Day 1

We started juicing! Our Breville juicer is BEAUTIFUL (see Facebook for pics, I haven't been using my camera). It's loud, too, haha. Scared Dewey to death the first few times we used it.

It makes a LOT OF JUICE, too. 30 ounces per person per meal. That's a LOT of juice. Andrew made it according to the recipe first (6 kale, 4 celery, 2 apples, 1 cucumber, 1/2 lemon, thumb-size piece of fresh ginger), and it tasted okay, just SUPER blah. So I amped it up for mine with an extra apple and a bigger piece of ginger. That was SO GOOD! Genuinely enjoyed it. So that's my recipe. Andrew likes it just the way it is, with a touch of extra kale.

Andrew and I got up at 5:30am yesterday (he still had to go to work), and we made our first juice meal. He made enough to take with him for lunch, and off he went. I settled down with my 30 ounces of juice and watched some DVR'ed Craig Ferguson episodes for a few hours. I felt great in the morning. I had worried I would spend a lot of time in the bathroom, but I was pleasantly surprised that I just had an increase in how often I had to pee (easily had to go 6 or 7 times in a few hours).

I made my juice at lunch, thinking "I feel really good, I am going to work out after my lunch!" But it wasn't long after that when I started feeling really funky. Headache, slight nausea, sloshy-feeling stomach. So I just sipped ice water and chilled on our big comfy chair all day, with Dewey randomly checking on me (sidenote, he jumped up on the arm of the chair to smell what I was drinking for lunch, and when I held my cup out to him, he sniffed, and JUMPED BACKWARDS and fell off of the chair. He then sat there all squinty-eyed like, "UGH! WHAT was THAT?!?!?!" So funny!!).

Even though I was fast-forwarding through commercials on the DVR, I still was catching glimpses of food I would never, ever, ever eat: a reuben from Arby's, spicy chorizo pizza from Papa John's...and I was literally salivating, haha. I'm really craving pizza. Pizza and a cheeseburger from Jake's. I know I can resist the temptation, but it is much more of a reaction than I thought it would be, to crave food and not eat something processed and FEEL that affect my body. I can't wait until it passes. It's scary how physical my love of food is. I'd actually been BRAINWASHED, when you think about it. My brain thinks I "need" this food. So. The cravings encourage me to keep going even more so.

Andrew said his day at work was a bit overwhelming. They were short-handed and busy, so they catered in pizza from his favorite place (i Fratelli's). It was their monthly birthday celebration, also, so there were brownies, cheesecakes, cookies, flan, and SO MANY other temptations. I feel SO BAD that he had to sit there and watch everyone eat in front of him. He resisted, though. He was hungry when he smelled the food at lunch, but he drank his juice and he felt fine after that. Several people have been interested in what he's doing and wanted to try his juice, so he let them. They are all very supportive of him, and have been all-too-happy to help him eat the snacks and treats we have been trying to get rid of from our pantry and such. Popcorn is one of Andrew's all-time favorite snacks, and they apparently pop it a LOT at work for snacking, and that is something that is going to be the hardest for him in the coming days.

Physically, he had a slight headache and had a little trouble focusing at times. Other than that, he felt better than he expected to.

I fell asleep around dinner time and was not hungry at all, so I didn't drink a dinner juice. I should have, but I was feeling grumpy and had a headache. Andrew did notice that he was really craving a snack when he got home from work. He also will not be able to eat ice cream on this 60-day fast, which is something that makes him sad, haha. But we both have our unique temptations and cravings that we have to deal with, and at the moment it's a struggle.

Day one, though...went a lot better than I thought it would. And between juice and water, yesterday, I was NOT hungry. And no unpleasant bathroom trips (thank you, Lord!). So I consider it a great success!! Very happy so far.