Well, I did my weigh in this morning expecting to have gained a few pounds, but was surprised to see that I was only up .8 pd, which means that I did better at losing this week then I thought considering how swollen/bloated I am , so down 44.2pds since I started.

Goals for this coming week

• Food Journel Daily -Yes, and did very well overall in terms of calories
• Wii Fitness workout 3x a week -No, I did double duty on the farm, there was no way that I was adding in workouts, between the many extra truggling though breaking snow over an over again from the house to the barn, I was sore enough without adding more.
• Kettle Bell- Basic Swing 2 sets of 30 swings total daily -yes, and do I feel it in my abs and legs.
• Train the Baby Ox twice this week -Outside no- but in the barn mannors, daily.
• Set up and prep two Jugs for new lambs -yes and they are both being used
• Get to one Aqua fit class -Ha, no, and who would want to in this cold!

So I made a mistake this week and boy did I pay for it, I had removed corn syrup from our diet months ago,(I don’t use any kind of diet sweeter’s and have not for years) We have not had pop in the house for months of any kind. Because I make all of our own food from the basic ingredents, we don’t eat anything with corn syrup in it, well last week we got a bottle baby lamb, and we had the pop bottle nipples but after hunting the house, we realized that we had no pop bottles to go with them, we did have some left over water bottles from christmas as some folks that visited don’t like our well water, but their mouths were to big for the nipple screw on’s to fit.. so we picked up a six pack of ginger-ale and we had a little pop,  I figured I was having half a bottle a day for a bit, then on saturday, I got myself a real treat, they had pita bread on sale, eight peice bag on sale for one dollar, this is something that I make at home and its ok, but its not like the store ones, I guess I need to work harder to figure out how to get that same wonderful chewy texture.

Well after about 4 days of pop, I hurt, my knee’s hurt, my wrists hurt, my head hurt and I was swollen, pants that days before were loose and needed me to tighten the strings now were tight, I measured myself and my middle was swollen by almost two inches.

I was surprised and to be honest, thought, am I getting sick? finally I looked at my food journel, had I done anything different, why yes I had, I had pop and I had a pita per day for about four days durning this time I felt worse and worse. So I took a good hard look at them both and they both had corn syrup in them, something that I don’t PUT in my body and wow did my body let me know that this was BAD!

I feed the rest of the pita to the hounds, and have not touched the pop since and each day since I am getting better, the swelling is slowly going down, the pain in my joints is slowing getting better, and my head has slowly stopped hurting, with the feeling of pressure easing..

I also took the step of making food that would help reduce inflamation and drinking lots of warm water, with a touch of apple cider vinager in it with local raw honey, and I am slowing getting better.

Goals for this week

• continue to detox my body and give it extra care in food choices
• sleep as required, if I need a nap, take one
• keep your food journel in detail, -keep your meals simple
• Drink extra water to flush system
• Kettlebell workout daily
• Eat Protein for breakfast each day
• Eat more Protein daily this week
• Take the time to enjoy the little things this week
• Go out at least once with the camera and just wonder around and look at the world from the veiwfinder.