Funny story. My youngest son is home from college for the summer. About a month ago he sent me a couple of text messages asking if I would put him and his girlfriend through a summer training program. “Well heck yeah!” I replied. Evidently texting is the only form of communication for young adults these days. But I digress.
So the training journey started exactly two days ago. Dear Lord I thought I was about to kill my own kid. For future reference to all of you moms out there with young adult males. Never say “he’s a little soft” because some how it will get back to him. I felt bad for about two seconds. Either I can toughen him up or life in general will. He came back for day two and there was nothing soft about him! He’s already asked me “what time are we training tonight?”. Now that’s my boy!
When I do things, I do them with full enthusiasm and dedication. This morning I took some “before” pictures, all of my measurements and heaven forbid my weight. Heaven forbid over my weight you say? Not my weight but that silly scale. It occurred to me as I read all of the instructions for the cleanse that I would be weighing more times in 9 days than I generally do over several months! I’m an athlete, the scale is irrelevant.
Today is “pre-cleanse day 1”. There are two of these days to gear your body up for the full-fledged 9 day cleanse. That means there will be two bonus days of writing material.
Ok, on to the IsaLean shake AKA breakfast. As I got ready to head to the gym I pondered….hmmm now what about my usual pre-workout protein/post workout protein? I made the executive decision to split the shake in half and drank half before my workout and half after. No issues there. I’ve had some pretty gross shakes over the years this one thankfully isn’t one of them. So far so good. I will enjoy documenting all of this. I lift heavy weights and I’m truly interested to see if there is any impact to my lifts.
Next will be a decent lunch of lean protein and fresh steamed veggies. This will be no problem. I love my normal clean food.
Water, water, water! Another shake for dinner and more water and no cooking! Yay for ME! See there is always a positive spin on things.
Have a great day and go lift heavy things!
garagegym107 
LOL…this is definitely your knack! I hope you didn’t hurt your son too much last night!
I plan on lifting heavy things tonight working on “Jack” ! SO excited to add your blog to my favorites! Way to work your son hard.
Thank you both so much!!
Okay, so you’re lifting heavy and you don’t have any hunger pangs today?? That’s what I’m afraid of…I’m used to the 6 meals a day. Were you famished before lunch??
This really intrigues me as well and I’m going to enjoy watching this from afar… 🙂
Love that your youngest wants to train! I have Luke for CFKids tonight…he wanted to quit during a little 5min AMRAP the other night, but of course I wouldn’t let him…I’m such a mean coach! haha!
Keep the stuff coming!! Love it!
Yes on the hunger pangs. By lunch I was certainly ready to eat. I’m going to elaborate more in my post for tomorrow so stay tuned!
I’m proud of my boy, he went through that whole “omg, this is killing me” to the “I will not let this defeat me”. It was really cool to watch from my perspective. He also has in the back of his mind “my mom can lift more than me”. That’s pretty good motivation whether he ever admits it or not! 🙂
Fun! I would LOVE to get my son into the gym with me. I’d love to see him pick up a barbell. He saw a pic of me the other day and said “wow…my mom could beat me up”. Ha!
I admire you for this cleanse you’re doing. I don’t know if I could do it…the shakes…I’m not a shake person at all. Carnation instant breakfast used to gag me. Slim-fast too. Protein shakes? Forget it! I’m curious to see how you do in the coming days.
Thanks so much for reading Angie!! I am so proud of the boy to say the least.