Day 35 of juice and still kickin. Today was gorgeous. Here's a picture I took of the sunrise as I went out the door. I woke at 6am to go hang with my parents. I love how juice feasting allows me to get up without feeling tired. I just hop out of bed and get on with my day. I had my lemon water with msm powder and headed out without making juice. I brought a lot of things with me because I had a date to make my parents juice for breakfast. Well, breakfast for me, after breakfast for them.
I arrived and made a beautiful green juice 'Latte' as I like to call them.
The pineapple really makes them foamy. They loved the juice and it was full of good things like celery, chard, spinach, other leafy greens. After day four of juicing they saw how great my skin was and how it had changed and they became believers in juice. Well, my mom noticed and my dad partakes in her habits. So juice it is for them every morning! My first step at helping others to better health.
So, Green juice! They are used to having things a little simpler. They make orange juice or carrot juice or carrot, orange and apple. They needed a nudge into the greener side of juicing. I'm actually very proud. They used to use a lot of paper towels and drink bottled water. My mom decided to buy a bunch of white hand towels and just wash them as they use them and to stop with the bottled water and just drink the filtered water from their fridge. I used to take all their recycling for them and they've cut out all the plastic. Now she is talking about alternatives to chemical cleaning supplies! I love it.
I exercised with my mom today in the early afternoon. We walked and did some machine work outs. I felt great but later in the afternoon I started to drag and eventually took a nap around 3 or 4pm. I tend to take a dip at this time each day if I am not occupied. I've been tested before for adrenal function and my lowest point was in the afternoon and they spike around midnight. I was hoping to cure all my imbalances with this feast so here's hoping! I still have 26 days left and a raw lifestyle ahead of that. Wow, 26 days sounds like nothing. I think I will be sad to stop. Even though I think about those first prunes that I will eat and get excited. I hope I don't fall into the common post feast blues. Of course I won't, I'll be in Italy with my boyfriend!
The juices I had today were:
Greens with pineapple
Orange and carrot
grapefruit with bluegreen algae
coconut water with greener grasses
Tbsp of hemp oil
Greenish red juice with tomato, garlic, carrots, celery, greens, beets, sprouts, chard, baby salad greens, cucumber, zucchini, yellow and green bell pepper, salt, cayenne, chlorella. I really like the pack it in at night!
Tea with honey
Lots of water
Wow, that was a lot. I haven't been keeping track of how much I drink. I was curious around day 10 or so if I was drinking enough. I wasn't so I kept track for a couple of days. I really had to try to drink enough and soon I was drinking a lot. I had over two gallons one day including my water. I stopped adding it up somewhere along the line because I felt that I learned to achieve at least a gallon.
I usually don't feel so hungry for juice in the morning. The cravings strike the most around mid afternoon, the same time that I get tired. This also happened when I was eating. Sometimes I would skip dinner and just have an extra long lunch because I just could not be satisfied between 1 and 3. This is one of the things I am hoping to overcome with juicing. I've read Angela's Raw food for weight loss and I intend to apply some of her principles when I come out of this. Wish me luck!
xo,
Elizabeth
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