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!