Juicing Forum

Hello everyone,
As I am a contract gardener/artist and child-carer/mother and I have been dealing with gluten/dairy and multiple other problem foods for several years now. I am hoping I can kick-start my digestion with at least 14 day fast starting today. I planned to gradually start swapping meals for juice but unexpectedly I've no more gardening work this week and suspect the first 3-4 days would be hard doing manual labour in winter so I'm going cold turkey!Afterwards I will gradually be introducing solids and checking my reactions to various foods(including chicken and mushrooms) to see how things are fairing having had a real break.
I'm 37, 172cm and 77kg. I have got at least 12kgs to go too and won't be sorry to see that go! I would love to share my fast with someone especially as my husband has a cast iron stomach and doesn't really understand and am going to have to continue the feeding of the monkeys, sorry, children and husband.
First vegetable juice absolutely delicious, so a good start.

Hi, I'm going to be a couple of days behind you, but we sound quite similar, my wife isn't interested, so she'll carry on eating with our daughter. I'm 40, 164cm and 73kg, mainly I'd like to have a clean out, and the weight loss will occur anyway. I'm starting mine on Monday 5th, after a family wedding, but let me know how your first few days go.

Slight headache yesterday evening and I was going to complain of upset tummy grumblings, but i made myself a 4th juice and sure enough, it was hunger (shows how I have to relearn my body's signals!)Today i woke up with my husband at 6.30am, easily, NEVER happened before. Yesterday I did a lot toilet stops, being discreet, lots of number 2's. Am already feeling a lighter brighter me, anyway, definitely looking forward to the next few weeks, if it continues to feel like this I'll be happy to carry on longer.

Well, today was easier, no headache at all, definitely recommend cleaning up diet drastically before starting, minimise tea and coffee (I'm intolerant to coffee so that's easier for me!) and snack heavily on raw vegetables beforehand, makes it much less drastic. I haven't felt hungry (4 juices a day) and I am loving the flavours. Thank you so much for this site and it's recipes. Are you in Avondale with the big Sunday morning market?I have never been but am thinking this would be much the best way to get my vegetables as it is noticeably expensive,I've gone through a bag of apples, a bag of carrots, a bunch and a half of celery,through a ginger root (love a zing) and a bag and a half of spinach (iron issues), I've decimated my veggie garden's kale and thinning my silverbeet plus more. Maybe winter isn't the best time to cleanse!

LOL, oh well, probably NOT the same marketplace. It is NOT hot here at the moment, I made my midday juice in to a soup to get some extra warmth rather than light the fire! Because we are an island and pretty much the most isolated geographically you can be without being a small pacific island with 4000 population, the cost of out of season produce is very high so I'm doing a lot of substituting. Having never had an eat out kind of lifestyle (except when i was at uni in the states where food is CHEAP!!!) it has come as a bit of a shock but my tummy doesn't feel like I've eaten rocks for the first time in several months so that makes it worth it. I hhave always meant to go to the huge Avondale marketplace as it is supposed to be very cheap but the 7am on a Sunday start was off putting, now i have morning energy and several big boxes of produce to buy though suddenly I'm a convert. I weighed myself yesterday (day3) and have gone from 77.3 to 75 and my tummy is flatter so although i know its only early days that makes me happy!

Massive day today, two children's birthday parties in a row, a couple of comments on how good i look (could have been the fact i wore make-up mind you!). AM knackered, 6.5hours of under 8's running around various echoing halls will do that, but although i enjoyed the smells, food avoidance was pretty easy. Most of my friends know of my struggles with Coeliac /intolerances so my not eating food and feeling better makes sense to them!Must say I really do feel cleaner and clearer although this is now day 5 and i am still going to the loo (not just pee)is this normal? Is there a point when i will not need to? I am going to have a liquid iron this evening, even with kale/dark silverbeet/spinach in every juice I am feeling early warning signs,I need a lot,years of digestive damage means I don't absorb nutrients easily, especially metals.
Got up at 6.30am on a Saturday and bustled about like i NEVER have done before in my entire life. I have always enjoyed a morning stroll/jog before the school run in summer (blearily leaving the house, only waking up as i turn the corner of the hill!) but I may institute a yoga session now in mid-winter mornings. What a pleasure!Thank you for all your advice and support, you are appreciated!

Ok,So keen and excited about going to the huge market that starts at 6am in Avondale racecourse that i got up at 2.40am and then at 5.40am, I must buy a clock to go by the bed, getting up to go to the kitchen to see the time is ridiculous ! Anyway, at 5.40am i got up and made my hot lemon drink and chilled for a bit then drove to the market, Auckland's skyline lit against early dawn. I wandered around the marketplace as the vendors set up with head torches, occasional coughs, mysterious wares being set out into the darkness,very magical! Had a great conversation with a Croatian farmer who kept giving me extras as i was buying so much and next week he's going to give me a bottle of his homemade Port!The mysterious world that I never dreamed about when i was lying to bed too tired to wake up.When i got home at 7.45 my darling children were both up, dressed in a fashion (tights with shorts, summer dress over thermals..all the colours of the rainbow)and even attempted hairstyles! They were both disappointed to see me come in as they had been looking forward to the market so i am buying them off by taking them to the geothermal pools up the road for a good 3-5 hours soaking later. Peace and a pear/celery/kiwi fruit/carrot/courgette juice with spirulina later and all is forgiven! Life is sweet

I have two girls, who are pretty cruisey really, 7 and 5 and a half. We've been lazing in hot pools while husband suffers man-flu, I took a picnic and a thermos of Jolt with an added grapefruit but i can't recommend it, it certainly jolted but it's given me heartburn- too much acid! I also suddenly got hungry after 4hours in hot pools and we were an hour from home so I am relieved to be home and i just dropped everything and got juicing!Feel a bit better now but mustn't chug my juice, I've also learnt that is not a clever plan!What would life be with out such lessons? Got to feed the rascals and get them to bed, school tomorrow, packed lunches to make, again!

Thoroughly recommend NZ, so much to see, and lovely countryside.We live in the Waitakere ranges, a subtropical rainforest to the west of Auckland, the wild west. We moved out of the bush to get some sun last year but look to the hills and I drive in to drop my girls at a small school in a large forest clearing. There are hot springs all over the place as you drive around the north island and we're very beach orientated, vast mountainscapes in south island and much more rural. As a new migrant and an artist the beauty blows me away!

didn't lose my message at all did it!

It is beautiful, especially the last few days, sunny like springtime, positively warm in the sun and a good day to be alive! Have had a bit of a struggle today, tried my gym class and it gave me a cold sweat fast, positively dripped water and didn't feel good. Pleased to say i got through the hour but came home and made another juice, to keep me together! I then had to prepare pasta sauce for my girls supper which smelt SOOO good. Nearly cracked but took all things I miss from rich red sauces, tomatoes, garlic, Italian herbs, courgettes, celery and carrots all whizzed up then heated up to make a lovely warm juice, half before school, thermos-ed the rest, much needed upon my return after a playdate at the school to soak in the sunshine. Two lessons learnt, yoga is ok, cardio/weights are too much and also hearty soup juices do a good job of easing craving!
I hope you make it over here, it is a really stunning country, we loved it so much we stayed!

I'd recommend after Christmas,the weather tends to settle into warm and less likely to rain in Jan and feb. But weather is so variable, this year we had such a hot summer,it lasted 6months!
Yesterday was really tough, I had an hours physio as well. I am getting very low in energy and am seriously considering starting to introduce solids earlier than 2 weeks. I am needing an afternoon nap, and that is with the iron supplement. I am going to see how today goes, I have a gardening job for 3 hours, but I'm starting to look drawn and pale and have bags under my eyes. Loving the weightloss but I am not a bad eater and have craved a carrot with garlic hummus so I wouldn't be straying far from what i am drinking. Can i juice beans and chickpeas? Anyway, I'll have my Iron and see how i feel in the evening.I may just eat healthy solids for a week then do a 3day every fortnight, something like that.

Don't push yourself too hard while fasting, while you are getting all the nutrients you need with this fast, you're not getting the fibre and you won't have the stamina you would normally have. I reckon stick with the fast for 2wks, it takes about a week to clean out the system, cut down on the exercise while you're fasting and pick it up again when you come off the fast

Like Rob said, cut down on the exercise. It's good to cut back during the first few days to a week until your body gets adjusted. After that, just don't over due it and listen to your body. Sorry to hear of your operation. Another great thing about juicing is what it does for your skin. Keep at it and you'll start to see differences in the vibrancy of your skin.