Tuesday, December 25, 2012

30 days

30 days of juicing (off and on) and what do I have to show for it?

Well:
- 15 pounds lost (+-5)
- new found taste for vegetables
- still psyched
- realize its a long term goal and life style choice
- add good things to eat or do to (eventually) get rid of the bad
- have to get the whole family involved
- Too much of anything is bad!
- Takes effort!

More as I think of them.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

It ain't easy...

..being overweight!

But it took effort to become this way and it'll take effort to change.

I get that. I do!

But what the hell! Not this much! Right?!!

I mean 3 weeks of juicing (not ONLY like fasting, but throughout the day) and watching what I eat and increasing my vegetable intake by like 50,000%, and still 11 pounds! WTH!

I'm not stopping mind you...far from it.... just venting!

Thanks for listening!

Monday, December 3, 2012

Discoveries...and tricks.

UPDATE:
I may not like beet juice but just eating beets are good! Some are sweet and they're good for you.

I don't like beet juice!  I don't like it!  Perhaps it's the fiber (cellulose?) or the taste or the smell...or all three.  But I drink it nonetheless, since it's (supposed to) have a lot great health benefits, one of which is to lower blood pressure.

But I found an alternative: beet powder! And wheatgrass powder! And echinacea powder. And kelp powder!

So I make a batch of Mean Green juice and with each glass add a teaspoon of one or two powders.


Journey...

Not the band...but a path..a trip, trek or voyage.

It's been about a week since I've "added juicing to my daily diet (as in 'food intake' NOT the conventional 'diet')".

And let me tell you...it's exciting.  And I'm still juiced.  :)
I mean psyched.

In my November 25th post I talked about the path I went to to get to juicing  Read it now if you wanna.

I watched another documentary called "Hungry for Change" which I learned another trick to losing weight and becoming healthy.  Rather that use the word 'diet' which has a really bad connotation and a whole bunch of bad vibes and mojo, a guy (David Wolfe) in the film recommended to "add good" rather than try (and fail, sometimes miserably) in removing "the bad."  Which is a GREAT idea.

Eventually, for me it took 2 weeks of adding vegetables and juicing, to come to a decision to renounce Coke and sugar, in my diet.  Not cold turkey mind you, but slowly and slowly.  In the past month (when I FIRST started becoming motivated to change) I have cut most soda/pop and sugar (in my tea, etc) from my day.

I make about 1-2 jugs of juice a day and drink from them throughout the day.


Some discoveries and tricks...coming.