Day 3 Juicing

Yesterday was hard. I think I hit the juice fast wall I think. Its normal, I guess, I did stop caffeine pretty suddenly and I ate like crap for the last 14 years (I am pretty sure my mom fed me pretty well the first 10 years of my life... its when I started choosing what to eat is when the problems started).  There has to be an adjustment period, my body has to get used to be fed, actually fed instead of the crap I have been shoving into it. 

I am going to work out tonight for the first time since I started juicing. I am actually pretty excited I have been missing it the last couple days. 

The PLAN

I have been posting that I am working on making my plan. There are two that I have made, one for my compulsive overeating and the other to try out this juicing stuff.

I will start with my overeating. I told ya'll that through my research they suggest keeping a journal and letting your emotions out that way instead of eating. Then there is the good old plan of a food journal, we all know what this is, you write down every single thing you put in your mouth to keep track of calories, points, fat, or whatever else you are counting. (I'm personally counting calories) Now both of these journals seem wonderful, and like a great idea that will really work.

So my plan is that I am going to do both (seems pretty obvious), and then Sundays I am going to compare. This is something I haven't seen a lot of, maybe its an obvious step that everyone just does naturally. I am going to look for really bad days emotionally in one journal and then flip to my food journal and see how I did that day. If I ate like crap I will be able to see that I was emotionally eating or if I ate really great I am going to give myself a little pat on the back.

It seems pretty simple, I have gotten a lot better about writing everything in my food journal this last week so this week I will start my feelings journal and see how it goes. I am "healing" myself and it is going to be a process. For example, if I was writing in my journal yesterday I would see that I was super upset with the way the Broncos played in the stinkin' playoff game and then I would see in my food journal that I ate a bag of popcorn to ease those emotions (I was gonna go for a bag of potato chips that my boyfriend was eating but chose popcorn instead, so I should probably put that in my journal as well)

Now for the juicing experiment. I don't think this will be something that I am going to get crazy about. I might be wrong, but there are a lot of blogs about it so if I really enjoy it I will just post links to the blogs that focus solely on that. Like my first post said, this blog is probably going to be more for me then anyone else. So my plan this week is going to be a temporary thing as of right now for a "Kickoff" and then I will go from there.

This is an example of what I am going to try to do...

Breakfast	Lunch	Snack	Dinner	If you’re hungry
Carrot Apple Ginger Juice 3 Carrots 2 Apples 1” Ginger	Green Juice 6 leaves Kale 2 cups Spinach ½ Cucumber 4 Celery stalks 2 Apples 1” Ginger root	Green Juice 6 leaves Kale 2 cups Spinach ½ Cucumber 4 Celery stalks 2 Apples 1” Ginger root	Reboot Green Salad Reboot Dressing. Grilled Chicken	Veggies Nuts Fruit
Carrot Apple Ginger Juice 3 Carrots 2 Apples 1” Ginger	Green Juice 6 leaves Kale 2 cups Spinach ½ Cucumber 4 Celery stalks 2 Apples 1” Ginger root	Green Juice 6 leaves Kale 2 cups Spinach ½ Cucumber 4 Celery stalks 2 Apples 1” Ginger root	Reboot Green Salad Reboot Dressing. Grilled Chicken	Veggies Nuts Fruit
Purple Power Juice 6 cups Concord Grapes 1 Golden Delicious Apple 2, 2x2” pieces Ginger ½ cup Blackberries	Reboot Green Salad Reboot Dressing. Grilled Chicken	Sunset Blend Juice 1 lg Sweet Potato 1 med Carrot 1 Red Bell Pepper 2 lg Red Beets 2 Golden Delicious Apples 1 Orange (optional)	Green Juice 6 leaves Kale 2 cups Spinach ½ Cucumber 4 Celery stalks 2 Apples 1” Ginger root	Veggies Nuts Fruit
Green Juice 6 leaves Kale 2 cups Spinach ½ Cucumber 4 Celery stalks 2 Apples 1” Ginger root	Reboot Green Salad Reboot Dressing. Grilled Chicken	Sunset Blend Juice 1 lg Sweet Potato 1 med Carrot 1 Red Bell Pepper 2 lg Red Beets 2 Golden Delicious Apples 1 Orange (optional)	Arugula Spinach Salad 2 cups Arugula 1 cup Spinach 1/3 Avocado ½ cup thinly sliced Red Onion ½ cup chopped Tomato ½ cup Jicama	Veggies Nuts Fruit
Carrot Apple Ginger Juice 3 Carrots 2 Apples 1” Ginger	Green Juice 6 leaves Kale 2 cups Spinach ½ Cucumber 4 Celery stalks 2 Apples 1” Ginger root	Sunset Blend Juice 1 lg Sweet Potato 1 med Carrot 1 Red Bell Pepper 2 lg Red Beets 2 Golden Delicious Apples 1 Orange (optional)	Reboot Green Salad Reboot Dressing. Grilled Chicken	Veggies Nuts Fruit

It seems pretty intense and a lot of juice to me, so I may be chewing on a lot of the veggies, nuts, and fruits. I also incorporated Grilled Chicken into a salad at night because I know myself, and I will want to eat at dinnertime or at least at one point in the day.

Great story though, my dad ordered a juicer from an infomercial late one night. We used it a couple times and then it got put into the box and shoved downstairs. So just my luck my parents had a juicer that I could use to see if I will like this before having to spend a lot of money. Granted, my juicer is from 1999 and its not really "high tech" but it will get the job done.

There it is, I will keep you posted on how all of this goes!

Do this... Don't do this

I have been reading and reading and reading about all of the different diets out there...

I have also been watching a lot of stuff some of which includes:

Food Matters

Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

Weight of a Nation

Hungry for Change

and some other documentaries that I cannot remember at the moment.

What a lot of these videos are talking about is Juicing and/or juice fasting. What they were saying really starting to peak my interest, I mean Joe (from Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead) did some amazing stuff for his health! So i started looking up what I could do and how it all worked and stuff. Let me tell you, do a search on juice fasts and you will get a lot of results... but how realistic is this for my everyday life. I know your not suppose to fast for the rest of your life but how do you go about it? So I looked, I recommend you look, and Joe has come up with a program called Rebooting, and it seems like a great idea to kick-off a diet.

My only concern is that you are eating/drinking all fruits and veggies ALL of the time. I know people do this all the time, and I have learned a lot about getting back to "nature" and eating the way we all should. Right now however, I need some other stuff in my life, I need some bread, nuts, and meat. After all  this is going to be my eating habits for the REST OF MY LIFE. So I dug deeper, and I decided to search "implementing juicing into a healthy diet" and all I got was juicing fasts. Now I cannot be the first person to read/watch/listen to all of this great stuff about juicing but still want something that resembles a normal diet. 

I see that juicing is great reboot (look it up seriously) for your system, but if it is so great for that how do you keep doing it and eat other food too? If you find something let me know! I am going to come up with my own little plan for right now though. 

H20

OK. My goal this week has been to drink all my water. My problem is that everyone tells you that you need to drink a different amount! So I stuck with the 8 glasses at least until I got used to drinking that much water.

Now lets be real... drinking water is kinda hard but not really. The part you have to get used to is having to get up and pee every 30 mins, at least I do. Maybe I have a bladder of a 2 year old, but this is going to take some getting used to!

I did find an article on SparkPeople about tips to help you drink the water. Hope this will help anyone that might be reading this!

A couple of the tips that I am using are:

3. Sip Up: (using a water bottle with a straw or some straws in a cup to help you sip on water) I have the super cool Camelbak water bottle that has the straw inside, and sometimes I do get distracted biting down on the mouth piece and drink the whole bottle! So I definitely suggest using this trick!

5. Drink water and drive: (keep your water bottle next to you when drive so its always there and easy for you to drink) :) My water bottle is always with me its just remembering to drink it thats my problem.

9. Pace yourself
Holding (and drinking from) a cup of water will help you pace yourself at social events, parties and dinners that offer tempting food and drink. Try drinking a cup of water between bites of the calorie abomination you're faced with. It is hard to eat an entire piece of cake if you have to drink a glass of water between every single bite! To keep the wine, beer, or liquor from ruining your calorie count, drink a cup of water for every glass of alcohol you consume. (I’m a wine drinker, so I fill up my wine glass with water every time I empty it of wine.) Not only does this help to limit your consumption, but it helps counteract alcohol’s dehydrating effects. And when you have a glass in hand—no matter what's in it—you won't be bombarded with more drink offers in the meantime.


I haven't really tried 9 yet but with the 4th of July coming up it seems like the perfect time to try it! 


So my final thought for right now is...


WATER! WATER! WATER!