Juice Feast Day 17, 18 & 19 of (60?)

Friday was a very good day. I added the Green Vibrance to my morning juice. Didn't taste great but certainly balanced things out for me. I felt really good all day long. Energy levels were great and didn't get tired at the end of the day. Picked up some other items recommended on the Juicefeasting website: Bee pollen, nutiva hemp oil.

I had the dreaded colonic Friday which should be fun. NOT!!! But I had to do it. No need in halfway following the plan.

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Well the colonic was really intense on many levels. But most importantly the amount of stuff that came out of me. I've been fasting for 17 days and I had movement like I've been been eating regular meals. Amazing the amount of stuff that's still lodged in my colon.

After the colonic I felt a little tired but overall not too bad.

Yesterday, Saturday the wife and I took a drive down to Catch a Healthy Habit Cafe in Fairfield. I had a Kale Celery and carrot juice and a robois tea. She had a really good looking raw vegan pad thai. For the first time in a while I was really tempted to eat. But I'm not jumping off the wagon just yet, my body still has some work to do. So we will keep it moving!!! Went to the outlets and made it out of there only spending a few dollars. Imagine that.

Today, Sunday, I've finally tried it. Yup I did the fit test for Insanity (the first day of the program). Okay, I'm not exaggerating when I say I almost passed out. That sucker was hard and to be doing it on only juice I'm sure didn't help. But I made it through barely and I will try it again tomorrow. Easy day today otherwise, will probably go to the casino this evening and hang out maybe play a little Texas Hold-em drink some juice you know the usual.

The really tough part about this is that every freaking thing revolves around food. And there is almost nothing for us to do that doesn't involve food and my wife doesn't want to eat around me which I appreciate but try and tell her is no big deal at this time but she is doing what a supportive wife does. But in fact it makes me feel a little guilty that she feels she has to suffer because of my fast. So honey if you're reading this PLEASE DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME!!! I'M FINE AND SOLID AS A ROCK. JUST EAT THE WAY YOU NORMALLY DO. LOVE YOU!!!

Vitals:

Weight; Starting 275

Current 258 (Lost 17 lbs)

Goal weigh 220-225

BP; 105/64 (2/10)

Mood: Feel pretty good this morning.

Energy; 1-10 (9.5)

Commitment level 1-10; (10+)

Juice Feast Day 16 of (60?)

Hello Beautiful People

Thanks for stopping in to check on me. Yesterday was a fairly good day. Although, I seemed to get a little tired towards the end of the day. Not sure why. But I know I need to get more greens in me. I went to Vitamin Shoppe to purchase some green powder as recommended from JuiceFeast.com. That stuff is expensive. So I opted for a few individual packets of a product called Green Vibrance by Vibrant Health. I wanted to test to see if I could tolerate it before I spent so much money. Had it last night and it wasn't bad. Certainly wasn't the best thing I've ever tasted. But I did get an energy boost from it. So I will try it out for a few days and see how it works.

Everything else is going well. Got plenty of water yesterday. No challenges to talk about smooth sailing! Did not do Insanity last night as I was feeling a little tired but I still want to try it.

This morning I'm back on my Orange Juice Kick.

Challenges for today:

AGAIN Drink more water!

stay on course (laser focus)

Remember just 1 day at a time

Drink at least a gallon of Juice

Still need to schedule a colonic

Look into DR Natura's cleanse/colonic

Yesterday's meals:

Fresh Carrot, Broccoli, Celery, Romaine lettuce, apple, Pear 90 oz

OJ 32 oz

Vitals:

Weight; Starting 275

Current 259 (Lost 16 lbs)

Goal weigh 220-225

BP; 105/64 (2/10)

Mood: Feel pretty good this morning.

Energy; 1-10 (9.5)

Commitment level 1-10; (10+)

Juice Feast Day 13, 14 & 15 of (60?)

Hello Everyone,

It's Wednesday, been a pretty busy week for me. Just wanted to update you on what's going on. This is day 15 one forth the way there. I see no signs of slowing down at this point. My body is really transforming. I am starting to move back into my XL shirts from my XXL shirts. My waist and stomach is definitely getting smaller. A lot is happening to this ole body of mine. I feel really good having finally dipped into the 250's. Even though it's 259.5 a glass of water away from 260 it still feels good to see that on the scale.

I've been doing a lot of fruits this week not nearly enough greens but I'm changing that up today. Also, been doing more reading on the website www.juicefeasting.com they recommend daily enemas or colonics, a laxative, and looks like some sort of dried greens and a few other things. I definitely will be adding these things to my protocol. Did an enema this morning and an unbelievable amount of solid food exited. I thought I got it all, apparently not. Also this was my only movement in the last 3-4 days. So I know I need to get stuff moving out more frequently.

Other than that, the strength feels good, energy feels good. In fact, I'm seriously entertaining starting the INSANITY WORKOUT. Yup I feel that good. Obviously, I will have to make sure I drink more juice but I want to give it a try and see how I hold up. I've been doing fine at work doing four or five 75 min massages a day with no problem. Now I think I'm ready for a little more. Or from what I've heard a lot more. I'll keep you posted.

The last three days have been a breeze!!!

Challenges for today:

AGAIN Drink more water!

stay on course (laser focus)

Remember just 1 day at a time

Drink at least a gallon of GREEN Juice

Purchase Green Powder Mixture from store.

Meals:

Various

Vitals:

Weight; Starting 275

Current 259.5 (Lost 15.5 lbs)

Goal weigh 220-225

BP; 105/64 (2/10)

Mood: Feel pretty good this morning.

Energy; 1-10 (9.5)

Commitment level 1-10; (10+)

Juice Feast Day 11 & 12 of (60?)

Good Day Mates!!!

Pretty good days Friday and Saturday. Friday, I worked all day and came home and had some of the rest of my juice prepared for the day. Relatively easy day for me. I feel really good, well nourished and energized. Saturday was another surprisingly easy day for me. I made all fruit smoothies as I was craving this Pineapple, apple and pear smoothie I made Friday. So I made two quarts of it. Nothing but pure sweetness. I also made a quart of orange juice, and a quart of grapefruit juice. I will get back into the greens today(Sunday). In fact, I will make today nothing but green drinks to make up for it. Maybe.

Yesterday, I noticed while running up and down the stairs at my house that my knees were no-longer hurting. No pain at all. When I started this fast I actually had to use the railing while walking up and down the stairs because of sharp pains in both knees with each step. NO MORE PAIN!!!

Last night, took a fundraiser bus ride to the casino. Everyone on the bus was drinking and eating and having fun. I sat alone in my seat with my red cooler and two quarts of juice. A guy asked me if I had "fried chicken" in the bag (I just laughed and said no). I even won a nice bag of mixed candies from a raffle drawing they had on the bus. I said to myself, what am I going to do with all this. Well it was easy. I looked around me and everyone was festively indulging. I just asked the talkative friendly lady in back of me if she wanted some. I will tell you it was like a group of piranhas on a piece of meat, I had no problem getting rid of that bag of candy as the nice church ladies garbled it up with no problem (they did politely ask me three times if I wanted some).

As soon as you get off the bus and walk upstairs there are nothing but restaurants and a really nice buffet (which I had a voucher for). I walked (okay sprinted) by all of them and went straight to the poker room and chained myself to the seat with everyone around me getting drunk until it was time to go. The alcohol smells were horrible. While sitting, I had two green teas with lemon during the five or so hours I was there. No major food drama at all. When I got back on the bus I had some juice waiting for me in my cooler bag and I was fine.

MINOR DRAMA: When I got home from what appeared to be restaurant row at the casino at 3:30 am, I walk in the house (I was all alone) and on the kitchen counter was a large pizza (probably my favorite food other than potato chips) box with square slices inside (yes I looked inside and even smelled it). Standing there all alone, no one watching, by myself, It went through my head what it would be like to garble down a slice or 10 but there was no emotional or physical connection to it. So the drive wasn't there the mind was all alone with it's fabricated drama. Without the body and emotions the mind I'm finding is weak. I'm committed with laser focus.

Today I'm gonna hit the gym and go to the movies. Movies typically mean popcorn extra butter and a large refillable High Fructose Corn Syrup I mean Soda. But today I am going to attempt to sneak a bottle of fresh green Juice to sip on into the theater. If that fails no problem I'll just leave it in the car for when I come out of the theater.

Challenges for today:

AGAIN Drink more water!

stay on course (laser focus)

Remember just 1 day at a time

Drink at least a gallon of GREEN Juice

Purchase Green Powder Mixture from store.

Friday's meals:

Carrot, celery, cucumber, spinach, apple 96 oz

OJ 32 oz

Yesterday's meals:

Pineapple, Apple, Pear (diabetic's nightmare) 44 oz

Orange Juice 32 oz

Grapefruit 32 oz

Vitals:

Weight; Starting 275

Current 261.5 (Lost 13.5 lbs)

Goal weigh 220-225

BP; 105/64 (2/10)

Mood: Feel pretty good this morning.

Energy; 1-10 (9.5)

Commitment level 1-10; (10+)

Juice Feast Day 10 of (60?)

Hello!!!

Just wanted to come by and update on what's going on Day 10. Everything is still going strong. I am feeling energized and happy. Able to handle my work load fairly well. No major stresses causing me to want to fall off. Everything is good. What's interesting is at weigh in I didn't lose any more weight this morning. I'm wondering if the Almond Milk has anything to do with it. Not concerned just curious. Nevertheless I feel really good. My body is losing inches that's for sure. But my strength is still good.

BP is down to 105/64. WEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Well just found out Almond Milk shouldn't be included in a juice fast here is what is written on Juice Feasting.com:

Q: Can I add in the occasional nut and/or seed mylk to drink with my juice? What about eating nuts and seeds?A: Great question. We encourage you to not do any nuts, seeds, or their milks for the duration of your Juice Feast. This includes chia seeds.

Nuts and seeds will completely arrest the cleansing/healing that you would get out of a Juice Feast. They will also tend to constipate you, are mucus forming, acid forming and are not part of the Juice Feast. By all means enjoy these in the context of a maintanence cuisine after your Feast!!

Well that's all nothing major occurred nothing life changing so I guess I'll see ya tomorrow.

Challenges for today:

AGAIN Drink more water!

stay on course (laser focus)

Remember just 1 day at a time

Drink at least a gallon of Juice

Yesterday's meals:

32 oz of Almond Milk (emergency didnt have time to make juice)

60 oz of Robeks Juice

20 oz of Grapefruit Juice

Vitals:

Weight; Starting 275

Current 263 (Lost 12 lbs)

Goal weigh 220-225

BP; 105/64 (2/10)

Mood: Feel pretty good this morning.

Energy; 1-10 (9.5)

Commitment level 1-10; (10+)

Juice Feast Day 9 of (60?)

Good morning! Preparing for day 9 of this JOURNEY!!! I can honestly say it has gotten quite easy. I have no cravings what so ever. The only thing that effects me is when I smell cooked foods with strong odors. There is a mind reaction but no corresponding body reaction. Which is awesome. I've learned that in order for an emotion to take effect the body and the mind have to agree. If my body is not cooperating with the mind with the emotional response to food then I'm in a good place.

It seems my sense of smell is heightened. Maybe I'm returning to my animal nature where my body is utilizing it's senses to search for food. Or maybe I've just cleared out some of the mucous in my body that dulled my smelling senses. Who knows. All I know is I smell everything. Somethings I really don't want to smell.

Yesterday was a big test day for me. I had 5 - 75 min massages to perform and 4 of them were really deep tissue sessions. When I'm eating regular food a day like yesterday is really taxing on my physically. So I was a little concerned as to how I'd perform. Needless to say, I felt great and very much up to the task. I did find though that if I didn't have something to drink right before and right after each session I would start to slur my speech a little. But overall I was fine. A little cramping in the hands when I went to the supermarket last night. But that's not totally out of the ordinary after a day like yesterday. So that was very reassuring to me.

Oh, another thing I just remembered at the end of the day I started to chew a piece of sugarless gum (knowing that it was probably not a good idea). That sent me into a tailspin. All of a sudden I had cravings within five minutes. I was able to stave them off with the last of my emergency fresh OJ. But it was really weird they were very intense cravings and they kicked in fast. I won't be doing that again.

Last night went to bed relatively early about 11:00pm slept very well. Finished off the day with about 24 ozs of OJ watched American Idol and then crashed.

Well that's the end of my story and I'm sticking to it.

Challenges for today:

AGAIN Drink more water!

stay on course (laser focus)

Remember just 1 day at a time

Drink at least a gallon of Juice

Still need to schedule a colonic

Look into DR Natura's cleanse/colonic

Yesterday's meals:

Fresh OJ 40 oz

Apple Pear juice 32 oz

Spinach, Cucumber, celery 32 oz

Robeks green juice 32 oz

Vitals:

Weight; Starting 275

Current 263 (Lost 12 lbs)

Goal weigh 220-225

BP; 117/75 (1/6)

Mood: Feel pretty good this morning.

Energy; 1-10 (9.5)

Commitment level 1-10; (10+)

Juice Feast Day 8 of (60?)

Hello Beautiful People,

Just wanted to stop in for a quick minute. Good day yesterday. Nothing remarkable just seems to be getting easier and easier. Craving a lot of fresh Orange Juice lately so loading up on that. Definitely gives me good energy. Woke up this morning feeling really good. Big test day today to see if I have the strength and energy to perform my job at full capacity. In other words is this juice giving me the energy to perform deep tissue, muscle taxing massages without overly fatiguing the muscles.

Challenges for today:

AGAIN Drink more water!

stay on course (laser focus)

Remember just 1 day at a time

Drink at least a gallon of Juice

Complete 5, 75 minute deep tissue massages

Yesterday's meals:

Almond Milk about 16 oz

ROBEKS juices about 90 ozs

OJ 24 oz

Water about 64 ozs (im trying)

Vitals:

Weight; Starting 275

Current 263.5 (Lost 11 lbs)

Goal weigh 220-225

BP; 117/75 (1/6)

Mood: Feel pretty good this morning.

Energy; 1-10 (9.5)

Commitment level 1-10; (10+)