Juice Fast Day 7

Allergies are kicking my butt! Whatever is out there, I need it to go away. Today has been a long day, my nose is raw from blowing it and sneezing. The day went well food wise, I went to the movies, the popcorn was enticing but I managed. I went to Walmart, Subway's bread was mouth watering but I did okay. I went to Sherms and bought more fruits and vegetables for next week. I also bought an onion, turnip, garlic, tomatos, carrots, celery for a vegetable broth. I am going to make some broth tomorrow. My weight this morning was 401 lbs, so that is a total of 22lbs lost in 6 days, we will see what tomorrow brings.

Juice Fast Day 6

Day 6 started out a little disappointing, I was only down .8 lb; my weight was 402.2 lbs, so 20.8 lbs in 5 days.  Thirty minutes is a really long lunch when you aren't eating. I watched a few minutes of basketball and then walked for about 10-15 minutes. My knees and hips were hurting by the time I was done. I am feeling pretty darn good physically, a lot more alert. I went and listened to Dylan play tonight and then my mom and I went swimming. When I got home Chris helped me make a mean green and he even cleaned up the juicer. Very nice! I am hoping for a good night sleep. Earlier today I was feeling mean. I was angry that I wasn't getting to eat the food I wanted to eat and felt mean. The day/night ended well.

Juice Fast Day 5

Today was a better day, at least I think it was. I had to take a benadryl twice throughout the day because of bad allergies and sad about my grandma passing away yesterday.

On the whole, I think today is a turning point, I expect more energy from here on out.

I have been juicing ahead of time, the juice is supposed to be good for 48 hours. However I can't drink the green juices after they have sat. I decided I will juice each night, juicing dinner fresh and then breakfast and lunch the next day. For tonight it was a good plan, I was able to down the mean green quickly and while it wasn't an enjoyable experience it wasn't horrible and it fed my body lots of nutrients.

I don't know what to do with myself now that I am not eating. Who am I without food? What am I going to do when I start feeling better and have more energy? When I am able to do more than work and sleep? Good questions that need to be answered. For tonight I decided to go to the gym, I figured I would get about 2 minutes on the elliptical if I were lucky. I am so stoked, I did 7 minutes on the elliptical and 10 minutes on the recumbent bike. Woo Hoo!!!

After working out I came home and juiced. Juicing is a lot of work, prep, clean up... I drank my mean green down quickly. It has been about an hour and now I am having some heartburn. I hope it goes away soon. I had trouble with it after my carrot/apple juice for lunch too. I have read that raw potato juice heals ulcers and soothes the stomach, I have also read that raw potato juice is the worst tasting juice around. I really don't want to have to try it.

I realized tonight that I don't have to fail in this. I can succeed if I choose too.

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!