Juice fast - Day 1
Today, I started in on a juice fast as inspired by the movie "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead".
I will try to make sure to journal every day. I also plan on posting my weight. I just bought a new scale that tells me weight, body fat percentage and BMI. I figure I will post my weight and body fat percentage. I know that everything that is measure will fluctuate up and down throughout the course of a day. I will try to stay consistent and measure myself around 8 PM each day. I also have high blood pressure, I haven't taken my meds for it for a little bit. I think I will add that in later. I weighed myself earlier today and will post that here now.
Weight: 247.2
Body fat: 38%
What caused me to want to do something like this? Well, that is kind of a long story. Several years ago, Dad ended up having quintuple bypass surgery. My father eats a much better diet than I did at the time. For him to have issues made it pretty apparent to me that I needed to do something to improve my overall health. At that time I investigated green smoothies. Green Smoothies are basically a green leafy vegetable that if blended with a fruit. The fruit basically is there to overpower the taste of the greens to make you want to consume them. The mix that I used all the time was baby spinach leaves (because they had a really mild flavor) and bananas. I did that for about 6 months and then all spinach got pulled from the shelves due to an E Coli scare. My whole entire regiment got derailed because of that. I had tried several times since then to start up again with no success.
I have been a picky eater my whole entire life. I am now forcing myself to try new things. One of the things that the movie talks about is that the juice fast might be able to reset the taste buds to desire healthy fruits and vegetables instead of foods in the Standard American Diet (SAD).
Things that I am experiencing right now is being tired, there is a little bit of hunger. You have to understand that we are all used to having a lot of bulk in our stomachs. For it to no longer being fulfilled you are going to have a reaction to that. I also did periodic water fasts before, I know that this is a little different but some of the sensations are the same. You can feel a little bit hollow. The reason that I feel tired is I know that my body is dumping a ton of toxins into my bloodstream. I really wanna take a nap right about now, this is the main reason that I wanted to start the fast while on vacation. I couldn't just simply take a nap at work.
You have to take in several glasses of juice a day, it is all about taking in plenty of nutrients to help fuel your body while letting your stomach and digestive track take a break.
I will post more later. There are tons of things going through my mind right now but I need time to process them.
I will try to make sure to journal every day. I also plan on posting my weight. I just bought a new scale that tells me weight, body fat percentage and BMI. I figure I will post my weight and body fat percentage. I know that everything that is measure will fluctuate up and down throughout the course of a day. I will try to stay consistent and measure myself around 8 PM each day. I also have high blood pressure, I haven't taken my meds for it for a little bit. I think I will add that in later. I weighed myself earlier today and will post that here now.
Weight: 247.2
Body fat: 38%
What caused me to want to do something like this? Well, that is kind of a long story. Several years ago, Dad ended up having quintuple bypass surgery. My father eats a much better diet than I did at the time. For him to have issues made it pretty apparent to me that I needed to do something to improve my overall health. At that time I investigated green smoothies. Green Smoothies are basically a green leafy vegetable that if blended with a fruit. The fruit basically is there to overpower the taste of the greens to make you want to consume them. The mix that I used all the time was baby spinach leaves (because they had a really mild flavor) and bananas. I did that for about 6 months and then all spinach got pulled from the shelves due to an E Coli scare. My whole entire regiment got derailed because of that. I had tried several times since then to start up again with no success.
I have been a picky eater my whole entire life. I am now forcing myself to try new things. One of the things that the movie talks about is that the juice fast might be able to reset the taste buds to desire healthy fruits and vegetables instead of foods in the Standard American Diet (SAD).
Things that I am experiencing right now is being tired, there is a little bit of hunger. You have to understand that we are all used to having a lot of bulk in our stomachs. For it to no longer being fulfilled you are going to have a reaction to that. I also did periodic water fasts before, I know that this is a little different but some of the sensations are the same. You can feel a little bit hollow. The reason that I feel tired is I know that my body is dumping a ton of toxins into my bloodstream. I really wanna take a nap right about now, this is the main reason that I wanted to start the fast while on vacation. I couldn't just simply take a nap at work.
You have to take in several glasses of juice a day, it is all about taking in plenty of nutrients to help fuel your body while letting your stomach and digestive track take a break.
I will post more later. There are tons of things going through my mind right now but I need time to process them.