We took our first trek to the store today and loaded up on fruits and veggies. Take a look of our refrigerator!
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| Please excuse the beer... That's for emergencies |
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| 2 bags of apples and one bag of oranges |
And this is the lovely machine that will be doing all of the hard work!
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| All clean and ready to go! |
LC is working the night shift tonight (she stayed home to help take care of Rileyboy... who decided to have major freak outs / sick episodes yesterday which ended up costing me close to $500 dollars at the vet) so we decided to send her on her marry way with her first juice concoction.
Below are pictures of the fruits and veggies we added to her juice. We pretty much followed the Mean Green recipe found on the website listed above, but added a few carrots because we forgot a lemon at the store.
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| That's 3 stalks for kale, one bunch of spinach, one cucumber 3 apples, 4 stalks of celery, a slice of ginger and a handful of carrots... 4-6 times a day! That's a lot of food!!!! |
And we ended up with this lovely mixture (doesn't taste as bad as what I expected, but still doesn't fall under the delicious category quite yet).
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| Looks like I'll have to get use to seeing this |
I'm super excited because I'll also start tomorrow morning. From here on out (we're trying to at least accomplish 3 days, with the hope of possibly 10 or more) it will be a juiced fruits and veggies 4 to 6 times a day each serving being 16 to 20 ounces of juice. Now some people might be wondering how we could possibly become full off of this, however, take a look at all of the fruits and veggies we used for use one juice. Now multiply that by four to six times a day, and we are actually taking in A LOT of food! We're just taking it in a form that makes digesting easier.
I won't always have to use the "mean green" concoction up above, in the morning we will incorporate more fruits while the mid morning all the way through the afternoon will have a 80:20 ratio of veggies to fruits. I'm excited to see what a sweet potato tastes like once it's juiced.
Now, of course we have to also drink water and eventually will begin incorporating exercise. The reason I say eventually is because for the first several days our bodies will be detoxing and we can expect to experience headaches and probably won't feel like doing much (hints why we're starting over a weekend). I also can't wait for this weekend because we are hitting up the local farmers markets! I can't wait to begin this new challenge. I definitely suggest if you have time to watch the video on the website. It's a little over an hour and a half, but to me, totally worth it.
I'll try to give daily updates on how me and LC are feeling, also as a way to hold us accountable. I can't wait to see how things go, and to start living a new active, and healthy life style.
(side note... totally new concept to be able to actually go outside and enjoy yourself in the summer months. The highs around here have only been in the 90s, something I know everyone back home in Texas would be super happy for!)
