We finished our juice fast a little earlier than we had planned. We went 5 days instead of 7. The weekend is much more difficult to fast than during the week because a lot of our activities on the weekend revolve around food: making breakfast together, going out to lunch, getting coffee or frozen yogurt, hanging out with friends (and food of course), etc. And this weekend was a three-day one with the holiday. So we went all of Saturday through Sunday night when we broke the fast with some Orange Roughy fish as our first non-fruit or vegetable.
Orange roughy and vegetables for dinner
I think we did pretty good overall. We feel a lot lighter and cleaned out. As we added more food today such as an omelet from our chickens’ eggs, we noticed flavors a lot more. It feels really good to be cleaned out and start fresh. It definitely makes you want to eat healthier and without added sugars, salts and oils/fats. We made an avocado, tomato, pepper salad (in photo) and didn’t even need to add any salt. We just put a little cumin, garlic and lime juice into it and it was great!
I think I would do another juice fast sometime in the future if we start to feel lethargic or like we are getting into our old eating patterns. Britton said he would start to feel pretty hungry around 3pm in the afternoon but once we drank more juice he would feel a lot better. We also found the fruits and vegetables that we really like including carrot juice! We found this 25 lb bag of carrots at King Soopers for only $9!
We are planning on continuing to juice daily as a replacement for some of our meals or as a supplement. These juices are really great and give a lot of the benefits of the whole plant. In addition, Britton lost about 10 lbs and I lost about 5! That wasn’t the main purpose of this fast, but a nice side benefit. We have also been a lot more appreciative of food in general and especially of good, healthy food in particular. If you’ve ever been curious about a juice fast, I would recommend it whole-heartedly, especially if you have a surplus of fresh fruits or veggies.
Congratulations…5 days is major! It is funny that the man is the one that drop the pounds so much easier than us women 🙁 I hope you did some spicy veggie drinks…that would be the only way I can survive a liquid fast.
Thanks Rosa!
Yes we tried all sorts of spices: horseradish, garlic, ginger, hot peppers, and ground spices of all types. Most of the juices were pretty good I think. The only one I didn’t like was the one with beets in it -it tasted like dirt to me. It is difficult to only drink your food instead of eat it. Even just eating whole fruit and vegetables was nice! Britton weighs more than me to start with so I suppose it makes sense that he would lose more weight, but it would have been nice to see 10 lbs gone! That would have made it a little more bearable. But overall, I think it was a good experiment/experience.
Next stop – raw food! Start looking into it – the land of seeds and nuts and options!