Fasting together for February!

[beckx]

welcome to juice, bikediva. sorry to hear you had a bad coconut experience... was it a young thai coconut? i don't think i've ever had the mature ones to comment on how they should taste.

i did a late grocery run and came back with 50 pounds of produce. i guess you can do worse than $35 for 50 pounds of produce but i can't wait until i can get more produce local. i found watermelons, so looking forward to juicing one up tomorrow. i never mix watermelon because it's so good on its own (or with a little mint or strawberry) but i'm feeling adventurous. maybe watermelon-cantaloupe? anyone tried that?

my mouth feels so disgusting no matter how many times i brush my teeth. i just scraped about an inch of gross off of my tongue. better out than in.

[Aleesha]

i have a cantaloupe and another watermelon that needs juicing so if it's good, i'll do that for wednesday. i still have lots of the lovely mix i did today.

Just a reminder for our newcomers. We don't discuss eating in this thread. So saying "he made me eat something" is fine but giving details of what was eaten is not. We are fasting and it's amazing what can set someone into a space of 'I need to eat NOW' and so we try to not trigger than in each other here. (((hugs)))

Just got home. Had one cooler when I was out with friends and holy crap batman did it ever hit me! It was like drinking 6. We have a dance on Saturday night. Guess I won't be drinking... not if I want to stay conscious LOL (I'm not much of a drinker anyway so it's not a big deal.)

I'm off to bed... love to all of you!!!

"Surround yourself with love while fasting"

[Aleesha]

Originally Posted by beckx

aleesha - nope, just one gallon, thankfully. i think i would spend the whole day in the bathroom if i had to throw back two gallons plus water. oy.

wow only one gallon? that is so funny cause when i first learned the protocol 2 years ago... i thought "wow, how could anyone drink that much in one day???" and now i'm sitting here thinking "really? that's it?"

[bikediva]

A cute pick-me-up treat!

RexTheDog

Okay, I know this has nothing at all to do with fasting, but I found this vignette super-entertaining, and I think it could brighten everyone's day.

(Aleesha, feel free to delete this if it's out of line. )

[Aleesha]

hahahahaha not out of line at all. MR and ER looooooove videos... I bet you'll make their day!

[AIRchrist]

Originally Posted by beckx

welcome freelive and airchrist. i do martial arts too and am curious how training will go, especially later on (i'm planning a long term feast - 40-90 days). planning to talk with my instructor and have some juice handy.

From my couple of work outs, I can tell you that it's really hard to do on just juice. It could be because I just started my juice fast, but it's high intensity, and I almost passed out. I actually needed the food.

I'm going to try to continue to do just juice and water, and see if I don't get all the extra energy that everyone always talks about.

Also, I've had really bad gas. Is that from a certain fruit, or is that the begining of detox? My gut is killing me.

[Aleesha]

i'd say it's from the food you are eating.

lots of people juice fast and exercise. but... when you are new to fasting, working out can be difficult. you kinda need to choose... use your energy for healing or for working out...

i know though that one long time faster does a huge workout daily... and she has no problem keeping up on juice alone.

when i was fasting last year and doing 2 hours of yoga and rebounding for about 30-45 minutes a day... i had no problems but yoga is lower intensity than what you are doing.

[Aleesha]

Originally Posted by Aleesha

Just a reminder for our newcomers. We don't discuss eating in this thread. So saying "he made me eat something" is fine but giving details of what was eaten is not. We are fasting and it's amazing what can set someone into a space of 'I need to eat NOW' and so we try to not trigger than in each other here. (((hugs)))

once more for good measure

[AIRchrist]

I have two mandatory training sessions a week. On those days, I'll probably eat a piece of fruit before I go to the gym. Although, I'd love to get by just on juice. The rest of the next couple of weeks, I plan on relaxing in my house and juicing.

Also, is a 14 day fast too long for someone who hasn't fasted before?

[Aleesha]

na newcomers to fasting do the 92 day juice feast... so it's not a problem at all doing 14 days.

instead of food... why not increasing your juice on that day? when you eat, your body uses it's fuel for digestion, why not give your body more juice and let it use the fuel for working out?

[Aleesha]

chances are very very very very good that if you eat food while fasting, you will stop fasting. once you start the digestion process... it's hard to keep going.

perhaps you should wait till you are done this and then fast? (or increase your juice as i suggested)

whatever you choose... it's your choice.

[AIRchrist]

I'm afraid I have to stick with both. I've got to cut 15lbs within 3 weeks, and I need to get back into fighting shape/not chubby.

I'll try intaking extra/heartier juices on the days I'm training. Thanks for the suggestions.

[beckx]

yup i just double checked, definitely one gallon. yesterday i had a hard time getting it in, but i only had water and tea up to 1 pm. today i've already had a quart and starting to feel ready for a second. i'm sure it will vary from day to day, last time i remember sometimes having 'leftovers' or having to crack an emergency coconut or two for a 5th or 6th quart.

made 1/2 gallon of watermelon (had a time crunch so i decided to keep it simple - gonna try watermelon/cantaloupe tomorrow) and 1/2 gallon of celery/carrot/apple/collard/beet. i forgot that i really dislike collards in juice... chard, too, unfortunately. i'm looking forward to experimenting with spring greens this year; my last longish feast was during the summer so i missed some of the spring stuff. i've been using both the vitamix and the juicer to prepare my juices, have also been way more interested in carrot juice than previous feasts/fasts.

airchrist, i would say definitely drink more juice on training days - fruit juice before, veg juice after is what my intuition says and what i plan to do. i have training on wed and sat. i may go thurs instead of wed if i'm not feeling up to it yet. i hope to be doing 3 or 4 days per week near the middle/end of this. according to the juice feasting protocol, strength training is best to start after day 60 so it will be interesting to see how that goes.

my lower back is killing me today. one of my big reasons for juicing right now is to speed the healing of an injury there. it feels worse than it has in a while, but i'm hoping that is a good sign? sometimes we feel worse before we feel better.

[Aleesha]

i realized this morning that my usual low blood pressure hasn't been here this fast. i can just get out bed normally... no sitting on the side of the bed for a moment or two.

interesting...

[freelive]

Thank you, beckx for the warm welcome. Bikediva, don't resist you starting many times- it is all right. It is a journey. And sometimes you just need to catch a right wave and then you can go on forever. That's why I don't make up my mind in advance how long I will fast. Fasting like anything else is body and mind union game.
I slept really good last night, even though I was so cold before I put on wool socks and two sweaters and two blankets(I do not like the heater, especially at night). We slept half an hour loger than usually-my son is the one who determines how long we will sleep.
Today I already can feel little electricity in my body working on cleansing. I don't feel like drinking juice in the morning, so I just drink water with lemon and honey.