21 Day Belly Blast Challenge!

Well I won a contest from my former personal trainer. It's called the 21 day belly blast challenge. It implies you can lose 5-10 pounds. At first I was a bit skeptical. I was even more skeptical when I read it. It included a grocery list, a meal plan, and a workout plan. Payday was this past week, so I went grocery shopping and tomorrow is my first official day. I wanted to include today's weigh in, so we could see the improvement over the next 3 weeks. I'm very excited. And very scared.

The first three days are detox days. That means you get to eat a whole lot of nothing. And by that, I mean nothing. In the morning you get to have a smoothie. Sounds great! Except it's not your average smoothie. Let me list the ingredients. 1 cup of strawberries, 1 cup of water, a banana and 2 cups of spinach. Yes...SPINACH. Now I'm not anti-spinach or anti-vegetables. I just don't usually drink my spinach. Especially not for breakfast. I prepared the blend tonight with feelings of both disgust and sadness. My husband tried the blend. It looked like my dog ate a bunch of grass in the yard and threw it back up again. He swore it tasted great. "It tastes like kiwis! Wanna try?" No thanks. I'll be forced to drink it for breakfast every day for the next week.

Then I got to prepare my lunch. Two cups of chopped vegetables and one cup of fruit. I opted for celery and carrots for my vegetables and cherries for my fruit. As a snack, I'm allowed to have water. Yes. Water is my snack. Imagine you go to someone's house "hey, I'm a bit hungry got anything to snack on?" "Sure! Here have some water!" They'd probably punch you in the face.

For dinner I'm going with some friends to celebrate a birthday at a German restaurant. My diet plan says I can have salad with lots of veggies and a squeezed lemon as dressing. I think I'm going to puke. How can I swallow dry salad? No oil? No vinegar? Oh man...It's not going to be pretty.

Oh and to top it all off, my very first day is also a workout day. So I get to workout after eating virtually nothing all day. Twenty two minutes of fun. So excited. I also have to drink half of my body weight in ounces every day. And if I get hungry, I should chew gum. Oh joy. That's half a gallon in water, or rougly 10 cups. That shouldn't be too hard since it's ridiculously hot outside.

Let the games begin.