Today my boyfriend and I got up early (well, early for us when we're together anyway) and I forgot to bring my msm powder or my dry brushing brush to his house but I drank a mason jar of water with lemon while we did a hip opener type yoga (How To Grow A Lotus) and he had grapefruit juice with Super Seed in it. I wished I was having grapefruit juice with Super Seed! Then I made us some pineapple-garlic juice and then got ready to go in to the city.
While I was waiting for my boyfriend and his daughter to finish getting ready, I had time to put my juice feast days into my iPad calendar. (It would be cool to make an iPad app that is a sort of calendar that tracks all the juice feasting stuff you are doing.) My boyfriend's daughter invited me to her graduation, which is out of town, and she wasn't positive about the date but she thought it might be July 15. After I put the last date in, I said to my boyfriend "oh, guess what day July 15th is!" and he guessed exactly what I was writing in my calendar entry just then, "Prune Day". July 15th will be the day after the last day of the juice feast, the day you are supposed to eat a pound of soaked prunes to break the feast! Well, naturally a lot of jokes about prunes ensued, although I tried to explain that prunes are not going to have the same effect on someone who doesn't have a bunch of food in their system and has been juice feasting for 92 days. At least, I don't think so. Heck, I've been taking Cascara Sagrada lately and that doesn't even really do anything for me. Neither do coconuts. People say those are supposed to have a laxative effect, but I don't notice it.
Once we got to the city, we started to go to the farmer's market, but then we thought it probably closed at 3 and we should go eat first, I guess because it was so tempting to get something to eat at the market and ruin our appetites otherwise. We ate at a restaurant we love called "Plant" and I had some kombucha that was really not very good - the waiter said it was something, something and cilantro, but it was actually something, something and chipotle and if I'd known that I'd have ordered the plain flavor. It tasted kind of like a bloody mary without the tomato juice. Then I had a double shot of wheatgrass and the greenest juice they had. The green juice was not tasty at all. I like the one I make. The wheatgrass went down easy but then the aftertaste...blah...I grabbed the orange wedge that came with it and then started eating it...then I remembered I shouldn't and I spit most of it out. I was all like "oh no, I ate some solid food!" then I thought about how it seems like some fiber gets through the seams of the nut milk bags anyway and so I thought no big deal.
I was very careful to take advantage of the restrooms we came across. It does seem like my bladder holds more than it did before! lol
After lunch, we found we missed the farmer's market, and I was a little (inwardly) distraught. I missed my local farmer's market today with the wonderful $1 lettuces and now I'd missed my chance at any other lettuce, either.
Next, we went to the San Francisco Earth Day Festival. I thought it would be big and crowded but it wasn't. Overall I wasn't that impressed with it. They had some cool entertainment on several different stages, and they had hoola hoops and there were some really good hoopers there (I really want a hoola hoop - a nice one - about six months ago I had gotten my boyfriend to agree to buy all the stuff needed to make about 8 of them and I wanted to use them at a party but then it never happened - or hasn't happened yet) and aging left-over hippies dancing (one of my favorite parts of San Francisco) but then they had all these booths that were just products you see all the time at Whole Foods anyway and people walking around trying to get you to sign petitions or wanting to give you flyers about things like how what you eat impacts the environment (um, preaching to the choir here.) My boyfriend's daughter seemed to like it, though, so that's cool, and my boyfriend bought me a beautiful pair of yoga pants made out of bamboo - I got them in medium and the woman at the booth was kind of like "um, maybe you should get a large" and she was super nice about it but I felt like an idiot (a chubby idiot) and in front of her and my boyfriend I was feeling really awkward wondering do I try and explain that large tends to slide down the hips of my apple shaped body, or that I'm losing weight right now and they're too beautiful and expensive to get and then become too small for?
I did get a juice there, some morroccan thing with mint in it. Much better than the earlier juice.
So then we went shopping in Union Square. I felt bad because my boyfriend has lost probably 40 pounds over the past few years (he wants to build some muscle back now) and has finally gotten to this point where he could really use some new clothes - well, maybe a lot of new clothes - and he really wanted some new shoes and instead he only found one shirt for himself but ended up buying me a shirt and two pairs of shoes. He really wanted to get me some ballet flat type shoes but I refuse to buy any leather shoes so we couldn't find anything we agreed on.
Anyway...then we stopped at Starbucks so I got an herbal tea, and then we drove back to MY city and went to dinner at a thai place. Not a total success. They have fresh coconut water on the menu, but they were out of it, and they have a sort of herbal tea but it's sweetened with sugar - so I ordered the sweet and sour soup and just had the broth plus a few spoons of my boyfriend's yellow curry sauce - that was very tasty but I probably shouldn't have had it because it's made with coconut milk or coconut - either way that means it has fiber.
When I got home, I realized a.) I had WAY less than a gallon of juice today and b.) if you add up the cost of trying to drink juices prepared for you at restaurants and festival booths all day, it's going to be way, wayyyy more expensive than making it yourself! A lot of places charge like, $7 for a 12 ounce juice. There are 128 ounces in a gallon. To actually drink a gallon of juice, you'd have to have 10 or 11 of them...so that'd be $70. I could have a whole weeks worth of juice at least for that!
So then I had a quart of water with msm, and then a quart of water with l-glutamine powder and went to bed.
Weight: ?!?!?!?
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