As you should know by reading my first few posts, I used to weigh 300 pounds. For a long while when I first started losing weight my long term goal was 199.9 pounds. I just wanted to be under 200! Well yesterday I reached that goal! I had been stuck at about 212 for a long time and then one day I was so excited to be 209. Then last week I got sick with bronchitis and was in bed for days and lost another 5 pounds. So all of a sudden I was down to 204. It happened so fast and I didn't really look or feel any different than when I was 212.
Now that I've moved into a new house and new surroundings, I feel motivated once again to get out and be myself and try new things. We watched a documentary called Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.
The man, Joe Cross, comes to America from Australia with a skin disease and over weight. He sets a plan to do nothing but drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days in the land of fast food. The first 30 days he sticks close to New York City and the last 30 he travels the states with his juicer hooked to a battery in his rental car, sharing his story and juice with everyone he meets along the way.
Juicing the food makes it so you are able to intake more at a faster rate so it shocks your system with so many nutrients that it can't help but flush out your system of all the toxins and force you to lose weight at a faster rate and cleanses you from the inside out. 4 ounces of veggies will make you full but 4 ounces of juice takes way more fruits and veggies to make and won't make you as full. So you drink more than 60 ounces a day and your body will go into a whirlwind cleanse.
Joe Cross lost a tremendous amount of weight in a very healthy way and he was also able to stop taking the daily prescribed medicine for his skin disease.
We were very inspired by this documentary and lots of research was done about how to juice. So a juicer was bought and a garden supply of fruits and vegetables and we are now on day 3 of a 10 day juice fast. We have modified our fast. We are still 100% fruits, vegetables and water but we aren't 100% juicing. The juicing is interesting but we are getting the hang of it. Eating nothing but fruits and veggies has been hard but it has also gotten easier since we've gotten it in our heads that we need to make healthier choices and the water is nothing for me since I've already been drinking nothing but water for years.
We've also already seen results on day 2 with weight loss! Which brings me back to my goal of 199.9. Sunday June 9th we weighed in for the juice fast and I was 204.6 and on Tuesday June 10th I was 199.8. So I've reached my goal and can finally say I used to be 100 pounds heavier! But I am not stopping here! 100% fruits and vegetables is obviously working along with exercise of course so I will update you again in a week when the juice fast is over! My new goal is 160 and I will be a new person!
Hopefully this will inspire someone to try this because now that I'm trying it it's kind of like duh why didn't I think of that?! It can be hard seeing all of these commercials of food and all the temptation everywhere you look but it gets easier! So see you with another progress report next week!
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| Our first official juice. Called The Mean Green. Renamed The Incredible Hulk. |
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