Graduation!

Today is the last day of my 92-day juice fast!  yay! 

I feel really, really good; very strong and healthy.  I've lost 57 pounds, which is wonderful.  But I'm also very glad it's almost over -- I miss eating.

But I don't miss the way eating made me feel -- heavy, heartburn-y, unable to sleep at night, and out of control.  So, starting tomorrow, I'm going to ease myself into a nutritarian diet.  I don't want to lose all this healthy progress.  Yes, I want to eat again, very much!  But I also want this to continue -- the weight loss, the energy, the healthy glow, and the peace that comes from knowing I can do and am doing something good for my body for a change.

what I'm drinking

It turns out most of my favorite fruit juices have pineapple in them.  This one I made tonight -- yummy!

1/2 a pineapple
1/4 a lemon
2 cups red grapes

Soooooo delicious.

I also made this for tomorrow morning, and I had a sip to test it:

2 apples
2 pears
2 cups red grapes

Oh, yes, most of my favorite juices also have grapes in them :)

what I drank today

I've lost 55 pounds so far!

Today I had two vegetable juices and a fruit juice.  My vegetable juices are pretty much the same:

Base
4 apples
6 carrots
6 or 7 stalks of celery
1 cucumber
1/4 a lemon or lime
8 oz red leaf lettuce or spinach

Then I add one of the following: a slice of red or green cabbage, 1/2 a bell pepper (any color), or a tomato.

This morning I made two veggie juices -- one with red cabbage and one with green cabbage.

I also had a fruit juice -- 2 pears, 2 apples, 1/4 of a lemon, and 4 oz spinach (spinach changes the color of fruit juice, but not the taste, and it's VERY good for you. :)

Oh, and I made another fruit juice for tomorrow morning: 3 carrots, 2 oranges, 1/4 of a lime, and 4 oz of spinach.  Carrot may be a vegetable, but it goes into a fruit juice at least once a week because it's so good for you and a little sweet.

Not ALL my fruit juices have greens or sour citrus in them; it just so happens that all of today's did.

as requested

after 47 pounds....



So I had Todd shoot this one in the same location as the first photo, for comparison....but the little darling was being particularly clingy.... sorry!

yum

Had the BEST juice last night.  1/2 a pineapple, 2 pears, 2 apples, and a cup of green grapes.  Just wonderful.

Day 50

Weird expression on my face....

Down 36 pounds as of yesterday.... can't really see it, yet.  Still wearing the same jeans I was wearing at the start of the fast.  I mean, they're looser, for sure, even straight out of the dryer, but I can still wear them.  Also, I'm still quite bulgy in the waist and hips.  <Sigh>

Day 42

249 pounds this morning -- that's 31 pounds lost so far.  I felt REALLY good most of yesterday, even better than normal.

82 degrees and sunny yesterday.  It's Michigan, in April, no less.  A week ago it was snowing.