The Great Juice Experiment - Day 1

8:00am
Woke up this morning refreshed and ready to begin what I will now call The Great Juice Experiment. Not feeling hungry yet from the night before, I jumped right in with a morning blast of vitamin C.  I ran a grapefruit, orange, a couple of carrots and a nub of ginger through the juicer and it was amazing!  I then jotted off to get my roots done (I'm a vegan, not a hippy for God's sake!).  As I lay back getting my hair rinsed, watching the television on the ceiling playing the Food Network, I started realizing that I was getting pretty hungry and that enchilada she was making looked damn good!  Breathe through the rumbling, deep yoga breathing, it's your body beginning to detoxify itself I kept saying in my mind.

11:15am
Two hours and a rumbling stomach later, I returned home, raced to the kitchen to prepare another juice.  This time it was a combination of spinach, kale, celery, apple, carrot and lemon.  It did fill me up for a while before I was hit with the most incredible headache I've had in a long time.  It was like someone was smashing a hammer into my forehead.  Remembering that I had read something about headaches being a side effect of the cleanse, I tried once again to breathe through it. Focusing my mind on calming thoughts.   For the record, this calming thoughts thing may be a load of crap.

2:30pm
Headed off to a local juice bar for another round.  The thought of cleaning that damn juicer again was making my head spin.  Instead, I dropped $9.50 on a shot of wheatgrass and a kale, cucumber, celery and apple juice.  This juicing thing is expensive by the way.

4:30pm
After a failed attempt at a nap, I realized that my headache was gone and it was time for a juice.  I tried to make my own V8 with tomato, spinach, cucumber, carrot, red pepper and celery.  I did throw some Tabasco in it for some spice (don't know if that's allowed) and down the hatch it went.  Pretty good actually.  I thought by this point I'd be in a pretty bad mood but surprisingly I've only yelled at Primo and Segundo once or twice today.  :-)

7:00pm
I am officially starving. Even the chicken my kids are eating smells good, and I HATE chicken.  Even when I ate meat, I hated chicken, the dirty bird.  And now it smells good.  I don't know how people do this.

7:30pm
Final juice of the night, orange/grapefruit.  I think I needed some sugar because I'm feeling a little better.

Gonna chill on the couch and veg out.  Did I really just say veg???  Until tomorrow...

Peace and love.