Veggie Vampire.. Sucking the juice out one veg at a time!

So Day #2 and #3 have to be combined due to the fact that I was unable to write. I was laid up on the couch catching up on Real Housewives on Hulu and sipping on some juice. My ability to focus was lacking. I just couldn't seem to peel my eyes away from the most educating program out there, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. You can really learn a lot from those housewives!


OK, that is not really why I couldn't blog. My sweet little friend decided to cause me some pain so I needed to resort to my medication that takes the pain away but also makes me sleepy and make crazy choices like choosing to watch Real Housewives instead of Tebow!

Juice Day #2 was easier than Day #1. I decided that not being able to chew food screws with your mind. If you simply eat a carrot instead of drinking said carrot you feel full. So I cheat now. Sometimes I take a bite of those veggies before I suck the juice out of them. I am started to feel like a vegetable vampire! Doing this is helping me get over my hunger issue. OK, I might add a little natural peanut butter on the carrot sticks but life is short and Tara is getting crabby. My dad always said, " a hungry man is a dangerous man". I couldn't agree more, in fact my kiddos would also find that true. I am a bit of what one might refer to as a Bitch. Bad word, I know. Pain and hunger are not my favorite feelings to have so I might not be the nicest person on earth. Especially when my girls are happily eating the homemade Mac and cheese I perfected on the day I stopped ingesting food. Yep, the Vita-mix helps make the perfect Mac and cheese. Watching them grin while ingesting that creamy yummy carb wonderful pasta made me want to lock than into the garage for the night. They will be a bit surprised when they find the dinner table placed in the backyard when they get home. How good is that food when you eat it outside? Not so fun is it? OK, I didn't really do that, but I will tell you fixing dinner is very challenging when you want food. On a positive note our menu has doubled since juicing. I am finding all kinds of great good for you recipes while starving. I totally recommend juicing if you are having a hard time meal planning! It is amazing. Man, this whole juicing thing has so many benefits!

Our Juice for day #2
Orange, Carrot, and Ginger
Cranberry Apple

We, or should I say Scott has perfected making these items into juice with zero texture. The item he uses to make this happen is the Nut Milk Bag. You all know you giggled when you read that! If you didn't go back and read it again and if you still aren't laughing you are a boring boring individual and need to lighten up. See there is that bitchyness coming out. Sorry! Any way the nut milk bag (hehe) works just like cheese cloth and separates the fiber from the juice. So making apple juice and cran apple juice is wonderful. Kale also tastes so much better when the pulp of it is gone.

I also drank a smoothie textured pure fruit juice. I can't remember the exact fruits I used but it was filling.

Non juice... Cheating cause I suck
5 wheat thins
A Luna protein bar
Carrot sticks with some peanut butter
Steamed Brussel Sprouts and Brocoli


That's it.... Oh wait this will be the part where Scott will call me out. So in order to prove to him that I will remain 100% honest with my cheating moments I will share with you my other very weak moment. I may or may not have had a bowl or maybe two depending on your definition of a serving size and if you count a refill of the bowl to count as bowl two then i guess i had two bowls. I hate for my poor milk to feel unused. So in order to make the cow feel like there hard work was worth it I added some more cereal to the unused milk. It was so good and guess what the scale still showed a 4lb weight loss on the morning of Day #3.

Day #3 was the best I have done thus far. I guess watching those skinny women on Real Housewives combined with Tracy Gold's show on lifetime about people with eating disorders made it easy to stay away from food. Who am I kidding? I felt like crap so food wasn't really calling me. I drank my standard juice and threw in a few bites of shredded wheat, and crackers to help with my nausea. I also ate an English muffin so I could take my medicine. Scott came home and whipped me up some yummy cran apple juice and then decided to juice a butternut squash. OK, so we knew what would happen if we did that... Butternut Squash soup! Substance in the juice form! It was good and filling!

I have survived 3 days of juicing and as of Day #3 I am down 4lbs. My health is not 100% yet. I did know that this isn't the fix for it. I was really hoping my cyst would be gone by now. Not so much. I guess this is what I get for giving in to my weaknesses and slowing down my workouts. Even a short break reeks havoc on my body. A little break gives my body time to grow a cyst. So as soon as that bad boy goes away I will be on my way. Other than my cyst I am actually feeling OK. It is hard to tell what is detox and what is cyst related at this point. I am going to blame it all on the cyst that way I won't hate this process even more!

I don't really hate it. Juicing is easy to complain about. I actually enjoy going to the extreme to get healthy again. I know, big shocker! It feels good to be making good choices again and to maybe motivate others to make better choices. I love being back to our old ways after a 4 month break.