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Juicetopia

Inspired by a friend, we’ve started our first juice fast. Inspired by on-line strangers, we’ve decided to keep a diary of it.

Sara’s Juice Fast: Day 1

8am: Sara’s fast begins. One cup of green tea. “This is easy!”

10am: orange juice

11:30am: vegetable juice

1:13pm: “The hunger is going to kill me. I’m going to die.”

1:30pm: 2nd veggie juice. Still alive.

3pm: mint tea

5:30pm: headache starts

8:30pm: “dinner” of vegetable broth (broth from boiling zucchini, garlic, green beans, cabbage) and veggie juice (carrot, celery, zucchini, cabbage, kale, parsley, cucumber)

10pm: “dessert” of fruit juice (apple, pear, grape, lemon, ginger)

10:30pm: headache ends

11pm: chamomile tea

Ron’s Juice Fast: Day 1

What I “ate” today:

  • 1 Odwalla bar
  • 1 small Odwalla Superfood juice
  • 1 large Bolthouse Farms Vedge (tomato++) juice
  • water
  • vegetable broth
  • vegetable juice (see above)
  • fruit juice (see above)
  • tea

I feel basically normal at the end of day 1–though I’m slightly hungry and could go for some ice cream and/or chocolate (but I already said I felt normal ;) ).

3 Responses to “Juicetopia” [Leave yours »]

  1. Juicetopia – Day 2

    Sara’s Juice Fast: Day 2
    What a night.
    2am: Woke up with a splitting headache and nausea. Violently ill for an hour. Threw up several times. (Did some research: this is apparently a not-uncommon “healing crisis” (a.k.a. a Herxheimer…

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  2. Gram tracked back:

    WHY ???? Other than peeing a lot– WHY????

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  3. Sara tracked back:

    Gram – welcome to the blog! :) I’ll try to explain our juice fast reasoning, although in the end I think it just comes down to a “why not?” The theory is that doing a juice fast once or twice a year helps detoxify the body and give your digestive system a rest. We are still skeptical about that, but wanted to give it a try nonetheless to see what the experience would be like. It was certainly an experience! Hope to see you more often on leftbraned….xoxoxoxo…..

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