Day 15- Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve everyone :)

Oyyyyy today was a doosey. Well this is the first holiday EVER that I have not been able to eat anything. Not even snack on the fruit plate for an appetizer. It was utter TORTURE. But I made it through! I feel extremely accomplished for having made it through the day with my head held (somewhat) high. I definitely had my moments today that I just felt like crumbling and breaking down and crying. I was craving food SO badly. Today was definitely the worst day of the 15 days thus far. I decided to opt out of Christmas dinner at my aunt's tomorrow night, so Christmas should be a non-issue (hopefully).

The important thing here is to remember why I'm doing this.

• To break my addictive habbits towards food
• To bring myself peace, joy and abundance in my life
• To lose weight and feel comfortable and healthy in my body

I am definitely making HUGE strides in all of these fields, but I also know that I am not where I need to be yet. These are the reasons why:

• Tonight proved that I am still addicted to food. All I wanted to do was stuff cookies in my mouth all day and I could not get food out of my head
• Today I also realized that I need to work on keeping myself centered and balanced in hard times. It is easy to talk about being present when everything is good- but it's a totally different beast when things are bad.
• I am still not comfortable with my weight. I know that I am not a very healthy weight, but I still feel like I have extra pounds around my belly and I will not be completely comfortable until those are gone. I love myself and my body, and this is not meant to be self-defeating. I just know that I can make my body healthier, and that is what I plan to do.

Today I really doubted whether or not I'd be able to do another 15 days of this. But after I came home and made myself a small cup of pomegranate grapefruit juice I think I reassured myself a bit. I really think that I will reach my goals if I go for another 15 days. I plan on manifesting this with all my heart. :)

Peace and blessings to everyone! Love all of your faces!

Day 14 - Before and after

Hello everyone!

I'm half way thereeee! Well, by the end of the way I am :). I couldn't resist weighing myself this norming, and I weighed 138.6! I'm about 5 pounds away from what I'd be sooo happy to weigh, so we shall see if I can get there in the next 2 weeks (although I guess I won't have any way of knowing... oh well.)

I thought I'd take a picture of myself this morning too. I don't really have a good before picture. I took a picture a month ago when I was starting a different fast, so I will just use that one to compare myself with.

So it's kind of hard to see a difference. In the first picture I probably weighed around 147, and in the second one I'm 138. The big thing is that my skin is so much tighter and glowing, and I just feel awesome in my skin.

Day 12-13: Wedding Fasting and Groceries

Happy Winter Solstice!

Today was a big day! Not only was it the winter solstice which made things crazy, but it was also my cousin's wedding. Let me tell you- it is not easy fasting at a wedding! Thankfully almost none of the food at the wedding was vegan, which made it completely unappetizing, but still it is very hard to not eat anything while everyone around you is stuffing their face with food. But I made it!! And now it is day 13 and all is good :).

Oh! And I weighed myself yesterday, and I weigh 139 lbs! This is a pretty big deal for me, since I have never weighed less than 140 lbs even at my slimmest. I've decided not to weigh myself again until the day before I leave new jersey. I don't own a scale at my home in Denver, so I want to see where I am at before I leave and don't have a chance to weigh myself again.


Also a note about food prices. I now understand why my parents never buy organic- it's like 3 times as expensive as it is where I live!! I guess people think eating fruits and veggies are such a luxury in certain parts of America that they make organic produce super expensive, since no one actually bothers to buy them.

These are all the groceries I bought this morning, only half of it is organic, and I spent $55! Craziness.

Lots of oranges (mix organic and not), 2 pineapples, 5 grapefruits (mix organic and not), 1 bag organic apples, organic herbs, lettuce, cucumbers

After reading over this I realized that some of the things I bought organic they didn't actually charge me the organic price (the grapefruit and the cucumber). Just imagine how expensive it would have been then!

Day 10- Travel Day

Hello everyone!

The past 24 hours have been CRAZY! I spent all day yesterday calling some huge names in the raw food world for the Raw Living Expo in Sedona this February (Kristina Bucaram and Dan McDonald, to name a few ;-)  ). And then, at the very last minute, I decided I wanted to go home to see my family today.


Wellll it was snowing pretty hard this morning and it was terrifying getting to the airport, but I made it! and the plane was only 30 minutes delayed. Overall, a good travel day. Not so much so for juicing, though. I woke up at 5 AM and drank a liter of orange juice and half a liter of green juice before I left. I brought a liter with me, but unfortunately I left the juice next to the heater in my car and it got really warm... so I couldn't drink it :(. While I was at the airport I found a jamba juice, but then I realized that everything they make is actually a smoothie and not actually juice!! How deceiving! But I was able to get a small orange juice.

I landed in Jersey around 7 and got home at 8. As soon as I got home, I made a smoothie out of:

kale
apples
pineapple
cucumber
ginger
lemon
mint
dill



and mmmmmmm was it tasty!! I'm drinking my reishi ormus tea right now, and I'll be heading to bed fairly soon. Altogether a successful day, wish me luck for my next 10 days juicing while living with a family of non-fruit eaters! :P


~Namaste ~

the puppies at home waiting for me to arrive! <3

Day 8

Woohoo! Done with the first day of week 2 :)

Today was a very interesting day. First of all- I am doing some serious detoxing at the moment. How do I know this? Well, I do not smell too pretty, my hair started falling out at a faster rate then ever before, and my acne got wayyy worse than it was a few days ago. It is definitely uncomfortable being in the state, but you've just gotta ride out the bad to get to the good. Just think of it like peeling the onion... ever week you stay on a juice fast for is another layer of toxins, deal cells, chemicals, and yuck that you are removing.

So I have been doing a lot of work for the raw living food expo this weekend, and today I started work around 8 and didn't stop to take a break till, oh, maybe 4 in the afternoon. During this time all I had to drink was a liter of orange pomegranate juice and a half liter of green juice. But then I wasn't even thirsty to drink anything else! I force myself to drink another liter of orange juice just because it was the only thing I could drink. I totally realize that only having 1/2 a liter of green juice is not enough, but it was the best I could do today. Tomorrow I am going to try to have 3 liters of green juice and just 1 liter of fruit (maybe not even that much). I just really hope that this does not negatively affect my composure and my ability to stay fasting! We shall see in the morning...

Why do a juice feast?

Hello juicy followers!

I just realized this morning that I never really talked about WHY in the WORLD someone would be crazy enough to give up food for 30 (or more) days. Some of my friends have been giving me a pretty hard time about it, saying that I am starving myself or that I am harming my body. In reality though, I am doing the exact opposite. Think for a second about how many veggies you eat in one day. Maybe a nice big salad, and some small amount of greens scattered throughout the day, if you are a healthy person. Now take a look at how many greens I eat in juice one quart of juice (keep in mind I normally have 2-3 quarts of pure green juice and another quart of fruit juice):

So basically, I am packing my body to the brim with nutrients! But now you might ask, why do I have to juice it? Why not just EAT all the greens? Well for one... can you image how hard that would be to eat all of that?? But that's really not the real reason... the real reason is that why we digest food, it takes ALOT of energy. But when we only drink our nutrients, the body has nothing at all to digest, so it can but 100% of its energy into healing and detoxifying. Now of course this is not something that you can sustain forever- no one wants you to do that. Fasting (or feasting) is merely a means of detoxifying one's body in order to feel lighter, cleaner, and like a new you!

Fasting is also extremely spiritual. Every time you eat food, it is like you are dampening your inner fire, because you become weighed down and your body has lost some of its energy. I know that many nutritionists say eat 5-6 times a day... but this is actually very counterintuitive. Yes, it might work as a means of dieting, but if you are seeking to just be a healthier, more high vibrational person, then you should aim to idealy eat 2-3 huge meals of fresh fruits and vegetables a day. What this does is lessens the amount of time your body spends digesting food so that it has more energy to put into YOU!

Phew... that was a long rant! I really hope that it helped some of you better understand what fasting is all about, and why it is not just a fad diet. 

Also, I am considering doing a video blog about fasting. I am super shy though so this is going to take a lot of work for me to build myself up to a video. But maybe it will happen :)

Day 6

Hello everyone!!

Man am I in high spirits tonight. I can't believe that after tomorrow it will have been a full week of juicing!!! I've gotta say- this week was incredibly easy! I mean, I definitely get my share of food cravings every once in a while, but it's nothing I can't manage. I think that what made this week so easy for me was not having leave my house at all. I think I left my house a total of 5 times in the past week :). I can only imagine how much harder fasting would be if I had to be out in the real world.

I think that once you really commit yourself to a fast, it becomes very simple. There really is no temptation, because you know that you will NOT let yourself put food in your mouth- it is not even an option. I find it easier to be fasting than to be just eating my raw food diet- because on a raw food diet then you could easily talk yourself into eating 5 avocados or loads of nuts and oil, and that's just no good! But on a juice fast, you can have all the juice you want, and that's that.

Today I decided I'd like to try to extend my fast to at least 30 days. This is going to be REALLY hard while I am at home visiting my family for christmas. Thankfully, we are buying my dad an Omega juicer for christmas, so I will be able to make the same quality of juice there than I am making here :). But I think if I am able to make it through my trip home then I will be set. I am really excited to see the person that will emerge on the other side of 30 days (or 14, or 60, or however long it is!). I am really anticipating a completely different person. But I do need to be putting a bit more work into it, because I have been slacking a bit the past day or two.

These are things I need to spend more time doing:

• Breathing exercises
• Yoga
• Meditation
• Studying for my prelims (completely unrelated to fasting :P)
• manifesting
• relaxing

I think I will start leaving sticky notes around my house to remind myself to do these things. Does anyone else do that?? 

By the way, I have spent all day watching Matt and Veronica's 100 day juice feasting videos on youtube. You should check them out- they are very informative!

Ok, I'm off to go read Osho and get another 10 hours of sleep. Nighty night juicy followers!