Tuesday, May 8, 2012

First day of Juice fast

Today is the first day of my juice fast and I was quite prepared to get going strong.
I had 2 batches of Mean Green (with slight variations) made as of last night so I could just wake up and go this morning.
The first batch was simply:
1 Cucumber
2 Green Apples
6 Kale Leaves
4 Stalks of Celery
1 Small Chunk of Ginger
1/2 of one Lemon

I thought the juice was not going to be very good at all, however, it turned out great! I love being able to get all those greens in the juice without tasting it TOO heavily.

For lunch I went home and made a juice that was quite different and slightly improvised:
1 beet
4 carrots
2 honeycrisp apples
1 pear
1/2 lemon
1 chunk of ginger
1 small package of blackberries

I really liked this one as well. It tastes quite a bit different from the mean green, however I did still enjoy it. I made this one as more of a detox drink as I know the carrots and beets add more of a detox quality to the juice.

As it is the first day I'm starting to think I shouldn't have started this juice fast during the work week, but I got through the day, and it'll get better. The only real complaint I have is the headache. I was fine until about 11:00am today when it started showing it's ugly face. Every hour since then the headache has been getting worse and more severe, to the point where it's kind of throbbing with my heartbeat... Problem is I drink quite a bit of coffee. I knew the caffeine withdrawal would give me a headache but i didn't expect it to be this bad at all.... oh coffee.. I still love you. I just can't drink you for a little while longer ;)

I'll have some pictures and hopefully better writing to come... headaches make writing difficult.

916pm
Headache is still going stronger than ever... Maybe I should never have caffeine again. When the inevitable zombie apocolypse comes, and there's no more coffee, I will not be able to protect myself with this headache :( :)

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