So I lasted 5 days... boo

Yes, I only lasted 5 days of the 10 that I needed to complete my fast.  There were several factors that kept me from doing this.  One of the biggest was TIME.  It's my fault. I admit it. I'm not going to try and blame it on other things.  I will however, beginning this Sunday, start a juicing schedule that will go every week from Sunday through Thursday.  On Fridays and Saturdays, I will pig out like never before... just kidding.  Still going to try to eat healthy on those days.  I cannot guarantee it, but it's the damn weekend, get over it.
On another note, I will make another attempt in a few months after my body has settled down and I can have more discipline and time.  It took one night of cheating, and the lack of time to buy more veggies and fruit to get me to today, which would have been day 6.
Apparently, I did not prepare well enough for this journey and it had to end abruptly.  Don't be sad for me. I'm not.  Stay tuned for more posts!!!


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Day 5... Because I cheated

Well, here I sit.  Numb and depressed in this gray box I call my office.  I don't know if you took a look at my last post, bu I cheated last night.  I ate some jerk chicken.  Am I sorry I did it? Nahh. I felt guilty at first.  I felt like I ate a cinder block, and I still felt that up until this morning.  Right now though, I feel fine.  I haven't eaten anything today. I haven't even drank my juice.  I ran out of a lot of stuff and didn't get a chance to replenish it.
My wife goes to school and we don't get home till 8:00 pm.  By that time, I'm so exhausted that I can't bring myself to get to the store.
Soooo, I've been drinking water all day.  Very unhealthy. Very poor choice. It's not good to turn a juice fasting into a jerk chicken attack and then a water fast.  I would rather drink my water though, and keep cleansing myself and then tomorrow I can start in on my juice again.
Where's your high?! Is that you talking to me? or am I having auditory hallucinations? Maybe it was just my stapler, who knows. Anyway.  Sorry, don't have a juice high right now.  That came and went with the juice.  What a boring damn post!!! Someone comment on it and tell me how much it sucks!!



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I'm a cheater - Now I'm paying for it...

Good morning everyone. No, I'm no Arnold Schwarzenegger, so it was not my wife I cheated on.  
I cheated on my juicing fast.  My food cravings got the best of me.  It was around 8:00 PM last night, and I was out of fruit at home.  All I had left was kale, collard greens and a few carrots. Maybe an apple as well, but that was it.
My co-worker had asked me earlier in the day yesterday if I knew of any good Caribbean jerk chicken places.  
I LOVE JAMAICAN JERK CHICKEN. I FREAKING LOVE IT.   I have not had any of that in years because for some reason, Houston has a shortage of Jamaican restaurants. 
So I looked up this website, www.caibbeanjerkcuisine.com and that was the end of it all. I had baked jerk chicken, I did take off the skin, and I did not eat all my rice, and I did eat all my veggies.  Still, this is not an excuse.  
Today I am paying dearly for it.  I feel like I ate a cinder block and it's just sitting there in my stomach.  Was it worth it? Hellz yeah it was worth it.  
Am I going to continue with my juice fasting? Yes, unfortunately I will because I have to.  
Have you slipped? Just once? Don't worry, it happens all the time.  Recovering addicts go through it and some people don't see it, but food can also be an addiction.  I made it four days.  That is a lot longer than I thought I could make it.  Let's just see how much longer I can stand this.  I'll write more later.  Cya for now.








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Day 4 continued... Feeling Sluggish and Depressed!!!

Well, here we are it's a little after 1:00 PM and I just finished my lunch juice. blaaaahhh!!! Tastes like crap even more each day.  I am feeling down and depressed.  I feel weak, almost like I have a cold.  I am sitting here thinking... Is this normal? The answer is YES. Unfortunately it IS normal to feel like crap when going through a juice fasting.
I had to do some research and found this website http://healthrecipes.com/fast26.htm
That part where the link leads talks about how to come out of a juice fasting.  Ooops, I had not thought of that.  My first thought was to go to Taco Cabana and pounce on a plate of unsuspecting nachos as a reward for doing so well. Ehemmm... Not so fast says the digestive system.  Do that and you're going down like a pile of bricks.  I have to actually ease my body out of this!!! This is insane! Why am I doing this to myself? What in the world did I do so wrong to deserve this?!!?!! Oh, yeah... Years of mistreating my body, that's what I did.
So, the depression and weakness is just the body burning off toxins and using them as fuel. Yippy f*cking Yay.  Tha'ts the last thing I need, to be working off toxins.  I suppose I have to burn off all those McRibs, BK burgers, Taco Bell, and my beloved ... Bacon:( Oh how I love you my beautiful bacon with your crunchy meaty parts and how you make me happy like a crack head that just found a rock the size of a car.
Sorry, went off on one of my little food daydreams.  As I sit here my energy level is low.  I feel alert, yet tired.  I am awake, yet half asleep.  Is this what menopause feels like? I would never know. I'm a man, but if this is what it feels like, I'm going to start stocking up on bottles of wine for when my wife goes through it.
Well, I might write more this evening or I may not, depending on what happens.  I have nowhere to hang out this evening because of the rain, unless it stops.  Maybe I'll take D to the public library and show him what it was like to read back in the old days before computers, iPads and smartphones...


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Day 4 of Juicing. Wow

Sorry about last night.  I was not feeling so well.  As I mentioned in my last post, I had forgotten to include LOTS of water in my fasting, and I ended up constipated. Yeah, TMI, but I thought you should know.
More TMI. I am no longer constipated.  I feel great this morning.  One more thing I should point out is that I have gotten a full nights sleep EVERY night since I started this juicing fast.  I feel refreshed this morning.
On another note, my juice still tastes like complete crap.  I hate the taste and I hate the smell.  It's not so bad once I am done with it, and I don't have to think about it again for several more hours.

This morning I am drinking a combo of kale, carrots, strawberries, apple, collard greens, green beans and something else.  I have excluded the onion today because yesterday I had an embarrassing moment in the elevator.  I got in and I had my drink with me, which REEKED of onion.  I work on the 12th floor and the lady in the elevator with me, had to get off on the 10th.  By the time we reached the 10th floor, I thought she was going to lose her noodles.  She started gagging and coughing and I know she was happy to leave that elevator.

It was embarrassing because she probably will never get into the same elevator as me, thinking I always smell like a field of onions and greens.  Oh well, her loss, not mine haha!

It's day four and one thing I can say is that I TERRIBLY miss bacon!!! Yes, bacon. Bacon is what defines a man and his ability to be manly.  Well, not really, but for you bacon lovers, you know what I mean.  I have also been craving nachos from Taco Cabana.  I know some of you don't like taco cabana, but I do.  Not all of them.  I do like the one near my house though.  Their nachos rock!!!

So what am I going to do after these ten days are up? I think I know.  I don't have a plan set in stone per say.  I do know however, that my eating habits are changing for the long run.  How long will it last? I don't even know that either.  This is just an attempt to change my lifestyle and become healthier.

I know I'm not going to become a health nut and trade in my bacon for collard greens.  I'm still going to eat bacon, just not every other day.  I'm still going to have a burger, just not 3 times a week, and I'm still going to sit on the couch and watch a movie, but I will take a run on my treadmill a little more often.

Right now I am down to my fourth belt loop. My gut hasn't seen that in a while.  Well, let's see what happens the rest of the day.  If anything major happens, I'll update you again today, and if not, then we'll see each other tomorrow!! Have a great day!

Day 3 Continued... :(

So, it's the evening of the third day of my juice fasting.  I managed to get myself constipated because I was not thirsty and have not been drinking as much water as I should have.  Good going dufus!
I almost lost it a while ago.  Coming back from picking up my wife from school.  I had to talk myself  into not going to get some loaded nachos. Wow, my mouth just watered!!!
I'm too much of a bad mood to write much more right now.  I hope tomorrow morning is better than tonight has been.  The day started out great, but this is not my happy time... I drank only some fruit juice tonight.  That's it for today. Good night...

Day 3 of Juicing. What the hell is that I'm seeing through the wall?!

Good morning! It's Monday July 18, 2011. So it's day THREE of my juicing event or whatever you call it.  So far, this morning I woke up sleepy as hell, but within an hour or so I became more alert than I have been in years.  I feel as if I can see through the granite walls of the building where I work.  Also this morning, like a dog, I could smell individual smells coming from the exhaust of a nearby restaurant.  I smelled cheesecake, sugar, bacon, and even French Toast!!
What the hell is all that about?! Yeah, so far I am full of energy and I don't even know what to do with myself.  I could climb the air right now and bungee from a cloud.  It's almost as if I took some liquid crack and I'm flying like a kite.  Will there be a crash? I don't know.  I'll post some more later this evening and tell you how the rest of my day went.  If you're juicing along with me or don't know me, good luck to you and just stick with it.  Yeah, first couple of days SUCK!!! But it seems to be getting better...