Gross out alert!!! If you are grossed out by bathroom/diaper talk or just find it undignified, then stop reading this post now! Proceed at your own risk...
As I mentioned in my first Herbalife post, I am a breastfeeding mother. My youngest child, Titan, is almost seven months old and still gets most of his nutrition from breastmilk. Therefore, Titan is basically on this challenge with me.
Titan was 11lbs 1.7oz at birth. He's a solid chunk of baby. Before any of you say anything about putting babies on diets or whether he needs to lose weight or not, let me say I am not doing this challenge to make my baby skinny. He takes after my family more than my husband's family. We are all short and stocky. And, I am perfectly fine with my 6-month-old weighing almost as much as my two-and-a-half-year-old. They're just built differently. Titan is just that, a titan. I don't think he will ever have serious weight issues. He'll be strong and muscular. He is strong now. Though he has started getting slimmer, that started about a month before I started using Herbalife. Now, back to Day 3's results...
I had hoped to exclusively nurse Titan for six months. He was ready to start solid food around four months, but we managed to wait until he was a little over five months old before starting rice cereal. A couple weeks later, we started feeding him oatmeal. His bowel movements almost stopped. Titan would go three days without a dirty diaper. His pediatrician recommended adding a vegetable to see if the extra fiber would help induce more frequent bowel movements. The doctor and I weren't worried because Titan didn't seem to be in any pain, and his stool wasn't hard as a rock. It was just a little dryer than it should be for an infant who just started solids and it was less frequent. Adding the vegetables didn't do much. He would have a dirty diaper every other day, and the consistency of the stool was about the same. Enter Herbalife.
Toward the early evening hours of challenge day 2, I smelled something. It smelled like the dirty diaper of a breastfed infant. I checked Titan's diaper. Lo and behold, it was full of poo! The perfect consistency! Eh, a little on the runny side, but way better than what it had been. I actually thought he might be having a bout of quasi-diarhea. Day 3 comes and nears its end, and the same thing happens but with even better stool consistency. And, no grunting from Titan while he's trying to push it out. I'm typing this on day 4 of the challenge. Titan has had at least one dirty diaper every day. Those diapers for days 2-4 have been normal consistency for his age and diet. I call that a huge success.
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