Juice Fast Day 4

This morning I weighed in at 404.6 lbs, that is a loss of 18.4 lbs in 3 days. Very exciting! Now for the not so exciting part. Today has been the most difficult day yet. I have been very very hungry. Physical hunger, stomach growling the whole bit. Also, I don't think I can bring myself to drink any more green juice, which isn't good at all since that is where the most nutrients are. I just about throw it up when I drink it. Low energy still. I think this would be working a lot better if I didn't have to go to work. I could juice, swim or take a walk, rest/take a nap when I needed to, really listen to my body.

Juice Fast - Day 3

Day 3 of the fast. I am not sure how I am doing. I think I am okay, but emotionally I am a wreck. My Grandma, who helped raise me has been given less than 24 hours to live. I am not doing well at all. I haven't been hungry all day, felt kind of dead inside. I am hungry now, both physically and emotionally. My stomach is growling and the idea of eating is appealing. Food is my number one comfort. In fact when I picked my son up the first thing he asked me after I told him the news was "are you going to stay on the juice fast?" Everyone knows it is a comfort. I am staying on. At least 60 days, perhaps 66 (all of December and all of January).

Juice Fast Day 2

Today is day two, I am no longer peeing every 10 minutes, (though it is still often), now however I have terrible diarrhea. I am hoping this is gone by tomorrow. It was so difficult being at work today feeling the way I do and making numerous trips to the restroom.

How do I feel today? Well, to start with I think I have been trying to drink too much juice. I feel simply sloshy, very very sloshy. By about 2:00 pm today the idea of taking another sip of juice threatened to bring back up everything else I had drank earlier.

I am tired, full, sloshy, achy, tired, and just want to sleep. Instead now that I am off work, I am going to go to my water aerobics class.

Not yet 48 hours in, and I am down 10 lbs. That is pretty cool.

Juice Fast Day 1

On Thanksgiving my brother Justin told me he had just watched a really inspirational movie Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, a documentary about Joe Cross. He had watched it on Netflix, I went home that night and watched it here. It was very good, very inspirational, about doing a 60 juice fast to regain health. I thought it over and decided I would do it, starting December 17th, right after our families big get together. Then I thought why not start December 1st and I will be feeling good by the 17th. I have been feeling really bad since the day before Thanksgiving, I don't know if it is the weather or what, but my pain levels have been high and my mobility low. So, yesterday I thought, why put it off? Why wait any longer, I could be pain free 30 days from now. Why would I want to wait a few more days to get to that point? The only reason I could come up with was food. I had some really good cookies in the house, some carmels I had just bought and leftovers from Thanksgiving, plus I was planning on making Chicken and Dumplings, a "last meal" of sorts. I realized this was not healthy thinking and decided I would begin today.

I was so thrilled when my sister-in-law decided she wanted to do this with me.
Our fast will be a little longer than 60 days, we will do only juice until February 1st.
We went to the grocery store last night and came home and juiced. We both decided juicing each night for the next day is what would work best for us. So we washed, cut and juiced!

So far the day is going well, I am hungry off and on. I shouldn't be though, we are getting about 1300 calories. I knew that the big challenge would be mentally wanting the food I can't have, I just didn't think it would hit on the first day. It is what it is, I am committed to this for the next two months. I want my health back, I want my life back.

Juice on!