Time to do something with LJ / Juicing
It's been forever, I think what I have time for these days is simply to write about my diet. Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Goodandevo, etc have been consuming more and more of my time and... eh I'm not feeling incredibly creative.
A few months ago Kim got interested in juicing (that is taking a fruit or vegetable and squishing all the juice out of it) - I was vaguely interested also and we got a Jack LaLane juicer from CostCo. We used it 3 times and returned it. Cleanup was terrible, it was not producing much juice... I've come to realize since then we may have just been doing it wrong (except the cleanup) so thus ended experiment 1 in juicing.
A couple of weeks ago I watched Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead: http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/
The premise is this - Joe Average who has a skin problem he's treating with meds that are making him fat decides it's time to do something anyone can do - go on a juice diet and see if that does not help. The problem is he's not Joe Average - he's a fairly successful Australian businessman who can afford to take 2 months off to do nothing but juicefast and travel the USA telling people about how great juicing is.
As movies went, his 2 months was meh, I would have probably left watching that with the feeling that if I were an overweight rich Australian with a couple of months to kill I might manage to get myself into the shape he managed to do - in his case he dropped a shitton of weight in the 60 days, went from flab to really pretty healthy looking. Stopped taking the meds he was on, all sorts of greatness. But still... Australian millionaire (probably, he certainly must be now) I figured results were atypical
Movie changed a bit into it with another guy coming on the scene with worse issues, and although his results were sponsored by the first guy, man... it was epic. I nearly cried... I didn't mind you... but if I could feel human emotion I might have
So I decided I wanted to try it. I'm not sure I want to try it completely yet - last night was my first attempt with a different juicer (masticating, 6 minute clean up) and I made 3.25 glasses of juices - apple, carrot, spinach, collard greens. I realized shortly after I did this (internet hindsight) that juice has a very limited lifespan and since I was not going to be drinking it last night, I was losing a lot of the good in it. I did what I could to preserve the awesome - getting it as close to freezing as possible, drinking it early in the morning, and think I have a decent start to my probably modified Reboot diet.
I say probably modified because I can't get the freaking page to load at the moment. Works as follows - I will drink juice as opposed to food for at least 2 meals a day to start (pretty sure the Reboot is total juice-fast) and if I eat it will be reasonable. Today's breakfast and lunch were sponsored by Collard Greens (think I am allergic to), carrots, apples, and spinach (which is a joy to juice as a note) - roughly 32 ounces.
Starting this out at 232 pounds, the weight my body always wants to return to (I'm more muscle than before, but still want to lose weight as I'd like to be lighter / able to run better). Will see if this works. I'm classified by BMI as obese (32.4), but I sort of think I'm just chunky - I mean, I'm too chunky yes, but I'm the kind of chunky who can bike ride 20 miles (complaining) run on an elliptical for an hour, bench 180 (supposedly, I don't trust those machines) - I calculate my chunk by squishing my belly and seeing that there's too much squishable. Other than weight being too high, my last blood test said my triglyceride count was fairly high but still in the normal range (a year ago it was way high - did meds for a bit and then slacked of to just doing exercise and afterward the number was higher than medicated but not terrible) - so elevated triglycerides, sleeplessness and a twitchy leg when I try to sleep (which sometimes causes the sleeplessness) no medications.
Day 1 - breakfast / lunch - spinach (glass full of juice), 2x apples, carrots (most of a bag) one thing of collard greens (which I think I am allergic to in that concentration) - cup I'm using looks like it's about 32 oz, drank a bit more than that and spilled some.
Day 1 notes - stomach *not* ready for this, not horrible though. Started at about 8am, drank on the drive in to work, finished by 10am, almost noon and am hungry. I need to drink less at a sitting so I have juice left for later. Need to invest in some sort of liquid transportation thingie as I drove into work with a big ol' open plastic cup.
Had too much for one sitting, left none for another. Juice fills you up for a meal, but does not keep you feeling full.
Well frak, looks like I'm pretty much planning on following one of the variations of the diet.... rassafrassa
A few months ago Kim got interested in juicing (that is taking a fruit or vegetable and squishing all the juice out of it) - I was vaguely interested also and we got a Jack LaLane juicer from CostCo. We used it 3 times and returned it. Cleanup was terrible, it was not producing much juice... I've come to realize since then we may have just been doing it wrong (except the cleanup) so thus ended experiment 1 in juicing.
A couple of weeks ago I watched Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead: http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/
The premise is this - Joe Average who has a skin problem he's treating with meds that are making him fat decides it's time to do something anyone can do - go on a juice diet and see if that does not help. The problem is he's not Joe Average - he's a fairly successful Australian businessman who can afford to take 2 months off to do nothing but juicefast and travel the USA telling people about how great juicing is.
As movies went, his 2 months was meh, I would have probably left watching that with the feeling that if I were an overweight rich Australian with a couple of months to kill I might manage to get myself into the shape he managed to do - in his case he dropped a shitton of weight in the 60 days, went from flab to really pretty healthy looking. Stopped taking the meds he was on, all sorts of greatness. But still... Australian millionaire (probably, he certainly must be now) I figured results were atypical
Movie changed a bit into it with another guy coming on the scene with worse issues, and although his results were sponsored by the first guy, man... it was epic. I nearly cried... I didn't mind you... but if I could feel human emotion I might have
So I decided I wanted to try it. I'm not sure I want to try it completely yet - last night was my first attempt with a different juicer (masticating, 6 minute clean up) and I made 3.25 glasses of juices - apple, carrot, spinach, collard greens. I realized shortly after I did this (internet hindsight) that juice has a very limited lifespan and since I was not going to be drinking it last night, I was losing a lot of the good in it. I did what I could to preserve the awesome - getting it as close to freezing as possible, drinking it early in the morning, and think I have a decent start to my probably modified Reboot diet.
I say probably modified because I can't get the freaking page to load at the moment. Works as follows - I will drink juice as opposed to food for at least 2 meals a day to start (pretty sure the Reboot is total juice-fast) and if I eat it will be reasonable. Today's breakfast and lunch were sponsored by Collard Greens (think I am allergic to), carrots, apples, and spinach (which is a joy to juice as a note) - roughly 32 ounces.
Starting this out at 232 pounds, the weight my body always wants to return to (I'm more muscle than before, but still want to lose weight as I'd like to be lighter / able to run better). Will see if this works. I'm classified by BMI as obese (32.4), but I sort of think I'm just chunky - I mean, I'm too chunky yes, but I'm the kind of chunky who can bike ride 20 miles (complaining) run on an elliptical for an hour, bench 180 (supposedly, I don't trust those machines) - I calculate my chunk by squishing my belly and seeing that there's too much squishable. Other than weight being too high, my last blood test said my triglyceride count was fairly high but still in the normal range (a year ago it was way high - did meds for a bit and then slacked of to just doing exercise and afterward the number was higher than medicated but not terrible) - so elevated triglycerides, sleeplessness and a twitchy leg when I try to sleep (which sometimes causes the sleeplessness) no medications.
Day 1 - breakfast / lunch - spinach (glass full of juice), 2x apples, carrots (most of a bag) one thing of collard greens (which I think I am allergic to in that concentration) - cup I'm using looks like it's about 32 oz, drank a bit more than that and spilled some.
Day 1 notes - stomach *not* ready for this, not horrible though. Started at about 8am, drank on the drive in to work, finished by 10am, almost noon and am hungry. I need to drink less at a sitting so I have juice left for later. Need to invest in some sort of liquid transportation thingie as I drove into work with a big ol' open plastic cup.
Had too much for one sitting, left none for another. Juice fills you up for a meal, but does not keep you feeling full.
Well frak, looks like I'm pretty much planning on following one of the variations of the diet.... rassafrassa