How Not to Get Bored on a Juice Fast

There's something wonderful that I discovered today when I was juice fasting.  In the past I would always start my day with a concoction of veggies.  Greens, apples, carrots, cabbage, beets, cucumber, celery, sweet potatoes, zucchini, ginger, just whatever I had on hand.  Now, there's nothing wrong with this combination, it always tasted great and I felt like I'm getting a variety of nutrients.  My second juice of the day was always the same though.  Needless to say, I would get really bored drinking the same juice over and over.  So I decided to just try a few ingredients this time.  I've seen lots of recipes for juices with just 3-5 ingredients, but I just never tried them.  First I juiced some honeydew melon, watermelon and an apple.  It was yummy!  Then I juiced 3 stalks of celery, 1/2 a cucumber, 1 apple, and 2 leaves of Chinese cabbage. It was so goo!

What did I learn? Vary your juices each time you juice or you'll get bored to death and not want to stay on your juice fast! My taste buds got to experience different fruits and veggies, not just everything in the kitchen thrown together. There are so many wonderful fruits and veggies to experience, why just stick with the same ones? I feel like I'll be better able to stay on the fast for a longer period of time, just with varying the juice I make. It was definitely a valuable lesson to learn.

New Breville Juicer, much better than my old one!

I'm so excited!  I bought a "new to me" juicer on Craigslist.  It's a Breville Juice Fountain Multi-speed juicer. It retails for $200 and I got it for $100.  I have been wanting a new juicer for along time now.  I already have a Breville juicer, but it's the inexpensive compact model.  It fits nicely on a small counter, but it's a pain to clean because of the cylinder design.  Also, I have to stop making juice once the pulp collector fills up or I have to dismantle the whole juicer just to make more juice.  It's much nosier than my new one.

The newer model is so easy to clean.  I can put a plastic bag in the pulp collector and just throw the bag away when I am done, no need to wash it.  It's so quiet.  It has 5 speeds to help juice different types of fruit and vegetables. The juice holder is also so much bigger. Love, love it!

I highly recommend spending a little more on a quality juicer and not get the least expensive model.  It will save you so much time and trouble and be well worth it.

Healing My Body with Juice Fasting

I'm back on a juice fast again.  I was doing pretty well eating just raw food, I'd say that I was eating about 75% raw, that's pretty good, but I was still having a lot of pain from my bladder disease.  I was so worn out from being in pain day after day, that I decided to go back on a juice fast again.  I find that whenever I juice fast, the pain stops!  Weird, huh? I think there must be something wrong with my colon or digestive system. I continually have cramps also!  So this time I hope to stay on the juice fast for several weeks to let my body detox and heal itself.  It's been two days of juice fasting and my pain has already diminished.  Today was much better than yesterday.  I'll post my progress.