FertilehealthyAiming for success, not perfection…

What I consumed today: 

• 250 ml warm water, lemon  juice, cayenne pepper
• 750 ml Barleylife
• 250 ml Herbal Fiberblend
• 1 liter orange, mint
• 500 ml chai tea
• 500 ml  Hanlie’s cold and flu remedy*
• lots of water
• MSM
• Flaxseed Oil

Weight: 

• Starting weight  – 157 kg.
• Weight on Tuesday 26 Feb – 145.5 kg
• Total loss – 11.5 kg

Exercise: 

• None

Energy levels:  Energy?  What energy? 

Positive Changes: 

• My skin is soft and smooth all over.
• I am no longer retaining water
• I snore less.
• My hair and body stay clean longer.
• My face is no longer oily.

Detox symptoms: 

• My tongue is only slightly coated now
• My skin has broken out in pimples.
• I feel puffy and have lost the “glow”.
• I am releasing a lot of mucous through my bowel AND MY NOSE!!!!
• The skin condition on my hands is flaring up again. 
• I have the flu.

Food cravings:   I want to say hearty soup, because that’s the accepted “remedy” for when one is feeling ill, but in fact I have no appetite at all and I wasn’t craving anything. 

Self Care: 

• Spent most of the day in bed fantasizing about Joaquin Phoenix recovering from my flu.

Emotions:   Apart from feeling sorry for myself?   Nothing to write home about.

Thoughts on the Day:

• I’ve decided to let go of my fixation with the scale.  I’ll weigh myself once a week, on Tuesdays, for now.  The Juice Feast is about so much more than weight loss and I feel as if I’ve been reducing it to a weight loss regime.  No more, I’m throwing myself into it heart and soul.  When I’m better of course.
• I had no green juice today, apart from Barleylife.  First of all, I really didn’t feel like making any, but also because I had no appetite and I’m listening to my body.  And my body doesn’t want lots of calories right now.  It’s quite happy with water.
• Lizana tells me that there’s a particularly horrible foreign flu going around.  I’m trusting that I don’t have that.  Craig is slightly better today, so hopefully I will start improving by tomorrow.  I’ll decide tomorrow night, depending on how I feel, whether I will be going to the wedding on Friday.  Probably not,  because not only do I feel crap, but I also feel ugly, and that’s just not a winning recipe for me!  I’d be much more comfortable facing these people when I’m my usual gorgeous and divine self!
• I had to go to the bank this afternoon and popped in to the bookstore to buy the   Brandon Bays book.  I didn’t find The Journey, but they had Freedom Is, so I got that.  Then I saw something that I didn’t expect to have reached our shores yet, Eckhard Tolle’s A New Earth.  I grabbed the last copy in the store!  So if I spend my day in bed tomorrow, I’ll have lots to keep me occupied.
• I have started taping Oprah in the afternoons (it’s on at 4 pm and rebroadcast at 10:15 pm), so that Craig and I can watch it in the evenings.  Heaven knows, there’s little else to watch and we both love Oprah!

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*Hanlie’s Cold and Flu Remedy 

2 cm piece of fresh ginger, grated

½ tsp dried sage

½ tsp cinnamon

½ tsp turmeric

juice of ½ lemon

1-2 tsp honey

1 cup boiling water 

Steep all the ingredients in the boiled water, strain and serve.  Cover yourself warmly and get into bed.  This mixture will make you sweat and will help thin mucous from the chest and sinuses, thus removing that “stuffy” feeling.  We don’t believe in medication, in fact we don’t even have headache tablets in our house!

The ever-inspiring Philip from Loving Raw wrote this very insightful post a few weeks ago, which I’m quoting here, since I know that not everybody has time to click on links!

One of the most common comments I hear this time of year is:

Don’t you miss warm foods in the winter?
I need hot soup to keep me warm.
I could never be raw in the winter.

Umm…. since when has food had so many responsibilities?

We want food to comfort us when we are depressed.
We want food to be our friend when we are alone.
We want food to cheer us up when we are sad.
We want food to entertain us when we are bored.
We want food to party with us when we are happy.
We want food to warm us up when we are cold.

It’s all a lie!

Food only has one responsibility, to nourish and heal us.
That’s it…. anything else is a bonus.

Yes… you can make it pleasing to the eye.
Yes… you can make it tasty for your palette.
Yes… you can put your love into creating it.

That’s all real, and all good.
Just don’t get it twisted.

If you are replacing dealing with an emotion, with food… you are doing yourself a disservice.

Lets take responsibility and own what is really ours.

Let us be free to experience the emotion, let it flow and let it go, and be the overcomers that we were all born to be!

It certainly made me think!

What I consumed today: 

• 250 ml warm water, lemon  juice, cayenne pepper
• 250 ml Barleylife
• 250 ml Herbal Fiberblend
• 1 liter apple, orange, spinach
• 500 ml beetroot, cucumber
• 2 liters spinach, apple, spring onion, chili, celery, tomato, butternut 
• MSM
• Flaxseed Oil

Weight:  Starting weight 157 kg. My weight this morning was 145.5, which means my total loss is 11.5 kg.  

Exercise: 

• One hour Pilates 

Energy levels:  Very low all day. 

Positive Changes: 

• My skin is soft and smooth all over.
• I am no longer retaining water
• I snore less.
• My hair and body stay clean longer.
• My face is no longer oily.

Detox symptoms: 

• My tongue is only slightly coated now
• My skin has broken out in pimples.
• I feel puffy and have lost the “glow”.
• I am releasing a lot of mucous through my bowel.
• The skin condition on my hands is flaring up again. 
• I seem to be coming down with a cold!  Is that even possible on a Juice Feast?

Food cravings:  I’m not craving specific things.  I just want to binge.  Anything will do! 

Self Care: 

• Inspirational video
• Body brushing
• Contrast showers 

Emotions:   I think my body is acting because I’m not facing my emotions.  I will start working on it tomorrow!

Healthy You Challenge Weekly Check-In:

• I lost 1 kg (2.2 pounds) this week.  I’m just 1 pound away from my first mini-goal.
• I got some new bling!  Yes, my total loss now stands at 25.3 pounds!
• I also got an Exercise button, because I did eight hours of exercise this week (I aim for six).

Thoughts on the Day:

• I have managed to pawn our houseguests off on my parents.  Craig is sick and I’m getting sick, so we won’t be good company.  It’s my niece and her fiance, who are moving to another part of the country and vacating their apartment tomorrow.    They have to be fetched from the apartment, put up for the night and taken to the airport on Thursday and quite frankly, I just don’t feel up to it.
• Besides, with all my defenses down like this, this is the ideal time to stay in bed and do some emotional work.  I’m going to work through “The Journey” by Brandon Bays.  I’ve been paralysed with fear these last few days and may do a post about it in the near future, as I think a lot of people go through that.  The difference is that this time I can’t fall back on my old faithful solution to problems, binging!  I tried to ignore the emotions, but now my body is taking strain.  There is only one option and that is to face the problem and work through it.
• I learnt today that not all chilis were created equal.  Holy cow, I don’t know what kind of chili I put into my juice, but I’m surprised that any virus can survive this.  I’m going to have to chop the chilis up and only use a small piece in future!  I’m still drinking, albeit slowly!
• Juice feasting is not something to be undertaken without a partner.  My feasting partner, Michelle, lives on the other side of the world, but I couldn’t do this without her!  Thanks Michelle!  You’re an angel!

What I consumed today: 

• 250 ml warm water, lemon  juice, cayenne pepper
• 500 ml Barleylife
• 250 ml Herbal Fiberblend
• 1 liter apple, orange, peach, cucumber, mint
• 500 ml beetroot and carrot 
• 2 liters spinach, red bell pepper, apple, spring onion, garlic, celery, tomato, butternut 
• MSM
• Flaxseed Oil

Weight:  Starting weight 157 kg. My weight this morning was 145.8, which means my total loss is 11.2 kg.  

Exercise: 

• One hour aqua aerobics.  
• One hour Pilates 

Energy levels:  I really lacked energy this morning and struggled through my aqua class.  I attribute it to the lack of juice and the fact that we were so active yesterday (my official rest day). 

Positive Changes: 

• My skin is soft and smooth all over.
• I am no longer retaining water and can actually get shoes on!
• I snore less.
• My hair and body stay clean longer.
• My face is no longer oily.

Detox symptoms: 

• My tongue is still only slightly coated now
• My skin has broken out in pimples.
• I feel very bloated and full at the moment and I’ve lost the “glow”.
• I am releasing a lot of mucous through my bowel.
• The skin condition on my hands is flaring up again. 

Food cravings:  None 

Self Care: 

• Inspirational video
• Sauna
• Cold shower.  It was going to be an alternate hot and cold shower, but I showered at gym between my two classes and for some unknown reason there was no hot water.

Emotions:   I think I’m getting somewhere…

Thoughts on the Day:

• Sorry that I didn’t update Day 24, but we had such a tiring day that I went to bed quite early.  We went shooting on the farm where my sister and her husband live and ended up visiting with them and with my parents on a nearby farm.  I didn’t think we’d be away from home so long and didn’t take any juice with me.  I had 2 cups of herbal tea, and was too tired to make and drink juice when we got home.  This means that I only consumed about 1.5 liters of juice yesterday, hence the lack of energy this morning.  I found the whole outing very tiring.
• I woke up with cold symptoms this morning, but I think the cold shower shocked me back to health, because they simply disappeared!  Craig is still feeling bad, though.  He should be juice feasting for immunity!
• I’ve signed up for the Global Juice Feast, which starts 1 March.   Since then I’ve been contacted by a juice feaster from Mozambique.  It’s nice to know that someone else in my neck of the woods (about 2000 miles away) will also be juice feasting.
• We will have houseguests on Wednesday night, so I’ll have to cook something.  It’s quite hard when you’re not all that attracted to food anymore!
• I keep reading about spaghetti squash.  We don’t have that over here.  Maybe someone can smuggle send me some seeds in the post…
• The reason this post is so late is because I couldn’t resist watching the recorded broadcast of the Oscars!  Is it only me or were the songs uniformly lame this year?  And I’m all for the “natural look”, but ladies, this is the Oscars!  Put some make-up on Tilda (who looked as if she was wearing a batsuit and hadn’t washed her hair) and Cameron (who looked rather washed out in pale pink). 
• Another social occasion has popped up – my in-laws have invited us for dinner next week for Craig’s birthday.  Four events in 11 days!  That’s normally what we do in a season!