This positive attitude thing isn’t ½ bad.  I mean I can’t say that I’m excited to eat, but I’m not as mad about it

I know it’s only day 4, but it does feel like forever.  The weekends go by in a blink of an eye, so I just have one more day this week!

I’m not a big candy eater, and even less of a chocolate eater.  I saw a commercial for the new dark chocolate reese’s peanut butter cup, and about started salivating.  It’s funny how much more desirable things become when you can’t have them.

I don’t really want a reese’s peanut butter cup, I want what it represents.  I know that if I ate it, it may make me feel better for a short while, but will leave me feeling worse than when I started.

I’m finally getting in my green!!  I’m actually starting to enjoy all the vegetables.  Today I ate a whole tomato with breakfast, and a whole cucumber with lunch.  I didn’t even need dressing with my snap pea’s.  I enjoyed the taste.  I know that sounds weird, but that’s part of what I love about this cleanse.  It almost feels like your senses are enhanced, eventually. Don’t get me wrong, anytime someone says pizza I go in a homer-Simpson like trance and have to catch myself before I drool….but I’m starting to really enjoy eating so clean, and drinking so much water.

Daily Food Journal:
Breakfast: Chicken breakfast sausage scramble, with a side of spinach and turkey bacon
3 Egg Whites, 2 Chicken Breakfast Sausage, 1tbsp salsa, and 3/4cup cook spinach with 1 turkey bacon

Lunch: Turkey Taco Salad
5.5oz Ground Extra Lean Turkey(grilled in taco seasoning), 1 cup cherry tomatoes, 3cups romaine lettuce, 2tbsp salsa 

Dinner: Shrimp and Chicken Stir Fry
4oz chicken, 10 shrimp, 3cups trader joe’s stir fry, 1/2 cup mushrooms

Snack 1: Protein Shake
4oz almond milk, 1 scoop protein powder

Snack 2: 1 oz Sunflower seeds

Daily Totals: 1,168calories/ 54g fat/ 96 Ounces of H20

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Today was MUCH MUCH better.  Day three is typically a really hard one.  I think my positive thinking is helping.  I’m still craving high added sugar items, like ice cream, cereal, and Chinese food.  This tells me I still have a lot of cleansing to do.  Pretty soon I start craving fruits and whole grains…mmmmm….I sure wouldn’t mind either of those right now!! 

I will admit I’ve gone a little over board on the sunflower seeds, but my daily fat intake hasn’t been over.  I’ll just need to remember to be watchful when I have higher fat meats (like salon or Turbot).

My energy hasn’t been too low, and I’ve been getting in more water and chomping down on the greens.  I’m still not feeling great, and I know the best energy surge it yet to come!

I’ve been doing lower intensity, consistent exercises (instead of high intensity intervals) to compensate for my low carbohydrate level.  I have a really hard workout planned for tomorrow, and I know my metabolism is going to need for than 1200 calories.  It’s going to be a challenge to force more food down.  I’m going to ad ½ a portion to one of my shakes, and 2 extra ounces of protein to my post-workout lunch.

I’m really excited to try a Cleanse Turkey Taco Salad that Belinda suggested today at camp.  Ground Turkey, Taco Seasoning (with no added sugar), lettuce, tomato, salsa, etc…

I’ve also just put 6oz of almond milk, 1 scoop of chocolate protein powder, and 1 tsp of peppermint in the freezer to try to make a cleanse friendly ice cream/frosty…..I’ll let you know how it turns out!

Breakfast: 3 Slices Turkey Bacon, Protein Shake with Almond milk, 1 Tbsp Sunflower Seeds, and 1 Tomato               
(273cal./10fat) 

 Lunch: 5.5 Ounce Chicken Salad ( cucumber, romaine lettuce, cherry tomato, yellow tomatoes, snap peas) with lemon juice, garlic powder, pepper, and sea salt.                             
(230cal/3g fat) 

Dinner: Shrimp Stir Fry: 6oz Shrimp , cooked, 3Cups Trader Joe’s cabbage stir fry, broccoli, snap pea’s, and 1tbsp sunflower seeds)
(333cal/6g fat) 

Snack: 2 tbsp Sunflower Seeds
(89cal/8g fat)

 Snack 2: Turkey Burger-4oz Turkey Breast, 1 tbsp onion, 1 tbsp mustard, 1/2c mushrooms, and 2 Tbsp sunflower seeds
(258cal/15g fat)

Daily Total 1,182calories/42g fat

                                             Week One is ½ over that quick!!!!

~Maddog

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Fitness cannot be bought.  There is no cheating, no easy button, and no short cuts.  Fitness is a way of life, it’s a choice.  It’s not parking in the closest spot, choosing turkey over beef, the stairs over the elevator, wheat over white, fab over flab, and staying active regularly.  Fitness is not a small clothes size, looking hot in a bikini/swim shorts, or making all your friend envious-it’s all THAT plus more energy, less aches and pains, a boost in confidence, and much more!

My name is Maddog Megan, and I run Sacramento’s premier outdoor fitness community Action Boot Camps!  As a boot camp instructor, it’s my job to get my clients to their goals, and keep them there!!  Some plans ask for a dramatic temporary change, to get results that won’t last.  Other programs try to fit every client into one cookie cutter size box, causing many to lose their motivation.  Still others ask for unrealistic changes, leaving clients discouraged from a lack of results.  My program is about realistic life style changes, making fitness your way of life. 

Currently I’m a student at Sacramento State University with a special major in dietetics, working toward becoming a registered dietician.  I’ve been working in the fitness industry for the last six years, and am happy to report I’ve finally found my passion.  For me fitness started as a means to get through college.  I had decided to become a lawyer and got a job at a local gym to get through school.  I’d always been into health and fitness, but never put a science into it. 

At the all to young age of 52, my father died from a heart attack- largely due to a bad diet and lack of exercise.  My world stopped.  My father would never see me graduate from college, walk me down the isle, see his grandkids, or just enjoy another day on earth with family and friends-over one hour a day of exercise and food.  Sad.  Even sadder, he isn’t alone; or even a rare case.  Each year 39.8million people (that’s 1 in 6) die from health risk connected to being over weight.  Each year 39.8 million families lose a loved one, to a completely preventable cause.  Each year 39.8 million people realize, at least for an instant, they made the wrong choice.  Not to long after my father passed, I changed my major in college, and found my true passion.

I used to keep my personal story to myself.  Only explaining where my passion comes from when pressed for information, until I realized (hopefully) that my story may be able help motivate, and prevent someone else from making the same deadly mistakes.  And it explains my no b.s. attitude. 

 In my programs you’ll find high intensity exercises, designed to lower your body fat, and build muscle along with realistic balanced nutritional plans geared at teaching you how to eat right.  Whether you’re looking to lose weight, gain muscle, or just get healthier my program WILL work for you! 

  What’s your choice?

In my blog you’ll find recipes, fitness tips, and motivation.  Please feel free to drop me an email if there’s a topic you’d like me to write about!  Become my friend on Facebook to get emailed whenever I have a new blog.  Stay tuned- the next topic is carbohydrates-how much, what kind, and why!

~Maddog

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Oh Mondays….why do you treat me this way??  To be honest, today wasn’t much better than yesterday.  I didn’t want to eat anything, talk to anyone, or move.  “Why oh WHY did I start this” I thought to myself.  I blamed my bad attitude on this cleanse, until I realized…I’ve had a bad attitude since day one.  Isn’t not the cleanse that’s the problem….it’s me.  I want to get back into great shape, I want more energy, I want to fit back into my skinny jeans!!  But I don’t want to do the work. 

Sometimes when you have a lot of negativity, it’s easier, and feels better, to just be angry, instead of doing the work it takes to rid yourself of all the negative.

 Well now it comes down what do I want more….The choice is easy….I would like to just be negative

OF COURSE I CHOOSE TO GET AND STAY POSITIVE

But these means I will have to stay positive, even when I don’t feel like it.  On that positive note, I had a great day nutritionally.  And I might even reach as far as to say my ab’s are feeling flatter already!

At camp this evening I heard a lot of people going through the same negative feelings.  Hang in there!!  It gets better…..soon….I promise!                                                                            

Breakfast:

8oz Almond Milk, 1 scoop Designer Whey, 1 Tbsp Fiber Sure, 1tsp cinnamon, 1tsp mint extract

(140calories/5g fat)

Lunch:                                                                        

4 oz Trader Joe’s Seasoned Turbot and a large salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, celery, snap peas) with lemon juice and garlic salt.

            (183calories/2g fat)

Dinner:                                                          

6oz Turkey Burger wrapped in a lettuce, with mustard, mushrooms, and pickle

(279/20g fat)

Snack:                                      
1 tbsp Almond Butter and 3 celery stalks         

(120cal /10g fat)          

Snack 2 :                                                                                   

2cans of Tuna Stuffed in 2.5 Bell

            (225cal /3g fat)

Snack 3:                                          

8oz Almond Milk, 1 scoop Designer Whey, 1 Tbsp Fiber Sure, 1tsp cinnamon, 1tsp mint extract

(140calories/5g fat)

Daily Total: 1326/44g fat/ 80 oz Water 

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