3 Day Refresh Day 3 Meal by Meal Feedback

Day 2 was much better then Day 1. I didn't feel overly tired and I actually stayed up to watch Doctor Who Series 8 premier ... yes, I am a nerd and a geek and a Whovian!

I opted out of the soup portion of my dinner and I did the Vanilla Fresh correctly last night. That is to say, without fruit.

Someone asked me what my purpose was for doing the Refresh. First, it's to remove all the toxins from my body. When I started Les Mills Combat, I utilized one of their recipes for lunch quite often, the Burger. It seems my body does not like red meat on a continual basis and typically I only eat poultry and fish. Those burgers really did a number on me and I was bloated and crampy and just ... ugh. So I want to clear the remnants of that out of my system. Secondly, I wanted to re establish that I have self control and self discipline. Doing something like this requires both. My boyfriend got Subway last night. I wanted one SO BADLY, especially after moving stuff around all afternoon but I got home and measured out my baby carrots and my avocado and had that instead. Self discipline at it's finest. Read more after the break

3 Day Refresh ... Day 1

I decided to do the 3 Day Refresh this weekend (August 22-24, 2014). Over the course of the next 3 days I will be consuming LIMITED calories as well as healthy drinks and veggies. I started out this morning by taking my measurements and weighing myself. I will report on all of that on Monday when I am done with this journey.

Please always check with a physician before starting a refresh, or any workout program to make sure that you are safe to do so.

When I look at my breakdown of meals on MFP I am really getting about the same amount of calories as I would on a normal day, I am just not "chewing" all my calories. The only thing that is really different are my snacks, which are typically higher in calories to fuel my after work workouts.

My macros are 47% Carbs, 29% Fat (all healthy fat) and 24% Protein so I am falling a tad short of my 50%, 20%, 30% macro goals.

My breakfast calories are a tad low at 175 calories, Lunch is 402 (includes calories for Fibersweep) and dinner is 304. This is about "normal" for me with the exception of breakfast which is usually between 250 and 350 calories.

The real challenge today will be no coffee. I have 2 green teas scheduled so we'll see how that goes. I have a 1/2 hour until breakfast and that will be vanilla shakeology, 1/2 frozen banana, 10oz of water and ice. I don't drink Shakeology with water typically, so we'll see how this goes. The banana should help.

I will check back over the next 3 days. 

Using the "Save Meal" Function on My Fitness Pal

Like me, many of you use My Fitness Pal to enter your food and keep track of what you are doing. I find that many meals I have are similar and it becomes cumbersome to fill in the individual ingredients every day. I have been doing this since 2010 so any "shortcut" I can utilize to make this easier I am going to use. Read more by clicking the link!