Day 8 of the Advocare 24 Day Challenge

It's been one whole week since starting and it doesn't feel like it's been that long.

Day 8 was good.

I took a rest day since it was my anniversary (12 years!) and we were going out to dinner. I knew that it would be a calorie bomb, so I adjusted what I ate all day long prior to dinnertime.

Fiber drink is back for these last three days of the Cleanse Phase - YAY! I'm still feeling great! I haven't weighed myself yet, but I can tell a difference in the way my clothes are fitting already. My husband says I look smaller in the tummy and sides, too! I have been working hard at the gym, so I'm wondering if I'm gaining any muscle. Right now, the muscles are still swollen from being worked so they look more defined, but I'm interested to see once it's been a few weeks how much of it is muscle and how much is swelling.

I'm interested in getting some Nighttime Recovery from Advocare to see how it can help with a quicker muscle repair.

I have been eating 100+ grams of protein everyday to help aid in this, includes meats, nut butters, and the Meal Replacement Shakes. I am also going to need some more Meal Replacement Shakes soon - they're so good! :)

So what did I eat yesterday? Too much! haha!

Breakfast: Spark, Fiber Drink, Meal Replacement Shakes

Morning Snack: Zone bar

Lunch: leftover turkey meatloaf, pureed cauliflower, and green beans with a salad, apple, and peanut butter

Afternoon Snack: I didn't have one.

Dinner: OMG everything at Texas de Brazil steakhouse. Lots of meat, salads (lettuce leaf salads, onion ceviche, greenbeans, artichoke hearts salad), some goat cheese terrine, mushrooms, a bunch of the small hot peppers, and some *bad* foods (a few of the cheese bread puff things and a quarter of a slice of their cheesecake). I did manage to skip out on the alcohol and really too much of the refined stuff.

We tried to walk off dinner afterwards by taking a few rounds around BridgeStreet. I missed my OmegaPlex at dinner, so I took it before bedtime. I ended up with a lot of heartburn from the peppers, but surprisingly did not wake up with a food hangover. That was awesome.

This morning I'm back on the clean eating train and tonight is Step class and maybe Flow - I need to stretch. I killed my triceps on Mon/Tue and now they are so stiff and sore!!