Nope. It's door #3- I am totally going to Juice! 10 days of nothing but juice from veggies, nuts, roots and fruits. I can't come up with a reason not to. I am the type to do extreme challenges and I think I may really enjoy it (in the end).
My current health problems: Tired all day after 7 hours of good sleep, back hurts most of the time, 210 pounds (prefer 190), muscles take forever to recover after hard runs and occasional acne outbreaks.
My outlook: I don't know what changing my diet will do for any of these 'ailments' but I *think it can help and I also think that thinking something can help, has the power to get your body to self help. We will see, I am no health nut and have fasted in the past for days just to 'see if I could' and for no other reason. I have never dieted and on multiple occasions this year alone have gone to Little Caesars and eaten a large cheese pizza by myself (just to name one common dietary transgression).
My plan: Talk Kari (check) into Juicing for me 3 times a day (starts tonight). Eat and drink nothing other than Juice/water for 10 days. The only thing that might throw it off is that we MAY leave the country in 8 days. We have learned to not put things off and pretend like we are never leaving.
Wish me luck and follow my progress here.
P.S. That dude on Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is completely full of himself and trying to make more money BUT I enjoyed his film and think you would too.
Also: thanks to Alexander for offering to hook me up with a Hamilton Beach Juicer on short notice but I have the juice bug and didn't want to wait for shipping. I went with the Breville JE98XL (photo) at bed bath and beyond. It's about $120 after coupon. More than we wanted to spend but it got good reviews for cleaning and getting lots of juice with little waste. May save on produce cost?
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Update: 24 hours down and I really just want a BIG hamburger or a pizza or saltines! Anything really. Some of the juices have been good, some of them have been not so good but we are learning as we go. I spent a good part of today telling myself this might not be a good idea and by dinner I've decided to try to last till lunch Friday; or five days. Not saying that I won't make 10 days but my goal for a successful experiment is only 5. I am frankly scared of what a juice input diet will output.
All in all I am happy and not hungry. Ran 3 miles today but I am going to cut back on exercise because I am worried about loosing too many salts and just not having enough calories. Update: Kari has made the house smell of BBQ Sauce.... Nice Kari! Real nice!
Update 2: At about the 48 hour mark I was being very annoying. Headache, moaning hunger pangs. Missing food = being an a$$. I really just wanted food; maybe the trick is drinking a lot of juice and not trying to stick to the three meals a day routine. Anyways, this is now day 15 and for the last 13 days I've had nothing but juice for breakfast and dinner. Lunch has been anything I wanted. Sunday was the exception (I ate a solid breakfast and lunch) and today I ate crackers and drank a soda after work.
So as I transition back from the juicing to regular eating I am left with these takeaways: I only lost 5 pounds, I still have allergies, my back is still sore, I had no extra energy, I have no acne but that's not too unusual. I do really like weird earthy tasting juice and I can drink two meals a day without feeling hungry. I still want to try an all juice diet for 10 days. I really cant shake the notion that juicing waste a lot of good pulp.
Better luck to you if you try juicing. Plan to start your juicing on a Thursday so you can do nothing all weekend while your body copes with the new diet. Don't push yourself too hard and read up on what a diet full of eating beats will do to your...... just read up on the subject.
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