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.