Juice day 3/4

 

Isn't it pretty?  I love the colors of the juices!

(well, when you do it right, sometimes it's yucky orange brown and it happens)

 

So I've been doing my juice thing going on 4 days now.  I've lost 11.6 pounds as of this morning, and that's more motivating than ever. 

I have not been only injesting juice though. 

 

Last time I did a juice fast, around day 4 I was really in bad shape.  I felt terrible, and didn't really feel good.  This was before Dec 11 when I started working towards permanent weight loss.  So this time my plan was to drink all juice and tea, but have a bowl of soup at night.  The soup I had turned out to be too rich, and then I at that half a PB & J the first night, which I still regret.  Tuesday I ate a couple bites of a cucumber while I was making my Wednesday juice, but that was all I had and I was fine.  Last night I ate some sliced zucchini and tomatoes sauteed in a teeny amount of sesame oil.  It was fantastic: 

 

Today's juices are a slight bit different.  For my breakfast juice for this morning and tomorrow morning I changed it up and made the following recipe:

 

--1 bag of fresh cranberries

--4 large carrots

--2 naval oranges

--about 10 strawberries

--2 red pears

  Not as sweet as the other breakfast juice, but good.

 

My green juice for today is a little less appetizing.  I wanted to try something new, and I'm almost to where I want it to be, but not quite there.

Today's green juice is:

 

--1/3 pineapple

--4 ribs celery

--6-7 large carrots

--1/2 pound of spinach

--2 peeled cucumbers

 As you can see, this is one of those yucky brownish juices.

 

 

I'll be honest, this one is not my favorite, though it's much less strong, because I used spinach instead of kale.  Also it's a bit sweeter using the pineapple instead of green apples.  But it's doable. 

Also with my lunch juice today and yesterday I ate a very tiny avocado.  So good.  You can't juice an avocado, so it's fair in my eyes.

 

Today I decided I'm going to continue juicing until all the produce I bought is gone, then I'll go back on the solids until a few days after Thanksgiving (super healhy Paleo style all through that time), then go back to the juice for another week or so. 

 

I'll put up another update on Saturday!

 

 



Juicing day 1/2

Well, I finally decided to do the juice fast!  I went to the store on Sunday and bought a whole bunch of produce to last me three days.  That's about how long I can go following one single juice receipe for each "breakfast" juice and the green juice I drink for the rest of the day.  Here is a snapshot of a single day's worth of juice--both breakfast and rest of the day:

I did my produce shopping at the local grocery, which isn't the most affordable, but I could barely get myself to the store.  I had already gone to Church with the kiddo, then to BMX races, then worked around the house.  Anyway, I dragged my self there and got a few things, plus all the juicing stuff.  I ended up spending I'd say about $55 on this produce.  I got the following:

-6 Jonagold Apples

-9 Navel Oranges

-12 Granny Smith Apples

-2 Bunches of Celery

-10 Pounds of Carrots

-3 Bunches of Kale

-6 Cucumbers

-Decent size chunk of fresh Ginger

-3 large Lemons

Plus I already had the following:

-1 Jonagold Apple

-2 Green Bell Peppers

-6 Tomatoes

I'm going to change up the recipes after 3 days on.  I can't handle much more than that without a change.  Also, when I try to change it too much it either gets REALLY gross, or I have to buy cases of one or two items to make enough juice.

Breakfast Juice (makes 2, 16 ounce jars...good for 2 breakfasts worth):

3 Navel Oranges

2 Jonagold Apples

4-5 Carrots

and the result...YUMMY!

 THIS IS MY FAVORITE JUICE BY FAR!!!

Green Juice (makes 4, 16 ounce jars...good for one days worth of juice plus breakfast):

1 bunch of kale (washed, whole leaves rolled like a cigar)

3 Granny Smith Apples (Cored, not peeled)

1 Tomato (washed and cut in half to fit juicer)

1 Bell Pepper (cored, washed, and broken in half to fit juicer)

Small chunk of Ginger (unpeeled...be careful a little goes a long way)

5-6 carrots (washed and ends cut off...not peeled)

2 Cucumbers (peeled)

1 large Lemon (peeled...seeds okay to juice)

3-4 stalks of Celery (washed)

and the result...(it's wacky, but straws help me chug it faster!)

Yesterday was my first day on the juice, and I did have a boo-boo.  I drank juice for breakfast, then drank 3 juices at work, then had one more juice to drink at home with my herbal tea for the evening.  I couldn't hang, so I ate a small bowl of Cream of Broccoli soup I made myself with cream, pureed broccoli, and chicken stock.  It was much too rich and tore up my stomach!  Regrets are the worst!  Then later I was making the boys their lunches, and ate a half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  That didn't mess up my stomach, and I felt a lot better after.  Not so deprived.  I felt like a total douche, however, I drank a crap ton of water yesterday (approximatly 200 oz), and really flushed my system out.  I musta peed 17 times at work alone!

Now for the news you've been waiting for I'm sure...after just one solid day of water and juice (and my non-juice indescretions) ,

the scale is down 5.2 pounds!!!

Yes, I'm happy.  Yes, this  helps motivate me!  Yes, it's freaking HARD!

Juicing takes willpower for sure. 

But, it can be done.  Feel free to ask me any questions you might have.  I'll do another post on day 4, to update my weight loss, and provide you with some new recipes!