Juice Diet Day 3 (November 16, 2021)

 Not going to lie about it, the third day is tough. You start to think about all the food you're missing out on and you think maybe this juice fast should be for just a day or so. I wouldn't be wrong for thinking that either. After doing a bit of research it seems that juicing is not always the better choice as it can lead to an inappropriate way of feeding yourself.  You have to have enough discipline to say you know when your body has reached a peak and it may not be the best thing to continue to force juices as they have more sugar than candy at times.  It's all about the calories and the nutrients when you juice. You don't want to ONLY juice fruit.  I try to mix two veggies for every one fruit. That's not always done, but that's my rule of thumb.

    Breakfast was an easy choice. I had purchased so many good fruits and vegetables yesterday that I had so many things just sitting on the counter needing to be juiced. Well, like an idiot, I had purchased a bag of plump juicy grapefruits but I didn't look inside the bag to see that they were green with spots. They had canker!! So sad!! I was really looking forward to a super powerful morning drink that would knock my socks off, but hey, I settled for romaine lettuce, grapes, and parsley. Of course I added the ginger root and I even threw in a touch of Maca and Papaya just for the heck of it.  It was sweet (purple grapes do that) and it was good. Very good.

    Lunch found me a bit hungry around 11:30 rather than later. If I put psyllium husk in my breakfast drink I don't feel hungry until later, but that wasn't the case today. Nope.  Oh, and I forgot to tell you, I did step on the scale today, and guess what? I had lost another 2.2 pounds. I'm not kidding. Yes, it may only be water weight, but it was weight that I was carrying around with me. I'm not carrying it anymore! Gone! I think I may do the juice thing tonight, and maybe through lunch tomorrow, but have an actual salad with cheese and chicken for dinner.  I may keep that sort of plan going for a minute to get the juices in but also keep the meat in my body. I'm seriously not a vegan and even my doctors tell me that my blood type (O+) needs meat protein, not just plant based protein.

    The most important part of my day is the afternoon. I tend to work through my snack and that's not good because it makes me go wild at dinner time. I can't remain objective and social if I'm on a wild bender for food, right? What do I do? Well, I returned a package to Amazon through the handy-dandy return desk at the local Whole Foods. Keep in mind, I don't ever shop that store, it's lovely, they have wonderful wonderful foods there, but if I wanted to simply throw my money away I would gamble. when I can buy $50 of produce at Winco for $50 and the same would cost over 3x that at Whole Food, I feel violated!!  I did look though.  I looked at ALL the lovelies. I looked at quiche, cheese, milk products, meats, cookies, candy, cakes, wines, and bread...I drooled a little over the pretzel cross buns. I did. I may have fantasized.

    After my trip to the neverlands, I went home and made myself a healthy and delightfully fresh carrot juice mixed with celery and blueberries. You gotta love the blueberries. It wouldn't matter what else you had in the juicer, your drink will be purple. My drink was a lovely shade of violet and I drank it down. That brings me to dinner, which was early. I typically (always) eat at 6:00 p.m. but I was allowing for a later consumption of food since it was juiced.  My body disagreed and I made my dinner drink at 6:15 which was (is) romaine lettuce, parsley and pineapple. So good. I told my daughter Laura and she said "Stop, you lost me at parsley".  Are you sure about that? Parsley helps with your heart rate, staves off cancers, and regulates blood sugar. Yeah, give me a bit more parsley. Thank you.

    So you don't get all upset with me for "giving in" or "giving up" after only 3 days, you should know I had to think long and hard about a 7 or 10 day juice fast due to my personal history with lower blood sugar. The parsley continues to help, sure, but I don't want to over do the blood sugar with all the sugars in both vegetables and fruit. I want to keep a good balance going. Water flushes just about everything, so after 6:00 p.m. I drink about 100 ounces of lemon or lime water every night. I've done that for a year now. It helps for so many things, too many to really get into, but you can imagine the sludge your body can store! Water, water, and more water.

    Monday is my birthday, and my daughter Caity bought me a really fun present today. (Strangely, that is what I took back to Amazon, but it was really cool!)  It was a weighed hoop that you position around your waist. It comes with 24 interlocking sections. I used 21 of them. She's uses 20 so it tells me that my waist is about 3" rounder than hers. Anyway, the thing is really fun, but I worked it for about 10 minutes and found that my motions are over exaggerated to get the bell/ball to go around. It wasn't really safe for me to try it. I think dancing will do the same thing, so she sent me a QR code to return the thing.  She is an amazing kid, and I really appreciated the gesture. 

    So, you may be asking how the poo was today? Awesome. Thanks for asking. I find it helpful to either journal or keep in mind when it is that I go so I can maintain a healthy regulation. Today's poo was softer than yesterday, but there was more of it. Interesting really, because I only drank juices and had a bit of a protein shake yesterday.  Maybe that's where the 2.1 pounds came into play.  We can assume.  I do wait to weigh myself after I go to the bathroom if I can.  Then again, if you wait too long you've had your coffee and morning drink so it offsets anything you expel. You have to think of these things you know. That's another reason journals come in handy. I laugh to think if anyone would ever actually read my writings. They may be used for fire starters after the rapture. 

    Well, that's about it. We'll pick up again tomorrow. I'll let you know how the salad goes and if I decided to totally cheat on myself and eat a piece of chocolate. I'm not above doing that. I swear, I'm not.

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