I’m almost half way! I am finding so much information on fasting and juice fasting and it is really an inspiration that helps me get through my 10 day juice fast. Every night I have been setting up my juice menu based on the fruits and vegetables that I have already at my house. I had a half a head of cabbage and some collard greens that I wanted to juice. I googled both of these items as juice recipes and found some juices to try.
My breakfast juice was 1/2 head of cabbage, 3 kiwis, and 1/2 a beet. This wasn’t one of the better tasting juices that I have made during this fast. The cabbage was really spicy and gave the juice a nice peppery kick but I just didn’t like it with the fruitiness of the kiwis. I was thinking that it would go really well with some tomatos and bell peppers so I might give it a try that way next time. I made about 2 cups of this juice and took it to work with me. I have also not had any problems getting my morning liter of water down since I took the lemon and lime out of it.
My lunch juice – I was HUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNGGGGGRRRRYYY! I got caught at work late and when I couldn’t take my stomach growling anymore I headed home to make juice. This recipe I found from googling collard green juice recipes. I stumbled along a YouTube channel by lifegenerator. I found a whole lot of really useful information on fasting and juicing there. He made a juice with celery, carrot, cilantro, collard greens and cucumber. He didn’t really give any set quantities so I winged it. I really needed celery. I am supposed to be eating one head of celery a day in my juices due to the natural sodium in the celery and my body really wanted it. I put most of my head of celery in this juice. I also used about 4 carrots (scrubbed not peeled), 2 cucumbers, and about 4 handfuls of cut up collard greens. I had previously been using a handful of cilantro here and there, I was very sparing with it. When I watched the lifegenerator YouTube channel, Dan put in a huge bunch of cilantro and I was amazed that you could just chunk it in the juicer like that! So I went for it. I put a huge bunch of cilantro in my juice (huge for me is equivalent to one bunch that you buy in your produce section). This juice turned out pretty good. It was very bland I thought and could use a kick of cayenne pepper. It made about 4 cups. I drank 2 fresh out the juicer and the other 2 I added a sweet red pepper to see if it added that kick I was looking for – it gave it a different flavor, but overall not too much flavor going on in there. However, I really like this one and will try it again tomorrow.
My fruit juice – since I used so much greens in my breakfast and lunch juices I went straight for the apples today. I juiced about 7 small red apples and 1 small granny smith apple and added a cucumber and the rest of the celery. This was really good and sweet. It made about 4 cups total and I gave one cup of it away to my coworker whose juicer I am borrowing (THANK YOU!) and drank almost 2 cups of it.
I am considering going longer with my juice fast than the 10 days because of all the great information I have found out about juice fasting. I haven’t decided for sure about that yet. The weight loss - I am getting greedy about it – it is really nice to drop so many pounds on a day to day basis. I think I will determine if I will go longer depending on how my blood pressure is after 10 days as well as my psoriasis. Speaking of Psoriasis, it wasn’t as itchy today. I thought about it this morning – I went all morning without the desire to itch. Then of course I thought about it and away it went. But I hardly spent time wiping flakes off my shoulder today ( I am super paranoid about this). Every time I itch my head, flakes fall, shoulder swipe, etc.
Overall, I am really proud and pleased with my success so far! I had no idea I would be able to do this and do it so well. I am watching the videos that are sent out for my juice fast support group and learning more and more every day about my body’s systems and about the different foods that I put into it. I know the after juice fast diet is also necessary to keep up all the leaps and bounds that you do for your body during the juice fast. I am contemplating sticking with the raw food and staying away from the processed foods, meat and dairy. I am even contemplating giving up drinking. It will be hard to put back all those nasty things in my body when I have worked so hard to clean it out. I am putting a lot of thought on what I am going to eat at the end of my fast to keep this moving in the right direction.
Huge Motivational Tip of the Day!!!! Another co-worker caught me in the work kitchen and said “You look awesome!” She asked me how much weight I was down now and I said I was down about THIRTY!!!30!!!!!THIRTY!!!! pounds now. And I stopped and appreciated the fact that someone finally noticed! With no pre-amble from my mother about how much weight I have lost and I wasn’t in the shadow of someone else’s weight loss. THANK YOU! She has no idea how much that meant to me and how grateful I am that she took the time to say something. Weight loss and Juice Fasting is in no way, shape or form and easy thing to do with yourself. It takes a huge amount of commitment and work and thought and time and it is nice to be rewarded by having some one notice how far you have come. Thank you again!
I hope everyone is in as good a mood as I am right now!
I do have a bit of an ache in my lower back – that is something I haven’t had in awhile – and I wonder if it is part of my juice fast getting toxins out of that part of my body or something. I hope it goes away soon. Other than that it will be a cold morning and I will be out there hitting the pavement for my week two Couch to 5k workouts.
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