Sunday, Day 7, was uneventful as far as juicing was concerned. My Saturday was so full that I didn't get 2 of my juices consumed; they stayed well in the fridge and were delightful on Sunday (especially the one with avocado in it). Sunday morning didn't offer me a chance to juice, so I just was sure to drink a lot of water throughout my time at church. Despite the apparent lack of nutrition for the first half of my day, I was full of energy and felt great. After church and a few adventures afterward, I spend the evening with my mother; it was Mother's Day, what else would I do? She tasted the cucumber, lemon, avocado concoction from Saturday and gave her stamp of approval. Mom and I watched a movie together and while doing so, she got the munchies and indulged on some veggie crisp things (air puffed vegetable-matter with salt?). I threw caution to the wind and shared a few (mostly crumbs). I know I shouldn't have, but there's nothing I can do about it now. No use beating myself up for it.
Monday, Day 8, was nice and simple. I made fresh apple juice and fresh grape juice (from black grapes). I never like grape juice growing up, I always found it absolutely repulsive. Freshly juiced grapes though... FANTASTIC. It just might go down as my favorite single-ingredient juice yet (yes, it just beat out orange juice). Speaking of orange juice, my coworker gave me a few more of the oranges from Florida that her roommate's friend brought up. Three were still good, one was bad and I threw it out. The three good ones got juiced this morning along with two navel oranges. I brought a jar of fresh orange juice to work and shared it with my team. Mmmmm, yummy!
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Apple juice on the bottom left, grape juice on the top right. |
Day 8 also came with a weigh-in since it was Monday. The total lost since last Monday, day 1, was 14.4 pounds. Not too shabby!
Tuesday, Day 9, the late night of which I am typing this up on, was OK. Since I laced some juices last week with carrot juice (I'm allergic to carrots) and everything went well, I decided to run a test today. I juiced the last of my carrots into 2 cups of only carrot juice and drank them at work. My theory is that I might only be allergic to the fibers in the carrots themselves. If this is the case, there is a chance I can get a lot of my nutrition back through juicing other vegetables I'm allergic to as well (crossing fingers!). I felt great after the first cup of carrot juice today. A few hours later I had cup number two, and about an hour after that is when my throat started feeling funny. It is almost 1am and my throat is still feeling a bit off. It didn't swell shut, but it is irritate on the left side. Perhaps I just am trying to catch a cold; who knows. Mostly my allergies flare up in the digestive department. A few months ago I experimented with chicken which made my throat swell instead of the usual violent gut reaction (chicken hits hard), so I'm a little scared reactions to other allergens may "morph" when I least expect them to. I plan on lacing spinach into the juicing starting next week to see how it goes.
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Mmmm, carrot juice at work! All gone! |
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