In February, I had a birthday! I turned 24 and decided it was a fantastic time to create my "25 by 25 List" I posted it on two blogs, my anything goes personal whatever blog --> HERE and my more critical thinking & creative writing blog --> HERE. I posted both places to help keep me accountable. NOW, I was at work and realized it has been about a month. So, I asked myself, "What have I done?" Which made me revisit my list. In a few days I'll have a more complete update post for you on my other blog. However, one of the listed things is a 3 day juice fast. I plan on starting it at the beginning of April, which gives me time to wean off of the dairy, meats, and sweets. Good thing is, I already have minimal intake of dairy and meats. It's the sweets that will be more difficult. I'll be honest here, it's been stressful this past month. I got a new position at work, had to go through a ton of training, had to travel up north for a lot of it, and then there were some family issues that took my attention away from things. These events were stressful and stress triggers me to eat more sweets, which triggers more acne. The being stressed AND busy combination didn't fair well with my exercise. I didn't cease working out, I just adapted it to home workouts, but I miss my stadiums. All-in-all, it's a perfect time to get serious and back in control. A 3 day juice fast will be the perfect reboot. Here's my plan.
I am a huge fan of resources, so I'll be using a lot of tips, recipes, and plans from Kris Carr, Reboot with Joe, and Just on Juice. I encourage you all to dig through their sites, books, videos, and so on if you want some serious motivation to reboot your own nutrition.
I am a huge fan of resources, so I'll be using a lot of tips, recipes, and plans from Kris Carr, Reboot with Joe, and Just on Juice. I encourage you all to dig through their sites, books, videos, and so on if you want some serious motivation to reboot your own nutrition.
Next, I've made a plan to introduce the juice again, now this isn't my first time. You can check out my first juice fast experience in the list below and I'll tell you, I've learned a lot of lessons since then. I want to try out the juice recipes that I plan on using for the fast, so there isn't any interruptions or snags during my 3 days. I want to know it will be good, tried and true style.
Great tip here that I learned on this site {tip #7}: I'm going to prepare my recipes the day before. So, instead of preparing the juice itself {I prefer fresh juice}, I'm going to wash, cut, peel everything for a single recipe and then place it in a gallon bag. Then I'll have about 4-5 bags in the fridge that will be labeled with breakfast, lunch, snack, etc... OR with the recipe name. This cuts preparation time which relieves the sometimes daunting feeling you get when you're hungry and you know you have to prepare a juice that takes 20 min or more to do. Instead, I'll just have to grab a bag, juice it, wash the juicer and enjoy my juice. I'm most excited about this.
Another thing I want to mention as part of my 3 day juice fast plan is that I'll be taking a day off of work. Where I work, I can't bring in certain items. Juice in a jar or something, would be one of those items. Also, I can't afford to be peeing that much {let's be real}. SO, since it's a 3 day juice fast, I'll be taking off one day before or after my normal two days off.
As the final thing to mention, I plan on recording the whole process. Preparing the juice, the recipes, how it tastes, when I'm juicing, how I'm feeling, etc... I'll post the videos here.
I'm SO excited! I have about 2 weeks to prepare, if you're interested, join me!
Great tip here that I learned on this site {tip #7}: I'm going to prepare my recipes the day before. So, instead of preparing the juice itself {I prefer fresh juice}, I'm going to wash, cut, peel everything for a single recipe and then place it in a gallon bag. Then I'll have about 4-5 bags in the fridge that will be labeled with breakfast, lunch, snack, etc... OR with the recipe name. This cuts preparation time which relieves the sometimes daunting feeling you get when you're hungry and you know you have to prepare a juice that takes 20 min or more to do. Instead, I'll just have to grab a bag, juice it, wash the juicer and enjoy my juice. I'm most excited about this.
Another thing I want to mention as part of my 3 day juice fast plan is that I'll be taking a day off of work. Where I work, I can't bring in certain items. Juice in a jar or something, would be one of those items. Also, I can't afford to be peeing that much {let's be real}. SO, since it's a 3 day juice fast, I'll be taking off one day before or after my normal two days off.
As the final thing to mention, I plan on recording the whole process. Preparing the juice, the recipes, how it tastes, when I'm juicing, how I'm feeling, etc... I'll post the videos here.
I'm SO excited! I have about 2 weeks to prepare, if you're interested, join me!