Juice Feast Day 6

Weight 278.8

Woot, I am under 280! That is huge, I have not been here since I was running with Tracy nearly every day before we adopted Matt.

Today feels great. I still feel a bit of the bug that everyone has had but I have physically been much better than everyone else.  I also am not feeling hungry (although Heidi is making one of my favorite soups today, I may have to strain some and drink the broth).  I didn't even want to make juice until about 10:00 even though I had calls starting at 6:30 this morning so I had been up for 4 hrs (I did have a glass of water this morning).

I generally won't purchase tomatoes this time of year because they are so insipid, but I got a few last night and I am so glad this morning.  I made a V8 style juice for this morning:

4 Stalks Red Chard
1 cucumber
2 Celery stalks
1/4 onion
1 tooth garlic
1/2 lime
1C carrot chunks
1 apple
1 tomato
1 red bell pepper
5 hot yellow peppers (they are small)
1 avocado
1 inch ginger


It is so yummy, just a bit of back heat, it's like spicy V8 but without the salt. Delicious!!! It is not as pretty as V8 though, the mix of red and green juices again comes out a little like poo juice, not quite as dark as yesterday but here's a pic so you can get an idea:

That little floaty is a piece of ginger fiber that got through the sieve.  That happens sometimes. Ginger is strong stuff, I am glad I am removing most of that fiber.

I guess that leads me to another point, I am not doing smoothies but I don't own a juicer.  Instead I blend everything in the VitaMix super fine, then I filter it through a nut milk bag (paint strainer). It takes 3 or 4 min to do the filtering but it does mean that I am really just drinking juice instead of a smoothie or "Pre chewed veggies" as Joe Cross called it.  This also means I don't have to add as much water. I only add about 1/4-1/2 cup water to the blender and use the juicy vegetables and fruits like cucumber, apple, and lemon to get things going, then I add the harder stuff like celery, greens, ginger, carrots, etc.  The other advantage that I did not expect is that I get my pulp really dry because I press it through the strainer, so I get more juice than if I was using a juicer.

This Evening I made Tropical Green:

4 Pinapple Spears
1 apple
1 pear
1/2 inch ginger
1/2 lime
1/2 cup coconut water
4 cups spinach

This was amazing, super delicious, fruity, incredible. Now I recognize that: It could just be that my taste buds are totally broken, because of what I have been eating for 6 days, or it could be that this was really as good as it tasted to me.

Today was a good day, I feel like the energy has moved up, Both juices were super tasty. No cramping. I feel like I have turned a corner.

Excited for tomorrow I get our bountiful basket (double) which also comes with a double juice pack. I am going to be in green (perhaps brown) heaven for days!!!