Juice Feasting Day 6

Juice Feast Day 6

Good morning. Waking and feeling good today. I made it through another day yesterday. I did the water fast all the way up until 8pm. I was strong through most of the day but around 6pm started feeling a little foggy and tired at work. I only had two appointments scheduled (Massage therapy) so I thought I could get through the day on water only. However, a third last minute appointment came in this changed the game. And to make things even worse I forgot my emergency juice that I made that morning. Yep left it right on the counter. So I had nothing as a energy back up. By the end of the third session I was spent. My speech started getting just a little jumbled but I made it home.

I wanted to tough it out when I got home but I walked into a house with house guests, my wife's cousin and 3 beautiful energetic kids 5, 18 mos, 8 mos. They were staying the night and me sitting around comatose(sp) with three kids wasn't going to happen. On top of that they were eating cookies, icecream etc. (When I walked in the christmas cookies were on the counter in the kitchen. I was so tempted to grab one. And I won't lie if that plastic container they were in wouldn't have been too loud I may have done it.)

Okay so instead of doing anything crazy I pulled out my new cheap citrus juicer I bought yesterday and a few oranges. I started juicing oranges. Of course I offered and everyone wanted some. Which was cool some healthy fresh orange juice to go with the cookies and ice cream. Although I didn't feel the energy to do it I started cutting up the oranges and making some juice. I found that oranges don't make a lot of juice to give to 4 people. And the cutest thing was when the five year old came up and said, "what you doin?" I said, "making orange juice". She said, "why you wasting oranges". By this time I had juiced about 6 or so oranges and the peels were sitting on the counter. I looked at her and laughed. As I began to poor into the glasses, She looked at the yielded juice (about 10 ozs at this point) in the container and said, "that's not enough orange juice". I smiled and said, "I know honey" and commenced to cutting more oranges. I poured about 3 ozs in each glass. Lord knows I wanted to fill up my glass and guzzle it. But I shared and she (the five year old) took a tiny sip and put it on the counter and opted for a cookie. So with the help of an all to funny God she walks up to me with a cookie in her hand and half of it hanging out her mouth. And starts to tease me with the cookie. Okay maybe that wasn't her intension but that certainly was the effect. Again I looked over at the plastic cookie tray and it was closed. I hadn't had enough juice to clear my mind yet. And I'm thinking here I am starved for juice and I poor her juice and she is eating cookies. I was going to steal her juice but then her mom came into the kitchen and said, her 18 month old drank all her juice. So I sacrificed the glass I was eyeballing to her. I looked at my empty glass and turned it upside down to try and get the last drop out. Pulled out some more oranges and started juicing again. I'm on about the 10th orange and the five year old comes up wired off the cookies and says, "where is my orange juice, you wasting more oranges. I then hear her behind me go into the cookie tray for another cookie. I thought, that damn tray is so loud. I was too into my own drama to tell her that she doesn't need any more cookies. All I could think about was how to get some energy into my system and that OJ was my easiest option. So I finally made enough juice to get about 10 ozs of OJ. I went and sat on the couch and played with the kids for about an hour and then made an early exit up to bed. Wasn't necessarily sleepy just needed to break away. Another day is done.

It's really not that hard but its a great journey and amazing when you become the observer how the mind when it is addicted can play tricks on you.

Thanksgiving is going to be very tough!!!!

So it is Saturday morning and I decided I won't weigh in until Monday. See you tomorrow...