Today we start the juice cleanse which we plan to do for 2 days. Our first juice consisted of carrots, beets, cucumber, ginger, lemon and green apple. It was surprisingly tasty! We are also having some herbal tea and lots of water. We have a second juice to make and drink at mid morning that is made from Romaine lettuce, cucumber, celery, lemon and green apple. Lunch is made from spinach parsley, carrots, celery and beet. For dinner we have a bunch of options and we have decided on a juice of fennel, carrots, celery, pear, and ginger.
The weigh in yesterday has me at 213 lbs and Pam at X. Nearly a year ago when we originally began getting healthier I was 265 lbs and my goal is about 195 - 200. Pam started at X+23 and her goal weight is X-32.
My trip to the pharmacy yielded no test strips for Ph so we will be stuck with weight, blood pressure, and resting heart rate.
Here are the stats:
Me - BP 115 over 75 resting heart rate 65.
Pam - BP 117 over 75 and resting heart rate at 69.
We will measure again tomorrow and the next day to document the fast. The weights will have to wait until Monday as we are not at home while we begin this.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Nuts and Bolts and Books and Juicer
If you want to do this yourself you will need a juicer. The ideal juicer has an auger and is multistage. They move at slow RPMs so they don't "cook" the food. We bought an Omega 8003 from Amazon.com for $229.
So you have a juicer - now what? You need recipes and some kind of plan along with some information on why you should consider this. That means books. We bought "Juicing, Fasting, and Detoxing for Life" (Cherie Calbom, MS), "Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People" (Jennifer Cornbleet), and "Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices - what's missing in you body" (N.W. Walker D.Sc.). The first book has several options for detoxing/fasting for one to many days, depending on what your need is, along with tons of great information and recipes. And the author lives on Vashon! The raw food book has a ton of recipes and seems easy to follow. I will likely alter the recipes to suit our palettes and then when I post them they won't really be plagiarized. The third book has a grid with problems you might have and juices to fix them.
We plan to keep track of our starting weights, blood pressure, resting heart rate, and Ph if it isn't too hard to do so. We will then recheck them from time to time to track any changes.
We have been eating healthy for the better part of a year so the change won't be as bad as it could be. They say to ease out of your normal diet if it is not good now. They also warn that the detox part can make you feel bad as the toxins leave your system - sounds like fun. I can't wait.
We start on Friday 12/31/2010 and end on February 1, 2011.
So you have a juicer - now what? You need recipes and some kind of plan along with some information on why you should consider this. That means books. We bought "Juicing, Fasting, and Detoxing for Life" (Cherie Calbom, MS), "Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People" (Jennifer Cornbleet), and "Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices - what's missing in you body" (N.W. Walker D.Sc.). The first book has several options for detoxing/fasting for one to many days, depending on what your need is, along with tons of great information and recipes. And the author lives on Vashon! The raw food book has a ton of recipes and seems easy to follow. I will likely alter the recipes to suit our palettes and then when I post them they won't really be plagiarized. The third book has a grid with problems you might have and juices to fix them.
We plan to keep track of our starting weights, blood pressure, resting heart rate, and Ph if it isn't too hard to do so. We will then recheck them from time to time to track any changes.
We have been eating healthy for the better part of a year so the change won't be as bad as it could be. They say to ease out of your normal diet if it is not good now. They also warn that the detox part can make you feel bad as the toxins leave your system - sounds like fun. I can't wait.
We start on Friday 12/31/2010 and end on February 1, 2011.
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