Juice Diet Day 2 (November 15, 2021)

 So, I know I said I wasn't going to weigh myself today, but I ended up weighing myself today. I was going to be really pissed if I had juiced all day (the day before) and hadn't lost a single ounce. I know that when you do lose weight up front its typically water weight, but I don't care. It's weight, and it's on me, and it needs to come off of me!  I stood on the scale half way expecting it to be sad, and half way clinching my fist as if I was going to punch its little digital lights out if didn't show a difference from yesterday.  IT DID!!  I actually lost 2.6 pounds in one day from just juicing, so now I'm thinking maybe it will be OK to weigh myself every day and either know I'm achieving my goal, or I can get tougher with myself and add more exercise.

    I'm purposely not exercising during this juice fast so that I'm not over doing anything, but I will admit to standing around and doing squats, lifting my little dumbbells while wearing 2.5 pound wrist weights, and I do dance. I'm not going to ever stop dancing. It's what it is, it is not going to happen, so why lie? Why expect myself to stop moving when I move. It's who I am. I was always the fidgety kid who got in trouble at school for dancing in my seat. I think they called that "Ants in the pants" back in the day, but you know, we just call it what it is now, I dance.

    OK, this morning's juice was a good one. I went with what I had in the house before going to the store and purchasing oh so many veggies and fruits.  I made a carrot, apple, cinnamon, ginger root juice and called it done. I think I added a squirt of honey too. Why not?  Lunch was just amazing because I had been to the store and had purchased about $50.00 worth of fruits and veggies. I purposely bought the food items separately so I can sort of have an estimate of what it costs me to do the right thing for myself. People ask me all the time if juicing and fasting on good wholesome (not organic) foods (raw foods) is cheaper than regular shopping. It can be. You just have to have an idea of what it is that you're going to do and how you're going to achieve it. There is a juice fast diet for anyone's budget I'm sure. I just happen to be single and not providing for a family now, so I do have more to spend on myself. 

    Lunch's juice was called "Belly Buster" and it is pineapple, ginger root, celery, green apple, spinach, carrots, and cabbage!  Whoa! That's a lot.  It was good too.  The pineapple evens out the tart apple and it helps with the mixing of the ginger root. That ginger root can be really strong if you let it be.  I use between 1/2 an inch and an inch cut piece when I use it. I also have ginger powder that I use when I use the Nutri-Bullet rather than the juicer. There are somethings you can do with a juicer that you can't do with a Nutri-Bullet, and vis-versa.  You don't want to use frozen food in a juicer, you can break the machine, but a Nutri-Bullet thrives on it, turning those frozen veggies and fruit into the smoothie part of the smoothie.  Icy good. (not good for the juicer, nope!)

    I wanted another juice around 4:00 p.m. rather than waiting for dinner, so I made a beet-based drink that ended up tasting really earthy, and by earthy, I mean it tasted a great deal like scooping up a chunk of mud and eating it. I love dirt, so that wasn't a problem for me, but you may not be a fan. Just so you know, beets can do that. I added beets, pineapple, carrots, and a cucumber I think. It was really good, and I remember about half way through it my tummy felt sort of bad. I think it was a combination of the juicing and not eating solids for over a day. I took a really hot bath with Epsom salts and baby oil, and yeah, I felt a whole lot better. It was just a little gas rolling around.

    Well, I promised you yesterday that I would tell you about the first day after the diet's poop.  You always want to monitor and keep an eye on your intake as well as your output. You need to be able to say that you get out as much as you put in, so that you're not stopping the plumbing with anything.  The morning's poo was really good -- not too hard and sufficient in size. Not "call-the-kids-to-brag" big, but you know, it was good. The dog left the room shortly afterwards, which is an indicator that it was a decent letting. No, I did not take photos. Sorry. I don't do that. I bet there would be an entire market of people out there who may want to pay for that...but I digress. 

    Dinner was just about 15 minutes ago, around 7:00 p.m. and I had what is called "Autumn Harvest". I found it on Pinterest.  It's literally sweet potatoes, carrots, honey, cinnamon, green apples and a pinch of ginger.  Ginger does so much for your gut, that's why it's used as often as it is. You should Google that. It's really really good for you. The whole find-a-meal-on-Pinterest thing is good too.  You can load up with 50 different ways to juice and never have to worry about trying to figure out what to make. Tomorrow I'm going to do something with purple grapes. They were on sale, and I just had to have them. I juiced cabbage today! That was new for me. I've never done that before. It was great. 

    Other than the little gas episode around 4:00 p.m. I think I was good to go. I know I slept from 11:00 to 8:00 a.m. basically, and I had really very lucid dreams. So lucid I was able to stop the dream, change the dream, be really loud and obnoxious in the middle of it, and laugh at myself. That's how vivid it was and I don't know if it was because I'm just weird or the juices are really doing their job. It could be that I'm just really weird like that. Years of being weird have it's toll.

See you tomorrow!

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