Day 7

I have officially been on the juice feast for one whole week.

The first 4 or 5 days weren't so bad but now, I'm just not feeling the juice feast love anymore. All of my juices are starting to taste nasty. Maybe my taste buds need to detox or maybe I should just embrace the green flavor. Either way, it's not fun to drink something that tastes gross when you're really hungry.

I'm just not sure if I'm ready to go off though. I really like how light I feel and I especially love the weight loss, who am I kiddin'? The other day I asked Tyler if I looked any thinner. He said I looked the same. Boo. But then I realized that at that time, I had only lost 5lbs or so. I could definitely feel the difference. My stomach is a lot more flat and I am almost down to my pre-pregnancy weight, I'm ashamed to admit since it took so long.

I tell myself that I can go until day 10. Then by day ten, I might as well finish the rest of the week and go to day 14. But then after that, what's another week? Slowly, slowly, I will get there.

Cravings
It's been interesting to see how my cravings have evolved. At first, I couldn't even look at the candy in the house. It was like those Oreo balls were calling my name. But I remained strong! Then at the end of last week, it was starch. Pasta, breads, and anything else that was full of carbs and starch. Now? I think it's meat, cheese, and eggs. This morning, I made breakfast for Tyler. He wanted a homemade egg McMuffin on a bagel with cheese. The trifecta of my cravings! But now I am really in deep with the juice feast, if I cheated, my body would freak out and I would get very sick.

Juices
I'm not sure what it is, but I am satisfied with only 3 quarts of juice a day along with my morning quart of water. I hope it's not too little but I honestly am satisfied with my three juices. I'm not hungry or anything. This is what I had today:

-Spinach/kale/apple/celery/cucumber
-Orange
-Spinach/kale/apple/celery/cucumber

I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the kale but my juices have been kind of spicy. Ick. Tomorrow I'm going to try it without the kale and see how it goes.

Also, I have been slowly building up my taste to celery. Before, when it was overpowering, I backed down and only put 2 stalks in there. Now, when I make it with spinach, I put 4 stalks in there and I can't taste it at all! That's over half of the stalk. Yippee!

Weight
148.6. So I am 2.4 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight! Took me freaking long enough....But if anyone asks, I'm going to blame it on the breastfeeding. Have you ever tried to diet while breastfeeding? It sucks and Jack was not happy about it.

Day 3

This is my produce in one day that I will juice. Now that I post the picture, it doesn't really look like a lot but it feels like a lot to me. So there.  

Detox


I was fully expecting to wake up today completely sick from detoxing. I still feel fine today but I don't think I've eluded the great detox monster that's inside of me just waiting to come out will a full vengeance. I believe it is somewhere in my transverse colon now.

Morning "tea"


I found that it was a lot easier to drink my quart of water with the lemon. On day 1, I felt it was just too much water to drink that early in the morning. But now, I can drink it just fine. It tastes good and refreshing and it satisfies me until I can finish making my juices for the day.

Juices


Yesterday's juices where Na-ha-ha-ha-sty! So I decided to stick with my morning one that I really like which is romaine lettuce/cucumber/apple/carrot. It's sweet, but not too sweet like my strait-up fruit juice one.

Speaking of the fruit juice, it's like cocaine! Man, I love my fruit juices and I look forward to them SO much. Soon you may find me down a dark alley drinking something bright and fruity while I cower under a makeshift cardboard shelter. I'll probably be shaking and have crazy eyes . I need my fruit juice, man. I NEED it!


So here is what I juiced today:

Romaine lettuce/cucumber/apple/carrot
Orange/grapefruit/sea salt
Spinach/celery/apple/cucumber/bell pepper
*leftover romaine lettuce/cucumber/apple/carrot

I know I'll end up juicing some more but I had class and was late. I can juice some later tonight.

Weight


My mother-in-law had an extra scale at home so I asked if I could have it. A friend of a friend brought it down (they live about an hour away) and I was so excited, I couldn't wait! When it finally got to me, I put the new battery in and stepped on. I weighed 35 lbs.

Crap.

Okay step on it again. Wait. Now I weigh 6 lbs.

#@*  &*^$&   %$*&^!!! So the scale doesn't work. No biggie, I can go get one the next day, I think to myself. Well, because I'm cheap, I went to a local thrift store to find one. They had about 6 but choosing to get something there was like trying to decide which STD I wanted (in more ways than one). They all looked bad, and there was a chance I could buy one, only to have it be broken or I could hit jackpot. There was one I stepped on and knew worked but it said I was 161 lbs so that mother $@*^& scale got to stay at crappy DI.

If I were a whore, I'd have the worst STD of them all because the one I chose doesn't work! Yes, it was only two dollars, but still. I just want a stinkin' scale and preferably one that is accurate.

So yes, I did just type out that whole story to prove a point that I don't know what I weigh yet. I'll update soon though.

Bathroom uh...stories?


For some reason, I was just NOT feeling the love I have felt from my 2 previous enemas. Now that I reflect back, it was probably because the water was just a little too warm. When I fill up my enema bag I ask myself, Okay, when you have to pee in a cup at the doctor's office, how warm is it? That's probably the temperature you'd want. Obviously I was a little overzealous and my colon did not thank me for that.

I'm still peeing every 30 minutes but now it's only right after I drink my juice. Ha! Take that, Mr. Know-it-all-I'm-gonna-make-you-piss-your-pants Kidneys!


In other news, I made a video on how I juice my juice but it still needs to be worked on. I'll post it hopefully later today or at least tomorrow.

Day 2

I wanted to show you my beautiful array of juices. As you can see, the purple juice (beets & spinach), has a little less but the lime green colored (my celery "soup") and my peach colored (cantaloupe & apples) have a ton of juice so I think it makes up for the lack.

I am so excited about my juices today! As I was reading another juice feaster's blog, I realized that he had juiced all of his celery to make into one meal. This got to me thinking that I could add things like, garlic, onion, a bit of tomato, and carrots to essentially make myself a juice "soup" so to speak for dinner. No more overpowering celery taste in ALL of my juices for the day.

I went to the store again but this time I got garlic, onion, cilantro, tomato, beets, green onions, and mushrooms. I've heard it's actually quite common for first timers to try mix the juices with the most flavor since we are so used to flavor and variety in our daily diet. It's true. I want FLAVOR, but only for now. I'm certain that will change as time goes.

My morning juice was quite pleasant. It was dark green but sweet at the same time and I gulped it down happily. Unlike yesterday, where I had to stop and compose myself after the celery taste. Honestly, you'd think I was a complete wuss, the way I talk about the celery but really, go put your celery through a blender, strain it, and try drinking it. Then you can report back and if you think it's not bad at all, then I deserve a kick in the pants.

My lunch juice was amazing again! Right now, I live for my fruit juices. It just tastes so yummy.

I had my snack juice (the beet & spinach one) and it tastes like dirt, unfortunately. I put some honey in it to liven it up but the aftertaste of dirt still lingers. My sister and her sister-in-law (who have both done the juice feast) said how when you mix the two together, it tastes like chocolate milk. I think I put too much beet in it because...yeah, it doesn't taste like chocolate milk. However, it's not horrible but it's not one of my favorites so far.

I also had my dinner juice is it was nasty. My stomach is gurgling as we speak. It was indeed savory and had lots of flavor but something about it was not right and I did not enjoy it. I got about 3/4 done when I called it quits. It was just too much. Maybe I should just suck it up, do strait celery juice, and get it done with.

I'm still waiting for the dreaded detox. Usually it happens on day 2-4-ish but I feel fine today. No headache, no body aches, no nuthin' (except for my slight cold I had before starting). We'll see how tomorrow goes.

My body needs to get used to all of the veggie juice I am putting into me. I'm not hungry, per se, because I think my view of hunger is distorted. Before, my meals were probably on the higher end of fat content-wise (in which fat stays in your stomach longer) but now, my juices are digested more efficiently and faster. Mostly, I need to change my view on what it means to be hungry because the majority of the time I think I am hungry, if I wait another minute, I'm not. Also, my kidney's are going into hyperdrive right now. I pee every 30 minutes or so just because of all the liquid I am drinking!


What I juiced:
Romaine lettuce/carrots/cucumber/apple
Apple/cantaloupe
Spinach/beets
Celery/tomato/cilantro/green onion/garlic




Weight  I don't have my scale yet, so I don't know.

Day 1

It took me about 2 hours to juice all of my juices which is pretty good considering that in only 2 hours, I made all of the meals that I would eat in an entire day.

My breakfast juice was a little odd. First off, I'm not used to drinking just liquid in the morning and vegetable liquid for that matter. Plus, the taste of celery was so overpowering. Tomorrow I am going to try to put spinach in to see if it masks the strong taste. But, because I put apple & carrots in it, it was also sweet so that was a plus.

Today I experienced my first enema adventure. Just some FYI, let the water run a little bit before sticking it up your bum or you will get a bunch of air in your colon. Don't ask me how I know.

Psychologically, the enema was difficult because all I could think was, "I have water UP my bum, GET IT OUT!" But I waited and although it was only maybe a minute later, I "went" and it felt really good. It was like I was washing my colon out and as crazy as it sounds, I feel lighter. With that being said, I need softer toilet paper. I've already gone to the bathroom multiple times today.

It'll be interesting to see how my juices play out. I have found myself more hungry but I know that's only because I would stuff at three meals a day. I'm not used to drinking 4+ meals of strait juice. Kind of makes sense since the juice would be easily digested therefore, I should be hungry more often. However, the juices do leave me satisfied.

I have thought it all out in my head and I think I've figured that I will drink every 3 hours. This translates to waking up at 7am-ish and drinking my morning "tea" so to speak to which I will drink my breakfast at 9:00am, then lunch at 12:00, midday snack at 3:00pm, and dinner at 6:00pm. I then have an option of drinking a cup of tea at 9:00pm, which I probably will.

What I juiced:
Romaine lettuce/carrot/cucumber/celery/apple x3
Apple/cantaloupe


Obstacles:
I really believe that one can be addicted to sugar and I also believe that I am one of those people. Right now, it's pretty tempting because we still have Christmas goodies around our house but I really want to give this juice feast 100% so I'm not going to cheat.

It's also been kind of difficult making food for Jack & Tyler and smelling the tastyness of the cheese and the butter (grilled cheese sandwiches). I wanted the grilled cheese sandwich for about 2 seconds and then I tasted my cantaloupe/apple juice and it was heavenly. I'm doing okay.


Misc. Illnesses:
Keratosis on arms
Phantosmia
Permanent stuffy nose
Brittle nails



Weight  156lbs.