Days 6 & 7, The End...For Now.

Yesterday went by so fast that I didn't get a chance to write anything and honestly yesterday was so busy It was mostly a blur! I'm going to end the fast here for now. The next few weeks are just crazy and a lot of time travelling and what I dont want to do is break the fast in a moment of weakness at a taco bell.

I have learned a lot during the last 7 days so I will continue to post once a week or so and share some of that info. Unless my schedule changes I have 2 week window at the end of the month where I will be home so I am going to shoot for a 14 day fast then. Thanks for all the support the "likes" and comments on Facebook the other day really helped me push through and logging on to the blog and seeing all the views was inspiring as well.

Day 5, I'm Hungry!

I think I may have over done it just a bit yesterday because I definitely feel a little run down today. Not to bad though and over all it was a good day. However, it felt like my stomach was trying to remind me to eat all day. 

I had to go buy some produce today, but so far I have been able to do this juice fast on the cheap. I went to a farmers market last week and bought around 60 lb of produce for $40 I still have some of that left but the core ingredients like carrots, apples and kale had run out. So my cost per day so far is under $10 for organic farm grown produce. Thats really cheap, I have been juicing around 4 quarts a day! 

I got a little excited when I was at the produce shop today and bought a half bushel of apples, they just looked so good! So I had a lot of apple juice this afternoon and saved a quart for tomorrow. I also decided to be industrious with the pulp from the apples. This is the constant discussion among juicers, what to do with all the fiber that shoots out the back of the juicers. especially if you are using a centrifugal juicer like mine which leaves a fair amount of juice in the pulp. So today I decided to make apple sauce, which I can't eat, but Lauren says it is really good. I made a huge pot of it too.  

And perhaps the biggest news of the day, I have lost 21.5 pounds since September 1. Eleven of those pounds have been while on this juice fast.