day 9 for me and 8 for her was friday I felt ok and no real issues- she seemed to be exhibiting signs of what we think was low blood sugar thoughout the day and into the evening but she kept on drinking her juices and we figured if she still had these signs in the am we would check her sugar. We never have had low blood sugar or high, but with diabetes in our familys we have the machine and test strips around so we can check every once in a while.
upon waking uptoday my day 10 and her day 9 she felt fine and we went to weigh in before having breakfast- She is at 121 LBS and I am at 251 LBS so the weight is still comming off.
We went to the farmers market to get our weeks supply of tomatoes, apples and peppers before heading back home to make breakfast. The people that work there asked me how it was going and I told em im down 13 lbs in 9 days andof course all the shoppers went abuzz ..what are you eating?..how is that possible? and of course I told them I havent had a single bite of solid foods in over a week and I was just drinking juice! and the usual looks and questions ensued, but the people that work there are already noticing changes in my appearance, plus since they are only open on the weekends they only see us once a week and its easy to see the difference when you dont see someone every day:)
Even as we were walking a way with our box full of 45 green apples, box of 35 tomatoes,several bags of peppers and grapes, I still heard someone say to the people that work there - why does that guy need all that produce? I heard em say hes on a special diet...and I chuckled and remembered that guy who said that had asked me last week where he could read up on info for the juice fast and of course I had told him go to just on juice.com!
She went this morning to the beach to get some sun and I cautioned her to bring extra water and keep hydrated while shes there.
Friday for breakfast we had the morning glory with the usual change that we have adopted to it by replacing the blueberries with kiwi as there are no bluberries around right now. also we make a double batch so used
5 Green Apples
2" Ginger
3 Kiwi
3 Small Cucumbers
4 Kale stalks
5 Cups of Grapes
This produced 64 oz or 2 quarts and Cost $7.50 to make. We each drank 20oz and saved the remainder for later
which I had her drink most of when she was telling me she felt funny and light headed- since it has sugars in it we thought that would help her with the feelings she was having yesterday, but it didnt do much to help her and she suffered from this feeling all day and into the night. sat am waking with no hint of that feeling.
You can see form the picture that a bit of kale got into the juices and this is why above I was talking about how that happened because of me tapping and sort of helping to clear the area leading to the pulp container. Lessons learned not to do that. This is not one of those recipies that we make so much juice and need to clean the juicer mid way to keep the pulp from clogging up, but I did realize that I needed to cut the apples into smaller pcs as leaving them too big was making them sort of shoot and hit the inside of the juicer and we could ocasinally see some juice on the outside of the juicer in the spots that it hit from the inside- thus not helping keep the continuios seal going. once we cut them into smaller pcs it was much easier on the juicer and did not cause as much of pulp build up either.
For Lunch on friday we made adouble batch of the Green Machine and used
8 Pcs Kale
4 Green Apples
4 Cups Spinach or what amounts to 4 handfuls almost a whole bundle basically
1 Cucumber
4 Pc Celery
2 Carrots
3" Ginger
1 Lemon
This produced 52oz or 2*26oz servings and cost $6.55
We do notice that just adding a little extra ginger and a little extra lemon it helps to make those green drinks taste just right to us. We each drank the full 26oz each and it tided us over til dinner. I was thinking that her symtoms were perhaps from not drinking enough juice and or water so I tried to get her to drink more before dinner and also for dinner, but she didt feel good and only drank abour 20oz in two servings for dinner.
For dinner we made the Cool Cabbage Juice double batch and we used kiwi in place of the grapes and didnt have red cabbage so used green. Also used a whoe head of cabbage but this was what I would call a mini head of cabbage and is about half the size of a normal head- so for a double batch would have used a half of a normal size head- being we had amini one used the whole thing. Plus I wanted to make sure we got nutrients as she was feeling weak and light headed still.
We used:
2 Cucumbers
3 Carrots
5 Pc Celery
1 Whole Mini Head of Green Cabbage
2 Green Apples
3 Kiwi
1 Lemon
2" Ginger
2 Handfulls Spinach
This produced 74 oz or 2 quarts and 10oz. Cost $6.60
She drank about 20oz and I drank a quart and snacked on the remainder in the night making our daily intake of juice about 86oz for her and 108oz for me including the remaining 20oz of cool cabbage juice that i snaked on in the night, a little lower for her than usual but for her it was a rough day.
Day 9 For me and 8 for her Daily total for 2 people was $20.65 or $10.33 per person.
We both hit the bed early friday night as she wasnt feeling great and i was feeling pretty tired. Going to bed about 10pm, but once it reached 7am we couldnt sleep anymore as opposed to other days where we had atough time even waking up. So we went and weighed in then had our fun at the farmers market- she doesnt really care for all that attention and talking the people do when you buy so much stuff, but I told her hey they are only open on the weekend and when your stocking up for two it may look funny to them but its of no matter to me what people say becuse how are they gonna look when i tell them that i lost 60 lbs ! she smiled and realized shes down almost 10lbs from her usual weight then said your too hyper..lol I laughed that one off as I normally have alot of energy but the juice has made it so much more foucused at times. I told her hey at least I get the job done quickly and do ALL the shopping for this juice fast for us! She was just watching me stock and unpack all the produce shaking her head-hey at least she has stuck this out with me together and I think that has really helped me to keep my mind off eating since im always shopping for a good deal on produce who has time to think about junk food.
Pics below of breakfast, lunch and dinner from day 9
Update soon
Everyone have a wonderful Saturday afternoon!
Ray
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