Day 3 of another Day at Juicing........

I am on Day 3 of my juicing and I am really hesitating on telling people about my day 3 as it seems I never get too far if I tell too early in my juicing quest too make it past the 10 days mark . I am here to say for me the fact that the sun starting shining here in Washington state that is -Western Washington helps me spark intense cleansing. And I do have a thing in my personality if the  sun is not shining I can be a bear. I know this about myself.
In order to help me juice I have my own garden off butter lettuce,romaine,kale and I also have basil,cilantro,dill, and these items are a start without having to go to the market as much. I do need to get a hold on keeping the bugs off the leaves ,as all I see there are some  some holes on my leaves in the garden. Not too happy about that at all so I need to work on a cure for that!
 After I got up and cleaned the house as I always do in my AM hours, I first made a lemon Spring  water 32 ounce drink. As I clean I drink my water. Then I do my enema, wait about 1 hour and start my juicing. I just can't see drinking juice first and then doing  an enema as I say  no thanks I say.


By the way Day 1 was good Day 2 was a headache day and today is energy in me. I know every day is a different feeling and I am taking my 1 day at a time I have to practice what I believe in.


my mid day juice was:
1 lg. cucumber,cilantro (handful), 4 leaves of butter lettuce,big handful spinach,small romaine,4 kale leaves, 3 lg. celery stalks, 2 limes,1/2 red pepper, 2 pear and 1 apple. Usually I don't add so many fruits but I had a feeling this might be a bitter drink if I didn't lighten the flavor and I loved the lightness this 52 ounce drank became.


My Dinner hour Juice: A VEGETABLE DRINK~ 2 heirloom tomatoes,basil, 5 celery stalks, jalapeno,zucchini, 3 kale leaves,cilantro,parsley, mint (not a vegi) and lime.


I went to the gym and walked on the treadmill for 1/2 hour walked down a private long road outside where I live at that is a round trip with the outside walk of almost 3 miles and that walk takes 1.5 miles with a few sections of walking up hill.


How I feel today: I feel really clean and energized inside and out today. No worries no attitude,as I know I get some low crabby days on the juicing experience. I feel comfortable,not cold as I sometimes get all over. It is a warmer day outside too.


A part of me really needs to stay juicing ,I have tried and stopped much sooner in the past then I want to this go around. With being a part of "RawFoodRehab" and watching and hearing of other peoples  journeys, you would think I could really get over the head game inside of me .I think I have to fight the fight inside much better then I have in the past. I mean the International Day Of Juice feasting will be here in Sept 2011 here in My neck of the woods~and Penni will be here. Can I get it together before then and I say YES!!

6th Day of Juicefeast

Started my day with my water,lemon and 2 MSM caps
I had 2 Cups of Vegi balancing broth

Had the granddaughter today and went to Seattle to the Children's musuam with her.

What I had today: And lots of water on and off~Spring water
20 oz of carrot,orange,kale,spinach,broccoli,ginger
24 oz beet,apple,cucumber and ginger
2 C Roobios Tea
20 oz of Pineapple,cilantro,lime,celery

ended my night with Casara Sagrada to
help me poop:-)

This photo of veg's is so pretty I would think it was fake,but in reality I did something unthinkable.You know I love juicing and I am in the juicing spirit.I headed to Seattle to PCC and Whole foods and bought 3 days of Organic juicing supplies.Then I came home soaked all my veg's.ALL VEG'S by the way NO FRUITS .I went to my Zumba class while the husband mowed the lawn.By now its 8:30 pm .BUT when I went to exercise my hubby before mowing set up my table outside with my jars,juicer knife strainer, plastic bags(line my juicer),garbage can and all thing needed to juice.I wanted to do this outside because of the amount ,and the mess I knew I was going to encounter.Oh Did I say it took me and hubby 2 hours to juice ,Strain and clean up the supplies!Yes 10:45 pm I was in my house again.

Now as you read this and see the photos you are probably saying ,um juicing 3 days in advance is not good for the nutrition in those jars Dianne.And you know what I have to say~If Dave The Trucker did this and he is alive and losing weight and feeling good ,then I can do this too.It is August 12th and I am starting my juicing with these green juices .Actually I think it will be more like 4 days worth of juice........I will let you know~

First Day Of Spring

We had a great sunny day up until around 7 pm ,a wind came in and drizzle rain came.
Spring has sprung for us here in the Pacific Northwest.I started my day with an interesting juice.Check out my results.I will be making this drink again.

Cantalope,mint,gogi berries.
Really tasty!
Took 1 whole cantalope,12 mint leaves,and put these into the vitamix.

I also took about 1/3 C gogi berries and 1/4 C water to soak berries then whirled them in my Magic Bullet(mini Blender).I then proceeded to put everything in the vitamix and put this juice into the Nutmilk bag.
Delicious.:-)

Dave The Trucker and juicing

Dave is such a nice man,and he comes to the Seattle area on his trucking run .Dave is usually here Sundays for sure.I always get excited to keep on juicing when I see him approximately once a month at a Seattle Raw gathering of some sort.I think he will be something big in the future.It is incredible to know him and see the weight fall off of him .He has lost over 210 lbs in 20 months or so ,and a book in the works around May 2010.I am a fan of Dave's because juicing is where its at.Juicing can be a challenge for the first 4 days.I have my most trouble the first 3 days and then the body craves the juice.We all still have to drink our water though.water is still good.Some folks have an issue with tea because the water is warm.Well when you live in a colder climate like I do you will drink tea in between your juices.Trust that.

Am ~20 oz water with 1 tabls of fresh Lemon

Veg's juice~20 oz. Cherry tomato's,cauliflower,broccoli,carrots.
No spices,simply juice and drink.

Afternoon~Ginger,pineapple,water
Tea and water too

2nd Juicing Day

I started my morning with lemon in 32 oz of water. I first did an enema ,cheaper then a colonic right now.I felt the need and then around 12:00 noon I made my juice of: 2 pink grapefruit ,1 orange and mint juiced,Yes, no greens. Always brush your teeth after citrus drinks ,so that the enamel on your teeth don't get messed up.

I am on a quest once again to freshen up my body and feel as cleansed and forfilling as can be.I love juicing and I can't say it enough.The more a person juices the more your get more energised and its a wonderful feeling.I have taught myself with inner talking that food will always be there.I mean the chewing kind of food.As we know it juice is food in its greatest form too I might add.

I have to step back to last night though,my hubby and I played racket ball for 1 hour,then I did the treadmill for 1 hour.I usually jog for the whole hour anywhere from 4.1-4.7 speed,but last night I only walked with very little jogging. I thought that was weird.......NO ENERGY! I think it was due to this fresh juicing day....just low on energy.Oh.I try and burn no less then 650 at the gym ,but I did do the racketball ,so I burned something there.....not much but something. I also did the PRECOR brand elliptical like ,10 calories per minute calorie burning machine ,and I did 15 minutes there. So between the treadmill and elliptical I only burned 550 calories .Then I came home a fell asleep on the couch....This is NOT LIKE ME to fall asleep after exercise.That is when I got up and made my apple drink heated on low.I don't count calories ,but like to burn no less then 650 calories per gym as I already mentioned.

The day is not over and I will make a green drink for my midday meal.~My P.M.juice was pineapple,spinach,tad ginger,3 stalks celery, 1 golden delicious apple.......Finished my 32 oz water from the am that I made and drink all day little by little.

Juicing for the next 10 days.....Nov 1st-Nov.10th 2009

It was 1 year that I started eating Raw foods. I started on Oct 27th 2008.My goals are to deeply cleanse my body, mind, and spirit and transcend to a whole, new, more vibrant level of health. Specifically, washing away toxic emotions, normalizing my weight, and strengthening my liver and all the internal organs .

I started drinking green smoothies and making more salad's incorporated juicing when I went online to Craiglist and found me a Champion Juicer ,since I heard they were a great Raw Ice Cream maker and also did decent juicing.Cost was $125.00 for me ,but new they cost about $235.00 or more.I am happy with it . I also want a new juice maker that the pulp will come out drier. If you juice you know what I am talking about. Now ,I am going to do a 10 Day juicefeast with a handful of folks . I have done 2 juicing sessions before. One was for 10 days another was 13 days. Wish me luck .I will need it. . Today Nov 1st is day 1 and so far I made a juice with Coconut water,dandelion,spinach,parsley,beet, cucumber, and Kiwi.Not a super loving taste ,but its tolorable. I am sipping it as I type this out.

I ended my first day with 3 glolden delicious apples 1 small piece of ginger juiced in my Champion,and lightly warmed and topped with cinnimon, it was like hot apple cider,but not HOT! Yummy too..

Made it 13 days just JUICING.

Well I had 1 salad on my juicefeast .I think it let me go off of my juice quest ,because I am still juice drinking,but RAW FOODS are also added in my days too.I ending my pure juicefeast Sept12th,because I started the last day of August 2009.I so want to make it 21-30 days just juicing.I will try again some other time.I am proud of my time I did my juicing~I feel great.I am exercising at least 5 days a week.I enjoy the treadmill,elliptical and the rowing machine.I am feeling great.My left foot is bugging me and I am not happy with that.I have been slowly jogging off and on for 2 minutes at a time in a 1 hour span.This is a good thing because I don't run.I really want my fat to go away.It took years to get on me it won't go away on its own.I am taking my time and it will go away.If I put a date on when my weight should be gone it sets me up for failure.I am just eating raw and enjoying the ride. JUICE JUICE JUICE.Its awesome.Green smoothies are my second favorite to juicing~

4th day on my Juicefeast

I am so proud of myself.I have been juicing green vegi drinks and fruit juicing too.I am totally satisfied and feel great.I have newly incorporated 1.5 average hours at the gym 5 days a week.And I plan on sticking with the exercise.When I hurt my back with the trainer fellow in 2001,I stopped and really never went back at a regular ongoing time frame.Oh,and did say I gained all of that 40 lb weight loss and gained more this time around.
I realized since I started raw eating in Oct 2008 it wasn't until the 3rd week in January of this year 2009 until raw was the majority of my main meals.HIGH RAW is what I considered myself.
A local friend and myself plan on sticking with "Raw Eating" to our best ability.
Since this is my 4Th straight day juicing I am not putting a time on how many days I will stick to this.I am feeling good and as long as I feel good I will continue my juicing.Since I did 2 Master Cleanse episodes.one was 10 days and 1 was 12 days,I know I can do this at least that long.

Juicing is my favorite Raw Eating :-)

Now I don't know what it is about juicing, but I am loving my combinations that I come up with.I have been on my RAW PATH since Oct 2008 ,but exercise up and beyond my every day life has been missing.What is a shame is that I belong to my local YMCA and I have been waisting money.So when I made today's video and said its expensive to juice and sometimes I'm low on money.Well I feel like a fool considering I was wasting my YMCA dues by not going since probably January of this year.I have gone a few times ,but I was going approx 3-5 days a week faithfully prior to January. I joined the YMCA in May 2008.My goal is too not overdo my exercise.Back in 2002 I had a male trainer whom I loved( at another named gym(won't say ).I told him my lower left back hurt ,but he pushed me as most trainers do,and I hurt the lumbar spine area at that time.I couldn't walk but hunched over and very slow.I had to sit up in a chair with heat on my back and take Oxycontin to deal with the pain.This lasted 10 days.So back in 2002 I got scared my back would mess me up so I stopped exercising and the 40 lbs came back.This time I started changing my eating in Oct 2007 and have lost 27 lbs and still have 40 more lbs to lose.So lets get moving shall we.....