Day 1 - Juice Feasting - The Journey Begins...

A funny thing happened on the way to a Cleanse. I found a Feast!

Hey, all I wanted was to do a cleanse and get my system back on track. Eat to Live. Jump-start my metabolism.

I was into day 5 of a (planned 30 day) Master Cleanse and decided to start searching for info on raw foods based on recommendations of what to do post-MC. Came across a lot of info, one being Everyday Dish and Chef Chaya's raw recipes. Next thing you know, I'm on her website reading about juice feasting.

My first thought was "what kind of parallel universe are these people on?". Yeah, it seemed quite different and unhealthy. But of course, you can't help but read on thinking something will make sense and the more I read, the more I started to understand it. I seek comfort now knowing that Angela Stokes felt the same when she first heard of it.

So today I started my JF journey. I am posting this first blog very late but it's still right on time! I will make this one brief since I am ready for a great peaceful sleep filled with REM (which I don't get enough of). Here are my stats for the day:

Daily Juice and Supplements

30 oz warm purified water with 1/2 lemon and 1 teaspoon MSM
30 oz kale, parsley, rainbow chard, ginger, 1/2 green apple, 2 stalks celery, beet leaves, 1/2 beet, purified water
30 oz kale, chard, ginger, 1/2 green apple, 2 celery stalks, beet, purified water
30 oz carrots green apple celery
30 oz carrots, kale, parsley, beets, chard, ginger
1 tablespoon bee pollen

Skin brushing before shower.

Exercise
30 mins on rebounder

Energy Level
Not much of a change to note.

Sleep
Got about 5 hours last night. Interesting to see if I can get a full night's sleep tonight.

Detoxification Symptoms

Stomach cramps which is the same as when I first started the Master Cleanse. Btw, I stopped the MC last Tuesday (after 11 days) to get in any chewing I'd been missing before starting the juice feast. It was all psychological...didn't really NEED to chew, just felt like I'd missed out on something and would be in a quandary if I didn't chew something. Alas, I'm over it.

Had a slight headache later in the day.

Food Cravings
Any tv commercial that has food in it looks good to me. Especially seafood.