Jucing weigh-in

-2 pounds.  yay!

I'll admit I was a little bit disappointed this morning.  I felt like the amount of pain and suffering I endured did not equal the amount of weight I had lost.  That I could've worked out a lot this week, and ate actual food, and produced similar results.  BUTTTT, that's silly.  I didn't start juicing just for the weight lost results.  Actually, when I first thought about doing it, weight loss wasn't even on the top of my list.  So losing 2 pounds is great!  Especially because it puts me that much closer to my ultimate weight loss goal.

The first 2 days were HARD.  I won't lie.  I napped a lot, and was incredibly cranky towards my wonderful, loving husband.  I would randomly get dizzy, and randomly get these awful headaches.  And sometimes the headaches would last for a couple of hours, and sometimes they would only be there for a few minutes.  I felt awful.  And I was awful...lol.  I whined about not being able to eat, and griped at Justin for eating in front of me....haha. 

But I can now say, at the beginning of my 4th day of juice fasting, that I'm glad I did it.  My headaches have almost completely subsided--which means the death grip caffeine had on me is almost gone!  I rarely get lightheaded, and I like mixing up the different juice concoctions now.  I find that I love putting carrots in everything!  yum!  I am still getting food cravings, but its literally just to eat a tomato or orange whole.  (Justin even ate popcorn next to me while we were watching Buffy, and I was fine!)  :) 

I'm also hoping that this juice fast will improve my insides.  I know that sounds weird, but I worry a bit about how much damage I did to my stomach and intestines from all those years of crappy eating, and then all those years of splenda usage.  I don't really have any doctor's note or scientific data showing me that juicing will help heal the lining of your stomach, but it can't hurt right?  :)  I just think about the splenda study they did on rats and how some of their stomachs NEVER healed from the splenda damage.  uggghhh.  I can't believe people eat that crap.  I can't believe I ate that crap!

I'm going to go the full 10 days.  And Justin and I decided we will break my fast with some Vietnamese Burritos!  YUM!  Nothing better than a bunch of vegetables wrapped in spring roll wrappers.  :)  Day 10 for me is next Thursday, but I have to close on Friday.  So I just have to decide if I'm going to fast for an extra day so we can go out on Saturday, or if on Friday I will just eat real fruits and veggies--I think that may be better for my body.  But we'll just play it by ear.

One more big challenge presents itself tonight--I go in to close at work.  No samples, no coffee, no nothing for except juice.  Its been one thing juicing at home with nothing around me to tempt me, but now I've got to go be a functional person while juicing...lol.  I think I'll be fine, because now I feel fine!  2 days ago, I probably would've destroyed a customer for returning a drink or something.  :)

Well, Justin and I are off to water aerobics.  See you next week!

Current weight: 138 pounds
Zen sushi mini-goal: 1 pounds
Weight to lose to meet final goal: 8 pounds