Day 3

I probably should have titled this post Day 1 because today is my first all juice day. And what a day it's been.

I did not have as easy of a time getting up this morning. I don't know if it was due to the fact that I stayed up until 11:15 pm last night or that I woke up in the middle of the night with a charlie horse or that I dreamed all night of eating candy (yes, I literally dreamed about candy, sad I know). Anyway, I had to hit the snooze button this morning but only once. After I got up I was pretty sluggish and a little sick feeling until after my shower.

I decided today to go off recipe and just improvise since the last two days my lunch juice was so gross. I also decided to take a suggestion from my co-worker and have the veggie juice for breakfast and the fruit juice for lunch. It actually worked out well

Breakfast Juice

1 cup spinach
2-3 celery stalks
3-4 carrots
2 apples
2 strawberries

yield: 26 oz

Lunch Juice

20 strawberries
1/2 cantaloupe
1/2 honeydew
1 cucumber

yield: 26 oz

I arrived at work and drank most of the breakfast juice. It was much better than the previous veggie juices though the celery did give the juice a bite. I held off until 12:15 today before breaking out the lunch juice. It was really good and a bit of a pick me up after my two previous days of disgusting lunch juice. I had a busy afternoon and worked later than usual. By the end of the day I could feel myself getting lethargic and a little cranky. I had about 6 oz of fruit juice left so I drank that on the way home.

***Don't read this section if you are easily grossed out by bathroom talk***
I had a rather terrifying experience in the bathroom today. Let me preface this by saying that for about the last month I've had diarrhea, accompanied by stomach pain, at least once a day usually right after I eat. Since I've started the juicing I've actually had more normal poo, until today. I went to the bathroom today and it was red. I started freaking out. For a minute I thought the juice might be killing me until I remember the beets from yesterday. Damn beets! They even stain your poo.
***Okay, resume reading... potty talk free***

I arrived home and Ken was working in the yard. So far this week he's been making his own dinners (so in other words Ramen) since I am not eating. I thought I would be a nice wife and make him something tonight. We buy these refrigerated cheese pizzas from Aldi that are really good and we usually have one a week on Wednesday or Thursday. We add our own toppings like turkey pepperoni, banana peppers, and on Ken's half green olives (yuck!). The pizza smelled so good but I ensured that I wouldn't eat this time any by putting green olives on the whole thing. Then I began preparing my juice for dinner. I can assure you it tastes nothing like pizza.

Dinner Juice:

8 oz of leftover breakfast juice
1/2 cantaloupe
1/2 honeydew

yield: 24 oz

I really feel like I've let food take such a hold over my life. I eat when I'm happy. I eat when I'm sad. Sometimes I eat because I'm happy and then that makes me sad so I eat more. I need to be able to have an emotion without tying food to it. I also don't exert any will power or make good choices. Do I have self-destructive tendencies or am I just too weak to change? Okay, sorry to get all philosophical for a moment but this experience is making me examine my life choices a little more.

I mentioned in a previous post that I was going to give my starting weight. I didn't forget to weigh myself on Monday, I just hadn't posted it yet because it's not a number I'm happy with. After thinking about it for a few days I've decided that even though it's embarrassing for me I'm going to post it because hopefully knowing that this number is out there for others to see, it will keep me motivated to change that number and maybe inspire others. So here it goes.
Starting weight August 1, 2011: 244.

Today's Lesson
1. Beets stain everything. And I do mean everything.