**(this is our juice journal from our first juice fast which we started on January 9th of 2012, I am posting these notations directly from our journals that were kept daily and am doing so in correlation to our second juice fast which started on April 9th, 2012. Each entry will be posted at the end of the day, this will post on the 10th and be for the day of the 9th, etc. When all 60 days have been posted here I will include a brief summary of the experience and then begn adding the journal entries from our newest 60 day juice fast. Please follow this journey, it is pretty amazing, pictures will be coming and also check us out on Facebook or our website Juice460Days.com. We welcome you coments questions and more. If you decide to do a juice fast please e-mail us and let us know all about your results, we will share your story on our website too.)
Today was our first day of juicing. We got the idea to start this after watching a documentary on Netflix called "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" about and Australian named Joe Cross who was morbidly obese, had developed a rare skin disease and was on tons of medication. Joe decided to take back control of his life, reduce his medicines, possibly cure his rare ailment, lose weight and get healthy. After 60 days he had lost a staggering 90+ pounds! I began thinking, if I could lose 90 pounds I would be at a weight I haven't seen in 25 years.
Perhaps I should re-cap a little. I love food. I love to cook. I eat large portions but not ridiculous ones. I even try to eat mostly healthy. I do enjoy starches however and unfortunately fried foods are a weakness for me. Weight has always been an issue and more times than not it has limited my choices in life. After breaking my back 5 years ago and having so many issues related to that the weight has just piled on. So, somedays I eat because I feel hopeless, like me getting more fat is going to happen no matter what; the flawed logic then is why limit myself? Other days I see much larger people and think to myself, "Hey, at least I don't look that bad." The truth is though that way of bouncing back and forth is what has now pushed me over 300 pounds!(314 to be exact)
I feel sick, broken, lazy, weak, slovenly and disgusting. I get pains in my chest, I had a blood pressure scare for several months last year, my left arm twinges, my right arm aches, I have to stretch to wipe my ass, I breathe heavy with mild exertion,my feet ache all the time, my back hurts so bd some days I struggle to breathe, I can feel the tendons in my knees struggling to stay healthy and not tear, causing more problems and the list goes on.
In short, I don't want to die, killing myself slowly with food and gluttony. I have goals, dreams and love and I want to live life fully not just exist until I am dead.
We were on the road all day from Saturday the 7th of January till 10AM Sunday morning driving back to Maine and then no sleep till about midnight. So, when we finally slept we were out. We woke up around 11AM today so not having those early morning hours was easy. We drank a store bought juice made by the Naked Juice brand (the only brand in stores with all natural ingredients and no additives). Not sure how good this is but it is a start and it is juice with ingredients I can pronounce! We were full easily. We went to the store and bought about $60 worth of fruits and veggies plus supplies (we already own a Jack LeLane Power Juicer) like 4-2quart containers to hold juice and so on.
We juiced everything tonight, bought more than we needed, of course, and made 2 gallons of juice. Not sure how long that will all last though, hopefully a few days.
All in all not "eating" has really not been all that bad. A little odd maybe but I am excited to rech the goal so any temptation this first day seemed fairly minor.
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