Juicing Day 2

Wish I could say that today is good but it is far from it! I feel weak, nauseated, achy, irritable, I have a headache and severe dry mouth. I want every piece of food in my house and my kids are doing everything possible to set me off. I feel so dehydrated yet I have drank 64oz. of water so far.

On a bright note....I weighed myself this morning just to see what one day of juicing did. I lost ..... 3lbs.!!!!!

 Tonight's post won't be that long because I really want to go to bed but I just wanted to let people know who are thinking of starting a juice fast to be prepared for the side effects. I have read that they are short term (3-5 days) but the side effects are caused from your body fighting you to hang on to the toxins that the juice is pushing out. You can find out information on juicing at Join the Reboot. Sign up for a free account, get involved in the forums and Juice On!!

Weight 8/13/2012 8:30am: 265.8
Weight 8/14/2012 8:30am: 262.8
Weight Loss to date: 7.2 lbs.

Juicing Day 1

So this morning I get up, head to the fridge to cut up my fruits and veggies for my morning juice. I wash, peel and cut. Then I position my juicer, turn it on and....... the power goes out!! Grrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could not believe it. I swear the devil was trying to discourage me. I had my walk at 10am and by now it was about 9am. So we drive down to the local natural foods market and buy an already made juice. I don't like to do that but I really had no choice. I WAS NOT going to give in and just eat a normal breakfast.

As soon as my walk was over I had to grab my stuff for our summer PTO planning meeting. That was from 12pm-3pm. So again I had to go to the store and grab an already made juice. The juice I like to buy is the Naked Green Machine.

So then after my meeting (which only lasted until 2pm) I had to run to the store and get a few more produce items to juice. The finally by 3:30pm I finally made a juice and it was really good. This is so far the first one that I have made that was good! Hallelujah!! Then I showered and now I am sitting here typing this and waiting for my next appointment to get here.

After my shower though I just wanted to weigh my self for giggles. Normally I will gain about 1-2 pounds throughout the day. Well today I am down .6 lbs. from this morning!!! I am also down in body fat but I haven't measured that in a while.

As far as how I feel...I feel good. I am hungry and really want to eat but good. I have what feels like dry mouth though. Not sure if that is normal. I am drinking about 50-60 oz. of juice a day plus 64+oz. of water. Here is the recipe for the juice I made today:

• 2 Apples (peeled & washed)
• 2 Carrots (peeled & washed)
• 1 Handful of Spinach (washed)
• 1 Orange
• 1/2 Cucumber (peeled & washed)
• 1 Kale Leaf (washed)
• 1 Red Chard (washed)

It's pretty good. I didn't use a lot of kale and chard because they are quite bitter. So tomorrow I will post what my weight is to see the difference.

8/13/2012

Weight at 8:30am: 265.8

Weight at 4:00pm: 265.2

Juice Fast.....

Tomorrow starts my first day of a 10 day juice fast. I have wanted to try it for a while now but I just could not find a good recipe. Well I got 1 good one and 1 I will try tomorrow. I am excited and nervous about doing it.

 I am watching that documentary "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" and there is a recipe on there for Mean Green Juice.  

• 1 bunch kale
• 4 stalks celery
• 1 cucumber
• 2 granny smith apples
• 1/2 a lemon
• ginger root

Now I do not like kale (its quite bitter) so I think I will try it with spinach instead. Also, from a friend I got this recipe.

• Apples
• Oranges
• Carrots
• Spinach

I am not quite sure the amounts on this one so I will update this tomorrow with what I come up with. 

Also tomorrow morning I will be doing a fasting blood test to see where I was before the fast. I am excited to see where I will be in 10 days.  I hope to go longer but I will revisit that goal at the end of 10 days.