As for the juice fasting this week, it's been pretty awesome. My official weigh in on wed was 232.8! Down 14.2lbs since the first of the year. Take THAT holiday weight! I'm actually busting back down to the weight neighborhood I was at after I'd finished my last fast back in may. Except this time, I have a lot more muscle with me and it seems like the fat is continuing to burn. Awesome!
What I find kind of remarkable about the fast this time around is how easy it was for me to get into it. I haven't really had much of a serious struggle or difficulty with it this time around. Sure, I still have some issues here and there but they're all really, really mild. I haven't had any migraines (YES!!!) or any real headaches for that matter. I've had a couple of what I'd call "fogs". Just some super minor headaches that have lasted maybe half an hour at the most. Not even painful in the least. A little bit of fatigue here and there, but in general not much. The energy came really quickly. I've had no heavy detox days to speak of. The biggest thing is my ability to cope with it.
I was a little apprehensive leading up to this fast because I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to go through another one. Like I'd mentioned before, I was actually looking forward to just finally maybe having a "whatever I want" meal for my birthday to celebrate how far I've come. If I was in the middle of a fast for the month, I can't do that. Back in september, after my friend's wedding, I felt like I needed a quick fast to get back on track with things, but I cracked after the 2nd day. Back then, I just figured it was because I didn't have the support. Zulema wasn't really fasting with me so maybe that was it. Well... Zulema's not fasting 100% with me now and I'm doing fine. I think it was all just clearly a matter of being in the right state of mind. For some reason, I'm in the proper state of mind for a juice fast in January. Food hasn't really bothered me. I still can't help sometimes getting weird cravings for things when commercials come on tv. It happens. It's always intensified when fasting, but it's been really subdued this time.
What I find funny are the ads that have gotten to me the most when they do are for like Taco Bell and KFC. I haven't had either of those things in over a year and a half at least. Or McDonalds... It illustrates the power of mind, because when I'm on a fast and I see these commercials I can visualize the taste of the thing on the screen. Even if it's some brand spanking new thing they're selling that they've never sold before. The brain just manufactures what the thing tastes like and there it is in my mind vivid as ever. So now what I'm stuck with is nostalgia. I've been doing enough of this stuff to completely change my taste buds, so even if I wanted to go cave and dive into it, it probably wouldn't even be half as satisfying as I'd imagine it's supposed to be. Last year, and the year before, those thoughts invaded my mind and tormented me for the remainder of the night. This time, whatever, it's pretty much forgotten the moment the commercial ends. Wow.
My P90X recovery week has been pretty good as well. I'm kinda itching to get back into the resistance stuff next week. The progress is pretty sweet.
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It's amazing seeing some of my improvements in flexibility. I've never been able to touch my toes bending or standing without bending my knees. That was even before I grew a belly. The time I stopped being that kind of flexible had to be in early grade school. Like 2nd or 3rd grade at least. Now I can bend over and touch my toes without bending my knees... WHAT?! That's crazy! I'm still a long ways off from being as flexible as really any of the guys in the P90X videos, but man, thinking about where I was when I started, to where I am now and it's nothing short of astonishing.
I haven't gotten too wild with the juicing recipes this week. Mainly because I'm trying to not go crazy on spending on produce because I was broke as hell all week... Thankfully, I did a good enough job prepping out the gate, that I still have a good bit of stuff left and I've been doing pretty good with mean green, workout mix, and soups. I'll freestyle a little new thing here and there, but the recipes are generally derivatives of either mean green, apple, beet, carrot, or something in bewteen. I ran out of beets early in the week so I'm actually kinda missing them a lot. I'll pick some up this weekend when I re-up on everything.
I've been really digging a couple of these raw soup recipes someone shared in the juicing only facebook group I'm a part of. So far, my absolute favorite is the raw carrot corn soup. I've also had a good time with the tomato basil soup as well. The recipes can be found here. I've basically been doing the recipes minus the oil. This corn carrot soup pictured above... OMG, I swear it's like having some soup made with heavy cream. The flavor is just amazing. So super simple. Corn. Carrots. Salt. Pepper.... Wow. To imagine something so simple can taste so good AND be ridiculously healthy for you. My mind...
When I first heard about it, I definitely wanted it but I wasn't sure how I'd find fresh corn this time of year. I ended up going for frozen corn, but I really wasn't wanting to at first. I don't quite know why I was so reluctant to go for the frozen corn. I think maybe it was just the thought of it not actually being fresh. Once I got the corn thawed, I tried to juice it. I figured I'd need to break out the masticating juicer, but when I started juicing it, nothing was happening. In fact, creamed corn was just coming out of the other end and NO JUICE was actually coming out. So I kinda had a little genius moment and stuck the corn in the nutri-bullet with some water. I blended the shit out of it and then just strained the juice out. That did the trick and boy am I so glad I did that because that soup is heavenly. Anyway, here's to another successful week of juicing. I'll catch up with you soon!
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