Juice Feast-Day 67-69 Three Day Recap

Back Home Again
I returned home from my parents house yesterday afternoon, and boy was I ready for some juice! After water-fasting for 3 days while away from home (plus a little bit of green powder), I was really feeling it. The water-fast definitely sent me into a deeper state of detox. The skin on my hips and thighs have now erupted in dozens of weird, chickenpox-like bumps (Don't worry, I already had the chickenpox when I was little), I've been super light-headed and dizzy, and I've had a fierce craving for red meat. I have found that water-fasting is definitely something my body (at least while doing this feast) is not comfortable doing for more than 3-4 days at a time. After nothing but water for a few days I simply MUST have juice!

Life Happens...Remain Flexible!
Within hours of arriving home, I was expected at a friend's birthday party. The invitation came up on short notice...and was not something I had been planning, so on the fly I juiced 1/2 watermelon with some blackberries before heading to the party. This was the first juice I drank after 3 days of water fasting, and the minute I had some I felt so much better. Unfortunately, it also seemed to wake up my system and set off a series of hunger pangs. The birthday party gathering was in our friend's garage, and when we got there a buffet of appetizers, prime rib, beer, and sweets was laid out in the middle of the garage. Ahhhh! NOT MEAT! The birthday boy is a grill master, and everything smelled so divine! Needless to say I sucked down my 2 qts of juice in short order and sipped on water for the rest of the party.

I have to say that after 1 bachelorette party, 1 wedding, a 3-day family reunion, 4 days of cooking and helping out at my parents house, and 1 lively garage party, I'm becoming quite adept at juicing despite "things coming up" on my social calender. I'm so grateful. My muscles of resolve have been flexed enough times now that they are big, strong, and virtually unflappable. I still have another wedding, a weekend on a sail boat, a camping trip, and at least one more visit to my parent's after Mom's chemo before I'm back on solids. Life continues to happen, but it appears that this time, nothing is going to stand in the way of my health :)

Eat & Drink Your Greens!

Juice Feasting is about detox. It's not a weight loss program. That said, weight loss is a important component of detox and maintaining a healthy body weight is an important step in creating a healthier life. Recently, I purchased Angela Stokes book, Revealing the Physical Changes. In it is some very interesting information regarding maximizing weight loss while eating raw foods. Here's an excerpt:

“Alkalizing the body is an essential component of healthy weight loss on raw. Getting an abundance of green into your diet, both fresh and powdered-will help you to alkalize. This is particularly key to understand in terms of the last ‘stubborn’ extra 10 lbs or so that people often experience difficulty losing. When we come from a very toxic background, our bodies are in an acid state and fat is used to surround those acids, to prevent further internal damage. If we lose a lot of weight without being cautious to alkalize the body at the same time, we will inevitably find that we are left with ‘stubborn’ package of fat at the end, that refuses to budge, as it is actually wrapping up those remaining acids for us and protecting us from damage. In order to shift that weight, we must alkalize our system thoroughly, with fresh greens, vegetable juice and green powders. Only then will the body finally release the remaining fat and toxins. It is much more advisable to keep the body well-alkalized throughout your weight loss, however, than to get to this end stage and then try to lever the last toxins from yourself with huge quantities of greens.”

Throughout this feast I've been religious about drinking plenty of greens. I've also regularly tested the pH of my urine and saliva to ensure my body is staying as close as possible to an alkaline state. Because I've experienced significant weight loss so far on this feast (nearly 40 lbs with 3 weeks to go) I'm assuming that what Angela Stokes wrote about alkalizing the body to maximize weight loss applies to juice feasting as well. If you want to maximize your weight loss while juice feasting, drink your greens!!!
Juicy Diary-Day 67-68

Water fasting (a gallon or more of water daily) + supplements + 2 qts of water with 3 Tbsp of green powder.

Juice Diary-Day 69

(Today' juice & supplements)

32 oz water + chanca peidra + MSM + parastroy + B12

78 oz green juice (kale, spinach, celery, cucumber, Spanish radish, carrots, cilantro, cayenne, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, dandelion greens, rainbow chard, red onion, mixed hot peppers, garlic) + 1 Tbsp of flax seed oil + parastroy

32 oz water

32 oz watermelon/blackberry

Total juice = 110 ounces (0.86 gallons)

Total water = 64 ounces (0.50 gallons)

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Sleep & dreams: 8 hrs. Woke up to a lovely thunderstorm this morning. I dreamt I took my dog to work with me (at a job I no longer have). He got run over by a forklift at the loading dock. He didn't die, but he had deep lacerations on his front legs. I was horrified that I let him run out into harm's way. I also dreamt that my husband told me that now that I've lost all this weight my boobs look old. ( I assure you he likes my boobs just fine! LOL!) In my dream I decided to go to a plastic surgeon to see if I could have my boobs "refreshed", but the plastic surgeon said I would have to have implants for the process to work. I was shocked he wanted to put me under the knife and fill me with silicon, so I said to hell with it. I wasn't interested in doing anything that involved cutting to my healthy new body. Umm....just for the record, I have never considered plastic surgery for anything so this whole dream seemed rather odd to me.

Exercise: 2 mile hike with dog. I honestly don't feel like I have any extra energy for lifting weights or hard core cardio right now. I STILL feel like my body is in a state of detox physiologically.

Energy: Good.

Sauna: 30 minutes

Comments: Happy to be back on the juice. I feel like I might have dropped some more weight this week-maybe a pound or two. Tomorrow is another milestone...day 70!