Juice Fast 2013: My Juicy Birthday

When I woke up this morning, I felt pretty awesome.  It was day 26 and I was ready.  Zulema had given me a birthday present before going to bed.  It was a heart rate monitor. I was stoked because I'd been wanting one forever.  I'd started setting it up but it was late and I figured I'd save it for the morning.  I got it all set up and checked my resting heart rate.

55BPM, Nice.  I didn't know what my resting heart rate was supposed to be so I googled it.  I searched "resting heart rate 31 year old male"  and here's what I got:



"Anything between 60-80 is normal.


Below 60 can be fine if the 31 year old male is a well-conditioned athlete."

...what?!  It's just so nuts because of how I looked a year ago today.

Last year, I'd already been losing quite a bit.   I was 286.8, down 19.7 lbs from the 306.5 lbs I started at on Jan 4th.  I'd just completed a 20+ mile bike ride to celebrate my Birthday and further train for STP which wasn't coming for another 6 months at least.


Today though?  I woke up with a resting heart rate of a "well-conditioned athlete".  I tested my blood sugar and it read 101 (no meds of course).  I hopped on the scale and it read 223.6, down 23.4 lbs from the 247 I started at on Jan 1st.    63.2lbs down from a year ago today...

Today, I did P90X: Legs & Back and I must have been so hyped from it being my birthday and the way I looked and felt.  I was just bursting with energy, and Legs & Back is usually a routine that has me dying.  That isn't to say I wasn't feeling like I was gonna pass out at some points, but I'd just hit pause, calm down, and jump back in with more.

We went out to get more juicing supplies and get prepared for my big Juicy Birthday party that was going down later.  We'd already gone out prior to me doing my P90X routine and got a bunch of things, but I sent Zu out with Liz to get the rest of the stuff while I knocked that out before everything got started.  Zulema was going to make Chili since I'm really the only Juicing at the moment and I got the sudden urge to try my hand at making Hummus from scratch.

I basically knew the majority of the ingredients but was unsure just what quanitites and how it all mixed together so I decided to google it out on the computer in the livingroom.  I open up chrome and it defaults to google. It kinda looked funny.  The logo was all changed up like they normally do it when something special's happening.  I look at it and say to myself "who the hell's birthday is it today? The inventor of birthday cakes?!"

Curious, I hovered over the logo to see and...

...my mind...

Anyway, we got everything prepared and the party got under way.  It was awesome seeing friends bring things to juice and trying out our concoctions.

 We got serious, setting up our masticating and Centrifugal juicers.  Zu started out by making everyone something tropical and fruity with some greens in it.  They all loved it of course.  Then we made them a batch of mean green, and they also dug it pretty well.

 My Hummus was a huge success.  I made everything from scratch even down to the tahini.  the only thing I didn't do was like soak chickpeas or anything like that.  I had Zu pick me up a can of organics while I was working out.

It was a definite blast having everyone over.  It really speaks to the amazing amount of support I have from my wife and friends for doing this.  So all in all, I say this was a great Birthday!