Day 52 of Juicing and My Birthday........and I am 53-----

Me October 2008-Before any raw eating took place

Me in the Middle of my Raw eating-I liked this photo

Gained weight- Oct 2011-Before juice feasting

52 days juicing -look at photo above with Joe Cross in Oct 2011
 1 week before I started juicing! I have a chin~ 1 chin :-)

These photos are my beginnings before any Raw Food in my life. The second photo was wearing make-up and me being fresh and loving my raw eating .Then I added cooked and no exercise and what do you think. I will tell you,I gain weight and get that fat face and pants get tight,and the cycle begins. NO MORE!!!!!
I am back to exercise,and have been and doing a great body cleanse. Keep watching the journey!


Getting a juice treat from my friend later today and we will then take a walk. It's dry outside ,so all is good.

Day 7 on Juice feasting of 90-120 days..........

This photo of my drink in the car in my driveway before heading to Seattle was a

JUICE OF: Beet, broccoli, cucumber, kale, lemon, and apple. It was yummy and I love beet only once in a while as it is a strong cleanser for the liver. 

My husband and our 1 dog of our 3 dogs-we have 2 doxie's too,went for a walk in Seattle and had a refreshing day in the cool crisp Seattle day. This is a treat for us as this really is our wet season and we have been lucky to have dry days. I like taking the 1 hour drive to Seattle and walk this lovely huge acreage as this land used to be Fort Lawton a Prisoner of war camp for the Civil war.

http://www.seattle.gov/tour/discov.htm

After going to Chaco Canyon I am home downloading video and this info deciding what I will make to drink tomorrow.

Day four (4) and five (5) Juice feasting ...90-120 days

  This is all self expanatory in todays video. I am off to get my haircut so what I drank is not added today!!!! I a really having a good experience so far, no crazy anything . I went to bed maybe 1/2 hour before
normal and I slept well and couldn't ask for a better feeling so far. I actually love how I feel on green juice.

Woke today to some 10 ounces of water an Psyllium Husks, as I am already stuck.....Then I followed with 10 more ounces of water.... The rest I will add later off for my haircut........

Day 20 Baby ------Juicing and only juice............

Oh my what a good feeling I have in side of me and all around me. I am much happier, less stress, just overall a calm about me that I really like. I really have had no major slow downs or let downs. I think most of all I had a white tongue,and those hard white things that get in your throat that are known to make bad breath. My throat or maybe it's the back of my tongue that gives me the most icky feeling in me. Most of this journey is actually fun and exciting. I go with the flow. I choose my juices 2 days at a time in order to keep my produce fresh. I have wasted some greens by purchasing too many and they go bad before using them . And I bet this happens to many of us from time to time.

Today is a Monday morning and I will be making some morning wheatgrass first. I will also drink 32 ounces of lemon water and my vitamin D 3 10,000 I.U.( required Monday - Friday) via doctors orders..I really need it as the sun forgot to shine much this Summer 2011 here in Washington state.

I missed a few blog days because my husband and I were preparing for a garage sale and had the sale last Friday and Saturday. Saturday it rained quit hard so we basically had a Friday sale. I did sell my large bird cage to a gal that morning though so that made my Saturday and OK one~And I made $160.00 on that.


Monday Juices-------

Am-----Green juice 1 hour after wheatgrass - Spinach,Swiss chard,celery,cucumber,lemon, and ginger

Red juice of blueberries,orange, coconut water and kale

pineapple,kale,cilantro,mint,granny smith apple, lime----oh I love this combo

Raspberry -blueberry homemade Kombucha

Water water water------and More water~

Day 11 of my Juicing------

Today is Saturday and it's another beautiful sunny day. Oh my I woke and had some 
water ,had my enema,dry brushed shaved legs and all is good to go. I am feeling so damn good,I am in heaven. I have these beautiful vegetables that came out of our garden today,and I made a juice drink of  Romaine, arugula, butter lettuce( all from the garden),pear ,and apple,lemon and ginger. It had a nice color nice soft flavor too.

My hubby washed my car ,while I sat in the sun to get my 20 minutes of Vitamin D sunshine, which I require via the doctor since my body is super low on vitamin D. Speaking of doctor,my blood pressure was 120 over 27 and that is great compared to the higher of 138 over 37 I had a short 3 weeks ago. I try and check my  blood pressure weekly  now. We went into Seattle again for more of my Organic produce that my garden doesn't have.We ended up at Alki beach for a round trip walk along the water of 3 miles, and that was a good walk. Here are a few photos because Alki Beach is considered West Seattle. This is why you see the Seattle buildings across from where we walked.

Space Needle in Seattle

Seattle 

Mount Rainer looking South of Seattle

Since Mike and I took a Ferry ride back into Seattle to get to West Seattle and I picked up a few of those groceries thereat PCC an organic nice grocery store. We also went back to Chaco Canyon and I had another 16 oz green juice of Apple,parsley,fennel and kale. 

I will say after we took our walk we drove home and that was 1 hour  10 minutes and I had a 20 minute cat nap on the car ride home . I have not gotten tired any days up until today,but I know why.The reason I got tired is "THE SUN". When I am in the sun too long I get tired. But once I got home Warm bath and warm tea afterward. What better way to end the night.

When I got home (after my bath) I had warm tea with 1 Teaspoon of honey and bee pollen ,very yummy!!! What a way to end the night-warm tea........

Day 9 of Only Juice.....

Oh my I am proud of me,and I have tried this journey at least 4 times only stopping anywhere from Day 10-Day 21, I will say I feel more in tune with who I am and what I am doing. It is a decision one has to first make up in your mind and only take 1 meal at a time or this path will not work....
Now I know I am only on Day 9 but this time I know it is working better for me this time as I feel I am in a TOTALLY  Mind Set more then any past time. I am feeling great a different and really energized so far except at day 1 when I had the headache. As I do have a slight headache this morning for a short while today -not bad though.

Here is what I do when I leave my home I make sure I take water always, a green juice second and I pretty much keep my nettle tea made at all time. Luckily I live near woods and nettles are everywhere. There is nothing like a glass of nettle tea and home grown mint~

Difference's That I feel: 
I feel really clean inside and out....Skin all over and so on 
I also feel Really at piece -No attitude
Very proud and loving

What I juiced today: and other liquid
24 ounces Nettle tea with mint
Green juice of  Tomatoes,swiss chard,celery,spinach,garlic,radish,cilantro,parsley, and lime -V-8 ish
lots of water
2 Rainer apples,(like golden delicious),butter lettuce ,2 celery stalks,small bulb of Anise, 5  leaves dino kale(Lacinato)
handful of parsley- Very sweet tooth friendly delicious juice

Recipe above with 1 extra apple added

Huge beautiful Butter lettuce,kale,parsley was from my own garden today!

Walked the water border kinda near our home and round trip was 4 miles and we will do it again .What a great walk. If I don't make it to the YMCA I make sure I walk near home or elsewhere. It really is a great way to end any given day good probiotic before bedtime too. I just so happen to have  new bottle since my other one is just about empty. I also keep these Live Probiotics in my refrigerator .

Bath,with dry brushing first. I also  have my wheat grass before bed like the 1.5 hours before crawling into bed as I talked about in the past-and  I take 2 capsules of this above photo before bedtime.

Oh I found a new tea treat idea tonight-I took 1 teaspoon of raw organic Honey and Washington bee pollen into ginger tea . I have to keep a spoon in the cup as I drink as the Bee pollen won't melt ,but great taste. In the past I also take the same teaspoon of honey and bee pollen in a Pyrex dish into a pan of warm water. What I do is slightly melt the honey and eat it all in one bite and it all dissolves into my mouth! YUMMO!!!

Day 8 Juicing.............All great!

I am trucking along on the juice thing. I really have it ,I really do FINALLY!!!!!! I absolutely have no desire to chew food and my mind is set to not think of food either at this point. Hip Hip Hooray! I am stoked. I feel so good,the sun is shining and I fell clean I mean really clean -in and out.
  You know the more I think about this journey the more I get why I really am doing it. Knowing that I grew up with everything  food wise meat included. Sadly I was brought up to eat everything on our plates as kids. I say crap on that . I will say I really never was a huge meat eater even as a child ,and could remember at Christmas for instance we always had Prime Rib ,I say So What. I ate it as we had to but never liked it and Thanks god I am now nor never was a fan of steak. Yuk I say,as I was more of a fish lover. Long story short as I grew older I chose to take a cleaner eating approach and we raised our kids with a balanced diet ,but as they got older they also chose to  eat whatever  they want. I myself really made a turn to Raw around age 49 as I am going to be 53 years young in Dec of this year. I love eating Raw /Vegan food and I feel so good doing so. Don't knock this lifestyle if you haven't tried it~

Lambs quarter from the woods

My lambs quarter juice with other stuff too

Today was another sunny 81 degree day -just beautiful......After awakening and drinking 32 ounces of water with lemon squeezed into it I made this~I made this wonderful amount of juice today from these ingredients: 2 Cup lambs quarters,4 dandelion leaves,1.5 cucumber,6 stalks celery, small romaine,1 small zucchini 2 limes, 1C. spinach 1 golden delicious apple....And this drink was not bitter either as lambs quarter is mild.

Discovering Edible Lambs Quarter Weeds

As with any edible weed or wild plant don’t eat unless you are positive of its identification and that it has not been exposed to chemical sprays or pollution. So if you’re not familiar with lambs quarter refer to a good edible weed field guide or consult with someone who is familiar with the plant before eating it.

Lambs quarter can frequently be found growing in vegetable gardens, on disturbed soil, and along the fringes of fields and banks. The plants can grow to about four feet in height with multiple branches forming off of a main squarish looking central stem. Lambs quarter leaves often have a white, pollen-like substance coating their undersides.

Now the husband and I are going to give all 3 dogs outside since it is incredibly warm today and the weather is said to change tomorrow~

I always end my day with a bath and skin brushing. I also drink wheatgrass 1.5 hours before bedtime. Why 1.5 hours I don't know I just do it

Day 7 of my juicing.......So Far so good.....

I started my day with an outside 3 mile walk by my home.........The day here in Washington State will be 82 outside and in this state that is wonderful.......Always a plus in my day. I start my day with water and a 1/2 of a lemon squeezed into the water with 2 MSM capsules. Enema's I only do every other day  unless I feel the need to do more days. I need to take time to juice so my first juice of this day was my Coconut water, grapefruit, orange and Vita mineral Green. Very refreshing on a warm summers day.
  As number seven is a luck number I can't imagine what will be better then concentrating and living a juicy life for a little while.

As of yesterday being that 4th of July, I can say I am proud. Why am I proud-I  will say in the past I would stay away from potlucks knowing I would most likely cave in and eat Raw at the potluck. No not this time, I really am dedicating my life right now in this moment to juicing and that is all I am doing right now. I am not however drinking all 4 quarts a day as being the standard requirement. I  have no desire for all that much liquid  and I am only 5 feet tall. I drink water too of course, and water is kinda forgotten when doing my juice. I am a big water drinker and always have been,as my body  actually craves water! Speaking of the  4th of July Raw Potluck in Seattle at an awesome Park with walking trails. I also met a gal from Penni S.'s RawfoodRebab that I had as a friend but we had never met in person before. The gal is Irina and she just joined RFRehab and I saw that she lives kinda close to where I live,so I friended her on that site. We had a great chat and I know we will be chatting and seeing one another in person as we have the same interest in many things.

I am so proud of me and I am making many juices always starting with a hearty green juice with kale or spinach as a base of my greens or a multitude of greens. I am also making most of my drinks low glycemic, as my body is not a big fan of too many natural fruit sugars.

How I feel today: I feel great but My tongue feels yucky as I am making sure I brush my tongue and use a tongue cleaner---Everyone juicing really needs one of these as our body's detox the tongue gets white and just feels terrible. I only had a headache on day1 so far as I am not complaining.........I feel and see changes in my body already. I just love juicing and wish I could tell everyone how great it feels to give our digestion system a break and see what our body eliminates when doing an enema......DONE :-)


For the rest of my day I made my V-8 Raw style juice:
tomato,basil,zucchini,spinach,kale,celery,cucumber, cilantro,jalapeno,lime ,garlic,1/2 small red pepper and pinch of sea salt and 1 teaspoon of  flax oil. This is a very nice drink very good as it's so full of yummy vegetables.I made 2 -32 ounce jars of juice this go around. I am heading to exercise at the YMCA once I read a little on my Juice feasting .com info I printed. I read every day on this to keep knowledge on juicing in my head. See Ya.

Day 22 juice feasting

After last night I filled 2 of the bottles that I bought for Kombucha, I have to say I am in heaven with my 2 flavors that I made. I tasted both and I love them. I love them so much that I poured a bit from both bottles to test them today and then I topped them off with the original batch that is on its 9th day of brewing,and so far left the 2 bottles on my counter. 

Left over batch of Green tea  Kombucha. 

Two bottled up teas I made below. Light batch but I used 

8 teabags of Organic Green Tea. My brew spot is my Oven :-)

Oven light is on for the photo so I think the tea seems lighter that it really is.

Notice my newer self made Scoby that appeared on the top.The bottom of the jar has 

some older stringy stuff from the other scoby I got ,(but fell apart.)

17 ounce bottles of homemade Kombucha.

Both have a dehydrated pear in it for flavor, and the red one has

two flower hibiscus in it for more flavor.

I am heading on the road today and when I do that I take an insulated  lunch box

unit to take my water and juice. If I leave without juice I have a juice making place 35 minutes from my home. I have done that before but not today.

In this juice today I have : Kale,Celery,Cucumber,

Celery,Red pepper for sweetness, Lime and Ginger  

We have the sun out today and that makes me come out of my yucky feeling syndrome. I will say I  think the whole USA has wacky weather except parts of the South like Texas. I hear California only is 67 degrees today and that is abnormal. All I know is Raw is my life, Juicing is my longer goal,and keeping on track is my happy place. 

I am back to walking daily as my back still gives me issues if I walk too long. So off I go and enjoy the sunshine.

Day 5 Juice feasting and a scam on Craigslist

I have busy weekends,so I probably won't post on the weekends too often. I am not someone whom stays online much. Yesterday Saturday I had a local craft event to attend .We have a chili cook off at a local Civic center and about 50 vendors . I made sure I made juice the night before. I don't like juicing the night before ,but it's too hard juicing before heading out for a craft event,so what works for me is what I do. I have been starting with warm water and a teas or 2 of ACV instead of lemon,just to change things up a bit.

 green juice made of  :

32 ounces of romaine,celery,cucumber,kale,lemon,apple.....Yum green lemonade with cucumber. Yummy stuff

Another 32 ounces was cabbage,green apple,and lime. Makes a good cleanse

I also came home and had some vegetable broth all night long and ended my night Saturday with wheatgrass.I don't own a wheatgrass juice ,but what I do is put water and the wheatgrass in a magic bullet and drink the greens with water,and again It works until I get myself  a juicer that does wheatgrass.

Sunday was a total clean house extra bedrooms and all.Yep I did this on Sunday. I had a heck of a day today....after cleaning I put 2 items on Craigslist. I then downloaded Craigslist on my I-phone as a APP. Now here is some important info......I was a potential scam victim tonight. A woman was selling a motor home CHEAP, but I caught on FAST. My hubby and I left for some errand stuff and I was checking Craig list on my Iphone at around 10 minutes to 5 pm Pacific time and a ad that came online at 4.24 Pm caught my eye as a misprint. Here is what it said.....

 First off $2,900  I thought misprint ,so I wrote to the WOMAN,( well coming online as if a female.)

Anyhow these are 2 e-mails I got in my response to the ad on Craigslist:

1st e-mail  to me. Thanks for being interested in buying my Rv!It`s in perfect condition,no scratches,damages, never been implicated in any accidents, it has only 44,000 miles and the price is $2,900.It has a clear title, free of any liens or loans. Because of my divorce settlement,i own this Rv and as a woman without driver`s license i don`t need it so i`m trying to get rid of it as soon as possible (that`s why i`m selling it so cheap). We will use eBay`s Vehicle Purchase Protection plan for our both safety,i want only legit transactions.Let me know where are you located,maybe we can organize an inspection.
Have a great day!

2nd -e-mail- to meThe RV is at the shipping co.in Jeff City,Mo sealed and ready to ship it,as I got a new job and moved here to start over.I have a contract with eBay so the deal must go through them.I'm very busy with my job,so I can't meet you in person,reason for why I chose to sell my RV online.
If you want to continue,I will need your name&address.After I receive your info,I'll forward it to eBay and they will send us both invoices.eBay will instruct you on how to make a refundable payment.They hold the funds until the RV is delivered to buyer,inspected and until he confirms that has received the RV in it's described condition.According to eBay you have 5 days to decide if you want to keep,and if eBay should release the money to me or not.If for any reason you won't like the RV (I don't see that happening) eBay will refund you and I will instruct the shipping co. to store the RV until I find a new buyer. It's not necessary to ship the RV back. If you want to buy it,please send me your info so we can proceed.

Thank you,here is my number(573 298 4807)

Reply
   After this second e-mail I simply never responded back.
A motorhome at $2,900 and I had 4 photos and I simply at first thought this was for sure a misprint ,but when they said what you see listed above ,again I got smart, took the phone number and did a reverse phone number request check,via google and several other people in the last week has had the same scam in different parts of the USA, and this person hasn't been caught yet . Craiglist has been contacted, but the E-bay part is bull too.

As for my day........Juice of Greens all day...Romaine,Swiss chard,Kale,Spinach,celery,cucumber,pear,apple,ginger,lemon.......Pretty green but 64 ounces of this......


I also took Organic whole  watermelon from Whole foods ,Cinnamon and mint Juiced....Super delicious.

Ended with Coconut water and Vitamineral -green

12th Juice Day.....

I started my NEW first time juice feasting experiment with myself to see how strong I can be. I have wanted to do a juice feast for some time now. I am loving how I feel and what fun recipes I can make. I had a different blog, but I decided since I am on this new path I figured I would also start a new blog. And I must say I really don't know how to make my blog exciting and super interesting like other blogs I have read. So for those out there reading this please join in and follow my path. Here is what I ate today:
*2 glasses of warm water with lemon and 2 MSM Capsules
*Green Juice -32 oz kale,spinach,cucumber,celery,apple,ginger,lemon
*Red Juice-- 32 oz beet,kale,cucumber,parsley,cilantro,ginger,jalapeno
Lots of Spring water (I get at a local spring)
* 32 of Oranges,Grapefruit and 1 teas.of Vitamineral Green
*24 oz Vegi juice-4 carrot,1 C cherry tomatoes, 4 celery,1 lg leaf swiss chard,2 radish,1/2 bunch parsley,piece of celery root,garlic,and jalapeno


In the evening I had a few cups of Vegetable broth I made in my kitchen a few days ago and it lasts about 4 days. It's made of all vegetables,and what I do is save the vegetables add other broth and peas and or beans and make a soup for the non-raw hubby. I know this journey will be exciting because I have a terrific husband whom totally supports me. I also have no children at home. Our two boys are grown and on their own,so I have a hubby whom eats different from me at the moment and he has no problem with the difference.