so we've been juicing for two weeks now. it feels like i should be amazed i've been going this long and yet it's flown past and really not been that hard.what i am starting to think, now and again, is that i will get bored of some of the routine going on. like the repetitive shopping trips, washing and scrubbing veg, peeling oranges in such a way as to leave as much of the white bioflavinoid yummy stuff on there. washing the juicer (YummyHubby washes the juicer for me once a day, lovely thing that he is, but i still get to wash either my home or work juicer once a day myself) and don't get me started on taking yucky tasting/textured supplements.
on the plus side i'm starting to feel the benefits. i had an all-too-brief zingy couple of hours on thursday, only to get headachey and develop a runny nose straight after. my positivity and physical energy dipped again, but i am emotionally in a much better place than i'd usually be round this time of the month, so perhaps in a few days i'll pick up and really start to feel the love again.
talking of this time of the month... it is indeed that time of the month so my weekly weigh-in is way off kilter. i got weighed this morning and have lost precisely half a pound since last week. but i gain 3 to 5 pounds during the PMS days and they stick around for the best part of a week, so it won't really be until next weigh-in, a week today, that i'll see any weight loss. however, i can feel that my clothes are looser, so it's looking good.
i have had some further detox symptoms this past week, with an intermittent runny nose, the odd spot (could be PMS) and smelly underarms (eww) but the most astonishing thing is that i've been to the toilet twice this week! it could be that my juicer is straining under the sheer quantity of juice being required of it and isn't separating out the pulp so well, so i may need to strain my juice.
although i'd say that overall this is fairly easy, sometimes, perhaps only for a few fleeting moments, it feels so hard that i don't know how i'm going to manage. then i think back to david and katrina's video where they say "nobody juicefeasts for 92 days. you juicefeast for 1 day." and that's where i'm trying to get myself. into that "present moment" groove. i'm so glad that YummyHubby is right there to catch me if i fall. in fact, he won't let me fall. he's being so unbelievably wonderful. and then there's a mammoth supportive community out there to go to and get inspired when i need it. thanks everyone. i am truly grateful for your support. have a big lime-flavoured kiss.
talking of juicy kisses, i stole a kiss off YummyHubby today while he was eating his lunch just so i could get a taste of tomato and black olive pesto. i am so looking forward to a big kale salad with baby plum tomatoes and plump black olives. yum. so at least i'm now craving raw food rather than random dishes i'd never eat even if it was the last thing on earth. phew.
i tested my ph this morning. it's at 7 and this time i'm confident it wasn't a false positive. so perhaps i was right on my first test, too, and i'm on the "optimum"/alkaline border. that would be stunning. YummyHubby said - not that he's a doctor, but he's obviously been listening to my ramblings - "it doesn't surprise me. your immune system is shot but you're basically really healthy. unlike me. i've got a bulletproof immune system but there's no way i'd describe myself as healthy." so what do you think? is that feasible? i had ME 20 years ago and i have had doctors say to me i'll never really get over that. my immune system will always be compromised. so i get ill because of that, rather than being unhealthy in general. hmm. interesting, sounds logical, but is it feasible?so where am i at? i know i'm doing some things right. i'm doing my litre of water on rising, with msm and lemon. i take a fair few supplements. i do skinbrushing and enemas two or three times a week and do exercise when i can. buuut... i still can't manage to get all the water and juice in every day. you guys out there who put away 6 litres of juice a day, how in the world do you do it?
YummyHubby and i had a pow-wow earlier today and worked out how i can fit in one or two more things a day without it driving me crazy. so we've put some rules in place and i will try my hardest to do exercise and/or relaxation/meditation of some sort every day plus i'm going to try and up my game and drink more juice this next week.
here's to week three (!) and shifting up a gear. cheers!
2 comments:
Finally getting to your Juicy Blog entries! Lou Lou....you are doing so great!! I feel stupid for asking, but what is ME? One of my "issues" is that I had mononucleosis at 14 and then I was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr/Cronic Fatigue Syndrome in my twenties. I've never been debilitated with it, as so many are, but it is always there, lurking just under the surface. That is one of the things I hope to overcome by juice feasting.
You and I are just alike in weight and menstrual weight gain...that hideous scale!
Hey Penni, thanks for the encouragement :) ME stands for Myalgic Encepahlomyelitis and is regarded nowadays as another name for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I suffered terribly when I was first struck with it but was introduced to a naturopath who, get this, prescribed raw foods! He told me to read Leslie Kenton's Raw Energy, and that was what saved me. But, like you, I do seem to have an underlying weakness that crops up from time to time and it's what has made me come back to raw foods again and again. Now if I can manage to stick to raw, I know I'll be fine...
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