Last week, staff from Belmont Health & Wealth (four in total) are taking part in a “New Year’s Cleanse” eating plan for seven days, to help kick those nasty holiday cravings for salt and sugar. You can read about what it is here. Belmont employees were all encouraged to weigh themselves before the week started. We will be weighing ourselves at the end to report on the total weight loss, then again one week later to report on how we are doing once we “open the floodgates” back up to eating normally. The hope for this week is to not only kick some unhealthy cravings, but jump start some healthy eating habits! I will report my progress, as well as staff (who are participating anonymously).

Day Five

Last Friday was day five of the New Year’s Cleanse, which was fowl and tomatoes day. The directions for day five were as follows: “Chicken, Turkey and 6 tomatoes throughout the day. Make sure you drink a glass of water for each tomato you eat to wash the uric acid out of your body.”

Me: Day five went pretty good for me! I opted for chicken (no turkey) and because of my allergy to tomatoes, I replaced that with cucumbers instead. It was great not only having some vegetable but hot meals whenever I wanted, too! After the day before, this was a walk in the park!

Agent A: Friday was OK, I had chicken meatballs. But due to a bit of a medical issue I had to stop. Low blood pressure (and increased pain from surgery) caused me to pass out. When I am all better I will try again. I did learn to be more conscious of what I chose to eat.

Agent B: Ate plenty of tomato and chicken (not fried!) at lunch, and chicken again at dinner… couldn’t stay away from a fruit dessert (blueberries… I’m an addict now) but I figure that’s not bad.

Agent C: Mine ended on Friday unfortunately, just could not stay with the program.   (Did I mention this is NOT EASY?!)

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