Renewed Energy

I am now doing this thing minus the refined sugars!  (aka: nothing with sugar added in the ingredients, no sugar except natural/fruit sugars).  Discovered that my mom has an extreme sensitivity to refined sugar. .. . . logic follows that I may have it, too.  So I'm going to give it a try.  Sugar might just be my problem (along with thyroid hormones, which are re-corrected as of yesterday).  Refined sugar causes your cells to retain fluid and mass, and also the metabolism of refined sugar actually steals other nutrients, minerals, enzymes, etc. from your body's tissues and organs. ....  among many other nasty things.  Bad, BAD stuff.  And even though I've been eating the P90X way that still includes things that have sugar added (not to mention those little 'treats' I allow myself, which are almost always sugar-laden).

So far so good.  I haven't had a lot of nasty withdrawal symptoms, save a little extra irritability.  I'm on day 3. The biggest thing was cutting out my creamer, which I love to have with my (decaf) coffee.  Black coffee?? Ugh.  But it really hasn't been bad.  Which just goes to show that once you set your mind to something, you can do just about anything!!  The mind is a powerful tool!

Plyometrics didn't turn out to be as bad as I had made it in my mind.  It was tough, no doubt - a definite heart rate kicker-upper...... but I didn't flog out as badly as I thought, and I didn't seem to have too much trouble with the knees. I tried to modify a little on some, to reduce the high impact.

FYI, I started another blog - this one specifically about the evils of refined sugar.  The address is: refinedsugarisevil.blogspot.com    Check it out if you want to find out more about what truly evil effects this poison has on your body!!  It explains a LOT about why our country is facing an epidemic of obesity and ill health.

Back at the program, this is week 1.  Shoulders and arms really caused a lot of soreness for me!  I think I was sore til almost Wedesday - whew!  Using your own body weight as a tool (aka: pushups, pull ups) really is a great way to build.  This weekend I think definitely I will go out for a run as the weather is supposed to be great!!

Keep pushing play! :)