walking...week two

I now walk every morning for an hour. Yay me! I've lost another 4 pounds and I feel better in general. I like my walks. I listen to Coldplay the whole time and it's the most relaxing part of my day. I haven't really been watching what i eat but i do have to say that since the juicing my appetite has gone down a lot. I have a hard time eating everything on my plate. I'll probably never (ever) juice again but i do have to say that it seems to have helped me appreciate food more and eat more for the pleasure and not for the basic necessity of it. All in all im glad we did it.

Day two...walking

It was raining this morning but guess what? I still went walking. Yay me. I've realized that my life isn't that exciting to write about every day so i think i'll just make weekly posts. Im not committed enough to this blog to write this much. Since I've had 0 page views im not worried about breaking anyone's heart. Til next time!

day one....walking

i guess this will now be my walking blog. im extremely tired so i apoligize for my poor grammar. I woke up super early and went walking this morning. i enjoyed it a lot more than i expected. I saw a turtle, 2 cats, and a bunch of old people with small dogs. They were all very friendly (the old people). The sad part was that the lake i walk along is all dried up since oklahoma had a massive heat wave this year. so im pretty much just walking along dried, cracked, sand. the trees are still pretty though. i didnt sleep much last night so im a little out of it right now. i plan on going walking again tomorrow and it might rain so maybe our stupid lake will hold water again.

Juice fast is over

We lasted until 5 pm today. David was feeling really sick and I can't kick this headache. Maybe we didn't do it right because all the testimonies and stories I read said that you almost always get better the 4th day. We felt worse.

I almost decided not to post anything. I was ashamed. But then I started thinking about it and I realized that we did do something extrodinary....we didn't eat for 3 and a half days! Not many people could do that. We both feel lighter and we're glad we did it but I dont think we'll do this ever again. Actually I'm returning our juicer tomorrow. For now on we are putting fruit in the blender..with yogurt or rum lol.

I've decided to keep this blog. I should probably rename it "will caitrin ever lose weight?" or something like that. I still like having this blog to vent about food and dieting and what-not. And i think this is good for people who are considering juicing to look at this and see what people really go through. I didn't come across any failure stories in my research. Sure i found blogs of people who said they were on day one or 5 of juicing and then they mysteriously stopped blogging so im sure that means they failed but they never talked about it. I think anyone sincerely doing research should see the ups and downs of a juice fast. At least they can read my blog and see what challenges they will face. Almost every testimony I came across just talked about the end results and glossed over the hardships of living a life without food. It was like it was easy for them or something. Maybe if we had appetite suppessants...

So take this as you will. Either be disappointed that this fat girl couldn't live off juice to make her healthier and call me bad names or scorn me behind my back....or you can be encouraged that you aren't the only one trying and failing at losing weight! lol. Actually no one might ever read this blog and in that case I have to say that as my own critic I am proud of what I tried to do and I still think I will lose weight. I only had a 6inch subway sandwhich and it totally filled me up. I took my dogs for a walk tonight. I still have willpower to do SOMETHING....but if i ever have to drink veggie juice again I'll blow my brains out.

Day three....Dinner!

Still have my stubborn headache. I go back to work tomorrow after having a week off for vacation so I hope it goes away. I'm waking up early to go walking tomorrow. Ugh. I like walking but I like sleeping more but its more convenient to do it early in the day. Luckily I live by a lake so its not like I have to drive far.

Still trying to get used to not eating. Im honestly not even that hungry. It's funny though cuz whenever i see food or hear someone talk about food I get this little pang in my stomach. My stomach has ears too I guess. Even cutting up fruit for my juice almost gets me eating. I almost popped a grape in my mouth . Oh wow right? The thing is my stomach is getting a rest, it's not having to digest so it's been just chilling the past few days. The minute I eat something with substance that needs to be digested, my tummy is going to wake up and when it does all that work for just one small grape, its going to be pissed and want more. And then i'll have to fight the hunger all over again. Our bodies are amazing.

I already made the juice for our lunches and breakfast tomorrow. I don't think I would have succeeded in the morning since I dont have caffeine to wake me up anymore. We weighed ourselves again. I lost another pound. David lost 4. Bastard. So now the total loss on day three is -4lbs for me and -8lbs for David. Not too shabby.

Day three....lunch!

Since we woke up late it's shifted all our meals so now we are "eating" at weird times. Breakfast was at 1130 and now we just had lunch and it's 345. I guess dinner will be at 7? Anyways, we are almost out of all our produce so I gathered what we had left and made our juices for lunch and supper. We have to store any left over juice in dark containers in the fridge to avoid oxidation. Light and warm air oxidize the juice and strip it of its nutrients and all the good stuff that we need to do this fast!
I am feeling a lot better! I'm not hungry. My headache is still there but it's just remained a small throb. Compared to yesterday, I can deal with that. I have more energy which is nice. My skin is breaking out a little but that's either due to toxins leaving my body or pms. That's what concealer is for =).
I'll be heading the store later. Now that we've juiced for 3 days I have a better idea on what fruits/veggies to get and which ones to avoid. Celery will be on the avoid list. It tastes great with peanut butter and raisins, but it's way too potent. Everything in my fridge smells like celery now. Makes me want to puke.

Day 3....breakfast!

Last night was HELL. I cried. My head hurt so freakin bad and I was really nauseas (no idea how to spell that) and I was also HUNGRY. My husband drew my a bath and I tried many different ways of manipulating my husband into getting us food but luckly he has more will-power than me. I was so close to breaking down though! I ended up taking headache medicine. It was the only way I could lay down. I fell asleep shortly after that. I thought i'd dream about food but for some reason I dreamt about spiders. Weird.

This morning we didn't wake up til 11 which is pretty late for us. My headache is still there (the little bastard just wont leave!) but its a dull ache that I can deal with. We had fruit smoothies for breakfast. You're supposed to add yogurt to the frozen fruit but I added pineapple juice and water. It was very yummy! I'm not hungry this morning but who knows what the day will bring. All i know for sure is if my husband hadn't been here last night to be strong for both of us, I would have caved and stuffed my face with taco bell. This. Is. So. Hard.