Pouch day THREE

Pam,

You're totally an inspiration - rocking this!!!  

The hot spin class must have been intense, but there truly is something SO rewarding about something like that.  Mentally as well as physically.   I'm not a yoga person (at least not yet - i'd like to try it at some point) but there's a "hot vinyasa" yoga class they run at my gym where they raise the room temp to something like 100 degrees for the class.  i've heard it's pretty amazing.

Karen

There's a girl on the other board who goes to hot yoga 5 or 6 days a week.  She's currently living in South Korea.  She LOVES it.  She has raved about how toned she is now compared to when she started it.  

I like yoga and wish they offered it at my gym like before.  They cut it for summer  

Yea....I wouldn't want to do something like that EVERY day by any means...but for the time...it was awesome.  Kind of weird to walk OUT of the gym on a 90 degree day and go hmm, it's really nice out here with this "cool" breeze.  And then realize, oh, wait, it's NOT cool out here...it's that I'm HOT.  lol

 Pam,

Great going I am very proud of you.

Funny, I was just talking about the 5 day pouch test with a friend of mine yesterday, asking her if she thought that if the day came, if either of us could do it.

Not sure that we could.  How horrible is it?  Is it easier or worse than you thought it would be?

Geoff

Actually - it wasn't as bad as I had anticipated - especially the liquid phase which I was most "afraid" of.  But I made sure I had LOTS of choices..protein shakes I new I liked..sf puddings and ice creams, sf jello...all sorts of stuff.  I wasn't "truly" hungry *most* of the time.  Head hunger, holy crap - TOTALLY different story.

What I had NOT anticipated was the true ability to really UNDERSTAND my addiction, and how it literally controls most of what I do, even to this day.  I mean, I knew I was an addict to food - but I didn't realize HOW much I think about it, how much I reach to it in grazing and things like that.

I also didn't realize how many of the rules I was breaking and how often...like drinking before, during and after meals.  I thought I was only taking a sip once in awhile..wrong..full fledged habit yet again.  Breaking that yet again is difficult and I never want to go back there.

You definately could if you need to reset your head, it's great.

 Pam,

That's a great lesson for all of us and very inspirational.

Thanks.
Geoff