Juicefeasting Day 5

ok so my genius plan was to have other people make my juice for me!

i went to xoom juice & found out they had pasteurized juice : (

but i had a smoothie with it anyway cuz i was 'hungry' and still had some errand to do.

i had a lovely convo with the girl who works there. i told her i was juice feasting thats why i needed the fresh juice & we talked about being raw & she even gave me a recipe for a raw pie--can't wait to eat so i can try it out : )

went to the wild oats / whole foods on speedway & inquired @ their juice bar. they actually have fresh juice! and veggie juice too! well only veggie juice & kinda icky ones lol

but hey its juice right?

so i'm loading up on my fruits & veggies & this older lady asked me how i prepare my chard. i told her i juice it! lol we talked for awhile about juicin & stuff.

ok so i remembered to do the skin brushin but i'm still laggin @ all the other stuff : (

today i went to my first 'excursion' into the land of food lol i had a book group that was meeting in a restaurant so i went armed with some juice & i was fine. i left my money at home just incase i was tempted to eat something lol but i wasn't. yah!

Juicefeasting Day 4

woohoo day 4 only 88 more to go! lol

everytime i talk to my evil but best friend lisa she's eating something! what a temptress! but i'm still holding steady...oddly enough i'm craving raw foods...oh & tortilla soup....so i need to find a raw recipe for that...for later : )

my first Q was actually some leftovers from last nite that needed more celery to be less sweet. then i tried to put spirulina in it but it just globbed together on the top....bummer dont know why that happened.....wasnt about to drink the chunks lol

my new 'trick' is to make each veggie or fruit juice separately then mix to taste as i'm gonna drink it to avoid all the botched calamities : )

made:
greens: took approx 2 lbs of greens and got about a 1/2 cup juice out of it
celery: a coupla of bunches cleaned from last nite netted a Q
apples: about 12 med apples got me another Q

a weird thing happened when i made the celery juice. well two weird things:
1. allofasudden my juicer was getting clogged which is weird because before i've been able to make twice the amount of celery into juice with *NO* problems. i actually had to clean it 3 TIMES! ack
2. even weirder....i swear i heard my celery scream as i made it into juice! ok it was more than likely the celery just squeaking against the juicer but for a second there i swear it was screamin at me to say 'please don't juice us nice lady!'. i was starting to feel guilty for a second. good lord i'm loopy from juicing : )

i liked the mixing capabilities but sadly i only got through 3 Qs again today : (

also no enema or any of the supplemental stuff. but i did skin brush at least! lol

tomorrow i'm going to go out & explore my local juicebar options to see if i can get someone else to make my juice for me for a change! lol

no major things happened today except i'm dealin with that fuzziness on the the teeth....brushed an extra time to no avail. i think i'm gonna do my teeth bleachin trays once a week still just cuz i love havin nice shiny white teeth & maybe it will help with the fuzziness altho a purist would say not to do but thank goodness i'm not a purist : )

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Juicefeasting Day 3

woke up at 4 am with my head feeling like it was shrinking from dehydration. probably is lol oh & of course the aforementioned headache. i just couldnt get into juicing yet so i had a spoon of royal jelly--another thing i've been forgetting to do--ack!! this is a lot to remember to do in a day lol i also cheated and had an aspirin. more stuff to detox out but i know this headache & it can only get worse.

went back to bed & wokeup about 8am. make some apple juice to go with the leftover greens concoction from yesterday to make a quart.

just realized i forgot to do the water / lemon / msm thingy--dammit! lol

nottomention i havent being doing the brushing or the enemas. gee i'm suprised im not in worse off shape lol

final-freakin-ly! i made 8 cups of juice! : )

i went to the hardware store & bought a paint strainer--i think that made all the difference. i used more apples too but i think i got a much larger yield from squeezing the juice out of the paint bag as oppose to using the strainer that came with the juicer which it seemed like i was throwing so much of the juice away.

plus i only strained it one other time with very little need to.

i think i might be finally catching on lol the only prob is that i forget to clean some greens! i will do that later to supplement the leftovers and for making the final batch today.

now i hafta learn how to do an enema...i can't wait until i'm at the point i can complete all the days tasks & in an efficient order! : )

Juicefeast Day 2

ok so i feel like a retard on this thing. man i just can't catch a break lol i still havent gotten the hang of how to successfully make 2 quarts at a time. i decided to get fancy and make a strawberry / celery / greens combo. ummmm strawberry juice not very sweet so it ended up tasting like grass. and to top it off i'm outta apples so i cant make it any sweeter so i hafta go out foraging! which makes me nervous cuz i've only had a bout a quart so far & i'm a little hungry so i dont trust myself not to buy food lol i sorta already made a deal with myself that i could get a piece of raw pie at the store : )

i kept worrying if i was getting in my 2 lbs of greens a day so at the store i weighed a bunch of greens (about 5 medium sized leaves) and it was about a 1/2 a lb. i was using about 2 large leaves per quart so i was close but now i know if i use about 20 medium sized leaves i'm ok.

Filled up on the old produce:
- 18 bunches of celery
- 40 lbs of apples
- 25 lb bag of carrots--i've never seen so many carrots in one bag before! lol i kinda felt like an idiot with it in my cart i dont know why lol

i also picked up some hemp seed oil & some hand cream since i'm washing produce & my hands nonstop i am dry beyond belief!

total $133

did the tabulation for a days worth of apple / celery / greens juice:
- 2 bags of apples (about 12 medium) = $10
- 8 bunches of celery = $10
- greens = $5

thats $25 a day!
not that my health isnt worth it and thats probably close to what i spend on food since i eat out all the time, but i cant help think of the $15 a day price that david rain put on it lol maybe i need to hit the farmers market to see if they're cheaper?

overall i had a very unsuccessful day juice wise. i probably only got about 2 1/2 quarts in. i was so tired from lugging the *literally* hundred pounds of produce up to my apartment lol i just didnt want to juice anymore. i knew it was a bad idea & that headaches would come so i tried to drink water.

Juicefeasting Day 1

so this was the basic schedule of my day:

drink water
clean produce
make juice
cleanup
drink juice
pee
clean produce
make juice
cleanup
drink juice
pee
clean produce
make juice
cleanup
drink juice
pee
clean produce
make juice
cleanup
drink juice
pee

i have noooooo idea how people do this in the morning in an hour before work! thank god i'm unemployed lol or this would sooooo never happen lol

i set out to make 2 quarts at a time & find that i end up with only one therefore doubling my work.

i am also obsessed with accidentally killing myself with 'dirty' produce. i clean it but somehow feel skeptical that its clean enough. i am also veeeeeeery disheartened by the number of little gnats i see inside my celery when i clean it. eeeeeewwwwww i obsessively soak them in a solution, scrub them, put them in a tub of water to soak, then rinise again but i still found one (dead) gnat when i went to chop! really eeeewwwww

odd note: i was in bed reading and my legs felt weird. what i imagine 'restless leg syndrome' feels like. my calfs were a little tingly and my left thigh muscle kept twitching! the hypochondriac that i am imagined that i've pickled myself from all the celery i was drinking because everybody says its high in sodium even though i really doubt its possible to pickle yourself with celery juice lol

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Pre-JuiceFeasting : )

ok so i was already to make 2 quarts of juice. i cleaned a bunch of produce and begin commencing to juice. i was saddened to know that i barely had

2 whole celery bunches = about 2 cups of juice with barely any pulp!
3 big leafs of chard
8 apples

the last two only netted about a cup of juice all together with toooons of foam & pulp

the apples may have been my fault because they were a little old so they were mushy not crisp. perhaps crisper apples will net more juice? i will explore this.