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One of my last juicings.  Kale juice really isn't as bad as you might think.  Give it a try! I'm done with my first Juice Fast! Writing this at the moment, I have actually been done for a little over 3 days.  I broke my fast on friday (day 5) night with some soup my mom had made using some of the pulp from my juices (it was a little gross to look at but didn't taste bad).  The night before (day 4) I had a little bit of chicken broth but kept with just juice the rest of the time until I officially stopped.  I actually wanted to break the fast on Saturday (day 6) but as my family was getting ready for my sister's graduation party, there was hardly any room in the kitchen and it became one of those times where you just have to ask yourself if it's really worth sticking to your goal, and it wasn't. That night and throughout Saturday, my transition to normal eating went pretty well.  I stayed away from anything that wasn't fruit, veggies, or meat and I...

I wrote a post on Tuesday which I meant to post then, but for some reason when I just looked at my posts it was still a draft.  Sorry about that. It's up now here , if you want to go read it.  A few things: 1. I miscounted- I will actually be doing this for 5 days, not 6, like my first Juice Fast post states.  I would just keep doing it for a week or 10 days except that A) My sister's graduation party is going to be on Saturday and I don't want to be juicing and cleaning up that mess while we have a hundred people at our house.  Also, and lame as this may be, I simply want to be able to eat the food we're going to have.  This is my fifth refill.  Hand for scale. and B) I've heard that the worst (and most cleansing) part of juice fasting occurs within the first 2-4 days.  From there, it's still beneficial, but the withdrawal, detox and cleansing portion has basically happened by then.  I figure it's the best of both worlds...

 The"Not That Great But Also Not Horrible"juice of tomato, kale, broccoli, and basil, blended with ice and rice protein powder.  I consumed this one before the gym yesterday afternoon.  The rest of day 1 was a little less fun than the morning had been.  I'm sure some of that could be attributed to the fun and novelty of juice fasting wearing off a bit and the reality of the withdrawal and detoxing really setting in.  I've read an article that sort of disagrees with the idea that our bodies actually 'save up' toxins and that instead, our bodies are actually continually detoxing- it just does so more when you stop taking in toxins and give your body a chance to catch up.  Either way, I'm feeling it right now.  I've had an on and off headache where I can feel the blood vessels in my temples pulsing, but I think that makes it sound a little worse than it is.  I'm really not doing too bad and the headache...

The morning: Woke up too late to begin with. That was seriously a really bad foot to start on but it all turned out alright. I had class at 8am and woke up at 7:20. Fortunate for me, I live about 7 mins away and don't care too much what I look like at school. That cuts down on some prep time I would have needed on a work morning (I don't wake up naturally looking business casual, plus I work a half hour away from work). So anyway, after I washed my face  I dragged (drug?) myself to the fridge, pulled out about a grocery bag worth of apples, bean sprouts, spinnach, grapes, cucumber and washed what I needed. (It looked like a bigger mess than it was). Then I had a little trouble understanding my juicer, but eventually it started putting out some fresh green apple juice that smelled so good. I think you've got to agree- it looks good. And it tastes a lot like it looks , which is something I think is kind of interesting and cool about natural food.   I found out that bean sp...

Tonight I've technically already begun an (at least) week-long juice fast.  I'd heard of juicing before (not steroids; fruits and vegetables), but I had never tried it or been swept off of my feet by the idea until about a week ago.   I was going through my netflix list and saw a documentary I had added a while back called Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.  This documentary follows a guy named Joe who is 41, overweight and has an immune system disorder, for which he takes 15 different medications, some of them steroids. Getting sick is what caused Joe to decide to do a 60 day juice fast, about which the documentary is made.  At the end of the film, Joe (and another man who decided to try the same thing) had lost a lot of weight, was thinking more clearly, and was completely off of his prior medications- with doctor permission. Now I'm an impressionable person sometimes.  I can admit that.  However I do believe I'm also a reasonable person at times.  A combin...