Results and Next Steps

Wow - aside from the Day Four fiasco caused by over medicating, I feel good.   My energy level is high and I've been able to do alot of things that normally tire me out.   On what would have been Day Five, I cleaned my entire  house with hardly any resting.   And today, the day after my pseudo 5 day juice fast, I walked a brisk 10 minute walk to the bank and then back to work with out any huffing or puffing.  This is marked improvement and how my body behaves on my really good days.

So suffice it to say, I want to stick with the juicing.  It is difficult to do ONLY juice, partly because I was tired of making it.   If I was rich and someone was making it for me and handing it to me at the designated time, it would be easier to stick with it.   But really this shouldn't be an excuse.

I am planning to do the following:   in evening for dinner, make a juice drink and drink half of it with my dinner.  Then save the other half for the following morning with breakfast. This way I'm getting the juice nutrients twice a day, and the amount of drink is not overwhelming at one time.

For eating, I will stick with as many fresh fruits and vegetables as possible following that mantra of 'close to the earth'.   I will eat chicken too.  Examples of meals might be:

Breakfast - fruit with green juice
Lunch - salad, fruit, nuts, veggies
Dinner - chicken breast, salad, veggies, green juice
Snacks - fruit, nuts veggies

Seems a little heavy on the fruits and veggies so I should probably do some reading to make sure I'm getting my nutrients.

I'll avoid fast food and as much processed food as possible but realistically I will not be perfect at this.  For example, this evening I took my grandson to the mall's food court for dinner and we had chinese.  I ate black pepper 'chicken' with a little bit of rice and then had 1 piece of See's candy.   When I use to eat 10 pieces at a time, 1 piece is sufficient LOL.  And really, 1 piece satisfied me and I probably could have eaten just half of it.   So not perfect, but really good.

And last but not least, now it is time to start exercising too.  At least 15 minutes 3 times a week.   As I increase endurance, I'll increase this but my body requires me to start small or else I relapse into exhaustion.

Thanks for joining me on my journey.   2013 - the year of the green :)

Day Four - Ending the juice fast

Day Four started with a bang.   I'll try to explain without giving too much information.  I had read or heard varying opinions or information on the impact juicing might have on my digestive system.   Nothing had occurred, so I decided on the evening of Day Three to take some gentle overnight medicine to make sure things worked properly.

Not gentle, not overnight......   I spent the majority of Day Four at home, not at work, curled up in bed with stomach pain or in the restroom.   We'll leave it at that.

I realized mid-day that I was probably getting dehydrated so I drank lots of extra water.   And because Day Four happened to be New Years Eve, my son and grandson were over in the evening and we ordered pizza.   I ate pizza....  justifying this with the fact that my body probably needed something solid to help offset all the other things going on.

So my 5 day juice fast became 3.5 days.   Not that I am giving up, but I am changing my approach.