When my first box from Young Living arrived in January 2014 I was excited to begin a journey to an even healthier lifestyle. Oils have replaced many of my over-the-counter medicines, helped me through a few difficult situations, and simply added to my life. Now it's time to add oils to another part of my journey!
On Monday, I began the Purium 10-Day Transformation Cleanse. After gaining back a lot of the weight that I lost when I initially began bootcamp, I realized that I'd been giving myself too many "treats" and now my body craved them again. So I decided to give Purium a try. I'd heard so many great things about it from friends who had done it and I didn't see anything that I'd lose. I found a friend to do it with me for the first time and ordered our kits. I couldn't wait to start, so I made myself a PowerShake the night the box arrived in the mail. Then I put the kit away until Sunday night. After a long weekend of camping and indulgences, I prepared myself for the first day of the cleanse by packing all of the powders and pills I would need for the day, steaming some kabocha to eat as a flex food during the week, and slicing cucumbers to take to work.
I started the day by weighing in at 4:15am, taking a dose of lemon and peppermint essential oil in a vegetable capsule, and taking 3 of the amino pills before I headed out the door to go to bootcamp. After bootcamp, I took 2 more of the pills on my drive home. I drank my first shake at 7:30am when I was finished prepping at work and I felt amazing. I took the next set of pills when the class was out at recess, then drank another shake and ate half of an avocado at a lunch meeting. After school I took my last dose of pills and ate some cucumber slices while I worked on my substitute plans for the next day. When I got home I had another shake, then my fiber blend, and finally at bedtime I drank my apothecherry. Throughout the day I sipped my cold water with lemon, peppermint, and grapefruit essential oils. When I got tired I sniffed my peppermint oil bottle and felt much better.
Yesterday was Day 3 and it was the worst. I was in a meeting all afternoon and didn't have a chance to take what I needed to and when I needed to, so I was feeling exhausted by the time I got home. Then I got emotional and "hangry" before my boyfriend called to see if I'd want to go meet one of his childhood friends for happy hour. I pulled myself together, swiped my forehead with Deep Relief Roll-On, mixed my shake, and sautéed some kabocha. Before we left the house I rubbed some Valor essential oil on my feet and pulled myself together. I drank my shake and snacked on a few cubes of kabocha in the car and felt a thousands times better when we got to the restaurant. I then enjoyed two hours of time with friends. They enjoyed their food and drinks and I enjoyed my water on the rocks. I sniffed my bottle of valor on a bathroom trip after the calamari came out and smelled AMAZING! But I didn't give in to temptation and was proud of myself at the end of the night.
Today was Day 4 and I felt amazing! More to come on how I'm mixing Young Living Essential Oils and Purium to live a healthier life.
