Got up this morning and made my lemonade for the day. Juiced 5 lemons and mixed it with 250ml Maple syrup and half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper to make the concentrate and then took about 400ml concentrate to work with me. I then dilute to taste throughout the day. I find it makes just over 2 litres of ‘lemonade’ when mixed with water.
I drink my litre of nasty warm saltwater when I first arrive in work, it usually takes me about 20 minutes to drink it, there’s no way I can drink it faster than that.
Half an hour later I start slowly drinking my lemonade to maintain my energy levels through the day. I supplement it with hourly cups of peppermint tea. I felt fine all day and wasn’t even tempted by all my colleagues heading over to the KFC, Actually, that’s a lie, I was slightly… but i resisted.
When I got home, I diluted the remaining 100 ml and drank it all and then went to the gym. I had a mixed work-out with 15 minutes cycling, followed by some weights, followed by 15 mins on this new machine thats a bit like a skating motion, it took a bit of getting used to but was a really good work-out, this was again followed by some weights and then 15 minutes on the cross-trainer and then some stretching.
I had no trouble pushing myself on the cardio equipment, the weights were a bit more difficult but then it has been about 4 months since I’ve been to the gym, I’m hoping that doing some weights while on the fast will prevent any muscular tissue from being broken down and only mainly fatty tissue being utilized for energy, but then the lack of protein in the diet over these 2 weeks will prevent any growth in the muscular tissue. Following the fast though, the switch to healthy balanced diet, should then allow the muscles to develop, (not that I want to look like a bodybuilder!!!)
Stats at 6m today:
weight: 142 lbs
Waist: 30 inches
Hips 40 inches
Bust 38 inches
Chest 33inches
Thigh: 22.5inches
Upper arm: 11.5inches
Its official. I am a fat bastard. I need to lose about 4 inches from everywhere, except the bust of course;-)