10 days of Change

Today I started on a 10 day juice fast, yes that's right 10 days of nothing but juicing.  Now why would someone want to go on a 10 day juice fast, you might ask.  Well there are a couple of reasons that I chose to start this fast.  The first was watching the movie "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead", if you have not watched that movie, I highly recommend the movie.  In the movie Joe Cross goes on a 60 days juice fast, to not only lose weight but because he had a chronic illness and was on several medications that were making him sicker. 

Now, fortunately, I am not taking any medications and although I am fairly healthy I know that I need to lose weight and if I was to continue on the path that I was on, it was very likely that I would need to be on medications at some point in the near future.

So what did I do, where did I start?  I started by making slow changes to my diet and lifestyle.  Now I used to be a big or should I say BIG diet soda drinker.  I would stop every morning on the way to work to get the extra large soda at the nearest fast food restaurant I could find, and of course since I was using my Debit card anyways, I might as well get me one of the breakfast sandwiches and hash browns, I mean who wants to use there debit card for just a dollar soda?  Now you would think that would be my only soda a day, but no, come lunch time I was ready for another diet soda to go with my lunch.  So the first thing I did was to cut diet sodas out of my diet.  That was a big first step for me.

The next thing I did after watching the movie "Forks over Knives" I cut meat out of my life.  No red meat, no chicken, no fish.  This was actually not too difficult for me, I learn to eat more beans and drank a protein shake every morning to give me the protein that I needed.  Now at this point I only cut out meat, I was not by any shape of the imagination a "vegetarian"  which I presume to mean that I filled up on vegetables.  No, I just cut the meat, my diet was more breads, chips, beans, some fruit in my protein shake, cheese and dairy products.   Not healthy but part of my journey.

Now after more movies stressing the importance of vegetables, I started grilling the vegetables and found that I really liked vegetables in this form and I got rid of the dairy products.  No more milk, cheese, sour cream etc.  Now I'm was eating more veggies, and learning to actually like them.
Then I bought a juicer, which sat on the kitchen counter for weeks because I was too afraid to use it.  I couldn't wrap my head around the idea of juicing and how you could possibly get juice out of spinach for example.  I was also afraid of messing up and making something that I hated and then wasting all of those vegetables.  But eventually I got up the nerve to go for it, and to my surprise the juice tasted good.  So now I can actually call myself not only a vegetarian but I vegan.

So here we are today and start of my 10 day juice fast, so why?  Because although I have lost weight, I have found myself at a plateau so I am going on this 10 day juice fast to get over the plateau and to take my body through new changes.

So I hope you will follow my journey as I share the adventures on this 10 day juice fast.