Day eleven

This will be the last of the day to day reports for now. I am always swinging between thinking too much about my food choices or too little. What I am going to continue with is juicing vegetables. I am also much more conscious about eating meat. I did try some chicken yesterday and I could have easily lived without. More soon!!!!

Day nine and ten

The last two days can only be described with one word: HUNGRY

Very unusual for me I was even hungry when I woke up and the only thing that will do in that state is CARBS. Here is the list of foods consumed over the last two days:

Day 9

1 juice made the day before

Sauerkraut and Mehlkloss (its a kind of dumpling I made myself)

Pea and Potato soup

Packet of Rye Bread (there must be 6 slices in that packet)


Day 10
1 juice from the same batch (leaving them one day is pushing it, on the second day I do not get that 'I had a drink of goodness feeling' anymore

stir fried noodles and veg

2 pieces of apple cake

tin of chick peas as a snack

Wine

Phew....................... this morning I woke up and at least was not hungry anymore. It may have been related to hormones, I used to get terrible cravings. Back to juice and soup for the next two days, which really is a pleasure as long as I do not feel hungry.

Week two of the juice fest

I decided to up the ante and add some exercise. I had bought a Tae Boe DVD and tried it out yesterday - it is brilliant fun. Lots of shadow boxing and kicking with great instructions and high energy. This is my first real exercise other than walking since the operation and I did not quite make it without a break through the first video but that is OK. Actually I tried some weight lifting a month ago, but it was too early for my poor stomach muscles. I can not wait until I am strong enough again to get back to my weights.

Today I had:

Oven chips low fat with a guacamole (YUMMY!!)

Juice of cucumber, beetroot, watercress (give the juice some spicy oomph), carrots, celery and apples.

Still doing a lot of mind work and will write more about that soon. I am feeling very balanced and ready to do anything, most importantly I have found the believe again that I CAN do it.

Day seven

So I have done my week and give myself a 92% success rate.

I did not feel deprived, hungry or had any mad cravings.
I did not feel the need to cheat when sober which I luckily was the majority of time
I drank more vegetable juice than I thought I would be able to.
I thought I could try this for another week.

Today I had:

3x Juice of cabbage (could not taste it but made me feel terribly virtuous), cucumber, parsley, beetroots, carrots, pears and a couple of apples - very good and the crisps from the pulp are very good too

Soup of peas, potatoes, broccoli and mint
piece of soda bread

The only supplements I am taking are one fish oil and a couple of Chlorella tablets.

Day six

So I woke up with a shocking hang-over no surprises there then. Instead of beating myself up I went straight back in the saddle and had a juice left over from yesterdays batch plus some very delicious and super crispy crisps I had forgotten to take out of the dehydrator. I am going to leave them all much longer from now on. They have hardly any calories because it is only the fiber left over from juicing - a brilliant snack. Will start to have to hide them from G because he likes them very much too ;)

Today I had:

juice from yesterdays batch

the last of the pumpkin soup with chickpeas
a piece of soda bread

baked potato and baked beans


There have been some 'wind issues' for the last couple of days. I guess all that fibre is shocking my body. But what is more interesting is how I do not feel any cravings for anything and how I have been able to not go mad on the bread I have in the freezer. Pretty proud of myself actually.

Day five

Felt the pearl barley I had eaten the night before - not in a bad way. Just knew I had eaten it and did not wake up as upbeat as I had the day before. I am so glad we have that wonderful juicer and the dehydrator is being put to work every day now. On the trip to Germany we also bought a wooden grain mill which actually is not a mill but it flattens the grain kernels and out come rolled oats, wheat etc. We also bought a big bag of grains and G made a muesli mix with some coconut shavings and dried fruit and it is DELICIOUS. I will experiment with drying different fruits over the coming weeks. It is really nice to know that there is nothing else in the food you are eating - we checked and it is amazing what they add to dried fruit you can buy from the supermarket.

Today I had:

Juice of cucumber, pears, apple, parsley, ginger and lots of celery - very nice!

Pumpkin soup with chick peas

A piece of apple cake

so far so good ........... then I got tempted into having quite a lot of

Grape juice, fermented and that let on to me sneaking

A small burger from the fridge


I am really feeling the effects this morning but we had a fun night. No regrets

on on