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My Juice Fast Begins
Jul 20th
“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” ~Edgar Cayce
I started my juice fast this morning. It took about an hour to clean the various vegetables and fruits, get them juiced, drink my first experiment, and finally get the juicer ready for tomorrow. I have made the choice to only juice once per day and make enough for 5 servings of 16 ounces each. If I juiced 5 times per day, as I had originally thought I might, all I would be doing is juicing and cleaning up the juicer. Although I have some spare time in my schedule, I don’t have this much extra time.
Here is what I put into my first batch of home extracted juice: Kale, Spinach, Lettuce, Cucumber, Celery, Red Pepper, Carrot, Lemon, Ginger, Granny Smith Apples
So how did it taste? Interesting and do-able. I can’t call it great because it wasn’t. I can’t call it terrible – I have drank worse concoction in college in attempt to achieve a cheap alcohol buzz. I think I will have to stay with interesting and do-able. As I experiment and try different mixtures, I will let you know how my opinions.
Bye for now…Jack
“For every promise, there is price to pay.” ~Jim Rohn
A Public Commitment to Juice Fasting
Jul 19th
“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.” ~Kathy Norris
Tomorrow morning I am starting a juice fast. For at least 60 days, or until I have gotten clear of gout symptoms, I will be drinking only freshly extracted juices and water. No coffee, no tea, no sodas – just fresh juices and water.
Why am I doing this? Because I’ve finally had it! I suffer from gout and when I say suffer – I mean it! Gout has been plaguing me for almost 10 years now and has become the defining characteristic and limitation of my life. (for those of you that don’t know – and you should be very happy that you don’t know!; Gout is a excruciating swelling of joints – typically toes or ankles. My last attack immobilized my left ankle and my right knee – until you can’t move them you may not realize just how much you use ankles and knees! I was left with a walking gait not unlike the recently reanimated dead so popular in horror films.)
I’ll talk much more in the upcoming entries about exactly what I am doing and why. For today, I wanted to get this commitment out to my readers and myself – I believe in the extraordinary power of public commitment.
Bye for now…Jack
“Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another.” ~Author Unknown