Pushed past the plateau!

As you can probably guess by the title of this post, my weight reached it's first plateau since the juicing. I was stuck at 8 lbs lost for about 3 days. I could feel the discouragement trying to work its way through, but I wouldn't let it! And thank goodness I didn't. I stepped on the scale this morning was was down another 2.2 lbs, making my total 10.2 lbs in 8 days! Now onto the specifics on my juice fast...

For those that would like to know exactly what I'm doing. Basically my diet consists of nothing but fresh/raw fruits and veggies. I can juice them or just eat them straight. I have only had 1 thing cooked since doing this and that was a baked potato I had for lunch today. As I'm typing this, I am enjoying a juice that consists of 1 sweet potato, 1 beet, 2 apples, 1 orange, about a cup of carrots, and 2 stalks of kale. How in the world would I have ever gotten that in my body before? Answer: I wouldn't have!

When I tell people about my juicing, some are intrigued, some are inspired, and some just flat out cringe. Have you ever had a V8 Fusion? If not, it's basically a vegetable and fruit juice combined. What's neat about it though, is that when you add fruit juice to vegetable juice, you pretty much only taste the fruit. Same with juicing. I can make a juice that looks like sewage, but tastes like kiwi or grapes. I will attach a picture at the end of this post. Anyway, back to my typical day. Generally, I will have a juice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I will also snack on fruits inbetween. I usually have 2 bananas a day. I LOVE bananas and you can't really juice a banana, so I just eat them.

Some tips I've learned about juicing, in case you decide to try it on your own:

1. Kale tends to clog up your juicer, however carrot goes through pretty forcefully. Lightbulb moment - wrap a kale leaf around a baby carrot and sent it through. NO CLOGS!!!
2. Best fruits/veggies for producing juice: peaches, apples, pears, cucumbers, any melon (especially watermelon), pineapple, and cherries.
3. Fruit can just about mask any taste except for ginger.
4. I don't particularly care for carrots, but carrot juice is very sweet and adds to any juice.
5. Juices are really good if you freeze them and then drink when they are almost entirely thawed out.
6. A little bit of cucumber goes a long way!

Here's a pic of the yummy sewage: