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.

Day two...Dinner

We had take out for dinner. Actually it was just jamba juice. It was harder than i thought to find a drink there because a lot of their stuff has milk in it. Ended up with a five fruit frenzy. Pretty yummy!
Our headaches are worse. Mine has moved to the front of my head. David's is pretty much all over. We have been soo tempted to take medicine but we know if we do we are just postponing the headaches for some day this week...while we are at work. So we are pushing through!
I also want to point out that these past two days have been the longest of my life. I have never gone this long without solid food. Even when I had surgery. It's so weird to not eat. And let me tell you..it is soo hard! We've both joked around about getting a pizza or something and it's sad because I think we were really hoping the other person would cave and go get it lol.
We weighed ourselves and we both lost another pound. Not too bad. 3 pounds in 2 days. I'm getting a visit from mother nature soon so my weight won't be accurate the next few days but that's ok. All I really want right now is to feel healthy and not so hungry. They say day 3 is the worst. Tomorrow might be the day we just stay in bed haha. As long as Im good to go for work on Monday, I won't mind what comes tomorrow.

Day two...lunch

We both have headaches now and I'm a little fatigued. Took a nap after my "lunch" and it sort of helped. My husband's cure to discomfort is playing video games.

I had a little bit of everything in my juice for lunch. I can't specifically recall the ingrediants. One thing I do remember is that I put way too much celery in it. Ew.

Right now I'm a little in the dumps but I will still persevere! Its just hard not to eat. Even though I'm not terribly hungry I still just want to eat. I didn't realize how much I ate out of boredom. I'm also feeling kind of negative about this whole thing which in hind sight is probably natural lol. Oddly enough my biggest worry isn't that I am going to break my juice fast, its that even with all this hard work and sacrifice I won't end up benefiting from it. I've read so many testimonies about how juice fasting has completely changed lives in all these positive ways. Now that i'm actually doing it, its hard to believe that I can end up with the same fate. I look down at myself and all I can think is how impossible it will be to every be thin again. What if I just can't lose any weight? I want a crystal ball dang it. I need to see my results.

Actually, speaking of weight loss, David and I are weighing each other the same time everyday to keep track of our weight loss and we both lost 2 pounds yesterday. Normally I'd be excited but I know its just water weight. I'll be more excited to see what and if I lose by next friday!

Im hungry!

Things are starting to go downhill although this was to be expected. All of a sudden I just got super hungry and my head is pounding. Honestly if my husband wasn't doing this along with me, I probably would have caved by now. I can't really think of any thing that doesnt sound appetizing right now. This sucks! Im going to probably lay down a while until my head gets better. I'll probably dream of eating pizza.

Day two....breakfast!

I woke up with a bad headache but I think its because of the way I slept lol. I'm not very hungry which is nice too. This is what I made us for breakfast:

1 orange
3 green apples
1/4 pineapple
4 large carrots

I'm being a little redundant on the apples. I think they've been in all our juices so far. I just think they really help the taste and until i get used juicing i will be including them in most meals. There is a local farmer's market today that we might go to. It depends how we are feeling. I just wish I could take me excedrin for my headache but it's got caffeine in it which is a big no no. So right now things are ok. I'm interested to see how lunch will go...

Day one...Dinner!

We are super duper hungry. Our juice helped sate the appetite a little bit but then my husband's best friend came over with chocolate chip cookies and whiskey. The bastard. Don't worry, we didn't cave. It just made things really dang hard lol. So this is what we had for our dinner:

handful of green grapes
handful of blueberries
3 green apples
kale leaves....about 1 cup full
Pineapple

It was pretty yummy. I cheated and put an ice cube in it. Ask me if I care? haha. I'm getting grumpier the emptier my stomach feels. Physically I am just a little fatigued and I have a slight headache. And of course I want to eat everything. Tonight I will do my best to distract myself and hopefully tomorrow morning I won't be so hungry. 

Day one....Lunch!

My husband and I kind of winged this one. We just wanted something that tasted good! So this it what we ended up with:

4 Oranges (peeled)
2 Green Apples (peeled and cored)
1 Pear
2 Carrots (skinned and cut)

It was way more tastier than the one I made this morning. Honestly the worst part so far is drinking it warm. The research I've done has often said to drink the juice warm BUT I'm thinking I'll add an ice cube or two until I don't mind it so much anymore.

So yeah, its 2pm. Both of our stomachs are growling but neither one of us feel like devouring the fridge yet. We are also trying to drink lots of water. So far so good.

Day one...breakfast!

My whole fridge is stuffed with produce. When I open it, a huge drift of celery-smell comes out. I'm not sure how I feel about that. This is what I had planned for my first juiced meal - it previously had the name of Carrot Cleanse. I think I'm going to change that to the Orange Monster.

1 Green Apple (without core and seeds)
Handful of Spinach
1 Stalk of Celery (I only used half)
1/2 Lemon (Peeled and quartered)
4 large Carrots (peeled and cut)

Nothing in my research prepared me for how long it was going to take to prepare my breakfast. I think when it was all said and done I had spent 45 minutes of my time. Normally breakfast takes 2 minutes. I will be doing more research today to see how I might be able to prepare my produce so that it takes less time, otherwise I will be losing sleep and patience. Juicing the produce was actually pretty simple. This is my juicer:

We got it at target for around 100 dollars. Its easy to use and easy to clean so I'm happy with it so far. Here is the finished result of my juice:

Looks yummy huh? It actually made two of these so this one I put in the fridge for my lunch. It actually didn't taste horrible but it looked too much like vomit for my liking. I had to close my eyes while drinking it. My husband had one of those Naked juices for breakfast since he goes to work at 4am. He's home now so he can try my juice for lunch. I've always been a horrible cook so he's probably scared to try this lol. 

Pre-fast....and my first blog!

Ok. It's 9 at night. I just massively stuffed my face with alfredo, chips and cheese, and ice cream. This morning I had 2 donuts and a large mocha coffee with a shot of expresso. And I wonder why I have a weight problem! My husband and I have been talking about juicing for the past few weeks or so. I never thought I'd ever be able to do it and to save myself from utter failure and despair I never attempted to try it. Lately though, things have been different. I've been sick and tired of food. For someone who eats a lot this seems an oxymoron doesn't it? I'm telling you though, I can drive around the city all day and still not find anything that sounds appetizing. Food has lost its luster. Everything tastes bland and platic-y (i like to make up words) and, well, gross. Obviously I still eat - today alone proves that. I just don't relish every bite like I used to. For some crazy reason, I couldn't stop thinking about juicing. What a perfect time to try it, right? Of course I fully expect after one day to crave every bit of food that has recently made me nauseous but maybe, just maybe, it can actually work for me if i try it. My husband is on board with me 100%. He wants to lose weight. He wants his stomach to get better. He wants both of us to be happy with ourselves. So tomorrow is day one. We bought a juicer today. I also bought 60 dollars worth of fruit and veggies. I am expecting this to last us the weekend at the very least. We decided to start on a friday since the 2nd and 3rd days of the fast are supposed to make us feel the crappiest. We would rather endure that on the weekend. Our co-workers are safer that way. I have a lot to do with this blog but i wanted to at least get my first entry in. Not that anyone is probably reading this. I am taking off work tomorrow and plan to spend most of the day sprucing my blog up and posting lots and lots of random thoughts. Probably some angry ones too since i'll be super hungry and grumpy. So tomorrow will be the big day for us. Wish us luck!