Mono-Juice Feasting – Healing Journey Day 11

Journal:
I did not feel 100% this morning. I felt kind of like I was dehydrated and possibly on a “toxic overload”? It felt like things wanted to come out (felt a little nauseated) but alas everything stayed put. What I have noticed though is that when I have little spurts of not feeling good like that, it honestly does my body good to just not consume anything or to just simply have some water. I’m really beginning to understand that humans treat everything with food and sometimes our bodies simply need time to deal with whatever is ailing us and not have to worry about dealing with and spending more energy digesting food. I have definitely learned this: Do not be afraid of the feeling of hunger.

So what was today’s juice of choice? Grape. Now, I wasn’t really looking forward to grape. I like grapes and when I’m not juice feasting, I love grape juice. But I am going to be honest that I am really not looking forward to my juices anymore. The thought of veggies, nuts, breads, pretty much anything else seems better than another day of juice. Thankfully, I only have two days of juice feasting left and both of those days are slightly different than what I’ve had so far. Stay tuned to find out why! In the mean time, here is my juice for today:

I made it through the school day fairly well though the feeling of dehydration never left 100%. It at least wasn’t bad enough to interfere with anything.

After school, I had enough energy to go out to a closing scrapbook store to check out their sales with a few friends, to the dog park with my dog and my housemates, and then to the gym to do a 30-minute spinning session. I was planning to do more than that at the gym, but it was getting really late by the time I had done everything else and I decided that since work still comes early in the morning, I should go home and get some rest. Hopefully tomorrow I can do some more before cardio.

Towards the end of the day (or rather even half way through), I was getting really sick of drinking juice. In fact, I can tell my taste buds are changing because the juice gets sweeter and sweeter every day. I have never had a diabetic test done where you have to drink the super sweet liquid, but I can imagine that I’m getting just as sick of this as people do of that. It’s so sweet. Anything un-sweet sounds so good right now.

Once again, I ended the day only drinking 2L of juice with water on the side.

Review of Symptoms:
-Tongue not as white. I’m truly loving it!
-Elimination is little but I haven’t had any “food” so it is to be expected.
-Felt really good until the very end of the day when I had an overwhelming “hot flash” through my chest area a few times. It wasn’t the same as the heartburn/acid reflux feeling but literally like heat went through my body at one time in that one area. It was weird.
-Energy was great.
-Acne was… so-so. I really hope it’s just taking its time to clear up.

Weight at the end of the day = 177 lbs (down a total of 11.8 lbs since the beginning)

Total Calories = approx. 1230 (99% carbs, 0% fat, 1% protein)

Week 2 Day 2

I woke up today still not feeling the greatest. But, it was a “Fun Day” for the students which meant we were going to a large recreational center where they could swim, play on a large indoor playground, hang out in the Youth Lounge (games), play sports in the gym, go skating, and eat at a food court. All the teachers were required to do was stay at their stations to make sure everything went well. It was an easy day to handle when you don’t feel well.

A mistake I made was that I didn’t get up early enough to finish packing my food. So I did hit a sugar low in the afternoon with nothing to make up for it. I’m not diabetic, but I’m pretty sure it was low sugar because that’s the only thing I can think of that would have made me feel like I did.

Thankfully, the food court had an Extreme Pita where you can pick what you want to fill your pita with. Easy again to fit your macros.

It was a long day at work with a very serious meeting I had to attend after school. But it wasn’t until I got home that I realized I had a headache. As usually, my husband came home and wanted to take a nap before we went to the gym. But as the time went on, I noticed my headache was pretty much like someone taking a hammer to my head.

Now, I’ve worked through headaches before. I’m used to going to the gym no matter what unless I’m on bed rest for being so sick. But this headache was quite possibly the worst headache I’ve ever had, so I knew it was probably best to stay home and try to sleep it off. No medications or liquids were helping. So I set my alarm for 4:15 a.m. and headed to bed.