Day 47

Photo by Essjay in NZ on Flickr

Juices in order of consumption
1 quart orange, celery, spinach

1 quart romaine, pear, kiwi, lemon

1 quart Romaine, carrot, cilantro, garlic, kelp

Weight
Starting 173.5
Today 151

Total 22.5

Sleep
7.5 hours

Supplements
Probiotic
Chanca Piedra
B12
zinc
B5 morning and evening
Enzymes with each juice
Colon Cleanse

Exercise
1 hour yoga - I taped it on the Veria Channel. It was pretty good.

Physically
My body felt very stiff and sore from the yoga yesterday. That is why I decided to do it again. I wanted to stretch and get my body moving. I am still so sore I can hardly move. I guess my body needed the exercise. Other than that I feel pretty good. I wish I was having more action in the bowel department. I am now taking 5 of those colon cleanse pills each day and I am still not feeling right. What I wouldn't do for some flax crackers to just push everything out.

Positive changes
Skin is smooth but I noticed today that my skin is still very dry on my legs. I mean desert floor dry. I haven't noticed because I was putting oil on them everyday and I didn't do it for a couple of days and the flaky, white, dry skin is back.
Losing weight
I look better
I have a lot of energy

Detox
Tongue is coated
red bumps on legs popping up
Still have bumps on arms
mucus in nose and throat

Emotionally
I am so happy today. I feel so good. I want to run around and jump and dance and sing and... everything! I feel like I am walking around smiling all day long. I am listening to music and dancing around the kitchen. Did I mention that I am so happy?!

Cravings
None

Trash Bag Tango
None

Meditation
I did a brief meditation after yoga and I pulled this card from my Journey deck:

Physical Health

Your body is the sacred vessel you've been given to experience life, so honour it, cherish it, nourish it. This card invites you to attend to your body's health and well being in some way. Perhaps you need more rest or meditation, more nourishing food or more exercise. This card may also be an invitation to undergo a Physical Journey process to clear out cell memories and emotional patterns.

Take some long deep breaths in and out. Feel yourself growing spacious and still, and let your awareness go to a place of stress or tensions inside your body. If it had words, what might it be saying? Be still and listen. How do the words make you feel? Be open to what your body is communicating. Surround the feeling with your own love. Open deeper and ask again. Your body is so grateful for any attention you give it. It will respond easily to your loving care.

Ramblings
I took my son to the doctor today for his hurt finger. The x-ray is showing something is wrong with the knuckle in the hand but the doctors couldn't read it. It looks like the bone is jammed together. All the other bones have a space between them but this one didn't. They have to wait for the radiologist to read it on Monday. Until then he has a big splint and can't play anything. I hope it heals quickly!

While I was there the nurse asked if I was his mom and when I said yes she said I looked too young to be his mom. She said she thought I was his older sister. Woo Hoo!!!!! That felt good. People have been saying things like that to my mom for years, in fact they used to ask her if my children were hers and she would say yes! Now I know how good it feels.

Lately I have been spending my surplus of energy on trying to get my future planned out. Next year my youngest son goes to 1st grade and I will have the entire day to myself. I would like to be doing something to make some $$$$. I have put out a few feelers for things and I am waiting to hear back. It's strange, I am not hearing back from about 3-4 different things that I sent emails about including the soccer place for my husband's birthday and the message I left at the school regarding that shooting rumor. I am being tested and so far I am passing. Normally I am a very impatient person and get aggravated. Not today.

I am going to be without my computer for the entire day and night tomorrow. I don't even know what I am going to do. I probably won't be able to post since I won't have it. So everyone have a wonderful weekend and stay juicy!

Day 46

Juices in order of consumption
1 quart Romaine, spinach, celery, pear, kiwi, alfalfa sprouts

1 quart red Boston, celery, tomato, alfalfa sprouts, cilantro, Kelp

1 quart carrot, celery, apple

Weight
Starting 173.5
Today ???

Sleep
7.5 hours

Supplements
Probiotic
Chanca Piedra
B12
zinc
B5 morning and evening
Enzymes with each juice
Colon Cleanse

Exercise
1 hour of yoga - It was a great class. I felt so good after it was finished. I wish there were classes everyday. It was a different instructor and I liked her style.

Physically
I had so much energy during the day that I could hardly seem to contain it. As the night wore on my energy dropped and now I am dead tired and ready for bed.

Positive changes
Skin smooth
Losing weight
Stomach feeling better

Detox
Coated tongue

Emotionally
Today was another great day. I am very happy and the yoga gave me this fantastic euphoria! Fantastic!

Cravings
I spent a good portion of my day surfing the web and looking at food pictures. I don't know why I ma doing it to myself. It doesn't make any sense but, there it is. I know I am not going to eat anything though. I am weird.

Trash Bag Tango
None

Meditation
I pulled the Second Chance card again. You can read that card here. Strange that I would have pulled that card for a second time already. There are over 40 cards.

Ramblings
I want to share a comment that I got on yesterday's post. It is from the fabulous Penni who is currently juice feasting and sharing her experience in the most beautiful way on her blog. She commented on my dream that I had the other day and her words gave me goosebumps so I thought I would share them all with you:

Hello Lovely! I think the dream about the baby girl is that you are expecting a new birth....the baby girl is you and as you juice feast it peels back the layers and you are experiencing your own rebirth. You must be getting stronger and closer to the "delivery" if you can see hands and features poking through. How exciting! Penni

Wow, I like it Penni!!! Thank you so much for that beautiful thoughts. I guess it really resonated with me since it made all my hairs stand up and gave me goosebumps. You are awesome!

Day 46 is officially half way to 92. I am half way there! On my retracing Journey I find myself back 15 years. My first son was about 6 mo. old during that time. I can't believe I managed to get through one of the worst time in my life without too much trouble. I was married to my ex-husband, had a 7 month old son, and was 4 months pregnant and my husband and I split up. I moved out of our home and back in with my mom. It turned out that my ex was having an affair and had managed to get another woman pregnant at the same time. I was devastated and crushed. It wasn't that we had this great relationship because we definitely did not but I guess I had this picture in my head of this dreamy family that I lost. It was delusional but still very real for me at the time.

Of course now I know that it was the exact thing that should have happened so that I could have the life I have now. I often tell my husband that if we would have met when I was younger I would have never dated him. He was too nice. What is it with some of us women who have this bad boy idea? I am so glad I have matured past that and I probably owe my ex for that.

My baseball playing son thinks he may have broken his pointer finger on his pitching hand tonight. He accidentally hit his 5 year old brother in the head and it is killing him. He has broken many fingers and is a pretty tough kid so if he is icing and in a lot of pain, I tend to believe him. I am just hoping it is a sprain or something so that he can heal quickly and be able to play. Sports really is his life so it would be really hard on him if he couldn't play. We are going to see how it feels tomorrow and if need be I will take him for an x-ray.

Have a great day.

Show and Tell

My new and wonderful juice feasting friends Penni and Carrie have tagged me for this fun game. I need to share some little known facts about myself. Hmmm, where to start. I thought about this and thought about it. Here is what I came up with:

1. You know that I have an uncle in Australia but what you don't know is that my mother's side of the family is actually from Australia and I have been there twice. I went the first time when I was 14. My parents just got divorced and my mom decided to take me out of school for a month to go visit the family in Australia. We stopped in Hawaii on the way for a few days (this is when I fell in love with Hawaii), went to Sydney, met all the distant relatives in Melbourne and then spent some time up in Queensland with my Uncle.

My second trip was when I was 17. I actually went by myself and met my grandmother in Queensland. My grandmother fixed me up on some dates with local boys(!) and I was out and about dancing and going to parties. I spent a month there that time too. I was ready to move at that point but my mom didn't share my interest.

2. When I was in second grade my house burned down. It happened in the dead of winter, during a blizzard. We came home and the door had been blown open. We started a fire to warm up and then my parents sent me to bed. On the way to my room I noticed smoke coming from the closet (where the furnace was). I never saw my dad move so fast. Apparently the crawl space below us was engulfed in flames and we got out just in time. The house burned all night and because it was so cold, there was a report about it in the paper. The firemen had frozen beards from being out there fighting it. The firemen also offered to let us sleep in bunks at the firehouse which I thought was soooo cool but my parents said no.

About a week later we took off and went to the Canary Islands for a vacation. I know, it's weird. We lost everything in that fire and then we went across the ocean for vacation. Who does that? It was pretty cool. It was the first time I ever left the country and I loved going up into the mountain towns, climbing over the big sand dunes to get to the ocean and looking at all of the African Artifacts in the market. I didn't like drinking warm goat milk though.

3. I grew up in a restaurant family. My parents owned many restaurants throughout my life. Let's see, there was Georgie's, Pucci's Italian Pub, Big Burger, Dr. Livingstone's Incredible Edibles I Presume (2 locations), Captain Kelly's (2 locations), Catfish Charlies, Michelle's Pizza Express, Garfields Street Pub, and Elliotts' Off Broadway Deli. There was another one in there and I can't for the life of me remember what it was called... oh I know, Pumpernickles. I worked in everyone of them. It was our life. I used to serve food, bus tables, hostess, cook, prep, clean, you name it I did it.

Michelle's Pizza Express was actually located about 4 blocks from my elementary school and when I finished school I would walk over there, open the doors with my key and begin preparing to open. I was the manager. I was in 6th grade. I actually had people working under me. Can you imagine that? So bizarre.

Dr. Livingstone's was inspired by our above trip to the Canary Islands. Since we didn't have any luggage or clothes we only had a small carry on bag to bring with us. While we were there in the markets my dad got the idea that we could take some artifacts back to decorate a restaurant. He went out and bought about 6 large suitcases and stuffed them full of African masks, spears, antelope skin, and whatever else he could find and we smuggled it all back into the states. When we got back he started building bamboo shacks with thatched roofs, covering the walls with grass cloth and putting up all our contraband. It was the first theme restaurant in our area and it was a huge hit.

4. I was what you might call a "burn out" when I was in high school. It wasn't that I was really intro drugs or anything. I tried pot but it just put me to sleep. All the people I hung around with were into drugs. I just drank and smoked cigarettes. I used to wear black eyeliner, feathered hair, skin tight jeans that were about a foot too long and often sported holes and bleach stained peace signs, and moccasins. Of course I was 5'7" and weighed about 110 lbs so I looked good. I went to many rock concerts in my life including Rush, ACDC, Def Leppard, and Aerosmith. I asked my mom once when I was older what the hell she was thinking letting me leave the house dressed the way I did. I am so lucky my kids are pretty straight laced. They don't know about my history.

4. I played the Viola in the middle school orchestra. I loved it and was 2nd chair. Of course it started becoming uncool and I would ditch orchestra to go hang out in the field next to the school and smoke or hang out at the bakery next to the school. I was the only "bad girl" in the orchestra and eventually quit before I hit high school. It is one of the things I regret in my life. It would be great to be able to play the viola now.

OK, so that's it. A little long but you asked for it ladies ;o) Now I guess I have to pass this on to the next victims, I mean people so I am going to tag, Ben, Hanlie and Lisa. You're it!

Day 45

Photo by Me!

Juices in order of consumption
3/4 quart celery, spinach, pineapple

1 quart celery, carrot, lemon, purple kale, tomato, apple, bean sprouts

1 quart celery, tomato, romaine, garlic, alfalfa sprouts, cilantro

I made a fourth quart to have but I couldn't drink it after my colonic.

Weight
Starting 173.5
Today ???

Sleep
6 hours

Supplements
Probiotic
Chanca Piedra
B12
zinc
B5 morning and evening
Enzymes with each juice
Colon Cleanse

Exercise
Walking 15 minutes

Physically
I was thinking about what to write here instead of the usual "I felt good." and it occurred to me that my physical self is a bit of an afterthought these days. I mean, usually when I am not feeling good there is so much to focus on, to think about and to obsess about. When I think about my body these days, there isn't much to think about because it seems to be functioning pretty well. It is easy to take it for granted when it isn't "speaking" to me so I will give it some public acclaim:

My sweet, sweet body, you are feeling fantastic and looking better and better everyday. Thank you so much for everything that you do for me. Thank you for
giving me energy from my juicy juices and thank you for knowing how to breath
all on your own thus giving me life. Thank you for taking me places and for
making my day so effortless that I didn't even have to think about you. That
doesn't mean I don't love you cuz I do! I am so grateful for everything that you
do!

Positive changes
Skin is smooth
Stomach is feeling better
Energy is improving

Detox
Tongue is still coated
Mucus in throat and nose

Emotionally
I am on fire these days. I want to go, go, go. I want to do everything. I am excited and happy. I am being mindful of yesterdays words and trying to stay pleased with where I am right now and I feel this new vibrancy and joy that I haven't had in quite a while. I feel like I can do anything and everything.

Cravings
None

Trash Bag Tango
Spring cleaning of car

Meditation
My daily Journey Card:

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the key to true healing. When we forgive, we let go of our blame games and our stories of hurt and judgement and let Grace flow freely into that area of our lives, flooding our beings and healing our bodies.

Check inside: is there something you regret doing or are judging in yourself? Or are you withholding complete forgiveness from someone in your life? Your lack of forgiveness only hurts you. It's time to empty our all the stored hurt and pain. It's time to let out all the judgements. Forgiveness will flood naturally into the emptiness that remains. Forgive with all your heart, unconditionally. You'll find yourself resting in ease, embraced in a healing Grace.

Ramblings
Playing around with my colored pencils a couple of days ago gave me the above drawing. It was fun to do and helped to get my creativity surge out a bit. I did a few other things for a little fun.


I went for my colonic today and it wasn't such a great experience. It seems that my body was not wanting to let go of what was in there. I wasn't releasing. It didn't feel too good. I got that sick feeling in my stomach that I normally get only it just didn't go away. What a bummer especially since I still had to pay :o) I was planning on going to yoga after but I felt so yucky that I came home and just rested.

Today was pretty nice around here. The temperature got up into the high 40s so woo hoo. People were out everywhere. Kids riding there bikes, playing basketball, adults cleaning garages and jogging. You would think it was 70 degrees out. Once when we went to visit my dad in Florida there happened to be a cold spell. It was pretty darn cold and it was raining. That didn't stop my kids from getting in the pool. I was sitting under an umbrella with my winter coat on watching them. I went into the little cafe they have to get a cup of tea and the locals were amazed at my kids. They said, "You guys must be from up north. No one around here would even think about doing that!" Isn't it funny how everything is relative.

Now that the weather is warming up I have to begin to rethink my juicing routine. I have been buying enough produce to last about 3-4 days on average. There isn't enough room in my refrigerator to hold the food for my family and my feast so I have been keeping it on shelves in my garage. It has been cold enough to keep it chilled without freezing it. Perfect. Now that my garage is warming up I have to figure out what the heck to do. I wish I could get a second fridge in my garage but alas, there is no $ for that right now. The last thing I want to do is shop more! Yuck.

Today I got one of those broadcast phone calls from our school district saying that several schools including my sons' high school had been in lock down. It scared the living shit out of me. I think I almost fainted when I heard the words - lock down. It seems there was a man spotted walking down the street with a gun so they locked down the schools in the area. Now I live in a pretty rural area. When you go to watch a football game at the high school you can watch the horses on the farm right behind the field. It doesn't seem right that someone would be walking around here with a gun. Well, it was...wait for it... a paintball gun. Can you imagine? All of that for a paintball gun. I can't tell you how relieved I was.

Then my son tells me that the day before there was supposed to be a shooting in -A- lunch but the school officials pulled the kid out before hand so there was no trouble. I don't know if this is true but if it is I would like to get a call about that! I think I should know if this kind of thing is truly going on in my sons' school. Of course it could just be a rumor, you know how that is. I am going to call the school tomorrow and find out. It is so crazy!

I am off to dream land. Well, not really. I am still not remembering my dreams too much but oh my gosh, I forgot to tell you about the dream I had the other night! I dreamt that I was pregnant! The baby was pushing through my skin and I could see its hands and face as if it was being pressed up against a fabric. It was so bizarre. It was a girl, something I know nothing about :o)

In the dream I was fascinated by this little baby and so excited to be able to see it before it was born. I had a happy feeling even though it sounds kind of weird. The thing is, the absolute last thing I want to do is have another baby. I have been blessed 5 times and I have said it before and I will say it again; you could 100% guarantee me a girl and I would tell you no thanks. My husband has been snipped as they say so this is not in the cards for me. I don't know much about dream interpretation but I am hoping this has some deeper, cryptic meaning. Anyone?

Oh my gosh, this post got really long and drawn out. Sorry. Sweet dreams!

Day 44

OK, so here is the picture update from top to bottom:

Before, week 4, and week 6

Juices in order of consumption
1 quart spinach, celery, orange

1 quart watermelon

1 quart red boston lettuce, celery, cilantro, tomato, snap peas, baby frisee, kelp

1 quart spinach, celery, pineapple

Weight
Starting 173.5
Today 152.5

Sleep
7 hours

Supplements
Probiotic
Chanca Piedra
B12
zinc
B5 morning and evening
Enzymes with each juice
Colon Cleanse

Exercise
Boo hoo. I am bad.

Physically
I felt good today. I had a good amount of energy. I had a bit of heartburn again today but not too bad. It passed quickly.

Positive changes
Nothing has changed. I am not writing it again. :o)

Detox
Ditto above

Emotionally
I am very excited today. I am busy coming up with plans for my hubby's party. I will tell you about it below. I have also been thinking about taking some raw chef courses and that has got me a bit excited too. I am not sure if I will be able to do it yet since it is in another state and quite a bit of moola but I am thinking about it. We'll see.

Cravings
None

Trash Bag Tango
No time for that cuz I was doing so much other stuff today.

Meditation
I pulled this card from my Journey deck today:

Acceptance

"Clearly, what is meant to be, is. The peace is always in that."
Gangaji

Are you finding it difficult to accept things the way they are? Are you fighting your current circumstances, wishing for something different? What if everything taking place in this moment is exactly as it should be? What if you were just to relax?

When you accept that everything is as it is, the natural course of action flows freely. When you continue to fight, resist, rail against what is here, you keep those circumstances in motion.

When you truly relax and let what is just be, the next appropriate action is effortlessly revealed.

Acceptance leads to wholesome right action.

As I typed the words it really hit me that I am always trying to figure out my next move. Always hoping to be better, get better. It reminds me of what I read in The Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The whole concept of going downstream. How we often struggle and try to turn our boat upstream when we should really just let go and let the stream take us where we need to go.

In theory, it makes perfect sense. My uncle who lives in Australia lives his life like that. A few years back he said that the Universe was telling him that he had to come back to America. He really didn't want to but the Universe kept telling him so he did it. I can't understand that concept just yet. I can't seem to get out of my mind enough to really trust.

I guess I shouldn't say that because I have done that before. When I went to my first Journey intensive I KNEW that I was going to go through the entire practitioner program. I didn't have the money and I didn't know how I was going to get it but I didn't need to. I called my husband and I said, "I am going to do this. I have to do this. I don't know how but I know it will work out." That was so unusual for me.

So I guess I can do it, I just don't live my life from that place all the time. It is an occasional thing that pops up for me. I guess it is a process just like anything and perhaps I will begin to live my life from that place more often. It sounds like a good place to be.

Ramblings
So, I put some calls out regarding my hubby's party to see what I could do. I am waiting to hear back from the location but my current plan is to rent this large indoor soccer facility that we have about 15 minutes from the house. My husband has played there religiously since we moved here about 6 years ago.

I think I am going to go with a Survivor theme. It is the only show my husband watches on tv. He loves all of the challenges so I have been searching the web and there are a lot of good ideas out there. My husband is so competitive especially with the other dads and I think it would be sooo funny to have them all competing against each other Survivor style. I would have some challenges just for the kids too. I will have to work out the details.

I think I am going to turn the party into a fundraiser for a local charity and have everyone bring things to donate instead of gifts. If I do it right I may be able to get some more donations too. We have this old friend who plays in a band so I am going to see if I can get them to play. I think it has huge potential to be a ton of fun.

I am anxiously awaiting my opportunity to catch up on the Oprah, Eckhart class that happened last night. I couldn't log on because hubby had a soccer game and I had kiddies to care for. I am so glad they have it up to download.

I am happy today. My life is full and sometimes I forget just how lucky I am. Not today!

Day 43

Photo by extra noise on Flickr

Juices, Supplements etc. in order of consumption
1 quart orange, celery, spinach

1 quart romaine, celery, cilantro, garlic, tomato

1 quart carrot, celery, ginger, romaine

1 quart pineapple, celery, spinach

Woo hoo! I managed 4 quarts today.

Weight
Starting 173.5
Today ???

Still not caring too much about the weight. I am weighing in every couple of days. Whenever I think about it.

Sleep
6.5 hours

Supplements
Probiotic
Chanca Piedra
B12
zinc
B5 morning and evening
Enzymes with each juice
Colon Cleanse

Exercise
None again! I know, I know, it's terrible!

Physically
I felt pretty good today. My stomach seems to be feeling better. I got some new enzymes and I think (knock on wood) that they are helping. I mean it is really feeling better. Still not much going on in the bathroom dept. though. Since the last big session on I think it was Thursday I haven't had any action. I am taking 3 of those colon cleanse pills a day. Maybe I should up it to 4.

Positive changes
Skin is smooth
Losing weight
My stomach is feeling better!

Detox
Coated tongue
Tired
Horrible gas. I don't even want to sit by me.

Emotionally
I am feeling a bit cagey today. Is that even a word? I am feeling this creative urge inside that wants to get out. I just don't know how to let it out. This is not the first time in my life that this has happened. I've been doodling and playing around with some things to get it out of my system. I've also been surfing some art blogs and that has been fun.

I have been feeling good. I felt better about the juice today. It is still pretty boring but I don't want to run screaming from the room when I look at it.

Cravings
None

Trash Bag Tango
None, too busy doodling.

Meditation
I made a relaxation audio and I listened to it myself. It is weird meditating to my own voice but it worked. I was very relaxed.

Ramblings
I realized that I forgot to take my weekly photo and put it in my week 6 review. That's two weeks in a row. I honestly don't think I look any different but I will take one tomorrow and post it. Hopefully my phone will take a decent picture.

Hanlie has asked that I take the music player off of auto play so her hubby can sleep while she surfs. If it were anyone but her, I would say no way, :o) but her wish is my command. Love you Hanlie!!

Would spring please come to Chicago? It actually snowed again today. I am over it already! My son has a baseball game in 5 days. It would be nice if I didn't need a heater to watch it. I want to see some green and some flowers and smell the fresh breeze. I wouldn't even mind a few roaring thunderstorms with some awesome lightning. Anything but snow!

It is way past my bedtime so I am off to dream land. Maybe I'll have a good dream that I can tell you about tomorrow! Nighty night.

Week 6 Review

Photo by Allison at Raw Odyssey

Week 6 has been a bit of a different week for me. I have not experienced the same level of joy and peace with my juice feasting as I have in the past. I have been struggling with the juice and fighting negative thoughts on a daily basis. I have been trying to stay positive and on track and yet there has been this underlying irritation with the whole process.

There have been days when I have found myself in my head saying, "I hate juice! I can't drink one more glass of f-ing green juice!" I have seriously thought about soaking some prunes this week and moving on. I have read other blogs of people who have decided to stop to see if I resonate with them. I have talked extensively with my husband about it and spent much time in quiet contemplation. The thing I always seem to end the thinking sessions with is this; "what then?"

What do I do next? I am not healed, I am not at my ideal weight. Where do I go from here? Why would I quit when I haven't seen it through? I know quitting isn't the answer. The new question became; "How do I continue from a place of gratitude, joy and peace?" Good question and one I am still investigating.

Here is what I have come up with so far:

1. I have added a playlist to my blog. I filled it with some songs I enjoy, some that make me smile, laugh and think of happy times in my life. Some of them are from a mixed love CD that my husband made me when I left for Italy. They bring me so much joy and happiness when I hear them. I have set it up to automatically begin playing and if you enjoy that then Yea for me. If not, please let me know. If enough of you reply I can change it.

2. I have decided that I am focusing too much of my attention on this juice feast and this blog. It seems it is all I do and my life has become a bit unbalanced. I need to find some joy outside of this whole health, juice, internet world. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE interacting with you all so much that I don't quite know how I am going to figure this out yet but one thing I have decided to do is begin planning a big surprise birthday party for my husband's 40th birthday in Aug. I also want to start thinking about a 16th party for my oldest son in July. I will tell you more about all of this later. I think this will help me shift my focus a little.

3. I need to make a point to fit in exercise on a regular basis. I have been really bad about it and I think I need to just do it! I kind of push it off for only the days in which I feel perfect instead of sucking it up and doing it. This will have to change.

There will be more to come and I will keep you posted on how things are going. I am so grateful for all of the support I have received from all of you out there. It has really been helpful. I have found love, joy and a special connection with so many of you and I really do appreciate it.

Moving onto week 7 feeling hopeful and at peace with my decision!

PS, I wanted to tell you about today's photo. Allison at Raw Odyssey created that picture. Here is what she had to say about it:

I wish everyone reading this blog would copy that photo onto their own blogs and websites. Spread the peace and love! Drink your greens and eat your raw foods!!

So, consider it spread!

Day 42

Photo by Sir Charlie on Flickr

Juices, Supplements etc. in order of consumption
1 quart pineapple, spinach, celery

1 quart romaine, celery, carrot, cilantro, garlic

1 quart spinach, celery, pear, kiwi

Weight
Starting 173.5
Today 152.5

Lost 21

Sleep
8.5 hours

Supplements
Probiotic
Chanca Piedra
B12
zinc
B5 morning and evening
Enzymes with each juice
Colon Cleanse

Exercise
None

Physically
I felt pretty good today. I have a slight headache still but it is a lot better than yesterday.

Positive changes
Skin smooth
Losing weight

Detox
Tongue coated
Dry hands

Emotionally
Today was filled with joy and happiness.

Cravings
Mexican food.

Trash Bag Tango
None

Meditation
None

Ramblings
An afternoon delight is something that we don't seem to be able to fit in too often around here. There are always kids running around and usually our kids have kids over and our house is overrun with rugrats of all different ages.

Well today was a special treat for us. All of our kids were out of the house in the middle of the day! I thought my husband was going to go into convulsions trying to get me up in the bed. I have to admit that my juice feasting journey has been less than ideal for the bedroom department. By the time the evening comes around I either feel pretty lousy or I am exhausted. That doesn't make my hubby too happy.

Well today was a different story. At noon I was full of energy and feeling fine so I spent a few hours rolling around the bed with him. It was a much needed afternoon for us. It is amazing how the dynamic of our relationship changes after such intimacy. I can't manage to stay away from him for the rest of the day. I find myself magnetically drawn to him, kissing him and hugging him. It's so yummy.

OK, enough of that. I don't really have anything else to say though so goodnight. :o)

Day 41

Photo by Dave Watts on Flickr

Juices, Supplements etc. in order of consumption
1 quart orange, celery, spinach

1 quart romaine, celery, cilantro, tomato, arugula,

1 quart spinach, celery, pear, mint

Weight
Starting 173.5
Today ????

Sleep
8 hours

Supplements
Probiotic
Chanca Piedra
B12
zinc
B5 morning and evening
Enzymes with each juice
Colon Cleanse

Exercise
None I was going to go to a boxing class in the morning but I felt awful so I didn't go.

Physically
I woke up with a really bad headache. I felt like I had a hangover. It hurt to open my eyes. I felt a little better once I got up but the headache stayed the whole day.

Positive changes
Skin smooth

Losing weight

Detox
Coated tongue

Emotionally
The weekends are interesting because there isn't a lot of time for reflection. I am on the go a lot and everyone is home so I just go, go, go. There isn't much time for thinking about emotions.

Cravings
Popcorn! Not just popcorn but movie theater popcorn.

Trash Bag Tango
None

Meditation
None

Ramblings
My husband and I went to the movies. We saw Juno. It was cute and I am glad I saw it. We went to a 4:30 showing. We are so old :o) I was surprised at how many people were there. All us old fogies.

When I opened the door I was assaulted with the smell of the popcorn and I closed my eyes and said "oh God! Give me strength!" It was tough. Once I got into the theater it wasn't so bad. I couldn't really smell it but once we walked out I became a bit overwhelmed again. I turned to my husband and asked him if the smell was driving him crazy and he said that it wasn't bothering him a bit and he didn't even want it. Hmmm, must be nice.

I went back home and made a juice before we set out shopping and hanging out at the bookstore. They had a nice band there and it was enjoyable reading and listening to the music. When I can't eat anywhere or go to the bars there is little left to do in the winter around here. Once summer comes there will be fun things to do outside and just walking along the river is nice. I can't wait.

I was thinking about what kind of picture I wanted to post and nothing really spoke to me. I just felt like I wanted something colorful and Burano popped into my head. It was one of my favorite places that I visited when I was in Italy. The story is that the fisherman would go off fishing and drinking and when they got home they were too drunk to find their homes. The women started painting their homes in bright colors to help the drunks get into the right bed.

I love the colors. It was so festive when I was there and people were hanging around talking and socializing all over the place. The feeling was so relaxed and laid back. Everyone seemed so happy. I love Italy!