So, today at dinner I will celebrate the end of my fast with a banana and some strawberries. Tomorrow morning I will drink juice for breakfast have a small salad for lunch and eat light for dinner.
I do feel a pretty big sense of accomplishment. As I said in an earlier post once I determine I will do something, I don't change my mind. This is how I gave birth to four babies sans painkillers. This is how I survived the early weeks of breastfeeding all four of them too. Quitting was not an option. Come to think of it I seem to have a high tolerance for pain and suffering... LOL!
I will keep posting for a while so that you can see how I feel in the days following, how much weight comes back and how quickly etc. I was 106 even this morning so for the entire fast I am down 7.4 lbs.
I think when I do my juice fasts from now on I will do 7 days. It just seems like a better length to me. I do plan to do this again right after July 4. I also plan to try to incorporate fresh juice into my regular diet. I honestly could not possibly get the recommended amount of servings of fruits and veggies in my diet every day if I had to eat/chew them all.
So in a nutshell:
The Best Part of the 10 day juice fast:
1)I did it
2)I learned I could do it
3)I have a new healthy habit to incorporate into my lifestyle
4)The weight loss, just in time for summer
5)The lack of headaches (after day 2)
6)The nutrient infusion I gave my body
7)Waking up early with lots of energy
The Worst Part of the juice fast
1)Smelling Food
2)Dinner time
3)Prepping the fruit, making the juice and cleaning up the juicer every day
4)The extreme muscle soreness/tightness and back ache of the first few days
5)Waking up early with lots of energy (a plus and a minus... haha)
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