Today I made it to the half way mark! I am VERY proud of myself for hanging in there! It is all down hill from here and I am welcoming in the weekend. I will not be at work so I will not be as busy and will have to keep myself distracted when the going gets tough.
Breakfast Juice: carrot, radish, apple, beet, lemon and a few radish tops
Lunch Juice: Cabbage, Celery, carrot, cucumber, green bell pepper
Fruit Juice: 1/2 cantaloupe with skin
I made it through my liter of water today and drank my 2 cups of breakfast juice. I came home for lunch and did not finish my 2 cups of cabbage juice. I am about to throw in the towel as far as the cabbage juice is concerned. It gets spicier as it sits and a bit unbearable for me to drink. It’s not so bad when it is fresh out of the juicer. I think I need to chug down my juice more right when I make my lunch. I do not get to enjoy my fruit juice because my vegetable juice sits there and I don’t drink it. I make both my lunch juice and my fruit juice on my lunch break and take them back to work in jars. By the time I get to my fruit juice it just isn’t as good from sitting in the refridge and at that point I have wasted 4 cups of perfectly good juice between lunch and fruit juices. Then I drink water the rest of the day, I come home and I am too tired to make any more juice. I need to drink more juice.
My stomach still growls when I am hungry and it seems all signs are pointing to me just needing more juice during the day. The goal is 16 cups of juice and I didn’t even get half of that today. I am still searching for my favorite juice recipe. I like a lot of the juices I have tried, but my favorites don’t have many greens in them. I am working on the perfect recipe for Sarah’s Green Juice. Once I find it I will definitely add it to my daily juice intake.
I successfully completed my Couch to 5k week 2 workout this morning. It was in the 20’s this morning and I was out there like a crazy woman, all bundled up, doing my thing. Go Me!
My weight is still going down and that is definitely another motivation to stay on the juice fast. I haven’t had a chance to take my blood pressure yet, but there will definitely be time for that later this weekend. My pulse is nice and strong and steady and I am staying pretty regular in the restroom department. My psoriasis was itchy today. It has definitely stopped itching as much as it did before I started my fast, but I am a little upset it is still persistently hanging on.
My internet research about fasting last night led me to subscribe to lifegenerator’s blog. Dan the Man has his own blog and you can check it out here: regenerateyourlife.org
He has so much awesome information. For instance, last night I watched a video of him making a salad in less than a minute by using his food processor and blender. It looked sooooo yummy and so easy. I would have never thought of using a food processor for that! It just goes to show you how you can simplify things to that degree and make something so easy. I was amazed.
Then I went on to watching YouTube videos by “The Father of Juicing” Jay Kordich. I learned from his YouTube videos that you can juice a cantaloupe and watermelon – skins and all – to get “100% of the nutritional food value” from the fruit. He explains that you can’t eat cantaloupe skin or watermelon skin because it will give you a stomach ache. But all the nutrition is in the skins, and you can only access that by juicing. Awesome to know!
I also looked some more into ketosis and bought some generic ketostix from CVS at lunch today. I wasn’t really sure of my results but I researched it a bit more online and discovered that if you are in the darker color panels that are indicated on the side of the container, the better. It means your body is releasing more ketones and you are definitely in a state of ketosis. Right where I want to be! By the way, the info I am reading to you in my video journal is straight off the generic ketostix instructions that I bought at CVS. I found out later after I made the video that there are different levels of ketosis – the darker the color of your results the greater state of ketosis you are in at that time. I also learned that this can change from meal to meal and you shouldn’t obsess over it. **GOOD TO KNOW** I had a coworker use a test strip and she came out negative. She is not on any special diet right now and just returned to work from her honeymoon. Welcome back Girly! I missed you! Her results compared to mine made me feel that the strips actually do work and made me more confident that I am going about the juice fast correctly even though I had an online support group.
OH! She also reminded me of an old lunch spot we used to go to and guess what??? They have juices! She did a shot of wheat grass at lunch today. You can bet your butt I will be there tomorrow with high hopes that someone else will make some juice for me!!!!
I also read that you can use aloe vera gel – and I have some here already – apply it to your psoriasis and some people see really great results. I look forward to trying that tonight too.
I think I have come to a decision on what to do when my fast is over. I have also decided that I will stick to the 10 day juice fast, the 3 day post fast, and then continue on to the 7 day raw food challenge. After the 7 day raw food challenge, if my coworker is interested – I will join her in another 10 day juice fast. My plan as of now is to alternate juicing and raw food until I have the end result for my blood pressure and psoriasis. It is so exciting to think how much I can change so many things just by making these healthy decisions. I feel like I need to narrow all of this down into one simple goal – and concentrate on that for now and not overwhelm myself with excitement. With that being said, I will finish my 10 day fast and then complete my 3 day post fast diet. I will set my next goal when I am in the 3 day post fast diet.
I made my video journal during my lunch break so I could get to bed early tonight. That didn’t seem to happen, but getting all this down on my blog is so much more fun.
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