Day's 9 and 10...

Day's 9 and 10 were the start of the Isogenix Protien Cleanse. Under advice from my former chiropractor and certified medical nutritionist I was advised that prior to going on any type of liver detox, that I should start by trying to cleanse the fat and toxins out of my stomach. He explained the process of stored sugars from binging on junk foods and alcohol, and basically how beer bellies are made. The basic concept is simple and makes a lot of sense. When one takes in more food, sugar, and alcohol than the liver and digestive organs can handle, the body needs to do something with these, and while the liver is taking its time to focus on the alcohol, all of the excess sugars are not able to make their way through the system and are stored as fat. Within this fat toxins get stored up because they havent been detoxed by the liver and kidneys. So when these things break lose they can be the root cause of many illnesses, including stomach bugs, sinus infections, etc.

His suggestion was to go on this Isogenix protien cleanse. This cleanse is focused on first introducing these root extract blend on a cleansing liquit to your system on en empty stomach to start the cleanse process. You then take these caplets that have your needed daily vitamins to make sure you dont do damage to your body. And for 2 days go with just this in a series of capsule, cleanse liquid rotations throughout the day.

Then for 5 days you do a high protien, low sugar, low fat, low glycegen diet, that consists of protien shakes for breakfast and dinner and a high protien focused lunch with whole grains, veggies, fruits and yogurt for lunch.

Then 2 more days of the original cleanse. Then resuming normal eating habits but trying to focus on healthy normal eating habits.

The desired effects is to turn your body on the fat making it attack it to get the sugar in needs / wants. This is expected to cause 5 to 10 lbs of weight loss within the 9 days as well as greatly increasing metabolism and energy levels. Well in 2 days I have already lost 4.2lbs. And my energy level is tremendous. Not eating wasnt as hard as I expected, drank a ton of water though, and falling asleep hungry was hard. THe non social aspects were difficult as most social interaction revolves around eating or drinking, but I spent a lot of time in the gym working out as I had all this excess energy.
I did a lot of cardio, worked out my back, shoulders, delts, chest, triceps, and even spent some time in Yoga. These two days were a bit of a challenge to deny the desire for food, and the caplets really did make a difference.

At the end I was very much looking forward to the smoothie and actual food for lunch the followin day though. But overall nowhere near as difficult as expected.