enought Oprah and Dr. Phil to know that chronic overweight is due partially to emotional wellbeing.  This past week I have put back on all that I lost on the detox and I feel horrible.  My clothes are tight - remember I got rid of all my 'fat' clothes so I wouldn't get back into them. My skin is broken out. I have low energy and I don't fell like being social.  Am I depressed, not really. But there is something going on, I just don't know what.
I am forcing myself to workout and I hope I quickly process whatever is going on so I can start to make progress again soon.
What helps you in times like this?

... And water parted the plateau

Hello again.  Water.  It's such a simple chemical compound. Covers the majority of the Earth. Makes up the majority of our body composition - in one way or another. Life is unsustainable without it.  We know these things. We know that water is necessary for the human body to function.  So why don't we over indulge in it? For most adults, if given the choice - no strings attached, we would always choose some other liquid to imbibe.  Studies have shown that drinking water is great for your skin, complexion, joints and mobility, and weight management.  As a makeup artist, I can attest to the first two.  As someone that has been in multiple knee casts and arm slings, I can attest to the third.  Now I can attest to the last as well.  I had a doctor tell me several years ago that studies performed with older people have shown a slight weight loss and significant health improvement by changing one thing.  They all drank - guzzled - water the first thing when they woke up.  They drank as much water as they possibly could first thing in the morning. This alone created an average of a 10 pound weight loss in 6 months. My current doctor is always telling me to drink more water.  The average adult should consume half their body weight in ounces (100 lb adult should drink 50 oz of water) per day.  If you work out, the water drank during and directly after the workout does not count toward the daily consumption.
The trick is to not guzzle.  If you guzzle, then your body just acts like a water pipe and it flows directly through your digestive system without doing any of the good stuff it can do.  The best way to consume your daily water intake is to sip throughout the day.  I had to set a clock for every 30 minutes and when it went off, I took 2-4 gulps of water.
I've noticed that even if I eat a chocolate truffle right before bed, it doesn't effect me if I've drank enough water throughout the day.  By taking in little bits throughout, the water is able to help your body flush toxins, improve complexion, reverse some aging, and flush fat from stored fat cells.
As I said before, I gained 5 pounds celebrating my birthday. I quickly went back to eating clean and working out daily.  The scale did not budge. I finally started drinking water throughout the day and enough of it and this morning the scale dropped 2 pounds from yesterday morning.  Water! Glorious Water!  It's hard to drink as much water as I have to with my weight but it's worth it.

The Detox/ Cleanse .... Over indulge

I decided to do a yeast/ candida cleanse for a few weeks.  I was noticing many symptoms that pointed to too much yeast in my body and I was asked to be a test subject for HcG injections.  The HcG diet is very extreme and although I had no intentions of of taking in only 500 calories a day, I did intend to stick to the limited choice of food and it was inline with killing off the overgrowth of yeast in my body.  It was VERY difficult.  Eating bland flavorless food for 3 weeks and eating the same thing day in and day out.  I will say that I was able to lose quite a bit of weight (17 lbs) in 3 weeks and I had so much more energy since I was only putting clean food into my body.  I also knew that when I started eating flavor again, it would be hard to stop.  Sure enough, I finished the diet right before my birthday and I chose indulge since it was my birthday.  Not only did the indulgence make me physically ill because of the sugar and fats and starches - I also gained 5 lbs in one weekend!  Like I said, I knew once I had yummy, it would be hard to stop.  So, a new day, a new week, and back to working on the new me :).