Day 7

One week! Yay! I'm about 75% back to normal from having the flu. My stomach is still a little upset but I'm not dizzy and I can drink juice again. The flu really took a lot out of me physically and mentally. Last night I was positive today would be my last day. But now I'm feeling stronger and I found some great motivational resources online. This guy did a 56-day juice fast and posted a video blog every single day. I've been watching the videos and they're really informative - and it's like doing the fast with a virtual partner.

I took a fruit and veggie inventory this morning and realized that I've been drinking way too much fruit juice and avoiding those healthy green vegetables. So this morning I had a broccoli-spinach-celery juice and for lunch I did tomato-green pepper-spinach. I learned to mask the taste of the veggies I don't like by adding an apple and a big slice of lemon thanks to this great video:



I'm not 100% back to normal, so although yoga is a low-intensity workout - it does take a lot of strength to hold up the weight of your own body for extended periods of time and even those in perfect health can get dizzy moving from seated or forward folding positions to standing. So I sadly opted out of yoga this morning and took a gentle 20-minute walk around the neighborhood instead.

I revisited the Farmer's Market and stocked up on apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, and bought a few kiwi(s?). Only $20! That makes the average about $40 per week which is comfortably under my budget of $50. I also bought soymilk and some V8. The soymilk is for hard days when I need a treat and the V8 is for lunch at school. Even with lemon juice, the fresh-squeezed juice from 7:00am just wasn't that appetizing at 1:30pm. It's just to get me through the day until I can juice freshly at 4:00pm.

I met my minimum goal of 7 days and lost 10 pounds this first week. I'm planning to continue for now and see how I feel day-by-day. Now if only my stomach would settle down . . .