7AM - Made 1/4 cabbage, 1 lemon, 4 carrots juice. First sip -- oh my gosh, this is yummy! After first glass and water 50/50 mix, I felt a little nauseous. Maybe too much vitamin C or too much goodness too fast? I don't know. My mouth is watering in anticipation of the juice coming right back up. Thankfully, as I write this, it is settling in my stomach. Next serving, I will sip instead of gulping it all down in a hurry.
The lunch juice is ready! It's juiced 1 cucumber, 3 stalks of celery, 4 stalks of kale, 4 carrots, 1 lemon. I put it in a thermos way up to the top so that oxidation is less. Also, the lemon should help against oxidation. Ideally juice should be drunk super fresh from the get go, but I have to work and can't expect to bring all of my groceries and juicer to the office kitchen. The image of it is funny though--especially if I make such noise that my juicer makes!
I'm grateful I already had the juicer, although I've never been on a juicing diet before. I bought this $79 Hamilton Beach one off of Amazon four years ago after tons of research including on Consumer Digest, reviews, etc. It has never disappointed me and compares to $450 machine my mother-in-law has (but without the fear of breaking it and then the bank). My husband like to juice from time to time, and sometimes I make the kids carrot juice. But that was about it as far as our use. For the next eight days, however, the juicer is going to be at the kitchen counter, ready to go!
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Crossing my fingers on the nausea thing. I hope I don't have to deal with it every time. Switching up the ingredients will probably help though.
5PM - Lunch sips went fine with no nausea. No hunger for the most part, although lunch snacks at the table included goldfish crackers, peanuts, snickers, oreo cookies and such. I am proud to say, I did not partake although my mind did indulge in self-sabotage, imagining how good those oreo cookies would be in my mouth... the crunch. Mmm. That's my first day juice low.
I went home and made dinner juice: 1 cucumber, 1 lemon, 4 stalks of celery, 5 carrots, some parsley. I have class at 5:30PM so I had to do it quick so I have "dinner" in class. That's another cool thing about juicing--you can have your lunch/dinner in other people's presence quite quietly, odorlessly, well, basically inconspicuously. Sorry for all those adverbs.
Then I couldn't resist making more for right now since I'm here standing in front of the juicer with the ingredients: 1 cucumber, 1 apple, 2 stalks of celery, 5 carrots, 1 cup of spinach leaves. OMG... sooo yummy. Unbelievable. So this is what I've been missing out on! Jeez, this is a recipe I'm going to come back to again and again.
I have to report that there's this cool (temperature) energy in my belly all day, like I have reserves--yet I feel lightweight and not pulled down. I realize now how much energy food consumption and digestion could take. It's that clunky, full and gasey feeling--you know what I mean. Try imagining total absence of that gunky feeling and lack of hunger, too. That's my first day juice high.
Staying up until midnight completing a major task (filled out N400, a 21 page application detailing everywhere I've been and living the last five years I was a permanent resident, to become a citizen of the US with 80+ pages of supporting documents). I was very hungry by the end! But super excited that I've been watching the weight go down and I'm looking sexier for sure. Gosh, I hope I don't sound stuck up when I call myself sexy, haha.