Feeling Physically Lousy

I put on like 3 kg over CNY & managed to ditch it in 3 days at the expense of my own discomfort. I think at least 1 kg of that weight was from water retention. I hadn't been on my herbalife diet for maybe about 2 weeks. No meal replacements, no supplements, minimal drinking of water. On the 1st day of restarting my diet, I peed a lot after taking the supplements, 1 of which is to help reduce water retention. :P At that point, I still hadn't drank much yet I kept going to pee. I literally fasted myself. I didn't take the meal replacement at all. Just took the supplements & drank the herbal tea with aloe.

This went on for 2 days & I coupled exercising with it. I just pushed my body to the limits. 1 of the 1st things to go when dieting is muscle mass loss. Muscles require more energy to maintain than fats. So when the body is in starvation mode, it'll rather get rid of something that burns more energy. If I don't exercise, I'm just gonna lose muscles which will lower my metabolic rate even more. I felt really lousy. I felt weak, devoid of any energy or strength. All I wanna do is lie in bed motionless. But I had to work.

I suspect that my body was choked full of toxins from all that gorging during CNY. I had headaches almost daily & I was badly constipated. (I hadn't gone in 1 week.) My toxins "spot" on both arms were worse than before. It actually got better when I stuck to the diet but it came back when I went off rail. (According to my herbalife consultant, the reddish spots on the upper arms are due to toxins from constipation. So for someone like me who has been chronically constipated for years, it's all over both my upper arms & lightly peppered over my shoulder blades on my back.) This was before restarting my diet. But going back on the diet didn't help me with my constipation problem. Yesterday at JB, I saw this product that is also on sale in SG. Kinohimitsu 6 day detox program. Looking at the ingredients, it contained all the concentrated juice & decided to give it a try. It's my 2nd day & it works. Like it promised, I didn't LS. So at least I'm rid of that nasty bloated & constipated feeling in my stomach.

Yesterday I had real food at JB so I didn't take my meal replacements. Just took the supplements. Today at day 4, I restarted my meal replacements. I'm done with my fasting mode, having shitted & shrunk my stomach. I felt giddy & cold all the time even though the fan wasn't switched on. My hypocount (blood sugar level) is constantly normal, around 5.2 mmol average. I don't have a BP machine at home so I don't know if my giddiness was due to low blood pressure.

Does my dieting regime sound extreme? Ya, probably the 2 days fasting part. It's over & done with now. I just gotta exercise, take 2 meal replacements & eat 1 healthy meal. SH lost from 62 kg to her current 56 kg. Cool right? She has 1 more kg to go to reach her target weight & she may go for a bit more. For me, I have 13 kg more to go at 63 kg. Why is my target weight 5 kg less than hers even though we're of the same height? Becoz she's big boned & I'm not. So she's not exactly carrying the weight in fats like I do.

Over the 2 mths, I did lose fats but I lost muscle mass as well. I can't wait for the weigh in & measurements taking on Thurs. I wanna see if the weight I lost is fats or muscles so I know if the exercise is working. Take 1 small step at a time. My focus is to get to 60 kg now.

I tried to get Jeff to join me. But the thought of eating only 1 normal meal puts him off. He needs to lose about 9 kg to be of normal weight. I want him to lose weight not becoz I "sian" him fat. Afterall, I married him when he was at his fattest at 89 kg & he married me when I was the fattest at 74 kg. I just want him to be healthier & reduce his chances of getting various diseases. Why do we get married? Becoz we want to spend the rest of our lives together & I don't want that "rest of our lives" to be 30 yrs. I want it to be 60 yrs & beyond.