Juice fast DAY THREE

Yuck yuck yuck.

Weight- 195 (no loss)

Milk supply- fine

I feel great. I felt a *tiny* bit weak and shaky when I woke up this morning, but not for long.

I even did some cardio and lifted weights today! I felt perfectly fine.

I felt SUPER motivated this morning. But then totally crashed this afternoon.

I DEFINITELY would have quit  if dh wanted to. So technically, you could say I quit. Because I wanted to, but he didn't, so I didn't. :)

I just want to EAT. I am so sick of not eating!  I am SUCH a bad fasting person!

Food and chewing sound so unbelievably good. Like, even plain and boring food. I take eating so forgranted!

Day three is *almost* over.

hmmmmm trying to think if there is anything else to report, but I can't think of anything.

Day TWO of our 10 DAY juice fast!

Weight-195

Milk supply- Great!

I AM HUNGRY!

I am trying to not let my mind mope and whine. Just ignoring the food smells and trying not to dream about food all of the time. EVERYTHING looks delicious. Even just a plain piece of bread.

Well, ALMOST everything.

Juice most definitely does NOT sound delicious! :)

I chug it down, and it isn't that hard. (Although I do not enjoy it.)

We are doing about 80% non starchy veggies and 20% fruit/carrots.

My stomach feels SO empty.

But I still have plenty of energy! I have no detox symptoms whatsoever. NO dizziness, no headaches, no ACHES, nothing negative whatsoever.

Just plain old hungry!

I am so thankful for my one enjoyment. COFFEE.

I am also thrilled to have a nice drop in weight right away.

I feel SO FAT. It just feels absolutely horrible to feel chubby again because of gaining back that weight. Every time I put my hands on my hips, or see my self in the mirror, I CAN SEE IT/FEEL IT!

Why oh WHY do I undo my efforts like I do?

I will be ecstatic if I am just back down to 184 by the end of this fast.

And over the MOON if I see 183 or less! :)

10 Day Juice Fast

Why?

Because I want a nice cleans to start the new year. I have always wanted to do a 10 day juice fast, but because of nursing and pregnancies, never get to it. (I won't mention that I HAVE tried a few times, and quit.:) )

My baby is old enough now to do this! My husband and I and a few of our older children are doing it together!So I hope it will be FUN!

DAY ONE

Weight- 199

(I am SO depressed to have GAINED weight over the holidays. I am up 15 LBS from my lowest weight since having Gracie. I can't even describe how that disgusts/depresses me,but I am trying to forget about that and just go forward. I am pretty sure that some is water weight from overdoing it on carbs, but STILL!)

I am doing fine. I have gotten hungry several times and had a slight depression that it would be SO long before I ate again! :) But I am NOT going to quit this, so I just try to put it out of my head.

My energy is perfectly fine/normal.

I am drinking about 50-70 oz juice, plus gobs of water.

I should also say that we agreed ahead of time that we are still having our coffee. 1-3 cups a day. We are all having coffee our REGULAR way. My husband is NOT willing to give that up and I am just thankful we are juicing at ALL, even though the coffee is a "cheat" because of the sugar/redi-whip/cream.

I don't have sugar in mine, but I do have a small amount of Red-Whip and coconut oil.
My dh has sugar in his. Oh well! :)

Here we go! :)

A few wonderful things!!!!!!

First wonderful thing......Yesterday I was 222.2 as I posted.I was REALLY hoping for 1/2 lb lost this morning but guess what????

220.6 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have lost 5 more lbs this week already and it isn't even Monday yet!!!!!

Second wonderful thing....I stuck with my juicing today but the juice I drank was some kind of "Naked" juice from Wal-Mart.I KNOW that it is NOTHING compared to the juice I make but it is better than pop I am sure!!!!

Third wonderful thing.....I got some cookies for the children and I was going to eat one since it was past noon.I took one bite and instead of feeling my normal "I need to eat 3-4 more of these" do you know what came to my head....."I wonder if I will even be able to eat all of this......" I was TOTALLY and COMPLETELY satisfied with 1 cookie!!!!! ONE COOKIE!!

Fourth wonderful thing.....For the last several months when I run it causes me to have pain in my shins.....It always makes me feel sooooo overweight.Well,today I kind of jogged into the store and the pain is 75% gone!!!!

Fifth wonderful thing.......I have had ZERO negative symptoms of this morning fasting.I feel fantastic.I have plenty of milk and Titus seems to feel perfectly great.

Sixth wonderful thing.....I have a refrigerator FULL of produce and healthy food.I am so thankful to have such a hard working man.I have never,not in 15 years of marriage,not been able to get my groceries when it is time to shop.

Seventh wonderful thing.......Scott told me today that we have TWO cows getting ready to freshen!!!! One of them will probably be in the next week!! No more buying butter and milk!! Thank you Lord! This will be a huge savings to us and I will be SOOOO happy to have that super healthy dairy again!!!

Eighth wonderful thing......We are getting ready to order TWO HUNDRED chicks!!!! Black Jersey Giants.Scott is going to build a move able chicken pen like on *FRESH* and we are going to start implementing the chickens fertilizing our corn fields etc. At the end of the year we will sell and butcher 150 of them and have our freezer FULL of grass fed CHICKEN and keep 50 of them for laying and hatching out NEXT years chicks.

Ninth wonderful thing.......My rear end feels smaller.......lol SERIOUSLY!!!!!! When I put my underwear on I can tell that they go up higher and fit looser lol.

Tenth wonderful thing.......Tonight is DATE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!! Beef nachos,chocolate delux bars,a new kind of wine cooler,3 movies (and Clear Play has filters for ALL of them otherwise we could never watch them......They are rated R and we would never watch a rated R movie normally, but with Clear Play,it turns them into rated G if you want!!!! SO neat!! I bought them on discount not knowing if they had filters.....If they would NOT have had filters it would have been a waste of money so I am soooo happy!!)

Yesterdays food log

Breakfast- JUICE
Lunch-2-3 SMALL pieces of pizza
Snack-1 piece of hm pbutter cup
Supper-2 eggs and 2 pieces of bacon
Dessert-3-4 SMALL Cowboy cookies

Water-Plenty
Tea-none
Exercise-NONE
Attitude-GREAT!!!!!!! lol

Thursday!!!!

Good morning ladies!!

Guess what?

223.2 this morning!!!!!! Thats 2 lbs down so far this week.....Not as fast as it came off last week *but* I have not exercised at ALL since last Wednesday!!! I am having a REAL hard time starting to exercise again in the middle of the week and since I have had ALOT of diapers to sew,I just decided to take off until next Monday.

(BTW Brandy,my one order is sent out and I bought new fabric for your diapers and they are ALL cut out! I am sewing today!! They are sooooooooo beautiful!!!)

Anyhow........I am SO loving that the scales keep going DOWN.I have my juice every day and don't touch a bite of anything until noon.It is SO EASY.I make the juice at 6:00.I make it for both Scott and I.I drink around a pint,sometimes less.I do NOT like the taste at ALL so I just sit my juice and a big glass of water on the counter.I take a big swig of juice and then chase it down with several gulps of water.Easy!I stretch it out to last through the whole morning.

3 more lbs until I have lost 10 lbs!!

I definitely feel thinner already.Amazing how 7 lbs lost can make you feel so much thinner.

WED

Breakfast-Juice :)
Lunch-Couple bites of ham/cheese and less than a cup of buttered beans
Snack-Green smothie with cranberries/hm yogurt/kale/bananas
Supper-1 egg/small amount of sausage and 1 piece of toast
Dessert-3 Dove chocolate squares and 1/2 a Whatchamacallit

Water-Plenty
Tea-none
Exercise-none

Back to the juice again..........

I LOVE how much nutrition we are getting by drinking this juice.This morning it was loaded with Swiss Chard,kale,apples,carrots and celery.Yesterday it was all that PLUS brocolli.Imagine how GOOD it is for you!!!!

Sometimes I get pretty hungry before lunch.TRULY hungry......Not just feeling like eating food but I can tell my body is hungry.I just KNOW I burn alot of fat during this time!Ihave no intentions of stopping this for atleast a few months.We will see if I still keep feeling good and see how the baby keeps doing too but I really hope to be able to continue!

Is anyone feeling discouraged????? Don't give up!!! Keep pressing on and the weight will come off!! You just have to find out what works! Look how long it took for me to start dropping! Come on ladies!! You have to do this!

Do you want to be an example to young ladies all around that being a mother has to mean being overweight and out of shape?

Do you want to keep your body in shape for your husband?

Do you want to be able to run,jump,move and just LIVE while feeling GREAT?

Do you want to be healthy in your old age?

Come on! Don't let food have control over you.........If *I* can do it........YOU can do it!!! (Don't worry......I am not so confident that I don't pray every day for the Lord to give me the STRENGTH to keep this up.)

U-turn

That was my breakfast this morning.After watching "Fat,Sick and Nearly Dead" and thinking all weekend I decided to replace every breakfast with vegetable/fruit juice.I may not be able to go on a juice fast (because of breastfeeding) but I can do this.

Everyone talks about how it isn't about weight etc.,but about health. I agree with that *sort of*.For me,it is about health 100% BUT that has part to do with my weight.I am in the middle of my child bearing years and if I do what I usually do,I will go straight from nursing to another pregnancy.Weight DOES matter.This weight needs to be gone and I don't have TIME for it to come off 1 lb a month.I just dont.My baby is 4months old.I have 8 more months until I will probably be pregnant,*if that*.

I have been trying to follow the Schwarzbein Principle which I VERY MUCH believe in! There is one thing about it though.She mentions *alot* how it might take months to start losing and alot of the stories I have read,it did take people months,even years.I don't have that time.

After watching "Fat,Sick and Nearly Dead",I am motivated to make juicing a part of my life to some degree.I would *love* to go on a juice fast but I am not entirely comfortable doing it while breastfeeding.I do not believe that a mother could not fast while breastfeeding.Everyone cautions you about doing it because they say toxins get into breastmilk etc.That may be true, but I am doubtful.The body is *always* detoxing and I don't believe that the Lord designed breastmilk to be a place where those toxins are dumped...........or atleast if they *do* get into the milk,they may not hurt the baby,or *something*! Now these are just my opinions and I am not asking anyone to believe them.*I* don't even have the guts to believe them all the way, but I do know that the Lord has designed certain parts of the body to filter and eliminate toxins.Kidneys,bowels,lungs,liver and skin.......I know that it is *very* important to keep these organs of elimination open and moving freely so that the body CAN get rid of the toxins.The more toxins you are dumping,the more important it is to have them working well.I have a gut feeling that a healthy person like myself could go on a fast,detox and keep my organs of elimination open enough that minimal toxins get into my breastmilk.Now I could see if someone were overloaded with cancer or something.....I could see massive amounts of toxins just spilling into *everything*,including breastmilk etc.but like I said,being as healthy as I am,I am not worried about that.

BUT.............I am not positive and I could be wrong so I am not going to be attempting to go on a full juice fast..I am going to be mildly detoxing though, by drinking nothing but vegetable/fruit juice until noon everyday.I am going to see how it goes anyhow.Maybe after 3 days or a week I will come back and say that it is not going to work because of xyz.I will be listening to my body,watching my baby etc. and seeing what happens.

I have heard so many times that you shouldn't make any changes that you won't keep up.........You should not diet etc. but instead,make changes that you can keep for life. and I agree with that.

I also believe that there is a time for detoxing your body.(Especially if you have abused your body) I have *always* believed  in fasting for cleansing, AND for curing diseases.

My plan right now is to cut calories and really concentrate on mild cleansing to get healthy and lose weight.I do not want to lose a drastic amount a week but 1 lb a month is not getting it either.I just don't have TIME to do it the slow way.When I am down to what I want to be, I will go back to eating the way I think is healthy for *long term*.(Alot like the Schwarzbein Principle promotes.)For now I am viewing this as a sort of cleanse/fast.For temporary......

My plan..........

Breakfast is just juice.............
Lunches are going to be lots of salad/some protein/fat.
Supper will be whatever we are having but I will be watching my portions and I will also be drinking a smoothie 1/2 hour before supper that is loaded with flax/chai seed/fruits/vegies.
I may snack if I want too but I will really be concentrating on health.I will also have desserts occasionally and still have my Saturday free day.Exercise will stay the same.I will be drinking lots of herb teas/water etc.

So there you go!

5 miles done today.........5 more to go! Today is my 10 mile day! :):)