It's frustrating to see the weight loss slowing. Okay, okay, realllllly I'm not just doing this to lose weight, but since that is one benefit of a juice feast I got kind of excited about it and I want to see those numbers keep falling! I do see my stomach shrinking, it's like a deflating balloon or or something, and I can feel parts of my body shrinking, and my boyfriend says my face looks thinner (I see it, too) but then I'll catch a glimpse of my reflection in a pane of glass and I'll be like "whoa! I'm sooooo wide! Ugh!" and I just want that weight to melt off.
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday is that I did a coffee enema. I definitely used too much coffee. It was the equivalent of about 8 cups and I don't know how much caffeine you actually get when taking your coffee that way but for me it was....well, I felt jittery like maybe I actually drank 8 cups of coffee, although I haven't had coffee in about two weeks and I haven't had solid food so maybe just one cup of coffee, taken orally, would have made me just as jittery. I did have that kombucha, though, so I guess I did have some caffeine. Oops. maybe I shouldn't have kombucha? Wait, but if you get caffeine in your system from the enema, then maybe the kombucha IS okay? Or maybe only if it's a kombucha enema? :P
I had the enema at 1 or 2 pm, then I had a terrible time trying to sleep.
Today I thought I'd go to the produce store, since they were closed yesterday. I figured this would mean they'd have lots of stuff on the "old clearance produce" shelves, but it wasn't all I hoped it would be. I got 4 pounds for $1 oranges, then on non-discount I got some purple garlic and a bunch of curly parsley. I spent a grand total of $3.04, which should help bring down my daily average!
I didn't have my first juice until about noon, and I actually started to feel sort of light-headed. Meanwhile, I was doing things like planning a meal to make for my boyfriend's family this weekend. I think I did a good job of coming up with a menu that people on a Standard American Diet can enjoy but I will still be included in the meal and people may not even notice I am not eating everything!
Here's the menu:
Starter: a melange of fresh juices (three different juice blends served in 6 oz juice glasses that I got when we were doing a beer tasting, I chose really yummy ones, mostly from the book Raw Food, Real World - even non-vegans and non-raw foodies seem to love all the recipes in that book.)
Soup: Black Eyed Pea & Squash w/Shiitake Mushrooms from Vegetable Heaven (the broth from it sounds wonderful, so I'll have that.)
Samusas (aka samosas - we like the recipe from Vegan With a Vengeance, even the dough is full of flavor. If we have leftovers, probably my boyfriend will eat them but theoretically we are going to freeze them and use them in Samusa Soup in a couple months, so I won't be able to eat these when we make them but maybe eventually.)
Dessert: Cantaloupe Sorbet (or watermelon, if we can't find a luscious cantaloupe. I'd love to make 3 sorbets, and I do have an ice cream compressor, but I think it'd be too many leftovers.
So that's what I was doing instead of making my first juice of the day - pouring through recipe books. I was so inspired that I started devising a Mother's Day Brunch menu as well, but that was a bit harder. You want people to feel satisfied even though you are serving them a bunch of fruits and veggies and maybe not as many refined grains as they are used to. I think the trick is to hit them with the fruit or the veg first, before they've had time to serve themselves anything else. For instance, we make this wonderful walnut-red pepper spread that we serve with lots of (often home made) bread - and we usually serve this while we're cooking, so people don't feel hungry and antsy while waiting for us to finish. For my menus, it'd be a bad idea to give people all that bread first...they just won't eat that other stuff. So, hence the melange of juices being served first before people have eaten anything else, and same with the brunch menu - I'll make sure to put out a big platter of cut fruit and serve big glasses of orange juice before the meal - hopefully people will then be satisfied without as much coffee cake and quiche as they are used to us serving them and will actually eat plenty of fruit/veg.
I was pretty happy about how little I spent on produce today and thinking how long I could make my money last until I started doing a little more reading on juice feasting and realizing maybe I was missing a few things I should be doing/taking. I ended up ordering some Healthforce Intestinal Drawing Formula, which I should be taking right now, the Chanca Piedra I need starting day 31, some maple syrup and more MSM powder, which I realized I should be taking morning AND evening, not just morning.
The Intestinal Drawing Formula contains flax meal. This kind of confuses me. Aren't we supposed to be avoiding things that contain fiber? Hopefully I will stumble upon the answer soon.
Weight: 203.6
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