Day 2 of Juice Fasting

Yesterday was my 2nd day of Juice Fasting and my first day of doing it at work. I am used to drinking around 8 – 10 cans of Mountain Dew each day and hadn’t had one since Saturday night, I had a killer headache. Since I needed to be able to function at work, I had one can of Mt. Dew in the mid-morning – that killed my headache.

Throughout the day I had 3 quarts of juice, 1 each of carrot, orange and apple. Several times throughout the day I had hunger pains and a little bit of light headedness, but nothing too major.

The killer part was at night, we had a big family Christmas dinner last night with tons of my favorite food, it sucked! I stood around watching everyone eat while I drank a gallon of apple juice. Then, the desserts came out. My brother and I went in a different room and talked some things over for a while and when we came back, they were cleaning up thank goodness! I managed to make it through the whole day without eating but man, it was tough! Several times I started talking myself into eating, even going so far as to tell Adria maybe I should do it another time. She pointed out that there would never be a ‘good time’ and that if I was going to do it, I should just Man Up and Shut Up and get it done. Well, she didn’t say it quite like that

In the comments on yesterday’s post (click here if you want to see the discussion), Gary asks if a juice fast is a healthy thing to do, here’s my answer. I was drinking almost a 12 pack of Mt. Dew a day and usually consuming a very large lunch, often fast food, often greasy and I was eating a large dinner with lots of snacks and junk in between. THAT is clearly not a healthy way to live. I’m not a health nut or anything, and I don’t intend to become one, I’m just recognizing that to be healthy I need to basically let my body ‘reboot’.

When I say reboot, I mean let it clear EVERYTHING out – that includes dumping all the stored toxins and junk in my organs and everywhere else. It means letting my digestive system shutdown, letting my stomach shrink dramatically and getting over all my addictions. Will going on a Juice Fast make me un-healthy? Well, like I said I certainly wasn’t eating healthy before. Now I’m drinking only vegetable and fruit juices, I’m loading my body with vitamins and minerals – TONS more than I used to. Sure, it’s different and my body is reacting to it, but it’s healthy.

Here are a couple links that talk about Juice Fasting, the authors of these sites talk about reasons and benefits for it that are beyond what I’m after and that I think are a bit weird. I’m linking to these because they also have a lot of research and personal stories and background that cover what I’m doing.

AllergyScape

JuiceFasting.org

Tonight I’m going to try a juice that I’ve never had but is supposed to be and sounds very good – Cantaloupe juice.

I’m also going to try out this juice recipe (Jordy, who commented that he too likes celery juice, ought to like this one):

Cucumber~Celery Cooler

1 apple, sliced
4 medium carrots, greens removed
1 stalk celery
1/2 lemon, peeled (optional)
1/4 medium cucumber, peeled