Haylie Pomroy 10 Day Cleanse day by day

 I'm going to try Haylie Pomroy's celebrity-touted 10-day cleanse. I will attempt to post daily how it's going. To begin, I ordered the program on October 29, 2024 and it shipped the next day. Today is November 2nd and it's not yet here. The shipping tracker claims it will arrive tomorrow, Sunday but I'll believe it when I see it. I have a friend also doing it and while she also ordered hers on the 29th, hers apparently won't arrive until Monday. That means I may wait until Tuesday to begin. I'll keep you posted!  In the meantime, tomorrow I plan to shop for and prep some of the food from the meal map (a chili with a TON of beans) and some fruits and veggies. Stay tuned!

DAY 1                                                                                                TUESDAY, NOV 5, 2024

Thanks to the time change, I woke up crazy early and couldn't get back to sleep. I finally rolled out of bed at 6am and went to turn on the coffee. Then I remembered that today was THE day, so I kept on walking. I drank water until 7am, when I decided to try my first shake. The plan for the day is: SHAKE-SNACK-SHAKE-SNACK-DINNER. The shake was 'fine'. I didn't hate it, nor did I love it.

It is currently 9:50am and I've had my first shake and snack and I am starving! I added an herbal caffeine free hot tea but that didn't help. I'm about to go walk the dog to tr and distract myself.

DAY 2                                                                                               WEDNESDAY, NOV 6, 2024

I failed to write more last night but let's just say that despite it being the Presidential election, I went to bed at 845pm. I was hungry and tired. I made the broccoli, rice and chicken dinner from the Cleanse booklet and without any fat, it was just flavorless and sad.

I'm finding some oddities with the cleanse plan. For example, sweet potatoes and olives are both on the Vegetables list and supposedly they are "unlimited" Given that olives have quite a bit of fat and fat isn't allowed until the last 3 days, I find this unusual. Also, sweet potatoes. Those are very different from the other unlimited vegetables. Are they truly allowed in unlimited quantities? Then again, who would/could eat much of a sweet potato without any fat at all. 

As for today, I woke up NOT starving. I definitely would love coffee. I'm trying decaf tea and it just makes me sad. What is the point? I weighed MORE today than yesterday by .8lbs, so yeah but I think it's just a cycle thing and hopefully will turn around soon.

DAY 3

Still fat :). I made a grilled chicken burger and very dry sweet potato fries for dinner. I at least went to bed not starving. The day was 'fine' with 2 shakes and some hot tea, which is just so pointless.

Today is to be 3 shakes, 1 snack and a meal. But I have evening plans where I need to leave the house at 530 and won't return until maybe 9pm. I'm trying to figure out how to make that work. 

Luckily I think I am covered the rest of the weekend when it's all shakes. 

DAY 7! 

Oh YIKES! It's day 7. This has not been fun.  It's not easy. I have lost only 1 pound this entire time and I really want something to eat. I want avocado or anything tasty, like an egg. Today is my 3rd and final day of all shakes and 'unlimited vegetables' and I'm ready for it to be over. I think tomorrow I get ONE meal but maybe have to wait until dinner. I hope I have the energy for that. As I type this, I have finished 2/5 shakes and my 3rd is due soon.  Yesterday, I booked an infared sauna for 45 minutes but only survived 30-ish before I nearly died. It messed me up kind of all day - I felt very off. I had to make guacamole for a party and I wanted to eat it SO BADLY, but I have been perfect, following the diet to a T.

The review all say they weren't hungry. I do not believe it. I don't eat very much to begin with and I am hungry, almost constantly. I don't feel any different really. I'm yawning today and I wish I could have a cup of coffee, alas I cannot.

Tonight I have to be away from the house from 7-10pm. I am hoping that distracts me and I can come home and just go to sleep. Tomorrow there is food that contains a little fat. Hooray!

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I got Botox!

So, I suppose I should be embarrassed but I'm not.  Since having the twins 6.75 years ago (perhaps a bit earlier), I have developed hyperhidrosis.  I have tried all the fancy clinical strength antiperspirants but none have helped.  It is embarrassing to sweat (it's not stinky, people), just wet and ugh.  I found myself compensating by wearing tanktops in the summer and only black or white shirts in the winter.  I suppose I haven't done a thing about it because I've been just a wee bit busy raising children, working full time, being room mom for multiple classes and multiple schools, etc.  Well, I finally hit the wall.  I got a referral from my GP and away I went.  They asked me the standard stuff that I had googled they would and I answered honestly.  It DOES interfere with my life, what I wear, my self-confidence, etc.  The dermatologist recommended Botox.  They told me that they would call my HMO and see if it was covered.  About 2 months later...APPROVED!  My insurance had to ship them the botox though, so I had to wait another 10 days. 

Today was the big day.  I wore...wait for it...a tank top ;).

Of course, my appointment was at 8:50am and at 9:15am I got mad.  Finally, at 9:40, they called me back and had me lay on a table.  The doctor came in about 5 minutes later - I almost found out everything that had happened in Hollywood last week...  I put my first arm behind my head and the doctor took a purple marker.  He made 25 dots.  Then, he said, "This isn't going to be excruciating but it's not really comfortable."  Um, OK.  He was right.  About 20 of those bad dogs hurt and made me wince.  Halfway through he said, "Well, I can see you weren't lying.  You're starting to sweat."  Oh, AWESOME!  Thanks for letting me know b/c I wasn't aware... (insert eye roll here).  Finally done with that side and we moved on to the next.  Oh wait, I forgot that the nurse/guy started cleaning all the purple dots off with alcohol and I almost hit him.  About 10 minutes later, I was out of there.  The doctor said that b/c I am so small, perhaps the shots will last a year but I qualify for 2 treatments per year.

It was weird and it did hurt but I am confident the little bit of ouch will be worth it! 

On my way out, they told me that would pre-order the next treatment.  I said, "If I don't need it, can you use it in my face?"  They laughed.  But not much.

I really need to do this more often

My life is busy.  Really, really, incredibly, insanely busy.  I may be developing an ulcer due to the many many activities over the summer.  I want to start trying to blog more often because recent life events have made me grateful for bloggers.  I found myself needing some medical information for a good friend and several blogs contained more information that I actually wanted to read than the medical sites.  Given William's diagnoses of Trisomy 18 Mosaic and his chimerism, it makes me a little regretful...ok, a LOT regretful that I haven't been blogging his entire 6.5 years.

This past Monday, William started Elementary school.  This is a pretty amazing milestone in his/our lives to say the least.  He happily walked right into that school (as a 1st grader - should be another post) and into his classroom.  Of course, after purveying the room and seeing NOT A SINGLE firetruck, train or bus, he grabbed my hand and pointed to the door.  His choices at big school were: color or build with legos.  Well, he happily dumped a puzzle on the floor and enjoyed knocking over his new classmates tower but that's the extent of it.  He cried when I left and that was heart-wrenching.  He is such a loving and outgoing personality - up for anything and fearing little - that this was pretty tough.  However, he had a good day.  He stopped crying and was overjoyed to ride the little bus home.  In fact, he got upset when it was gone!  The next morning, he grabbed his backpack and pointed at the door.  He was ready for that bus alright.

Spencer is going to a different elementary that is a little closer to the house and Harper started back to The Rise School of Dallas today!  Ah, and now you see why I have a moment to write.

It's pretty weird, to say the least, to send your child to school and be unable to communicate with him about his day when he returns.  Luckily, his teacher and I have had a couple of phone chats already and that helps a lot.

I'm going to try...try, really try, to start blogging and go back in time to update some of the many events in William's life.  Perhaps it will help someone like the blogs I read the last couple of days, helped me.

Elizabeth

Harper is 9 months old, SuperBowl in Dallas, etc

Harper is doing great and really thriving. I weighed her today and she was 9.1kg (multiplied by 2.2 is 20 lbs). She seems quite tall and already appears to be 'outgrowing' her carseat. This past weekend was Superbowl here in Big D. By accident, my BFF and her DH flew in to visit from L.A. I was so thankful that they're really from Grand Rapids, b/c otherwise, they may not have tolerated the ice and snow and sub-freezing temps. Harper was on her BEST behavior. For a baby who is exceedingly cautious around strangers, she took to Denise and Jason like nothing I've ever seen! I think they even tried to see if she'd fit into their suitcases ;). We did an icy sightseeing tour of Dallas: Coopers & Billy Bob's in Fort Worth; Downtown Neiman Marcus and Southfork Ranch; finally Tex-mex tacos at Torchy's. We all had a great time!

I'm clearly not good at this!

So, now it's February and I haven't updated the blog since maybe November. Lots has happened. Here are the highlights:

• November 25th - made a small Thanksgiving dinner and the guests were the Archibalds. It was our maiden run with the new FP range and it was awful. Food was burned, though the turkey was '...best turkey ever!'.
  
• December 19th - hosted Pirate-themed birthday party for Spencer & William @home. It was a success, complete with bouncehouse, pirate ship pinata, 'walking the plank' into the sandbox & homemade cupcakes. A few friends from school were invited, along with their siblings (and parents) and some neighbor kids. It was a lot of fun but a VERY FULL HOUSE. Our wonderful friends, The Fisselers also drove in from Houston. We may not have pulled it all off without their help. We also got to enjoy a great visit! Also, thanks to Meme for making the very cool pirate swords for party favors.
• December 20th - Ruby had to go to heaven. Her pain and seizures returned and she just wasn't enjoying life. Spencer took it well & William is still working on it. We're pretty sure that he misses his BFF desperately but is unable to understand or express himself.
• December 21st - the boys officially turned 5! Amazing! Miracle!
• December 23rd - we headed for MP for Christmas. We made it in one piece. The kids had a wonderful time and Spencer talked to Santa on Christmas eve. It was the first Christmas without Clayton (or Reed), as Clayton was in Italy & France - tough. Reed was in Reed-land.
• December 26th - We returned to Dallas...to find our home had been ROBBED! Yes, they took TV's, laptops, jewelry & my silver! They also took our camera, which was full from the birthday party and photos of Ruby :(.
• Survived the enormous school break (3.5 weeks) only to be hit with a bad cold and miss some school. Then, snowpalooza February 1-4th
• January 30th - Harper turned 9 months old!

Sweet Ruby

Our sweet Ruby was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her elbow a couple of months ago. We were told that for more info, we could take her to an Oncologist. A quote for services from the oncology group was about $1300, simply for a consult and dx. I think not. I did some research instead and stumbled upon FOCC (Flax Seed Oil and Cottage Cheese). We also switched dog foods to a grain-free/high-priced variety. Within about a week, Ruby quit limping and became her old self. I kept this up for several weeks but then I got lazy or tired. About 2 weeks ago, Ruby began limping again. Then as quickly as that happened, she had a seizure. A week went by and then she had another. I called the Vet and he said to just keep an eye on her. It was possibly due to the pain in her arm but he doubted that it was the cancer spreading! I was kinda in disbelief but he said that this was not the type of tumor to spread. OK, you're the doctor. As soon as I hung up the phone, she had another seizure. She had about 6 more over the next 12 hours. I called the Vet back and he was out. We were referred to a Neurology group this time and they quoted me $2000+ to dx the cause of the seizures. HA! I called the Vet back and asked for phenobarbital. Ruby started on that, re-continued her Tramadol (pain meds) and of course, her FOCC. Last weekend wasn't pretty. She didn't have any more seizures but she was obviously wiped out. She barely moved and when she did, she was eliminating in random locations (Den, patio?, bedroom, etc). Well, just when I thought she was gone, she jumped up yesterday and just HAD to ride in the car to take the kids to school. YAY RUBY! She did it again today. Her limp is less, too.

Could the FOC really be that awesome? I don't know but something is helping her and I'm so thankful!

Kid updates

Wow, I'm a slacker. I haven't updated since July! I did start back to work and life just got busier.

Harper is now 6 months old and is doing great. She's attempting to army crawl - an inch here and there. She also gets up on all 4's and lurches forward to get something...usually something she shouldn't.

Spencer is loving his Pre-K class at The Rise School. His teacher is fantastic and really challenges him & it's obvious that he enjoys it. He is reading Level 1 readers at home and school and we started reading a chapter book at home and he is 'trying' to remain still and listen.

We recently discovered William in Spencer's top bunk! Yep, he figured out how to climb up. I wish he'd learned to climb down first though :). He started feeding himself over the last few months and with the help of his new teachers, he's doing better and better. It's an amazing relief to let him do it and frees up just a little bit of time for ME! He's also eating more challenging foods, though chewing well is still something we're working toward. He's trying hard to communicate, too. I think we're going to attempt potty training soon but I haven't decided 'when'. Maybe during the December/January break.

Both boys LOVE their baby sister and enjoy making her laugh. It's so fun to watch.