Better than Crack...

Actually I can't say that for certain having never been on crack, but MAN OH MAN did I have a mess of energy this morning. That seems somewhat counterintuitive being that I haven't had solid food in 3 days, but I couldn't sit still, and I ended up cleaning the whole house. My wife is loving this juicing thing. lol I had very few hunger pangs today, and had a clear headedness that bordered normalcy. No headaches despite being 5 days without caffeine as well. I think the hydration and natural sugars probably go a long ways towards helping with the headaches. But I was in a visibly good mood all day today, without much of the irritability that happened yesterday.

So, the dealio. The day started the same as yesterday, with a mug (actually 2 mugs) of the vegetable broth that I made. The mushrooms really add a kick that I don't think would be there if it was just veggies. Definitely going to include mushrooms the next time as well.

I followed that up with a very simple Pineapple/Orange Juice for my fruit juice today. It included about 1/2 of a pineapple, and 3 oranges both juiced rind and all. It was GOOD! At least when compared with yesterdays V8 Fiasco.

Following my speed cleaning of the house this morning, I juiced my veggie juice for the day. Not good, but passable. It consisted of 1 full cucumber. 4 stalks of celery, 3 handfuls of spinach, and 8-10 lettuce leaves, and was diluted with water. Came out a pretty cool looking shade of green, and I had hoped the cucumber would provide enough sweet to sip it pleasantly, but it pretty much tasted like water and lettuce. Oh well, its vegetables, and being that I didn't get my green leafies today, I needed them.

For dinner, I slammed what was left of my cucumber, honeydew, kale, celery concoction from last night. Not very good the second day -- hence pounding it faster than a Frat Boy during pledge week.

Interspersed among the day was about 64 ounces of water. Filtered through my Brita, which I'm not entirely sure gets the chlorine out of it. Note to self... check into that. What it does do however is increase urine production to dangerous levels, if I could find a way to pee into a turbine, I could possibly power the city of Salem. No. really.

I'm noticing that I've become rather pungent smelling of late, and I had a pretty thick coating on my tongue today when I woke up. According to the websites I've looked at, both of these are detoxification symptoms, but we'll see. I went to bed last night with what felt like the beginnings of a sore throat, also a possible good sign as it could be swollen adenoids indicating my lymphatic system is starting to kick into gear.

I was really excited as I was cleaning our 'herbal tea' section of the house and found the DETOX herbal tea made with dandelion and a bunch of other good detoxification stuff! I think in addition to my vegetable broth tomorrow morning, I will have some DETOX herbal tea. I want to make sure that the toxins are leaving properly and not being reabsorbed.

I called someone today who is more learned than I regarding the detoxification process in this plan, and it sounds like I need to ensure that in addition to the taking-in of detoxifying products, I need to make sure those toxins are going somewhere. We discussed my urine output and my 'other' output. My urine is nearly water at this point, just clear as glass, but its looking like I will likely have to do the big E.

I'm scared. Not like a poop your pants kind of scared as in 'there's a semi-truck bearing down on you', or that silly video on the internet that you try to do the maze and then the half rotted zombie face pops out and screams at you... but the kind of scared like your Aunt Edna is at the door, and she always wan smells like mothballs, and wants to pinch your cheeks and give you hugs and kisses. Yeah, it's kind of like that -- more of an uncomfortable kind of scared.

With that said... this too shall pass.

Seriously, does everyone have to barbecue today??

First Day almost down. Only 20 more to go...

I've decided it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do this during summertime, with all the awesome grill smells around. Everywhere I went today, people were cooking awesome food!! The Farmer's Market -- Yakisoba and Grilled Teriyaki Chicken. Walking to the car from the YMCA after the kids gymnastics classes -- Guy at the Statesman Journal barbecuing hamburgers. Shannon is outside currently grilling chicken for her and the kids for dinner, which is why I'm inside camping out with my absolutely grotesque attempt at V-8.

The day started out so well.

For breakfast I had some vegetable Broth I made last night from a bunch of different vegetables (Stir Fry Veggie packets on clearance at Fred Meyer) + some mushrooms. Popped it into the microwave, and put it into a coffee mug, and could almost pretend that I was sitting with a cup of coffee. Almost.

For a mid-morning snack and lunch, I juiced 3 large carrots, 2 apples, 2 plums, and 3 celery stalks and diluted it 50/50 with water and nursed that for a while each time I felt hungry. Surprisingly haven't had a lot of hunger pangs today, despite being the second day without solid food.

For lunch I attempted to make V-8. It didn't turn out too well, but it included: 3 Large carrots, 3 very small beets, 5 medium tomatoes, 1/2 a bunch of Spinach, 1/4 head of Cabbage, 1 red bell pepper, 1 green bell pepper, 4 stalks of celery, 1/4 of an onion, 2 cloves garlic, 5-6 Beet Greens, and lots and lots of tabasco to fix the taste. LOL!

It's not particularly good, but its loaded with vegetables, and it ended up making a lot, so I'm still working on sucking it down now that it's 6:00.

In between all of this, I've been working on getting the required amount of water for the day. Plain for most of the day, but the latest bit of water, I threw a few hunks of lemon into for some additional taste, also to help take the taste of the V-8 out of my mouth.

From a standpoint of how I'm feeling, this morning I felt very alert! Woke up right away, had lots of energy, and through the day had a lot of energy. This afternoon however, I'm feeling a bit more lethargic, and my head's feeling a little foggy. I think I'll do up a fruit/vegetable mix this evening -- Pineapple, Orange, Mango, Cucumber, and Kale (I need more Green Leafy's Today) -- as soon as I can choke down the 1/2 liter of V-8 I have left, which should give me a little pick me up. So far so good, but it's still early.

Shannon noticed I'm starting to get a little bit irritable, so its possible that the detoxification has begun in earnest, I haven't noticed how I'm much different than I am normally. ;)

A poll of sorts for those of you who are actually taking the time to read all of this. As the blog progresses, how much information do you want me putting in? Do you want to hear about the Mood Swings? Detoxification symptoms? BM'S? Or should a fellow just keep that kind of stuff to himself.

I'll put it up to you to vote. Majority wins.

I appreciate everybody's support and kind words, it makes it much more difficult to quit if it feels like I'm letting other's down instead of just myself. I'm used to letting myself down, but work hard not to let down others, so I appreciate your encouragement.