Today was day one of my first ever 10 day juice fast. I made it through the pre-fast menu of no meat and no dairy for the previous 3 days and today have started with vegetable and fruit juices and water.
I started out the morning with my Couch to 5k workout and that went well. I made my son take money to school for the cafeteria so I wouldn’t be tempted by fixing his lunch. My breakfast juice was alright. It was a juice recipe I had made before I just added a bit more to it to get the 4 cups of juice. It took less time to make than it would have in the blender and strainer by using the juicer, but all in all it took longer than my normal breakfast routine takes (because I had to make a larger amount of juice for the fast size serving). It is normal for me to drink juice for breakfast so this wasn’t such a big deal.
At lunch I ran home to make juice. I didn’t finish all of my breakfast juice – I couldn’t do it. I had just had enough. I hadn’t finished the water that I was supposed to drink either. I discovered at lunch that I needed to drink the water first thing in the morning before drinking any juices – oops. Noted for tomorrow. I made a savory tomato juice for lunch. I sat and ate it in a bowl with a spoon, this was a tip given to me by Natasha St. Michael who is the leader of this juice fast (see radiancecentral.com for more info on juice fasting) . Due to only having one hour of lunch I went back to the juicer to make my fruit juice afternoon snack. The juicer stopped working on me. Maybe it wasn’t used to doing two juices in a row? I’m not sure, but I only made 2 cups of snack fruit juice. After that dilemma and cleaning the juicer, I was late returning to work and walked in very late on a meeting. This was not good. I apologized to my boss and generally felt completely out of
it by stumbling in late to the meeting. The juicing takes much longer than grabbing lunch would take me.
I am going to have to plan some extra time for juicing until I get used to it. I am also not finishing the 4 cups of juice that I am supposed to have at each meal and I didn’t even make my dinner juice. I just didn’t feel like it. I will start again tomorrow but I think I will wing it a bit more with my juices in hopes to make some creations that I really like and manage to drink all 4 cups of it. I missed liking my juices. It was nice experimenting with juices, but I really need some all time favorites to get me through tomorrow.
All in all temptations and cravings today were low. Psoriasis – was itchy as normal. I didn’t take my blood pressure so I can’t say much in that category. As for weight, I have been weighing myself, but this isn’t really about weight for me. Just sticking to it is challenge enough – I don’t want to get bent out of shape about what the scale says to me. I am thinking of hiding it in the closest until the juice fast is over.
I am tired and I will be hitting the hay shortly. I had hoped to come home and go to bed early tonight, but my son’s homework intervened and it looks like bed time will be as normal. I do get to sleep in a bit later tomorrow so that is something to look forward to :)
Goodnight everyone!
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