Still Not Dead

Turns out the chest pains I had yesterday were in fact to do with by back muscles - it totally disappeared last night after some carefully placed pressure from my massage therapist wifey.  Did make me feel  like a hypochondriac though!

Feeling good today and eating better so far, must try and keep this up and not fall into old habits.  Had a couple  of people at work tell me I looked a bit skinnier which is very encouraging.  Was a bit tough as there was a rather large supply of cakes to be had this morning......

Didn't get to walk to day but soon will I hope.

Not Dead

My short stint in hospital is finished, seems I'm perfectly healthy. Good.

The chest pain is muscular, probably caused by children. :-)

Day 4 and 5 - food again and a fun night.

I don't want to alarm you, but I'm blogging from hospital, strapped to an ECG machine. I don't believe it's related to the detox, but it's possible.

The basic story is that about lunch time yesterday I started having chest pains in the middle of my chest. Of course I ignored it. Anyway still happening when I went to bed, and woke up at 3.30 this morning with the pain. Also felt dizzy and had trouble breathing - the "heart attack trifecta" I thought.

So off to hospital I drove and have been strapped to machines since. So far heart looks ok, not the issue it seems so now waiting for a chest X-ray. At least they're letting me use my electronic friend (iPad) so I can keep amused writing blog entries!

Hopefully I'll be out of here before too long.

Anyway, started back on food yesterday with a light meal. Never have I enjoyed food so much.

Now will try and find a balance between juicing and eating. Juice between meals and with breakfast and I'm going to try cutting out sugar as its the root cause of my evils.

Just enjoying the hospital atmosphere, especially the drug addict that's been rabbiting on all night. He's now trying to leave but apparently they don't want him to just yet. I want him to leave. It's sad how people can get so messed up.

On another positive note, two of the nurses were talking about meeting up for a walk!

Day 4 - Pink Poo

I've now had so much vegetable juice I'm starting to turn into a vegetable.  In fact the beetroot stuff I had for lunch yesterday has just come to pass - so to speak!

Not feeling too bad but after walking today I felt dizzy - this detox thing is really knocking me around, probably more than I realise.  perhaps I've bottomed out now?  I hope so, only one more day to go and we can start re-introducing some more solid stuff again.  Craving carbs still.

End of day 3

While I am doing OK, this doesn't seem sustainable. It's a pain in the butt to do so much juicing and I still feel hungry all the time. Wife is struggling with energy levels.

Will see how tomorrow goes, hoping I can break through this pain barrier soon.


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Day 1&2

I must really need a detox. It's day 2 and I can say it's hard going. Did ok yesterday, but since last night I have felt dizzy and unwell. Didn't sleep well last night either and have struggled somewhat with the urge to eat solid food - especially having to make food for the kids!!

Still, I feel that I'm actually getting enough good stuff into me; it's just that my body is so used to eating certain food that it's craving what it's missing and I am suffering for it.

The worst part is the constant headache, like an addict getting off the hard stuff!

I'm hoping that by tomorrow I won't be feeling so bad, I think it's my brain telling me I'm hungry not my stomach.

We soldier on, just had a pretty good vegetable smoothie for lunch, hope it carries me for a while. All I want to do is crawl into a cave until this feeling passes......



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Reboot Time

A couple of days ago I watched a very interesting film called , "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead".  It follows the story of an Australian guy, Joe Cross, who after a life of business success and excess reaches crisis point with his health and goes on a "juice only" diet for 60 days while travelling across America (he can afford it).

The results and experiences he has along the way are fascinating and the film has now inspired a new industry of "rebooters" to try something similar.  While the cynic in me says that this "industry" was his plan all along (for example it's obvious the film was made for an American market and he has commercialised most aspects of the reboot), the results can't really be questioned.  Good luck to him, I say.

So my lovely wife and I are giving it a try for a paltry 5 days to see what happens.  If we survive that long we may extend it.

If you've been following this blog (let's face it, nobody has) you'll see it's been going for over two years and I have racked up well over 700kms of walking along with Paul, my colleague and partner in crime on this blog.  I personally have gained much from the walking and would highly recommend it - and yet although I walk I still struggle to lose weight for the simple reason that I have trouble controlling what I put in my mouth.  This innate lack of will power is the key problem that I (and I am sure many people) face.  Joe himself talks about this as his experience in the film.  What is even more extraordinary is the story of Phil the truck driver who weighed in at around 200kgs before trying the reboot in desperation and turned his life around.

Now let's put this into perspective - I am not and never have been morbidly obese.  I currently am 178cm (5'11") tall and weigh approx 95kgs (have weighed as much as 100) - not morbid, but I need to lose at least 10kgs, and I feel fat.  I desperately want to feel better and be "normal" but need to get myself out of the habit of eating bad food and retrain my body to accept what's good for it.

If people like Joe and Phil the truck driver can do it than surely I can?  We shall see.

I am at the start of day one and had a liquid breakfast and have my lunch (a dark blue drink bottle with some "Mean Green" like substance in it) sitting on my desk.  I am already fighting the urge to make a cup of tea, which I have every day (habit).  Sitting at a desk does not help one's willpower I can tell you that!

So here we go - I will try and post daily over the next few days to track progress, let's hope I can stick to the plan and get a successful reboot happening.

In the meantime, you should consider watching the film, it's really worth a look.

www.fatsickandnearlydead.com

http://www.jointhereboot.com

or there are some links to the actual film here.

How to use a Pedometer

Now I have to say up front that we don't use one on our walks because we track our walks with Runkeeper, but here's a link to a well written article which explains them for those of you who are interested in using one.

http://www.healthyexerciseworld.com/walking-pedometer.html