Juice Fast Day 4

Day Four of My Juice Fast... really I should call it a feast because I'm not limiting juice and drinking lots.

Yesterday, strangely I found myself hardly feeling ANY hunger but I'm pretty much craving juice constantly. I am feeling very hopeful now but I can go the 30 days.

I think the key for me is going to be drinking plenty of juice. Also I need to keep it interesting and keep trying new juices.

 I decided to get out my nice crystal glasses and drink my juice out of them! I know sometimes I'm mental but it really makes it more special to me... Like I am treating myself !

Also I got out my good China teacups for my hot tea in the evenings. 

DETOX: last night was but very, very low energy night for me. (My hubs was so sweet and offered to go to the grocery store for me on his way home from work last night)!! I ended up going to bed at 8 p.m. which is about 3 hours earlier than normal.

 So far I have not had any more headaches (since day one) which surprises me because last time I did this I couldn't see straight for a full week!

 I was doing a high raw foods diet for about 6 weeks before I started this... I had already lost about 18 pounds and maybe I was already fairly well detoxed. I don't know I'm still expecting it to come!

 MY FAVORITE JUICE SO FAR: Kale, romaine, celery, green apple, cucumber, parsley and lemon. So delish!!

 The hubs surprised me and brought home kiwi fruit last night. I'm going to have to figure out a way to use them in juice. I was thinking cucumber mint and kiwi with maybe spinach or romaine. YUM!

 He also brought home 3 young coconuts!!!

I LOVE fresh coconut water and will freeze the coconut meat until after my fast...if hubs does not eat it all first *grin*

 I have found myself so looking forward to my hot tea in the afternoon that I decided to order a couple more herbal teas. I found a company called Rishi that has organic herbal teas. I'm looking forward to getting them in!

Juice Fast Day 3!!!

Check out this gorgeous ruby red juice!!!!

Beet, tomato, romaine, green apple, cucumber and celery juice!

 Yesterday was actually not that difficult. I did have more hunger pains than the day before but I just made myself drink more juice.

 I have also been having about a pint or two of coconut water. I like to save it for the afternoon.

 I drank 3 quarts of juice (Mostly green juices except grapefruit/orange for breakfast) and coconut water yesterday..

I am a little concerned about the sugar in the juices and coconut water so I am checking my blood sugar every morning right now. So far so good.

WEIGHT: Most amazingly I have lost 5 pounds in 2 days. I keep reading about people that lost an average of a pound a day. I'm wonder how I will do...

I also am a little concerned about holding out for 30 days but I know that I can do it!!

I keep reminding myself of the hundreds maybe thousands of people that has successfully finished juice fasts. Many even 60 or 90 days.

It is encouraging to me and I know others can do it so can I!!

HUNGER:  I seem to be a little less hungry today. It is only about 1:30 though. So far I've just had my orange / ruby red grapefruit juice for breakfast. I have the juice from  two grapefruits and three oranges. I've been drinking a lot of Pellegrino too. But I'm really not hungry for lunch yet so I'm holding out until I am. I do already have the juice waiting for me in the refrigerator so I don't find myself starving and then have to take the time to make a juice! I learned about that the hard way!

Last night I was really craving something hot which is strange because it's already so crazy hot here in Orlando but I had to have some hot tea. It was a nice fruity herbal tea. I also decided that having hot tea at night is definitely going to help me. So I have ordered some more herbal teas from Rishi tea. I love that they are organic!

 DETOX: no really bad detox symptoms yet except a little bit of a headache and sinus. My energy is low but I do know it will get better soon! I also expect to be dealing with detox soon!

Juice Feast Day Two

Well today has been an easier day than yesterday at least so far. 

I lost 3 pounds and I'm thrilled with that. I have been drinking lots of juice today working to keep my hunger at bay.

I am definitely more hungry today than I was yesterday.

I have caught myself a couple of times today thinking I must be crazy putting myself through this but I know I really need this. I need it for my health and I really need to get some of this weight off!

I have not had much in the way of headaches or anything today. I do have some of that white yuckey coating on my tongue so I know I am detoxing.

I'm sure as the days go on I'll be confronted with some seriously detox issues and actually I welcome them. 

All and all the day has been fairly uneventful. My juices have been pretty much nothing extraordinary really. I did enjoy a Ruby grapefruit and orange juice this morning the rest have been green drinks and home made V8. 

I made a red grape, celery and cucumber juice for a snack a little while ago and while I was making it I thought this was going to be luscious but really it was just ok. I was a little disappointed .

Right now I am enjoying a hot herbal tea.  Its funny normally I'm hot all the time but today I have the house AC set on 78 and I'm actually chilly!

Juice Feast Day One

This is going to be a short post because I already feel like 10 kinds of hell.

Can't believe I'm already detoxing and it's only day one and it's not even nighttime yet.

 I did eat only fruit and a salad yesterday so I might have a bit of a jump on detox.

I knew I was fading fast so I went ahead and made my dinner juice and a dessert fruit juice for later.

Juices today:
2 cups lime/ginger hot tea with my hubs while he had his AM coffee. Litre green juice (my very fav. From previous juice fast..lemon..mixed organic greens..celery..cucumber..parsley and green apple.  A litre of coconut water (grocery store) A couple La Croix mineral water Home made V8 (litre) Watermelon juice 16 oz for dessert.

Went to bed at 9PM!  a couple hours earlier than normal.

Starting 30 Day Juice Fast Tomorrow

I will call it a FEAST because I will drink juice any time I am hungry.

 The longest I've ever made it was 6-7 days. I had such horrid emotional detox on day 6-7 (can't remember exact day) that it scared the hell out of me!!  At the time I was not really aware that bad emotional detox is possible and now I'm prepared.

REASONS:  I want do list these reasons for myself for the future. I'm sure this will not be easy and I will need to remind self of the problems I'm dealing with.

 Of course I want to lose weight. I've wanted to lose weight for over 10 years. Mentally it has shifted for me though because now I have health issues. I'm borderline diabetic and I have hip pain and most frightening is the strange pain running down the front of my left thigh, sometimes it feels like an electrical shock and I think it's probably either nerve damage or the beginnings of neuropathy. Either way it scares the shit out of me.

The Beach.. I miss feeling comfortable in my skin when we're at the beach. I grew up in a beach town. I now hate the way my body looks so much that I totally cover myself up and I'm so uncomfortable everytime we have a beach day. I'm really really sick of that. I want to feel free and confident in the way I look.

I also have no energy. I'm a total slug. I'm depressed. I go for days and days without leaving my house (home based business) except to go to the grocery store and if I can talk my husband into going to the grocery store for me I don't have to leave it all!.  It's getting worse.

I'm tired of constantly letting myself down and never keeping my self promises.  I've promised myself for 10 years I'm getting this weight off.  Is there anything more sad than lying to yourself over and over?

So I'm taking today to get ready, clean my fridge and kitchen and shop for lots of veggies and fruits to get me started.

 "The Genius" (my hubs who actually is a genius engineer) has agreed to grocery shop for me the first 10 days or until I'm through the worst detox.

Fell Off Raw a Couple of Days

But back on track this morning.

Friday night I ate Italian.. yesterday a huge burger and onion rings... ice cream for dessert.

I know in the past when I would eat something I didn't consider health inducing I would berate myself for being so human.  LOL!  Stupid human.

I'm no longer going that route. I'm actually pretty happy with my transition so far.  I've eaten many, many Raw meals and have made a few raw recipes I'll have to post about soon.

I need to do a better job of journaling here.  I've been hanging out in Instagram.  My account is Cary2.0 and I'm in love with all the Raw foodists on Instagram!
It's very inspirational and I have already found 3-4 recipe ideas I'm making soon!

I got right back on track this AM with a huge bowl of pink grapefruit and mango for breakfast.  later today I'm making Raw onion wraps for the first time. 

I'm trying to create something similar to the ones Leafy Greens in St. Pete makes (my favorite Raw Foods restaurant).  I'll post about them here if they turn out great.

Here is a pix of my favorite sandwich at Leafy Greens using the onion wrap. It's SO GOOD:

Check out my Chili Mango I'm putting in my dehydrator right now! I've been buying dried chili mango from our local Caribbean market for years. It's one of my very favorite snacks! I'm sure its not dried at low temperatures so I decided to recreate it myself. YUM! I'm using chili powder on them.

High Fat Raw

Well yesterday was an educational day.  I've been eating low fat raw and some low fat cooked until now and doing progressively better little by little every day.

Yesterday for lunch I decided against my usual salad and made guacamole.   I used all raw ingredients and had my raw SouthWest crackers as dippers.  

I REALLY loved it obviously but 20 minutes later I wanted to go to sleep!  A real eye opener as to how much energy digesting concentrated fatty foods takes!

I would like to save my concentrated foods for dinner because I was blown away by how quickly I killed my energy for the day.  I was having an amazing day, working in the yard and feeling fantastic and BAM I wanted to sleep!!!

Going from high energy to ready to crash was so evident.  This was a great learning experience for me!!!!.