November 23 (Day 30) And Across the Finish Line We Go...

My first 30 Isagenix days are complete.  The cleanse process works well for me and here are (for reference) my starting and finishing statistics.

WEIGHT AND MEASUREMENTS TRACKER
	DAY 1	DAY 30	TOTAL
DATE	24/10/2013	22/11/2013
BODY FAT %	50	47	3
WEIGHT	230	214	16
NECK	16.875	15.563	1.313
UPPER ARM (LEFT)	14.500	13.250	1.250
UPPER ARM (RIGHT)	14.375	13.563	0.813
CHEST	46.500	44.750	1.750
DIAPHRAGM	41.125	38.250	2.875
WAIST (at belly button)	54.500	40.375	14.125
ABDOMEN	48.063	45.438	2.625
BUTTOCKS	46.500	44.000	2.500
UPPER THIGH (LT)	28.500	24.938	3.563
UPPER THIGH (RT)	29.000	25.188	3.813
CALF (LEFT)	17.125	16.500	0.625
CALF (RIGHT)	17.500	16.438	1.063
UPPER KNEE (LEFT)	20.000	18.313	1.688
UPPER KNEE (RIGHT)	20.500	18.250	2.250
TOTAL INCHES	415.063	374.813	40.250

I'm sorry the copy/paste didn't make it look any better - in a pinch (and early in the morning) this is the best I can produce for you right now.

The bottom line is that I have taken off 3% body fat, 16 pounds and a little over 40 inches.  As you can see, the measurements cover a whole bunch of different areas.

So where does this leave me with the experiment? I'm going to keep going.  Ideally I should be between 130 and 140 pounds and, of course, we all have that magic number of 20-25% body fat... I'm a woman in my 40's so that particular ideal may not be realistic for me... but the bottom line is that I still have a long way to go before I hit my own personal goals.

I took last night and will take today "off" cleansing - I had a (month long) brutal craving for Chicken Korma, rice and Naan bread through almost the whole cleanse and bought that from our local Indian restaraunt last night and celebrated with a plate of that and a pint of Strongbow cider.  After dinner I went outside and chopped wood for an hour - not enough cardio to justify that particular meal, but since I still have about 4 truck loads worth of wood out there to split, I am going to just be "OK" with eating some of the things I want to eat only for today. Surprisingly, though, there aren't any sweets on the list of things I want at the moment!! Tomorrow I will get right back to cleansing so that I can continue as I have started.

I will leave you with something I use for setting my own personal goals in hopes that, if you are reading this and want to set some specific goals of your own (be they weight loss or any other goals you have) remember to always make your goals SMART ones. Essentially SMART goals are:

• Specific - the goal should be as specific as possible - if manifesting a thing, get creative!
• Measurable - have numbers attached!!
• Achievable - whatever the goal may be, it needs to be something doable. a half marathon is doable in 3 months, with training... it is not doable in one week without training at all...
• Realistic - as for this one, I ask myself "is the goal realistic to my life, to what I am able to do for myself and for others and am I being honest with myself in the time frames?"
• Time Oriented - ALWAYS have a goal date - this allows for time lining backward. Project management 101 comes into play here - setting those time lines and milestones WORKS!

All the best in your journeys - wherever they may take you.

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