Day #1 I Miss Carbs!

What is on my mind?

FOOD! Yummy solid, carb loaded substance!

Juicing Day #2 is under way.

How do I feel? Fricken hungry!

This whole thing was much easier to talk about than actually doing. The Vita-mix came in on Thursday night. Scott took his excited self to the commissary between meetings and bought us day #1 supplies. Kale, green apple, carrots, oranges, and ginger. We made a juice that night to try it out. Let me tell ya, this Vitamix is awesome!!!! The juice is good too. Just not substance.

So let me take you to Day #1

I have not done 100% juice. I have "cheated" a little bit. I was starving for substance of any kind. Morning Juice was a combo of kale, green apple, and celery. It was very good, filling, and got me to lunch. My lunch juice was my favorite so far. It was a combo of carrot, orange, and ginger. I was getting very hungry and craby around 3pm so I made a smoothie textured juice. It was made with orange, strawberry, carrot, and celery. Jillian, Jess, and I all agreed that this one was very good. It held me over for another hour and then I couldn't take it. So I tried a smoothie with banana, orange, and raspberry. I was hoping a thick consistency would fill me up to my dinner juice. Yeah, well you try cooking dinner for your three wonderful children and not eat. Doesn't work so well. I snuck 4 plain, cold tortellini. Those little pieces of carb wonderful tasted so good. I was still starving so I snuck a handful of potato chips. Dirty, dirty, dirty, bad, bad, bad... But oh so good. OK, they actually didn't taste good at all. I guess cause I felt so guilty eating them. So on to my dinner juice. Trying to get creative since all my creations yesterday turned out so fabulous why not reach for some kale and get creative. I love grapefruit juice, so why not add some kale to it. Not good, not good at all. I should have judged the taste by the color that was produced from combining the two. Think small child's diaper after eating green beans. Gross! But, I decided to chug away. OMG OMG.. Bitter yuckness!!! Down the sink with you nasty beverage. Now I am hungry and my juice straight up sucked. Support, I need support. Why does my husband have to work late tonight? Then when I am about to call Domino's and order a big order of fat pills and call this whole juice thing off, my phone lights up with what could be easily mistaken for God at that point, my husband and juice partner Scott. I whined, came very close to tears until he told me he was hungry too and thought this thing was easier when we just talked about it. We being the most stubborn human beings I know will not quit. He came home and told me to make an English muffin with vegan butter if I really wanted it. So I did and it was the best thing ever. My hunger subsided and I enjoyed the fresh apple juice made by my love. He also made me another juice veg concauction that tasted yummy. Those two items helped me love my Vita-mix again.

So juicing so far is hard very very hard. I am weak and have eaten substance here and there. Chips have been the worst cave. I am not going to beat myself up for cheating by eating what I have eaten. According to the scale this AM I am down 2 lbs.

"skinny people are hungry people" So skinny I shall be, cause I am beyond hungry. I am fricken put a small child in front of me, I might gnaw off there little arm hungry! So on to juice day #2....