Day 1

I don't feel hungry. I didn't eat very much yesterday, so I thought I would be hungrier than I am. My stomach growls once in a while, but it doesn't feel like hunger. I feel normal - although a little tired and my mouth is dry.

For breakfast I wanted to start with something I knew I would like - something familiar. So I juiced a red apple, a yellow apple, a handful of red grades, and a handful of green grapes. For lunch, I started introducing more of the things I was nervous about juicing. I had an orange juice with an orange, a sweet potato, a pear, and two carrots. Then for dinner, I forced myself to try a purely vegetable juice. I had two tomatoes, two celery stalks, two carrots, five brocolli flowers, and two handfuls of spinach. Breakfast and lunch were delicious. Dinner tasted like drinking grass. But I do have some energy now.

I relaxed most of the day. Between breakfast and lunch I started to get a headache, so I decided to make my juice and sit out on the balcony and read. I chose a book from my library that was purely for entertainment . . .no education theory, no spirituality, no complexities of social constructs . . .just fun. I chose Observatory Mansions, which I really have no idea how it came to be in my library. I don't remember borrowing it from anyone and it's clearly been read before. Kismet. It feels good to read a book just to enjoy it for a change.

I'm thinking about going down to the pool now. I plan on cutting my mile in half tonight and taking it easy. Then I'm heading to yoga in the morning. Namaste!