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Saturday my day 17 ended with us making the veggie extreme pizza like the other day and we used

Veggie pizza extreme

6 tomatoes
1 red onion
4 carrots
3 pc celery
2 serrano peppers
6 cloves garlic
2 handfuls parsley (1/2 bundle)
2 small yellow peppers
2 small red peppers
6 basil leaves
3 handfuls spinach (1/2 bundle)
6 tbsp tomato paste- the one which ingredients are only tomatoes

this produced 3 quarts and cost $9.05

we added 3 tbsp of the tomato paste to each jar as well as a small amount of sea salt and a splash of olive oil and shook vigorusly once the juice was in there to dissolve the paste- when heating them up the tomato paste really thinkens the soup and has no truoble disolvnig
we drank ours heated up as soup and it just tastes soo good! then saved the extra quart for snacking in the night and my lunch sunday.

So ive made it thu her first days of eating without much craving for the food.

Today is sunday my day18 and we both had morning glory for breakfast the usual way we make it by replacing the blueberries with kiwis

5 apples, 2" ginger, 3 kiwi, 3 small cucumbers, 4pc kale, 5 cups grapes- this produced 56oz or 2*28 oz servings with a cost of $6.65.

She will be grilling some mahi-mahi today for her to eat along with some grilled zucchinis
she cut the zicchinis long ways so she got severl flat pcs all about the same thinkness and shes marinating them in some of that tangy dressing we made yesterday. she will eat this around 4pm as a sort of late lunch and then she will have some juice with me tonight when i make my dinner juice.

Also she created some slasa using some of the pulp from last nights veggie pizza extreme, so heres a nice recipe for some salsa. she took out from the pulp some of the pcs of carrots that were in there and chopped up any pcs of stuff that was in there but a little big for salsa.

Kari's Salsa Creation:

1 tomato chopped
1 1/2 lime squeezed
1/4 red onion chopped
1 small handfull cilantro chopped
1 cup Pulp (the cup waas pretty full and packed tightly)
1/2 serrano pepper chopped finely-
(we would normally put 1 jalapeno chopped finely but all we had were serranos)
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp sea salt

thers you have it nice and healthy oviously you can swap the peppers for less hot ones depending on your taste. She is also marinating the mahi mahi in the tangy dressing we made yesterday as well.

now your all caught up and me not eating and her eating! Stay tunned for more healthy ideas and see what I will creat for dinner tonight!

I hope everyone is having a great weekend and staying healthy!

-watching some sunday football without a feast around me is definately different than waht ive done in the past- more things in my life that have changed for the better!

updates later
Ray

Hi Gary,

havent really decided on if I will go to 60 days or not...my goal is to get to 30 days and decide. I could possibly stop at thirty and start to eat slowly and healthy like my wife is doing and then do another two weeks the following month and two more weeks the month after that. Breaking it up will help me i think since im having to watch all this great tasting stuff my wife and i are creating and not eat any, but i wont decide until i get to thirty days though.

I may have started this to loose weight but i have gained so much more along the way- including that our entire way of looking and food has changed and our pantry and fridge are filled with nothing but fruits veggies fish and chicken! Our taste buds are really alive and sensitve as well as our minds just seem to be more clear in our way of thinking about everything. with each day i gain more clarity and find myself really thinking about healthy things as opposed to junk foods and sugary unheathy foods- its really amazing -its just a total reboot like when you reboot your computer only i rebooted my life and lifestyle that i lived for the last 43 years!
But of course there is the weight loss which as of monday morning I am down to 244 Lbs and have lost 20 lbs in the first 18 days of this juice fast! and even if i were to go back to eating I would still juice 2 times a day and have a salad and some lean protiens as one meal a day just like my wife is doing now, but would still contiue to loose more weight anyhow just not as fast im sure.

Its getting harder as her grilled mahi mahi and grilled zucchini looked and smelled amazing not to mention the huge pile of salsa she had on her plate too that she even put some on top of the fish! this was her fist day of incorporating any lean protien back into her diet.
im not gonna let that sidetrack me but its definately harder as shes eating now and no longer on a juice fast, but at least she is still juicing in the morning and at night so that does help me to stay foucused.

For me thirty days is very close and when it gets here im more likely to just keep going past then just taking it day by day. we shall see how it goes and ill keep everyone updated along the way and still contiue to share some heathy creation recipes along the way.

Let us know how you make out along the way too!

Have a great monday and stay healthy
ray

monday afternoon we made a batch of the V14 and I drank 32oz for lunch and another 32 oz for dinner, she ater her sald with mahi mahi on it for lunch and drank 32oz of the v14 for dinner. Our batch of the v14 produced 4 quarts so we had one left over for us to snack on in the night time.

The v14 was made with

1/2 bundle spinach
1/2 bundle cilantro
2 cucumbers
5 carrots
7 pc celery
3 cloves garlic
1 lime
1 red onion
1 zucchini
1 small orange pepper
2 small red peppers
7 tomatoes
5-6 leaves basil
1 serrano pepper

this batch produced 4 full quarts and cost $10.90 to make -anyone can always cut the ingredients in this recipe in half and produce only 2 quarts, but we love to eat this warmed up with some cayenne pepper and hot sauce in it and have no problem drinking this for lunch and dinner, After snacking on the remaining quart in the night time we were left with none!

We made another batch of the tangy dressing that we made the other day and the recipe is above. This time we used just a little more dijon mustard and it came out relly amazing. She has been using this on her salads and even as a marinade for veggies and fish. The salsa we made the other day is almost gone and well make another batch of that too using the recipe we posted above- as she likes to put it ontop of her fish, chicken and even on top of salad too-

tuesday morning my day 20 of only drinking juice-
we made the morning glory using the kiwi instead of the blueberries and 5 green apples, 2' ginger, 3 kiwi, 3 small cucumbers, 4pc kale, five cups grapes produced 56oz or 2*28oz servings.

for lunch we made a bloody mary type juice and used

bloody mary juice

6 tomatoes
1 small red pepper
2 small orange peppers
3 pc celery
2 carrots
2 zucchini
9 basil leaves
1 small handfull parsley
1/4 red onion
3/4 of a jalapeno

we sprinklied some sea salt and a tsp of olive oil in the bottom of the mason jars and once we added the juice shook it up and got a really nice juice.

This produced 80 oz of juice or 2 quarts and 1 pint with a total cost of $8.25

i dank the pint for lunch and we saved the remaining 2 quarts for dinner time-one for each of us. For lunch she ate a salad with some grilled chicken breast on it with some tomatoes and cucumbers mixed in as well. She used the tangy dressing we made for the dressing,so today is the 3rd day she had incorporated a lean protien into her diet while still juicing in the am and pm.

tomorrow will be day 21 for me and still going strong! we will both weigh in again soon...

Hope everyone is having a great tuesday afternoon and staying healthy!

Ray

Hi Gary,

ah yes the sered tuna you read my mind!! yes it is really amazing how much the juice fast fixes so many of our ailments! my bp is also down to normal and my complexion has really gotten very clear & have yet to see any pimples since being on the juice fast-well after the first 5 or six a days anyhow. Keep up the great work and keep eating healthy it is a much better way to live!
Have a great afternoon
Ray

to end day 20 on tuesday night I actually ate about 5 cashews and finished off the salsa we made from the pulp- it was about 6 or seven bites- but oh man how good it tasted- it was really that i just took a bite without even reazlizing that i wasnt supposed to be eating and it was so good I had a few more and then the cashews were like dessert..lol but at least the salsa was comprised of everything we have been juicing and not like i went out for pizza or anything! I had no issuesd with my stomach over the night or the next morning. I picked myself up,dusted off the dirt and am keeping at it!

Then i heated up some juice and drank it like soup trying to wash away any tase that i still had for solid food!
we started day 21 with a

halloween special with

2 red apples, 2 golden delish apples, 5 carrots, and 1 mini pumpkin

we added some cinnamon to the jars and mixed it well with the juice
This produced 56oz or 2*28oz servings and cost $4.50

it was pretty tasty and we both drank our serving in no time. for lunch she had baked mahi mahi on top of her cesar salad with tomatoes and cucumbers- for the dressing she used the tangy dressing we made.

For my lunch i made a bloody mary type drink using

6 tomatoes
1 lg cucumber
1 lime
4 lg carrots
4 pc celery
1 hanfull parsley
1 zucchini
4 green onions
1/4 jalapeno
6 basil leaves
4 pc kale
1 hanful spinach

this made 80oz or 2 quarts and a pint and cost $6.80

I drank the pint for lunch and we saved the 2 remaining quarts for our dinner later

this was very nice blend and im looking forward to heating it up later and adding some cayenne pepper to it with some tobasco!

today I did find myself drinking more water than previous days but i guess thats my bidy telling me it wants to flush out the cashews and salsa i ate last night!

other than that solid food adventure yesterday-i find myself coasting thru day 21 with no problem and weighed 243 lbs when i weighed myself this morning - she still weighs 118 lbs and she has been eating very heathy- today we got some organinc dijon mustard and was incredibly surprised to find that it costed almost haldf of what grey poupon costs- we will use this in the making of the tangy dressing
our next dressing recipe will be a ginger wasabi dressing- stay tunned for that one.
she got some shrip to put on skewers and grill friday night for her dinner- we will put some sort of veggies on the skewer as well- let you know how we make that. we still cant belive that our entire fridge consists of only fruits veggies chicken breast and fish and she doesnt miss the breads or red meat and im sure once i start eating solids again i will not miss it either asthis juuice fast has transformed our lives for the better in every way!

everyone have agreat eveing and keep eating heathy for a better way of life!

updates later

Ray