Juice Fast--Day 6 Summary

January 10—Day 6

8:00 a.m. I slept soundly with no wake ups or weird dreams. The early morning Spin class I taught felt great!  I only made a quick powdered green combo this morning. I’ll juice later.

1:00 p.m.  I still have an incredible amount of energy and a great sense of well being. Reading yesterday’s post again just a few minutes ago made me realize how negative I was about the fast yesterday. Of course, the day’s not over, but I have a great attitude today—just saying, a day can make all the difference. On a fast, truly, each day is new and different!

As promised yesterday, here’s the juicing process in pictures:

Lunch in its beautiful, colorful “before” state:

I have kale, spinach, pea shoots, sunflower sprouts, celery, carrot, ginger, beet and lemon—I think that’s it. 

Here I am feeding the veggies through the hopper:

A tool comes with the machine to guide the veggies down so that your fingers never get near the blade.

 

Here’s the rather disgusting-looking by product of the juicing—all the fiber:

Now, vegetable fiber is an awesome thing. Ingestion of it has many benefits for the body. But, for now, my purpose is to give my digestive system a total break from the very hard work of digesting all that cellulose and plant fiber. By juicing I give my body all the rewards it usually has to expend energy to get—for free!! But the body is not lazy. It turns all that energy to the effort of major housekeeping and repair chores--things it's constantly getting a bit behind on because we keep it overfed with all kinds of bad ingredients that practically keep it in emergency mode!

Here’s the juice:

It’s not yet ready to consume. At this stage it would be thick enough to gag anyone, much less a faster.

There is one more step: the straining process:

Dragging a spoon back and forth through the pulp encourages it through the strainer quickly:

Here’s that whole bowl of veggies, ready for my body to utilize immediately. Can’t you just see all those enzymes, vitamins and minerals?!?

7:00 p.m. I’m very encouraged by how good the entire day has been. Cooking dinner brought on a tinge of pity—not hunger—just want to taste! I’m not the least bit tired right now, which is different from how I’ve felt around this time on previous evenings. I wish I could have fit in another yoga class today—maybe tomorrow. It’s good to incorporate into the fast actions which help the lymph move and keep the toxins and waste on the fast track out! Yoga is excellent for this and so is massage. I’m looking forward to one I’ve scheduled on day 8. It will help my muscles release deeply-held toxic buildup, and my job afterwards will be to drink some extra water to help flush them out!

60% there!