Archive for the ‘Juicing’ Category

Woke up really early feeling rested and energtic. Walked the dog, cleaned the kitchen and mopped the floor. Lots of energy! Made my first quart of the day.

2 pound weight loss from yesterday. Didn’t do the recommended enema – didn’t need to – twice. Also, I have been checking my blood sugar and blood pressure for the past few days. Both are in the normal range, though the blood pressure could be lower I think. Pretty good considering the amount of weight I need to lose.

It’s a wonderful thing to be connected through the Global Juice Feast to a world of awesome raw beings. I had given up looking for support and decided that I would have to be my own support. I wasn’t one of those that learned about raw and living food and changed overnight. After a rough start and finally discovering that cooked food is an addiction – (thank you Victoria Boutenko!) I am on firmer raw ground now. After I attended the 2 week retreat at the Creative Health Institute – I was on my way.

Last year I tried to accomplish a 92 day juice feast – but only did a few days. My body was not ready for it all. I’ve been mostly raw now and feel lots better and feel that this feast is different. I am so excited about it and the support on the GJF site.

Reading everyones blogging on the site shows me that we all have so much in common. When most begin to learn about raw – we inherently know it is the best thing for us. I’ve never been a fanatic about much but this can change the world!

I wanted to make sure I was using the word inherently correctly and looked it up: “existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element.”
Permanent and inseparable is right. Some call this ‘raw food thing’ a fad. . . But as you all know – it’s most defiantly a lifestyle.

There was a time at the beginning of my raw journey that I wish I had never heard of it – because now that I knew it, I couldn’t un-know it. But I was only thinking that because I was struggling. Now I am thankful and happy that I am on the vibrant, healthy, raw living food path.

Today is Sunday. It’s is going to be a beautiful day. I’m going to spend my time today, cleaning, playing, planning, walking, juicing – while I have all this energy – ’cause I know the detox is coming…

I was busy all day today so I didn’t think about anything but work and drinking my juice. My tongue turned green. I’m just finishing my last quart and then I’ll walk the dog. Probably will brush my teeth first!
I face painted 4 hours straight at my nephews Spring Carnival. It was a volunteer job and I did it with pleasure – this grade school in Richmond, Texas really has some parents that get involved. Things like this carnival and its always popular “silent auction” raise money for the school. They do not have snack and soda machines in the school to raise money. A big gold star for that!

I brought chilled green juice with me, but barely drank any as I was so busy painting. Drank the rest on the way home. I thought I would have to take a nap when I got home – but I felt really good! Its almost 7:30pm and I just finished my last quart of juice – having a little bit of hunger pangs right now. Earlier I had a few little “lets go to dinner” cravings pop up – but they were small and I laughed at them.
I got in a walk at the park with Dixie today.
My worm bin has a pile of pulp that will last them 2 weeks….and that was from just one day. I don’t have a yard – just a small patio – an all that dirt is being used by plants. Gonna have to find a home for my pulp!

Tonight I tested the Omega 8005 (auger juicer) against the Breville. It was late and I didn’t want to juice a bunch…so I juiced 3 celery stalks and half a cucumber in each juicer.

The Omega made 6 ounces. The Breville made almost 6.5 ounces. The pulp was just a tad dryer in the Breville. Half an ounce won’t make the difference to me – I still love using the Omega. Clean up is easier on the Omega as well…and well, it makes NUT BUTTERS! Yum.

But since I will be juicing so much daily, the Breville makes more sense just because of the huge pulp holder and huge juice holder. I am just going to have to get use to the speed and sound.

Normally I feed my worms (I have a worm bin) the pulp from my juicing. Which is about a big glass every other day. (I have green smoothies on the other days) Anyway, this is going to be more than they can handle – going to have to start a compost bin or something! But they are going to be really happy. It’s been getting warmer and they have been eating more and having lots of babies!

Counting down to the Global Juice Feast!

I got my Omega from Wheatgrasskits.com – sign up for their newsletter too! They have lots of articles on their site to read. I’ve ordered lots of stuff from this site and really like them.

UPDATE: Amazon carries the Omega 8005 for a great price now and free shipping. Wheatgrasskits.com has a new model – the Omega 8006