Day 2, 3, 4 & 5 UPDATE!!!

Hello!

Sorry, I'm a bit behind with posting!
just been really busy :)

All has been going well, David is already at his target weight goal of 75kg!!
They both found it really quite hard the first 1/2 days, mum finally having an expresso and David deciding he was going to give up smoking a week later! .... ;)
Sooo, it's Day 6 today, nearly a week gone by, and we are all LOVING IT!

David says his energy is so good so far that if it keeps up like that he'll feel fine to do the full 92 day juice feast program!

I've not found it as hard as them, I believe because I don't get the cravings they do for nasty food
BUT this juice feast (I've already done one of 2 weeks before) was HARDER then last times as I'm making all the juices for all 3 of us!
SOOO, I get up quite early (5/6AM) to make mums and David's morning and work juice (1L + 1,5L) which takes around 2H. So, when it gets round to doing MY juices I'm tired and really can't be bothered! ...
I end up having mostly grape and apple/celery juices as I find them the EASIEST and QUICKEST to do, but then at the end of the day I don't feel as good as I havn't got all those greens I should be getting AND I feel I can't be bothered to make much quantity for myself so I'm drinking around 2/3L most of juice a day, and as the minimum recomended is 4L a day, it's way of target at the moment!!
Erg, but I'm kindof getting the knack of making all this juice (around 9L a day!!) but still finding it quite hard and VERY time-consuming, which isn't very practical for my school work/social time....

ANYWAYS ;)
Here are some pics of the last few days,
and our juice diary..
NOTE: for my mum and David this only records the juices I made them, and not the teas and lemon/honey water they they have throughout the day....

DAY 2:
before juice: 500ml each lemon water (1/2 lemon squeezed in water)

JUICE 1:
David: 1L celery/apple/lime/cucumber/ginger
Mum: 1L romain lettuce/celery/bell pepper/lemon/apple
Me: romain/apple/ginger


JUICE 2:
David: 1,5L beetroot/celery/apple/ginger/lemon/honey
Mum: 700ml celery/cucumber/lime/ginger/apple
Me: 300ml pinneapple juice.. OMG GOOOOOOD!! :DDD

When I made the pinneapple juice, the juice had some beetroot left over on it, so it turned it pink! Sooo pretty! ;)

My 3rd Juice: 550ml apple/celery juice... YUM!:

Last juice: 1L for EACH of us: carrot/romaine lettuce/coconut juice:

DAY 3
before juice: 500ml each lemon water (1/2 lemon squeezed in water)

JUICE 1:
David: 1L pumkin/lemon/ginger/carrot... YUM!
Mum: 500ml romaine lettuce/garlic/lemon/carrot.... bit too stong!
Me: 800ml pumkin/carrot/lemon/garlic.. YUM!

Do you like our Pumkin Pulp Monster? ;)

JUICE 2:
David: 1,5L carrot/lemon/fennel/romaine lettuce/celery/ginger/spinach/coconut water
Mum: 800ml pumkin/carrot/lemon/ginger... YUM!
Me: 600ml watermelon juice /without rind, as it wasn't organic) .. YUMMMMMMM!!!!

3rd Juice:
David: 500ml grape/apple... MMMMMM
Mum: grape
Me: grape... OMG RED GRAPE (organic) JUICE IS SOOOO GOOD!!! MMM...

4th/Last Juice:
David: romaine lettuce/lemon/apple/ginger/cucumber/celery/parsley/fennel.. YUM!
Mum: cucumber/apple/celery/ginger... YUM!
Me: 500ml cucumber/pear/lemon/ginger juice

DAY 4:
before juice: 500ml each lemon water (1/2 lemon squeezed in water)

Yum! We found out that Aleo Vera is FABULOUS in juices, makes it sooooo smooth! :D

JUICE 1:
David: 1L apple/romaine lettuce/lemon/ginger/aleo vera/carrot
Mum: 650ml carrot/lemon/ginger... YUM!
Me: 2,1L (YES! it was that good!) watermelon juice... YUMMMMMMM!

JUICE 2:
David: 1,5L romain/celery/aleo vera/lemon/apple/carrot
Mum: apple/romaine lettuce/lemon/ginger/aleo vera/carrot
Me: 500ml squash/apple/lemon/pear/ginger.. SOOO GOOD!

3rd Juice:
David: 900ml spinach/celery/aleo vera/lime/pear/ginger
Mum: "
Me: squash/apple/ginger/romain lettuce.. YUM!

This day, I DID have something to eat... 3 nectarines and some fresh dates. I didn't make a big deal out of it. It was one of those times that (as explained abouve) I just COULDN'T be bothered to make MY juice, after juice making 2L of juice taking, like an hour. BUT it was a learning curve, cuz I certainly felt it, I just didn't feel as good. So from then, I swore I would stick to this juice feast even if it's a pain to make all the juices, I just feel so DARN GOOD! :D

DAY 5:
before juice: 500ml each lemon water (1/2 lemon squeezed in water)

JUICE 1:
David: 1L apple/lime/spinach/celery/aleo vera
Mum: 500ml pumkin/carrot/lemon
Me: 250ml punkin/carrot/lemon

JUICE 2:
David: 1,5L apple/lemon/romain lettuce/ginger/aleo vera
Mum: apple/lime/spinach/celery/aleo vera
Me: 500ml grape juice... YUM!

JUICE 3:
David: 500ml coconut water with 3tsp Fruit Of The Earth powder (HealthForceNutritionals)
Mum: 500ml grape juice
Me: 500ml grape juice ;)

Me last juice: 400ml apple/celery juice :)) YUM!

DAY 6!!!
before juice: 500ml each lemon water (1/2 lemon squeezed in water)

JUICE 1
David: 1L romain/ginger/lime/aleo vera/apple.. YUM!
Mum: 1L apple/lime/spinach/celery/aleo vera
Me: celery/romain/aleo vra/apple/giner... YUM, felt good to get those greens! :))

JUICE 2
David: 1,3L apple/celery/spinach/lime/aleo vera
Mum: 800ml celery/aleo vera/apple/red bell pepper/ginger/lime/spinach
Me: 1L grape juice... MMMMMM!!!!

JUICE 3
David: 1L cucumber/spinach/apple/ginger/
Mum: 800ml spinach/apple/celery
Me: 1L orange juice YUM!


So, thats it for now :D
Will try to update more frequently! :)))
Juicy hugs! ;)

Before Juice Feast Stats & Day 1!!

Here are our before photos/stats: ;))))))))

David

Weight: 79kg
PH Level: 6.5 (for urine and saliva)
Photos:

AJ (me :)

weight: 55kg
PH level: 7.4 (both urine and saliva) :D
photos:

(not very good light for my eye, I think I'll do another one tomorrow :)

Caroline (my mum :)

weight: 81kg
PH level: 6.5 (both urine and saliva)
photos:

We will see how these before pics change............. ;)

...
it was a bit chilly today in the appartement... :)

But apparently mum thought it was too hot! ;)...

DAY 1!!

-Before juice: 500ml each water with lemon
-Morning juice: 3L/1L each Green juice: carrot/apple/cucumber/spinach/celery/lime




-Juice 2: 250ml each yam/carrot/pear/apple/lime juice... YUM! :D




-Juice 3: 3L/1L each: celery/cucumber/spinach/apple/carrot/ginger juice... this was GOOD! :)




-Juice 4 for David: 1L romaine lettuce/carrot/apple/fennel/coconut water juice... mmmm


-Juice 4 for mum: 1 cuo (250ml - it's all she wanted :) beetroot/apple/celery juice.. yummy :)
-Juice 4 for me: 700ml romaine lettuce/GARLIC(yes, garlic!!)/apple... surprisingly, this was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!!!! :D

WOW! It is SOOOO amazing how QUICK produce disappears!!!!!!
Nearly ALL of the apples and spinach are GONE! and thats day ONE!!! :o
woww!.. and all the carrots ARE gone!
we'll see how much produce we've consumed over the week ... :O
:))))

Fully equipted and starting tomorrow!

Hello!!!

Right, we went to the market today, got the produce..........

AND we've got a juicer that David got as a late B-day pressie from someone (perfect timing, eh!?) and are commencing our Juice Feast journey tomorrow (Sunday)!!!

a gorgeous pumpkin, apple, carrot and pear juice

We have even designed a Daily Personal Tracker sheet, as the one from the juice feasting website, although very good, had some irrelevant info to us and the layout wasn't as we liked it...... soo, we designed our on ;)
I'm gunna put it up on here so that anyone can download it for free to help them on their juicy journey ;)

And Oh My Goodnessss!!! What synchronisities we had today!!!!!
First of all, we went to a flea market in town to look for scales to weigh ourselves tomorrow for our 'Before Juice Feast data' :)..
And we came out with a TWIN GEAR juicer and scales for 9CH (=around $9/€5)!!!!!!!! (juicer=8CH and scales were 1CH!)
And it WORKS brilliantly, albeit I do have to starin the juice a little through the nut milk bag as it's abit pulpy, but it juices greens and the like like a dream!!!!!! XD It's called Green Life, and it's basically an older version of Green Star!


WOW! We are soo blessed XD
Now we really are fully equipted! :)

So, for a minimum of 3 days for 3 people, here is what we bought on the market today:
(all organically grown)

-10 heads of Romain lettuce (4,50CH/kg): 12CH
-6 large heads celery (6CH/kg): 30CH (ouch!)
-54 apples (3,50CH/kg): 20CH
-5 cucumbers: 6CH
-1kg spinach (6CH/kg) : 6CH
-1 squash/yam (don't know which one it is ;) (2CH/kg): 5CH
-2,5kg lemons: 12,50CH
-2kg carrots (1,90CH/kg): 3,80CH
Total: 83,9CH

So, using this info and assuming this produce lasts for 3 days of juicing for 3 people,
for 1 day of juicing for 3 people would be around 27CH, and for 1 day of juicing for 1 person would be around 9CH! Pretty damn good value I say!!!!! Wow, and imagine, most poeple spend 10CH MIN just on dinner!!!

Tomorrow, we're gunna put up all of our 'Before Stats', such as weight and our before pictures!!! :))))))))))))))


Yay to Green Juice! ;)...
and Yay! to our last day of solids for a while ;).......

Pre-juice Feast Juice Day :)

Hey!
Well, today I got up quite late (9:30, I like getting up at 6-7am usually :) and my mum and flatmate had already left for work, and I thought "Right, I'm starting the Juice Feast today!"

As we havn't got the juicers yet, I decided to do my juices with my VitaMix and nut milk bags for today.

So, I hopped off to the market to pick up some delicious produce to juice.
Here what I got (prices are in Suisse Francs):
... ALL ORGANICALLY GROWN (except watermelon)

-1,060kg of romaine lettuce = 2 big heads (costs 4,50CH/kg): 4,75CH
-1,545kg of carrots (3CH/kg): 4,65CH
-0,875kg of fennel = 2 bulbs (5,50CH/kg): 4,80CH
-1,065kg of spinach =1 giant bag! (8CH/kg): 8,50CH
-2 cucumbers (2CH/piece): 4CH
-1 bunch parsley, given to me free :) : 0CH
-1 BIG bunch of KALE (YAY, this is the 1st time I've found it here! woo!): 1,50CH (what a bargain!!)
-1kg of apples = 5 large apples: 4,20CH
-2kg of watermelon = 1 big slice (2,50kg): 5CH

TOTAL money spent: 37,70CH / €24,80
NOTE: I could have spent less if I went around the whole market first, as I found cheaper (and organic) fennel (at 4CH/kg), cucumbers (at 1CH/piece)

The greens should last for quite a few days, but I think I will have to some more fruit/apples tomorrow or the day after, especially if all 3 of us are starting tomorrow! :)

My Juice Intake so far Today:

Breakfast: none (wasn't hungry and had nothing to juice yet! :)
Around 12PM: 900ml of Green Juice: romaine/carrots/fennel/spinach)


This recipe was from Angela and Mat Monarch's 'TV show' which supposedly tastes like 'chocolate milk'!! Well, to me it didn't but I do think I put in too many carrots! Here's the quantities I made it with:

-1/2 head romaine lettuce
-1/2 kilo carrots
-3 slices fennel
-handful spinach
(as I did this is the vitamix, i had to add a lil bit of water aswell)
A little while later around 12PM30: 1,5L of watermelon juice!! Ohhhh myyyy this is SOOO good!! I made the juice from the whole slice, BUT didn't juice the rind as it wasn't organic, unfortunatly. This tastes, and looks, like liquid candyfloss!!!! :D







Around 3:30PM: 1L of a really yummy and refreshing cucumber/apple/fennel/courgette(zuccini)/kale Green Juice:
-1 cucumber
-3 small apples (not the ones I bought today, I picked these on a walk in the Jura mountain yesterday:)
-2 thivk slices fennel
-1/3 large courgette/zuccini
-2 leaves kale

This totals around: 3,4L of juice

I won't start counting the days until we are alll on the juice feast, which is why I named this post 'Pre-juice Feast Juice Day' :) Besides, I did nibble a bit and had a few taster pieces of watermelon and cantaloupe at the market ;)

Will hopefully put up all of our BEFORE photos tomorrow ;)

have a fantastic day!