Morning Day 5

It's kind of hard to make time to write over the weekend, especially with my computer on the fritz. We're still going strong, well, going anyway. I would have to say Saturday has definitely been the hardest day so far. We had the most cravings and the irritability set in. When I talked to my dad on Sunday on the way to church he compared fasting to quitting smoking. You are breaking a habit, a habit that calms you down, makes you comfortable, so the side effects are going to be similar. You're going to be cranky along with lots of other emotions because you don't have that comfortable norm of food. Not to mention you are just frustrated because you can't eat. It's the weekend, you want to go out to dinner, go to the movies and get candy or a hot dog. Everything we do for entertainment usually revolves around food. In fact that's part of what has been motivating me to keep going. I see how often I think about food and am like wow, THAT'S how often I eat! It's way too much! Plus I have never really lived an active lifestyle where my daily activities get me moving around. We enjoy things like board and video games, those doing get you moving much or outside in the sun for that matter. But that's why we're doing this, to beak bad eating habits and encourage a more active life.

Friday was a hard day. I had a terrible headache again so I actually took some Advil, lowering the dosage of what I normally take and It helped immensely. We had our first taste of beet juice for lunch which wasn't totally bad but pretty much tasted like dirt. Note: peel your beets, it makes your hands purple but you save yourself a lot of nasty flavor. For dinner we went to Robeks and got a carrot ginger juice (I added spinach to mine) and it was pretty yummy. There was an accident on the trip home though and one of the cup holders in the truck broke and got carrot juice EVERYWHERE! Kyle tried to clean it out but gave up and just took the truck to get the interior detailed the next day. The truck was in need of some good cleaning inside anyway so it worked out and now the truck feels like new! Overall, Friday wasn't terrible and we got used to the not eating part a little more and enjoyed the juice much more than day 1.

Saturday we slept in till 10:45, getting about 12 hours of sleep. Obviously our body was going through some healing that night. We gave ourselves a treat and blended a banana in to our juice that morning (against the rules but we didn't care.) When we took the truck in we made a trip to Palmdale to the Coffee Bean for some herbal tea. This was a tough trip. Not only did the whole place smell deliciously of coffee but we stood there right in front of the pastry display with that everything bagel just staring me in the face. We survived and got two delicious "African Sunrise" herbal iced teas which were amazing because they tasted like banana nut muffins. To stave off boredom we called Jessica and Avery and played games all afternoon. This is when the irritability was the most obvious. Kyle was being extra ornery and was making me extra ticked off. We kept thinking about all the food we wanted and thought several times about just saying "screw it, let's go to taco bell!" but we stayed strong and made it one more day. I actually made another batch of mean green in my new juicer and it wasn't as bad. I used more of the lemon and we refrigerated it for a couple hours before having it so it was ice cold. I got it down just fine but Kyle still has to hold his nose, but we are now able to get it down once a day, big improvement. We have also decided to make the broth a daily thing. It has really helped stave off cravings and settle our stomachs when the juice isn't so great tasting. I actually made a batch of fresh veggie broth so we're cutting back on all that sodium from the bullion. Another rule broken but we're still sticking close to the plan.

Sunday was a little better. Church was a little rough because emotions were on high and I couldn't seem to keep my self from crying. Pastor announced our last day at CLA and we had lots of people asking us questions and giving us hugs, it was hard to keep to together, for me at least. We went to the Whole Wheatery for our lunch juice which was alright, very beety. We saw Captain America that afternoon and drooled over hot dogs and popcorn but made it though. Alex G. made a comment when he saw us both standing in line he said "You guys are standing taller." I thought this was funny cause I didn't even notice but we had been standing for about 20 minutes and I didn't feel the need to sit down, we weren't even leaning on the wall. Alex even said that normally he sees us like that and we're slouching and leaning of stuff but we were just standing up tall and straight. I'm glad he pointed it out because I wouldn't have noticed and that motivated me even more. The rest of the day was actually pretty easy, craving wise, just a couple weak moments. I created a great juice recipe with kale, spinach, carrot, apple and lemon which tasted like a fresh squeezed glass of lemonade! Very refreshing :) We even went on a short walk that night that totally wiped us out. It's a little harder to exercise when your body has no other fuel besides your fat! Our legs were burning before we even got around the block. We both woke up a little achy from it but it's a good hurt, a cleansing hurt.

Speaking of cleansing, both of us have yet to experience that magical bathroom trip that apparently makes you feel so great. So I feel like the detox is still quite incomplete. As of right now I'm really tired because I couldn't get to sleep as fast as Kyle did and he woke me up to make the juice this morning. I have plans to do some house work today so hopefully I can feel up to it. So far the "Day 5" prediction is not coming true, but maybe if I got a tad more sleep I'd be good, or maybe just after I start moving. We plan to break the fast Friday so, not the full 10 days. We just want to be ready for Kyle's b-day bbq on Sunday so we can actually eat some of the food I make.

So far as of this morning Kyle and I are both down 10 lbs. As soon as I feel that wonderful clean feeling I think it'll feel more worth it. Off to drink some water and mop my floors! Happy Monday!