My Cinch Adventure-by Steve

MY CINCH ADVENTURE

As I venture into week two of my commitment to change my life, not diet, but to overhaul the way I look at myself, the way I look at food and the way that I see how what I put into my body becomes a reflection that tells a story.  And for the past 5 years I didn’t like the way the story was taking me.  

I began Cinch partly while I was at the Convention and all the way after we got home last Sunday.  Before I left, I weighed 275 lbs. This morning, I got on the scale at 267.5.   That is seven and one half pounds in the last 11 days.  

The first week of every diet that I have been on has been of course been the hardest but where I have always seen quick results.  The problem was that by the end of the first week, I was either sick, weak, stressed etc. from denying myself of what I like to do most.  EAT.   Heaven knows how many calories I was consuming when I was eating out of control at all times of the day but mostly at night.

I take customers to lunch daily and so I had a protein shake every morning and took customers to lunch, tweeking my menu choices a bit and had a snack bar and shake for dinner with another snack about 9:00pm. 

I put an app on my smart phone called Livestrong and it helps me keep up with my calorie intake along with exersize.  I have stayed within my 2100 calories this past week and I feel fantastic.  I take Vitalizer Gold every morning and that keeps all my insides at an even keel.   

I remember back when I was a teenager, I went out about every night and would get home late and always, my mom would have a plate of food for me to eat before I went to sleep.  It created a habit within my that still resides to this day.  I cant sleep until my tummy is full.  Breaking that bad habit. 

I was with the youth at my church Wed night and we were playing a game, hold to the rod where we blindfolded the youth and we walked them up to this rope that led them thru different temptations, well I had a water bottle spraying them.  I went up to my son, Josh, which was blindfolded, and sprayed him and he said, hey dad.  I said how do you know it was me? And he said that he could hear me breathing.  That was a aha moment that hit me hard.  I have heard heavy people breathe and now I was doing it.  That has got to stop. 

I have shared information about Shaklee more this week than I ever had.  I do believe in their products and it has made this first week more than tolerable.  I am going into the second week invigorated and feel great, not weak or sick.  Gotta go now and eat a snack, not because I am hungry but because I had a shake this morning, red beans and rice with Caesar salad at Owen Brennans and I still have 1,271 calories left today.  After that I am going to ride my bike because I feel good.  See you next week.