Day 4: Fear Factor Juice

So I was looking at juicing recipes for the giant juice making day ahead and came across some that were for beginning juicers as far as being veggie heavy but still yummy.  We had lots of carrots and romaine lettuce and those were the only two ingredients listed for one of the recipes.  Cool!  Carrots juice is awesome right?  And I haven't really been tasting the leafy greens in my juices; its the cucumbers and celery to watch out for.  Anyway, a bunch of carrots and romaine later and my mom and I go to try it... and its AWFUL.  Like, spit out the extra saliva in your mouth after tasting it, awful.  We sat there staring at each other with no idea how to make this shit show any better without adding a million fruits.  Mom suggested some cucumber, cause even though she hates the flavor of cucumber, she would rather taste that than the mutant juice we just had.  I replied "no joke, that juice should be on fear factor."  So that's where the name came from.  Now the juice inst so bad and we only added some pineapple and one lime...for 32 ounces of juice, that's not bad.

~Jacquelyn

Day 3 came and went easy

I'm still having X-rated thoughts about good ol' greasy food at night but that would be happening no matter what restrictions I put on myself.  The juicing itself really isnt a problem and I am not having the terrible week of symptoms that I thought I would. I am not naive enough to think the hard part is over, but so far, so good.

~Jacquelyn

Day 2

While I opted to lay around in bed most of the day, today really wasn't all that bad.  It is the end of the night now and its the first time I have dealt with hunger pain that did not go away within a couple of minutes.  So far, my mom and I have both noticed we feel hungry right after our juice, more than we did right before the juice.  Pretty sure that is still just phantom hunger pains trying to lure me down the path of evil.  My mother's headache from yesterday cleared up and she hopes she is through the caffeine detox.  We find ourselves craving a more "savory" taste and plan to experiment with spicy vegetables and less fruit.  I will say that I am surprised at how green my juices are (in both color and ingredients) and how I am not having an issue with taste.  My mom and I seem to have opposite preferences, as I gravitate toward the green tasting juices and my mom likes the sweeter juices.  I've just never been too much of a sweets person, maybe that has something to do with our taste preferences.  Who knows. Yesterday, we juiced enough for 6 servings for two days.  However, on both days we ended up only drinking 4, so we actually have a third day ahead of us without juicing.  Thank goodness because I wasn't ready to get up and juice all damn day again.  We plan to go see a movie tomorrow and take some juice in.  I want to take a picture of my face tomorrow because I keep forgetting and want to see if there are noticeable changes after the fast.  My skin has been crap lately.
My hunger pains are getting crazy so I'm gonna run and try to put myself to sleep immediately before the demons take over.

~Jacquelyn

Day 1 (cont): Whew!

All the juices we made today.  The doubles of each batch are not shown.  I should take a picture of the fridge after a two day juicing hurricane blew through, its shocking how much is gone already.  A couple of these had prettier colors when we followed a recipe, but every time we came up short on ounces, so my filler for everything was always "mo spinach!  mo kale!"  This prep took forever, but my mom and I don't have to juice at all tomorrow or for breakfast the next day.  As far as how I feel, its 7pm and I have been hungry today.  However, I will say I seem to feel the most hungry five minutes after my juice.  We call these phantom hunger pains, cause they are bullshit.  Other than that we pee every five minutes and mom has had a headache, probably from no coffee.

~Jacquelyn

Hungry

I've been psychologically hungry all day but its been bearable.  It's 1:47 and now I'm starving. Fml

-Lanae

Day 1- breakfast

Our first juice! We started to follow a recipe we found, except when we tried it both of us looked at each other in shock with puckered faces as two lemons somehow overpowered half a costco bag of greens, carrots, celery, and cucumbers. So we ended up modifying it quite a bit. We made a 32 oz batch, enough for two meals for each of us. We want to juice every other day so the plan is to stock mason jars in the fridge. Each jar is 32oz (two servings) and we are filling them to the very top to avoid as much oxidation as possible. I took a close up of our pulp. My mom used to have a centrifugal juicer and this time she wanted to try a masticating one, and she said she noticed a big difference in how dry the pulp was. Anyway, I have the juicer out in the 18 degree weather right now cooling between batches cause that mofo got hot after making 8 servings.


RECIPE (4 16oz servings)
4 celery stalks
8 carrots
1 english cucumber
6 apples (red & green)
2 lemons
buncha hands of greens (kale, chard, spinach)...1/3-1/2 of a costco        mixed bag

~Jacquelyn

Insomnia, and Heartburn, and Migraines, Oh My!

It is now 6:19 am and I have been awake since 3 am. This is not the way I wanted to start day 1. I woke with a migraine which, unfortunately, has been happening more often as of late because I have eating terribly. The last month or so I have been focusing on eating a more plant based diet. However, we were broke this last week and knew we would be juicing once a paycheck came so we got "rid" of all the leftover junk... by inhaling it. This quickly lead to me popping my old favorite vitamins: Tums and Excedrine. Ugh. This is a picture of my nightstand this morning.There was a pile of 6 Tums there last night.  We won't mention the elephant on the table...
I have read over and over that the first few days of juicing are awful due to the sudden initial detox. I have also read that decreasing meat and sugar intake the week before a juice fast really helps to mitigate the trouble of those first few days. I had already done that while just making efforts to be healthier... of course until the week before I actually start. I feel like shit. I don't like to use foul language in public forums, but there is no proper way to get around that. I have treated my body like shit, and now I feel the shit. I guess the silver lining in this is if I already feel awful, detoxing may feel normal. Then again, the pizza, doughnut, Reeses, sourdough toast, butter, jelly, and cereal l had yesterday may have the last laugh at that point. That's right, I had zero nutrition yesterday and today I'm promising to drown my body in nutrients and begging forgiveness. Hmm. I must be from 'Murica.

Its 6 am, I'm hungry already for no reason, and today sucks.