So I have been going to the gym since May last year. Trying to get a flatter stomach which has so far proved elusive . Its frustrating because i feel like I have been working so hard. I even changed gyms to see if i will improve but the change has been very minimal.
Most people always ask me why I go to the gym because I am quite petite. This is true. But I am unhappy with how i look in some clothes. I have a lower stomach pooch that I got after giving birth. Maybe I should embrace my curves etc. But unhappy is what i feel when I wear that tight fitting body con dress and the pooch is just there in all its glory:-(
So in the recent gym, there is this guy who sits by the corridor with all sorts of herbs. This past week, curiosity got better of me and I decided to as what they were for. He told me they serve different purposes depending on what i want. So i told him my predicament and he recommended the colon detox. quite expensive since a bottle costs $35.
I decided to give it a try.
The instructions: a) Mix two table spoons in a glass of hot water, add honey for sweetening and drink.
b) Do not drink if you have plans to leave the house
c) Repeat B above
d) once you start, you don't stop for the next 5 days in a row.
The idea was to remove all the backed up waste in my system and burn fat as he said. I have never done a cleanse of any kind so I was willing to try.
Day 1: I had had a few glasses of wine. Got home at midnight and decided to start. I happily mixed the concoction and took the first sip... Ooooh. taste was so bad. I almost threw up. The honey does nothing to sweeten it. But I had committed to do it so i braved it and drunk the entire glass in gulps.
Went to bed immediately after. Woke up about three hrs later. Making a mad dash to the bathroom, running stomach. What came out of me was unbelievable. Wave after wave.. and just when you think its over and you can go back to bed, it starts again! Lets just say I didn't sleep again that night.
Day 2: It was a Saturday. Thank God. I was sleepy, and the bathroom trips were not over yet. They finally ended at around 1 pm. I was not happy. But same evening, I took the second glass. Its awful to drip. The kind that you get goose bumps and you have to fight your gag reflexes not to throw it all up. This day I had disobeyed the second rule because I was not home. I had gone to visit my Auntie about 20Kms from home (I carried the concoction). But I figured in about two hours I would be home and I can go to the bathroom in comfort. I was wrong because it started while there. The Horror!. I must have stayed in the bathroom for what seemed like a whole hour. When I was finally done, I had leave and drive like crazy to get home before the second wave hit.
Day 3: I got stomach cramps painful ones that came in waves and at the crest of each wave, I had to go to the bathroom. This was the hardest day
Day 4: I was used to it by now. I was going to take my sister to the airport. So just before we left, I took the glass. Prayed that I wasn't being over confident and I wasn't going to erupt in the car or worse yet in public because: YOU CANNOT HOLD IT IN.
If it comes, you have to go.
I made it. I was back home in exactly 2 hours, just in time for bathroom trips for the next two hours.
Day 5: I was now a pro. Did my thing very comfortably in fact. i was ready and well prepared .
Benefits:
- I feel so much lighter
- My skin is literally glowing. My blemishes have faded a bit (not exaggerating )
- Stomach feels like its shrunk. I cannot eat large amounts of food.
- So much energy all over a sudden
- It must have removed a kilo of fat from my stomach because its so much more flatter! see pic below. I didn't have a defined waist line but now you can see its literally formed!.
- i m also a bit more leaner. i have had a few comments as to how smaller I look.
I am supposed to continue now for once a week till its over.
I hope it will continue helping me burn the fat.
I would definitely recommend it despite the unpleasant taste and inconveniencing trips to the bathroom