What I've learned

What I've learned after 2 weeks of juice feasting:

1.  I do not like celery in juice.  Ever.

2. I like having a red/orange juice in the morning and a green juice later in the day.

3. I now look forward to my hot lemon in the morning like I used to look forward to my coffee or tea.

4. When I first started, I liked my juices a bit sweeter so I would add more fruit.

5.  I am surprised that collard greens, radishes, cabbage, bok choi and bell peppers taste good in juice.

6. Grapefruit juice is one of my favorite fruits to juice.

7. Too many limes can make the juice bitter.

8. Oranges and grapefruit peels can make the juice bitter.

9.  I look forward to juicing everyday like I used to with cooking.

10.  Juice satisfies me and is to easy to make!  I was a bit skeptical when I started, but now I am a true believer and will continue to juice for the rest of my life.

Keep it juicy, juicy fruits!

Why Yes, I am Happy!

Holy Cow! It's Day 15 of my 60 Day Juice Feast!   WOO HOO!  Yeah, I'm a bit excited and very happy!

Ask me why....I dare ya! Just ask me why!  (ok you don't really have to because I am going to tell you anyway!)

I'm so excited because I've stuck to juicing for two whole weeks and I am seeing results!  Results appeal to me because as a retired scientist, they are proof that something is working (or not working).  I love results!

Here's rundown of my results so far:

1. I have lost weight.   14 or so pounds to be exact!  14 pounds in 14 days is a pound of day!  My clothes are fitting better as a result and that makes me super happy.  Good bye, fat pants! 

2. I am not hungry.  I am still shocked by this one because on every other stupid diet I have tried, I was always hungry. Hungry. All. The. Time.  Today, being hungry is not an issue.  I love that!

3.  I am sleeping better.  Sleep and I have a long history of battle.  I have a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep so this one is huge. 

4.  My skin feels softer and looks better.  It's strange that juice feasting would make my skin feel better, but it has.  Bye bye, dragon skin!

5. I have more energy.  Before juicing, I would work in the morning and have to take a nap at about 2 PM everyday like clockwork.  Now, I get up in the morning and can make it through a whole day without a nap. 

6. I am more alert and can focus better. Before juicing, I had issues with focus. I always felt like I was in a mental fog and I struggled with my thoughts.  That's all gone now.

Here's today's video:

My Sanctuary: The Asian Market

It's wicked cold and rainy here today in New England, but that's not stopping me from enjoying the day. I'm really getting into living my life as a juicer.  (ha ha....that made me laugh!)  I am loving how I feel and loving the weight loss too.

Today I went to the Asian market to procure some strange and exotic fruits and veggies that you just don't find at your normal grocery store.  I gotta tell you that when I first started eating more fruits and veggies long before I started juicing that the Asian market became my sanctuary!  They carry all of my favorite tropical fruits and veggies that I have never heard of!  It's awesome.  So what did I find today?  Well, take a look!

Kombucha Squash

Asian Sweet Potato

The Market Itself

Jackfruits!  I LOVE these!

Lovely Dragon Fruit

Yellow Papaya

Ya Pear.  These look good

Dongchimi Radish

Some sort of squash

I had a really good time today and bought some of those radishes.  I can't wait to taste them in my juice.

Keep it juicy, juicy fruits!

Today's Juices

Squash the Tomato

1 Medium Tomato

1 Cucumber

1 Green Bell Pepper

1 Small Apple

1 Lime

2 Yellow Squash

2 Bunches of Spinach

Lovely Orange

1 Orange

3 Carrots

1 Yellow Squash

1 handful of Parsley

1 2” piece of Ginger

  

Stop Believing the Lies

Day 10 and still going strong!  Of course, I still need to get to the grocery store because I am running very low on my greens, but that's OK!  I found some green apples that I stashed in the fridge and I still have 5 lbs of carrots and other various veggies to get me through the weekend. I love juice!

Anyway...one of my friends recently asked me about protein. "Where do you get your protein from?"  followed by "Aren't you afraid of protein deficiency?"

Her question got me thinking and here's what I told her.  I get my protein from the plants and fruits I am juicing.  She was a bit shocked by my response, but it's true.  Plants contain protein.

So why all this worry about protein?  Why do most people freak out when I tell them I am doing a juice fast?

Well, it's because we've all been fed a big fat assed lie about it by the FDA, the Department of Health and the Department of Agriculture.  What lie?  Well the one that says people need to consume their protein in the form of animal flesh.  I know you've probably heard it.  I grew up with the lie that the only way to get enough protein in my diet was to either eat meat or tofu.

Those three government agencies are telling us lies because they are funded and run by people who have interests (think investments and money) in the meat and and dairy industry. They just want people to eat more meat and dairy. They don't really care about the health of the people they are selling to.  They just want to make money.  Make sense?  I could go on and on about this, but I won't

It turns out that the healthiest diet for human beings is one that consists of high carbohydrate fruits and vegetables, low in fat and adequate in protein. So what is a person to do?  Well, it's really simple.

Stop believing the lies! Eat more fruits and veggies.  Stop eating meat.
Voila!

Juice of the Day

Red Ginger
1 Grapefruit
1 Orange
1 Beet
1  2" piece of Ginger
4 Swiss Chard Stalks

And today's video :)

Keep it juicy, juicy fruits!

Has It Really Been a Week?

Has it really been a week?  WOW!  Woo hoo!  Go me! I'm feeling really good other than a mild headache I've had since yesterday.

I am really proud of myself for doing this juice cleanse.  I am pretty sure I've lost weight too which is good.

All around, it's all good!

Today's Juices

Red Grapefruit

1 Grapefruit

1 Orange

1 Beet

4 Carrots

5 Red Swiss Chard Stalks

Another Green

2 Small Apples

1 Cucumber

1 Bell Pepper

5 Collard Green Leaves

1 Lime

Stay juicy, juicy fruits!

The Toxic Fat Has it

Day 2 went down without any incident.  I juiced for the day and felt pretty good.  Because I am loosely following Joe's Cross's Reboot plan, I had a small dinner last night.  Today I woke up feeling pretty good and I've had my juice and tea.

Today's Juices

Red Cooler

1/2 of a Watermelon

1 Lime

Easy Green

2 Cucumbers

5-6 Chicory Leaves

1 Apple

Now why am I doing this? Consuming 60 days of nothing but fresh fruit and vegetable juice. I gotta tell you that I have several reasons for doing this feast.  One of the main reasons is toxic fat.  I am toxic and I have toxic fat.

See, last year when I started researching food and nutrition, I was blown away by how toxic our food is.  Not unprocessed food like fresh fruits and veggies, but the processed garbage that  they put in boxes and label as healthy.  It's NOT healthy.  It's concocted to make us never feel full or satisfied and it's laden with toxic crap like high fructose corn syrup, MSG, ribonuclotide, BHA/BHT and a whole bunch of other stuff that was designed to stimulate our brains to want more more more.

AND the kicker is this, those toxins, they get stored in our fat cells because our poor bodies can't rid ourselves of them fast enough!   So we eat the crap food with the crap toxins and our bodies go into overdrive to protect us and store the toxins as FAT. Yucky TOXIC FAT!  Quick, get it off of my body!

Don't believe me, check out these articles.

Toxins In Food

Ribonucleotide and The Ribo Rash

List of Food Toxins

So it seemed apparent to me that my fat was not necessarily my fault.  My fault was eating all that garbage filled with toxins.  The more I learned about this stuff, the less I wanted to eat it. I was seriously so blown away after learning about this stuff that I immediately started to add more and more healthy foods to my diet like WHOLE fruits and vegetables.  I started to check the food labels and if it had 'natural flavoring' or 'yeast extract' listed, I didn't buy it.

And now I am doing a juice fast to help rid my body of this toxic fat once and for all and heal my body.

If you'd like to learn more about the toxins in our foods, I recommend these books

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