South Beach Vaca

My amazing husband also known here as "The Genius", just surprised me with a vacation in Miami to celebrate the end of my 30 day juice feast! I am so excited.

The hotel we're going to stay at is a Loews Hotel. They are very pet friendly and I love to take our Pug Sukiyaki, he's such a show off.

They have fresh squeezed juice, also sell to Suja and Evolution juices in the hotel and I can eat all the raw fruit I can handle there. I see a huge bowl of fresh fruit for breakfast every morning room service in my future!!!




I have always wanted to go to the Coconut Grove organic farmers market! They are supposed to have some of the most amazing fruit there, which is wonderful for someone into eating lots and lots of raw food!

I also plan on having sushi while I'm there. It is only thing I have truly missed since I started my juicefeast!

Juice Fast Day 10 !!!!!

Yesterday was actually fairly easy but last night last night was really, really hard... worst night since the beginning.

 I was really irritable, really itchy (need to remember to dry brush more often) and had crampy, restless leg all night.

I had to take magnesium and calcium even though I know I shouldn't. I also had a headache and my sinuses were slammed shut.

 I know it's my body going into deeper detox so I just kept telling myself it's a good thing! It really sucked though!

DETOX: I spent 45 minutes in the sauna today ie: my backyard in the Orlando Sun! Working on getting out any toxins I can today.

 I haven't been posting my juices because everybody is different and what I like you might not like. There are so many juice recipes online anyway.

I am usually drinking a fruit juice in the morning most of the time it is grapefruit and orange or grapefruit and mango.

Then I usually have a couple of green juices through the day and a large serving of coconut water.

Dinner time I usually have a salad type juice with no fruits or a homemade V8 style juice.

I've been occasionally having iced tea during the day and a hot herbal tea at night. I've been drinking sparkling water and sometimes I add organic bottled grape juice or organic bottled black cherry juice for just a hint of taste.

 I have been thinking how incredibly amazing I am going to feel on day 31. My self esteem and self confidence is going to be through the roof... a gift of well being to myself. I'm really looking forward to going from self conscious to self confidence.

Juice Fast Day 9 !

Well I am very low energy today... Actually I feel like I normally do. Maybe a tiny bit better  then I normally do but I keep waiting for more energy! I have spent the last couple of years fatigued all the time.

 I am getting days I do have better energy and Saturday walked hours at the mall. I surprised myself with how much energy I had but yesterday one hour shopping at Walmart and I had to go to bed...

 Yesterday I also did not do well at making myself juices I just wanted to be total slug all day.

I got on the scale this morning and had only lost .2 pound one. I really don't think I will slow down with my weight loss this much until later on. Maybe it is because I didn't have enough juice or maybe it was all the running around on the weekend.

 It's much easier to be regimented with my juice during the week. On the weekends I tend to want to do my own thing or be spontaneous or just basically be lazy!

I also have to remember that I am actually doing this for my health much more than just weight loss.  I wanted to note a couple of improvements that I've already noticed.

 I used to have right hip pain whenever I took a step. Now my right hip no longer hurts.

My pain that I'm sure was nerve pain shooting down the front of my left thigh has diminished greatly. And seriously! I lost nine and a half pounds in one week! When in the hell has it ever happened before?. Well except for my last juice fast!

Part of me thinks I should stay off the scale but another analitical part of me wants to chart my weight every day. I think as long as I keep my mind right when I do get on the scale and look at it just as documentation and don't get all emotional about the scale, I'll be ok.

For breakfast I made a mango and grapefruit juice that is luscious! The mango doesn't juice incredibly well. I actually ran a little bit of water through the juicer to get the rest of the mango puree out. It really does just sort of puree it. I used two grapefruit and 3 mango and about a half a cup of water and it made 30 oz.

 DETOX! I spent 45 minutes in the sauna today, ie: my backyard in the Orlando Sun! Working on getting out any toxins I can today.

 It is 3 p.m. almost and I'm really not hungry just thirsty! I've had approximately 450 to 500 calories so far today in fruit juices. I had my grapefruit/mango this morning and then I had about a cup and a half of organic bottled grape juice water down. They're both very full of calories ..

 It's strange I feel very, very empty but I just don't feel much hunger.

 I will drink some coconut water in a few minutes and then a little while make a nice green veggie juice with no fruit.

I bought broccoli and bok choy to give it a shot with carrots and celery and cucumber and maybe spinach. A nice salad juice!

I wanted to also note that I have actually lost 20 pounds since January.

 I feel pretty good and I'm glad it's a new week. Yay I'm on to week two!

Wish me luck.

Cheers~

Juice Fast Day 8 !

This seems to be getting a bit easier every day now.

No longer dealing with hunger or cravings really.

 OK wow! Yesterday was an amazing day.. firstly I'm into my next smaller size jeans. A real 16. Not woman's 16.. I wore them to the mall yesterday.. fit perfectly.

So freaking proud of myself!!!

Yesterday was also my first day out dealing with being around food temptations and I blew myself away with my control..hubs even set in front of me and ate pizza (he had thought he would do juice with me till dinner and I made him a huge juice to have for lunch but instead he had to eat solid food because he got shaky and dizzy and sweaty with hypoglycemia) I set there and was fine! I just tried my best to look at other things and stores/people around us until he was done.

My energy was pretty fair for all the walking. I was planning on going to the store on the way home but ran out of energy and had to get home and rest.

I AM NOT DRINKING ENOUGH JUICE!!

I can tell when I do force myself to drink more juice I do better energy wise but my hunger is so low all I crave is water. I have to force juice though because I need the nutrition.

DETOX: I'm so stinky! LOL! Seriously though I used to hardly ever need to use deodorant and now I need it twice a day!
Woke in the middle of the night to pee and noticed my sinus was slammed shut and my left eye was all weepy and watery.
I also have some fullness and discomfort under my right breast. I know my liver is there so I'm sure it has to do with the cleanse.
These detox symptoms are nothing compared to the past!

REWARDS: I got to reward myself for my awesomeness yesterday! A new Bose Bluetooth Speaker for my Pandora on my tablet (or phone). I've wanted one for like a year to listen to in my studio while I work. I am a jewelry designer and music really inspires me. We blasted some Martin Garrix Animals when we got home. #GoodTimes

 I'm encouraged and happy this AM.

Cheers~

Juice Feast Day 7

Wow I made it through day 6!

On my last juice feast day 6 was such a freaking horrid day that I ended up going to bed early just so I could end it!  I had some scary emotional detox.

I didn't know at the time there even was such a thing so it was extra fucked up. I had this feeling of evil swirling around me and I felt all this hate in me bubbling up.

Now normally I am so calm and you know, live with flowers in my hair and hug trees and run barefoot and blissful but I was in a very abusive, emotionally devistating relationship many years ago.  Now I'm married to "The Genius" and crazy loved and supported and thought I had worked through all that sadness in my past so when that happened I didn't get it.

Now another year older and lots of studying just what detox can bring I was ready... but so far there has not been much!

I've slowly been working on getting more healthy over the last year and had been High Raw on and off for a couple of months, (with fits and starts on Raw for a few years!) and I've decided my juice feast seems to be much less eventful because I've already detoxed a bit before I started.

I'm hoping to go much deeper over the next few days and heal my body of a couple of health issues.

JUICE:
Yesterday was a bit boring.  Just your average green juice.  I did find out I don't like juiced Kiwi which really surprised me because it's one of my fav fruits!  It just had this strange acrid taste to me
 I did juice it in the skin, I had actually read that the skin is edible so I thought why not.. but blarg!

Juice Fast Day 6!!!

Well I am so proud of myself!

Yesterday was a very emotionally difficult day.

The very first time that I actually felt like just giving up. I just wanted to walk in the kitchen and start shoving some food in my face!

It was a very close call! It was not true hunger. I have not actually felt actual hunger in a few days. But it was the need for comfort.

This was NOTHING compared to day 6 last time though!

On my last juice feast on day 6 I had a horrid, emotional melt down. I actually felt like I was almost possessed… (I'm serious).. I felt dark and mad and angry.  And VERY, very rageful.  I thought I was going crazy.  I felt like I was someone else and was pretty traumatized by it, I almost had like this feeling of evil in and around me.. I think with my Christian upbringing though that I just related evil to the really dark feelings that were coming up.. and the extreme anger.  I knew about emotional detox but was REALLY freaked out by it.  Bubbling of a very abusive relationship and pent up emotions I figured out later.


I wrote more about it here:

http://highrawweightloss.blogspot.com/2012/05/juice-feast-day-3.html

As far as my hunger I seem to do fine until about 4 o'clock and then the craving for food shows itself. I'm very fortunate that now I can actually tell the difference between true hunger and just a desire or craving to put food in my face.

My weight loss has slowed down a bit. I only lost half a pound yesterday. Not really concerned about it I'm doing this for my health also. I know that this is the best thing I can do for myself. I am going to stay off the scale for a couple of days.

I am thinking of having a spa day next week for much needed pampering.

I wish I had a friend that was into health that I could spend some bonding time with. I know it would help and we could have a girls day at the spa but my friends have either moved away or we've just grown apart and I feel the loss.

I am going to start making two or three different juices in the morning and put them in the fridge. I'm getting incredibly bored with cleaning my juicer 5 times a day!

The last time I did a juice fast day 6 was so horrible I quit the next day. I started having incredibly scary emotional detox. I felt just crazy. I felt like there was darkness and evil around me swirling around me... I have in a very abusive relationship in the past but I really thought I had worked through it all though. It was really frightening. At the time I did not know that emotional detox was even a thing!

 This time around so far my juice fast has been much more uneventful. But I'm still a bit wary of the next couple of days.

Wish me luck!!

Cheers~

Juice Feast Day 5

Yesterday was really not difficult. I was not crazy hungry. I do stay pretty thirsty and drink a lot of juice.

DETOX: I'm having some detox symptoms. My entire body is itching. I know our skin is responsible for like 40% of our bodies actual detox so I need to do the dry brushing. I just ordered a Mio body brush.  http://www.mioskincare.com/the-mio-body-brush.html 

Not a lot to really report, I feel fairly good..my energy is only a tiny bit better but I know it will improve. 

Excited about the next few days and I'm happy that I'm doing something lovely for myself and my health.  

I plan on getting a lot done around the house today so we will see how much my energy holds out. I want to start back doing my daily walks.