Today I went to the produce store and I got 4 seen-better-days lemons and 4 slightly-older limes for 79 cents. Not bad, eh? I also got more of the 3 pounds for $1 oranges and I broke down and got some apples and carrots, which I had been hoping to find in large quantities at a lower price. Funny thing is, the organic carrots were the same price as the "conventional" ones! Carrots were 99 cents a pound and they had some braeburn apples that were also 99 cents a pound. That's better than 1.99 a pound like all the other apples in the store, but I figure if I'm supposed to be having 10 - 15 pounds of fresh produce juiced a day, and it costs me a dollar a pound, that's 10 to 15 dollars a day.
I keep reading people saying "hey, 10 to 15 dollars a day...a lot of people spend that just on lunch!" Maybe so, but I don't. Lately my average for food is probably about $5 a day when you figure in the larger purchases I make sometimes, of a case of tofu or ten pounds of rice or a multi pack of liquid stevia. I don't think I can afford to double that amount, much less triple it. My brilliant back up plan right now, if I run out of money, is to switch to a water fast, which I guess would only cost 25 cents a day (for the water.) A better idea is probably earn a bit more money, although I've been hearing a lot about water fasting and I'd like to try it. It seems like winter would be the best time for that, since you wouldn't miss all the fabulous produce available the rest of the year.
I was up and about for several hours before having my first juice, and when I got back from the store I felt a little woozy, but just for a second. I also felt hungry numerous times today, but I only had a spoon of honey once. I had a lot of food cravings, mostly involving this non-dairy cheese sauce/spread that I have made so many times I have the recipe memorized. Cheese sauce with - baked potato, french fry, as a grilled cheese on sprouted whole grain bread...so with carbs basically. Overall I don't really crave starchy things, although they do sound tasty, but I do really want to eat the fruits and veggies I have instead of juicing them.
I was also very emotional in the afternoon, emotional and upset with my boyfriend, but I'm a little unclear as to whether the juice feast had anything to do with it or if it's just because I thought I would see him today but then that didn't happen.
I did some Yin yoga today. I've been meaning to do some Yang or you know, more strenuous yoga, but I had to make some room to do any kind of yoga. The yin poses I have memorized, but the yang (okay, actually power yoga) I needed something to play a dvd on, and lately I've had my Wii and two dvd players stop working on me. I had sort of bricked my iMac, but I got that working yesterday so I guess I no longer have any excuse not to do the dvd.
I was enjoying my weight leaping down by at least a couple pounds a day before this, but now it's what, .4 of a pound? I guess it was mostly the celery and enemas and lack of solid food before and now maybe it's only actual weight loss showing up? I'm not doing this to lose weight exactly, but I have to say that seeing the scale move down could be a very big motivator to keep going if things start to seem difficult.
I've been starting out with a fruit juice even though I guess I'm supposed to start with a green juice - it's just that it's so quick to blend up. Eventually I will probably start with the green juice first. Oh, and I had lost a piece of my masticating juicer. I still hope to find it but at first I was pretty disappointed thinking I could "make do" with my VitaMix and a nut milk bag. It turns out it isn't any harder to use the VitaMix and in fact the clean-up is easier. I did, however, manage to jam up the VitaMix today. I had to empty the contents into a bowl and then add them back in a bit at a time. Now I see the importance of starting with a half a cup of water, not adding everything at once, and cutting apples smaller than in 1/3s.
Today I had:
watermelon-basil (interesting but like watermelon better w/out basil)
beet-spinach-celery-kale-apple-lemon-garlic-ginger (okay but not delish)
celery-carrot-beet-apple (pretty good, maybe I could have thrown in a head of lettuce)
watermelon (one mealy watermelon - good thing I was juicing it)
grapefruit (weird juicing a whole - peeled - grapefruit, a little different but not bad)
Weight: 206.8
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