Juicing Experience: Day 4

Day 4 and started rough for Mario; he woke up with an upset tummy and blamed it on last nights juice.

Do you think it was the hot sauce or the cold glass of milk you drank after instead of water?

Mario said he would give me 7 days before I break down and run to Chipotle.  I LOVE Chipotle.  However, my determination to be healthier is even stronger.  If I lose weight on top of it, that is just an added bonus.  Hoping this detoxification with cleanse the toxins and allow my body to start healing itself.

I asked him he has been listening to any of the feast/fast instructions. Then just to be sure, asked him if he has been drinking plenty of water.

His response: I peed 30 times yesterday.

Well at least he is partially listening. Need to drink the water throughout the day to remove the toxins from the body.

I have been clenching my teeth for two days. Mind you I have not had caffeine since Monday, so coffee is not the problem. The teeth clenching now has my face hurting, headache, and now my whole body. Doubling my fluids today just in case it is due to toxins in my body.

I am not sure if I shared how I clean my fruits and vegetables before I prepare them (can't afford everything organic).  I soak them in water with some salt for at least 15 minutes (sometimes overnight because I forget) then I rinse with warm water and dry with a paper towel.

Made a detoxification juice:

• 1 kale leaf
• 3 spinach leaves
• 3 celery stalks
• 3 carrots
• 2 apple
• 1/2 cup parsley
• 1/4 beat
• 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• 1 thin slice of ginger root
• 2 scoops of VI Shape

The texture is like applesauce; have been told it is because my Ninja is not a real juicer. At first I could only taste the celery, then the carrot kicked in. Flavor was not too bad. Just not quite use to mixing veggies and drinking them. Hopefully, I will acquire a taste for it sooner. Also, was informed a real juicer would make it taste better. If I can survive 14 days if juicing, I will break down and buy a juicer.

I drink the same juice throughout the day; I treat myself to a fruit smoothie prepared with Stoneyhill organic vanilla yogurt, 3 spinach leaves, and fruit; normally berries.

Between juices, I have been sticking to the warm water and so has Mario.  However, I also love the tea I found:  Bigelow organic green tea with pomegranate.  I add a little honey and lemon to it.  Warm/slightly heated water with lemon and honey is great too!

I could drink tea and honey all day long!

As of 1:30 pm, I did not have not had hunger pangs, my stomach hasn't snarled at me, and I am felt pretty parched. lol  I already drunk 2 teas and 2 glasses of distilled water.  Plus, I didn't even finish my morning drink.

At 4 pm I started to get hungry again.  This time I used the advice of one of my fellow WordPress bloggers; strained the juice.  Because the Ninja is not a real juicer, but more or less a blender, it is really only blending and not juicing; they recommended I strain the juice.  I grabbed my little strainer and did just that.

Can you say amazing?  It was truly a juice, not applesauce texture.  I could taste the wonderful flavors.

I may invest in the juicer after all to save time from straining.  I could actually taste the apples with a hint of the carrots and celery.  Now I am looking forward to juicing.  Thankful for experienced juicers.

My fellow blogger also approved of my selection of juicer.

The Breville is a Centrifugal Juicer – Automatic Ejection Type. It is one of the best in this class. It is cheap and the opening is wide so you don’t have to cut things as small. The Breville has an RPM of 13000.

However, he did make a recommendation that is about $100 more; the Omega VRT350.

Darn Mario and his predictions!

He is such an instigator.  Mario and I decided to entertain real food tonight:  Chipotle of course.  We will be sharing a burrito bowl while having a blended, strained juice.  Tomorrow we will begin anew and see if we can make it longer than three days without any cheating.

Shared my Burrito bowl with Mr. Man and guess what?  I am so full I am sick.  After almost 4 days of straight juicing, my stomach has shrunk and was not ready to digest solid food.

Drinking plenty of water and making a drink to ease my stomach ache.

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