update on new cleansing

So I have not posted since my brief description on day one, I am now half way through day 4. This time around has seemed to be quiet more difficult when it comes to wanting regular food. I have not been feeling full of my juice meals and have been graving and getting hungry for other foods more frequently.This time around has been so much more challenging with wanting to stay with it that I have considered multiple times stopping or just making it a shorter cleanse. I did get a new juice book to help with ideas for different juices so I do not have to have the same juices all the time, that has been nice with lots of options and different choices. Yesterday due to some conflicts with meetings and other things I had one juice meal and 2 raw meals with raw fruit or vegetables. My dinners are the same they were before, spinach salads with tomatoes, onions, cauliflower, and avocado.  I am going to try and make it through at least the rest of the week and then see how I am doing. I have not been feeling any different this cleansing around, besides hungry :). I tried to keep track of the recipes I have been using the last few days so here is the list and recipe of juices I have used this week. I did adapt some of them for what ingredients i had such as a few times using spinach instead of kale and sometimes an apple instead of a pear or cutting recipe in half.
(all recipes say they serve 2 people)
Tropical Carrot
-4 carrots
-2 celery ribs
-2 apples
-1 mango
-1/4 lime

Carrot Kale
-6 carrots
-4 celery ribs
-1 apple
-3 cups firmly packed kale leaves
( i have used with kale and with spinach in replacement of kale, like with Spinac better :)

Peach and pear
-3 peaches
-3 pears
-1 apple
(calls for 1/4 fennel bulb but I didn't add that)

Grape Kiwi and orange
-6 kiwis
-2 oranges
-2 celery ribs

Blueberry, strawberry,apple
- 1 qt. blueberry
-1 pt. strawberries
-2 apples
-1/4 lemon

beggining of new juice cleanse 14 days (2 weeks)

In my last post I said I would let you know the time I was starting a new juice cleansing. This time I am doing it for 14 days instead of just one week. I am doing a second cleansing and one a little longer for the following reasons. 1st I got off track and feel I need to clean out my system again and restart, 2nd I was having some trouble adjusting from juicing to a healthy diet and I feel extending a little bit will help me see more of a difference then I did with just 7 days. However this time around I do not feel as strong and as confident as I did when I was doing 7 days so we will see if I am able to stick with it. I started this morning on a Sunday, the beginning of the week so it would be easier to keep track :). I plan on doing it how I did it last time 2 meals juiced on meal pretty much raw foods. I will keep you further posted on how it goes.  So far today I've just had breakfast, it was a an apple berry drink the recipe will be below. I will post again later on how the rest of the day went and what I did for lunch and supper. Because I am still at my parents my lunch will probably be raw food and my supper will be a juice meal. Below is today's breakfast stay tuned for other meals :)

Blueberry, strawberry, and Apple:
-1qt. blueberries
-1 pt. strawberries
-2 apples
-1/4 lemon
(can garnish with strawberries)
(services 2 people)

struggles (2 weeks after 7 day cleansing)

Its been just over 2 weeks since I stopped my cleansing. Sorry my update is a little late, but its hard to update on stuff when your not quiet doing what you are supposed to be doing. the last week and half has been a little bit of a struggle for me, I've been preoccupied with a job change I've been going through so other things kind of fell to the side. I took a break from my workouts for a day (after an over 2 and half hour work out on monday), one day turned into 2 and into 3 and so on, and a similar thing happened with my juicing. I have juiced a couple times in the last week but not like I wanted too and I am back to not really eating breakfast and lunch and then eating a bunch of little meals later in the evening, and even though for the most part they are still pretty healthy to much of healthy food can still be bad. My struggle came with the shift of no longer just juicing and being able to eat regulare foods again. It is very difficult to find a good medium between just juicing and balanced meals. I am still working on exactly where the line is. So I have decided its time to get back to consistent juicing. I need to get myself back on track and juicing gets me on a good starting point. I have not made it to the grocery store to buy my supplies to start this as of tomorrow so I will probably have to officially start it on wednesday, but I plan on doing a juicing diet of some type starting Wednesday at the earliest and I plan on doing it for not just 7 days but 2 weeks. I will also be getting back to more consistent exercises every day and drinking my water bottles everyday. I will keep you informed on when I start this and if I am successful. I wish this update could be more inspiring but changing a life style isn't always easy :). Wish  me luck.

week one after cleansing

Sorry it has taken so long for an update, just never got around to doing it. My first weekend after my 7 day cleansing was spent with my parents for my moms birthday. I tried to stay healthy but was eating more food then I had for a week and was not getting my exercises done so did put on weight. After that weekend I decided to just keep juicing. I continued to juice my breakfasts and to make a veggie juice for lunch that sometimes include a sandwich on the side. I have been doing a more extensive workout this last week to try and make up for the increase in calories since I'm eating more regular food. I have not really tried any new juices, just been using the ones I have previously posted, with adaption depending on what ingredients I had on hand. So far i am doing pretty good but the last couple days have had some work issues and there for have been eating more unhealthy then i should be, I have been increasing workouts to try and make up for it but do need to get back on track. I think the main problem is not drinking enough water s,o I feel hungrier then I need too. So far though I think I am maintaining a happy appetite, but have found out recently that I think some veggie meats make me sick because I have been adding them back into my diets and lately have been having upset stomachs. I am still not for sure what exactly has been causing it since I had added multiple things back into my diet the last couple days, but will start taking things out against to try and figure it out. Anyway I will continue to let you know how things are going as I continue to try and maintain a healthier diet and as I continue to juice breakfasts and some lunches :). Oh I did try a new juice this morning below is the ingredients for the melon melody, kind of tastes sweet like candy :).

Melon Melody
-1/2 watermelon
-1/2 honey dew melon
-1/2 cantolope.

Day 7!!!

Well it has come day 7! But it really doesn't even feel like it has been 7 days. Makes me feel like I should have gone longer cause 7 days wasn't very hard at all :). Todays morning juice was orange and grapefruit which I wasn't sure if I would like because i'm not much into grapefruit, but it was actually pretty good. My lunch juice was a little blan so I again added an apple to it and I was able to finish this one today :).  At day 7 I am about 5 pounds lighter, I have more energy through my day because I am actually geting breakfast and its an easy breakfast for me to do. So now to answer the big question, what are my plans after day 7? I plan to pretty much keep going. I am going to add light regular food to my diet but I am still juicing my breakfasts and I even have a juice for lunch tomorrow, but I will also have a vegetarian turkey sandwich on hemp bread with spianch. I will be having a fuller supper becuase I am going to celebrate my moms birthday with her and my dad at my parents apartment tomorrow, but I will only be doing correct serving sizes so not a full full meal. And the rest of the day I will be juicing my meals (besides the sandwich for lunch). I will continue to blog on the juices I do or the meals I try, however it might be weekly updates instead of daily updates and I will probably change the name of the blog :). Stay tuned if you want to know more about how I'm doing after my 7 days!  Below are todays juices.

Breakfast blend
-3 oranges
-1 grapefruit

Green Boost
-1 medium stock (6oz) broccoli (i accidently forgot the broccoli!)
-1 small yellow squash
-1 medium celery stalk
-1/2 green bell pepper
-1/2 inch slic cucumber
(I forgot the broccoli but added an apple :)

Day 6

Well Day 6 is now finished. It really doesn't even seem like it has been six days and planning on what I will eat after day 7 actually feels wrong, like I'm cheating or something. My day six breakfast was called sweat pea and the name pretty much says it sweat pea snaps, pear and celery it was actually pretty good but the recipe did not make very much juice. My lunch was called Energy on the Run it was a little strong so I added an extra ingredient too it, but when it came time to drink it was unable to finish it all. I tried to get it all down but just didnt' have the time between kids to truly force my self to drink it so I got just 3/4 of it done, but stopped because it had been sitting for a while and was getting warm and drinking it would have just made me sick. When I got home from work I cut off some of the pineapple from a previous drink, I think later ate my normal salad mix with green peppers, onions, spinach, guacamole, tomatoes and tonight added a tiny bit of organic black beans. I later also had a couple strawberries :). Well not a lot to say about today, was pretty much like the other days. Got up sleep but once I got going was fine, my lunch was hard to get down, had my typical supper and did my 3rd night in a row of a 30 min (easy) workout. Made it through 6 days one left to go! Below are the recipes from today's drinks.

Sweat Pea
-1 cup sugar snap peas
-1 stalk celery
-1 pear

Energy On The Run
-1 small wedge of cabbage
-2 medium stalks celery
-1 medium carrot
-1/2 large beet
-1/2 large red pepper
-1/2 lemon peel and white pith removed
(now that I see the ingredients I don't think I remembered the pepper lol :), but I did add an apple to make it sweeter)

Day 5

So I had to check my old posts to remember what day I was on :). Day five started out a little rough cause I was not feeling good this morning, but that is mostly because I haven't been working on my poor sleeping habits and I didnt' get a lot of sleep last night. Once I got up and going I was fine. My breakfast this morning was a berry juice full of just berries (raspberries,blueberries and strawberries) it was pretty good. Lunch wasn't so bad today I finished it, but I still struggle with the vegetable juices for some reason. I was a lot more hungry today so when I got home from work ate some fruit as a sort of snack pear,peach, and plum. My supper was the typical serving of vegetables and then a small salad but I didn't finish all of it tonight, maybe I'm just getting tired of the same thing :). I have been getting better about drinking more water (2 20z water bottles full today) and started adding exercises into my daily routing (well for the last 2 days anyway). I exercise for at least 30 min but so far its just my wii fit exercises, I will get to tougher stuff sooner. Well made it through day 5 and still doing pretty good. Today I was thinking about what my plans are once I hit day 7. I am still going to be doing juicing for breakfasts and maybe even a small one for lunch and just add a small sandwich with it or something. We will see what I decide to do once day 7 comes and goes. Below is the recipes from today's juice meals :)

Berry fruit juice recipes
-2 cups strawberries
-2cups blueberries
1 and 1/2 cups of raspberries
(I actually did 2 cups of everything)

Super C green
-1 cup of spinach
-1/2 cucumber
-2 stalks of celery including leaves
-3 carrots (I suggest smaller carrots unless you want it to taste very carroty)
-1/2 apple (I did a whole apple)