92 Day Juice Feast - Day 1

Well hello everyone!

Here I am FINALLY embarking on yet another amazing Juice Feast. I must say, I have, as Oprah said at the beginning of the year, fallen off the wagon. In fact I've been rolling around in the dirt for a while too! Yeah, the move to a knew place, less space, no place to put my produce, delay in setting up my juicer, financial crunches...all let to dropping the ball on juice feasting.

So, that's all in the past now and I have finally put my foot down to entering into optimum health again. For the most part I stayed within a raw food diet, but there were days when I totally crumbled and gave in to cravings. However, NOW, I bought a little fridge all to myself, my finances are steadier, and my juicer has found a new home...so HERE I GO!!

I've been noodling around in The Juice Feasting website created by David Rainocheck (see link below). I feel like I probably need a coach at this point so I think I may invest in one of their plans.

Today I had:
Upon Rising -
hot water w/ lemon, sea salt, olive oil, apple cider vinegar (Yummy!)
This is to cleanse and detox the liver and bowels. Yay!

Breakfast - around 12 noon - lol (I wasn't hungry until then)
1 green juice: (20 oz)
2 apples
6 celery stalks
a big handful of spinach
1" pc of ginger

2 hrs later -
1 pinapple juice: 1 whole pineapple (20 oz)

1 hr later -
2 tbs. spirulina flakes w/1 tbsp olive oil & lemon

8pm later -
1 cantaloupe juice: 1 small cantaloupe (20 oz)

10 pm
1 green juice: (as above 20 oz)

I've gone to the bathroom a lot - eliminating liquids - the pineapple is an anti-inflamatory. Eliminating wastes very nicely ;)

I only felt a little bloating and discomfort around 7:30- 8:00pm - Liver and gall bladder are detoxing!

I also had a cup of Ginger and a cup of Rose Hip tea - each with a tbs. of Agave Necatar :) The temperatures dropped today here in SoCal and I even had to turn on my little heater! Yay! No more hot summer sweating (I live in the country and this house does not have AC!). I will sleep nicely tonight as the air is much crisper.

As soon as I felt hungry I would have a juice. Prepared them in advance this morning and kept them in glass bottles with lids in the fridge. Prior to today, I had been having popcorn almost everyday (home made with coconut oil) so I sort of missed that. When I'd get a craving for food, I remembered I was on a juice feast and just grabbed a juice from the fridge! Yay!

So that was Day 1 of my new Juice Feast. I thought I would wait and record a video only after a week of the Feast, but I wanted to be able to capture the visual of my progress, so I just recorded a clip which I probably won't upload until I've uploaded all the other videos from my last juice feast! LOL

I'll be back tomorrow to record my thoughts and juices.
See you then, :Damaris