I have been thinking about a vegetarian diet or a juicing diet for a while. I'm a Midwestern meat eater to the core, but I am so struggling with getting the weight off, maybe it was time to change my attitude entirely.
As I sat watching the movie, I had a couple of things going through my mind. First, Joe Cross - the producer and focus of the movie, is a shill. Nothing wrong with that, but it's good to know when someone has something to sell. The difference: Joe lost a great deal of weight using his own method and we got to see that in the movie. Quite the product demonstration. Joe is pushing a lot of juicers for Breville!
But, Joe wasn't the most convincing part of the movie for me. The one that made me damn near cry was a guy named Phil. Phil was a trucker, so, like me, he has a sedentary job. Phil was an inch shorter than me and thirty pounds lighter. But, when he took off his shirt - that was my body! In the course of 10 months of a fruit & veggie juice fast, Phil lost 200 pounds. He checked with his doc every few weeks and was healthy all the way.
A few days later I bought a juicer.
This last week I have weaned myself off normal food. I filled my fridge with fruit and vege. I've added juice here and there to supplement my meals. Yesterday I was entirely vegetarian. Last night, I had my first "Green" juice; Kale, Cucumbers, Celery and Apples - it wasn't the best, I should have added some lemon and maybe some ginger. Today is the first day of juice only. I've had Carrot & Orange for breakfast, I have the rest of the green juice I made last night for lunch (I'll get through it somehow) and then I will buy more veggies and juice something good for dinner.
While researching this, I was shocked by how much protein these juices have. The whole thing about concentrating all those veggies and fruit down to just the juice, getting rid of the insoluble fiber, really makes a glass of nutrition. The pic above is my first juice creation: Carrot & Apple in a reusable cup. It was really good and very sweet! (Maybe too sweet. Gotta watch that.) The juicing is easy and even kinda fun, but it's messy. The machine gets coated! It's like cleaning out a lawn mower. And, on top of that, I have had several spills - my kitchen is VERY clean, if a little sticky, in a few spots!
I can't do this forever, it is indeed a "reboot" - right now I am shooting for 15 days. If I can get through to end of day on Friday April 6th, I will consider fasting further. I'd like to go as long as I can and lose as much as I can, but anything would be good. However, it won't be easy. Last night I left work late, I was very hungry and all I wanted to do was pull through a drive-thru. I counted them off as I went home: KFC, BK, Wendy's, McDonalds, Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, another Micky D's - but I bypassed them all and went home for my poorly made Kale juice. I'm a good boy. Today at work, my stomach is growling and the VPs are walking around passing out pastries. Where were the Veeps with pastries last Friday??
I will need to keep going to the gym, but with a different attitude. I'm likely going to lose some muscle in all of this. So, I want to make sure it comes off my legs and not my heart. Good, solid - but not insane, cardio. I'll keep my half hour on the treadmill in the morning. I want to add some light upper body. I want to start going swimming at night, if nothing else to keep me from sitting in front of the TV wishing I was munching on something, or worse - finding something to munch on. No munching! No chewing for 15 days!!
So, I am going for this. I am being careful. I'll see my doc eventually. If anything changes, you know from reading here I'll stop. If I need more food, I'll drink more - there's no possible way I can drink the calorie levels I currently eat. I want this to work.
The Veeps are standing outside my cube right now with huge boxes of pastries from Panera. Uuugh! This is gonna suck ...
