Juicing: Day 1

Stu and I have decided that we will ease into the juice fast by incorporating 1 juice for one meal for the next few days, and then go to two meals, and then to all three. If we need protein, I'm sticking to beans and rice, or eggs, and Stu might eat 1 piece of meat a day.

Koinonia Co-Op had baby organic spinach and bags of baby carrots, so we added that to our purchase of apples (from Hendersonville, N.C.), lemons, fresh pineapple, bananas, another bag of carrots, kale, and cherry tomatoes (or grape tomatoes? I forget).

Today I made a juice consisting of:

4 handfuls of baby carrots

2 handfuls of spinach

1 handful of tomatoes

1 handful of fresh pineapple chunks

3 apples

1 banana

It was GREAT. A pale orange color, it tasted like a regular apple/pineapple juice.

Stu was really happy and I am very pleased with the results. Hopefully this (along with an exercise plan) will jumpstart some weight loss for both of us, and give us more energy to work on our various projects (Me: NaNoWriMo, a song for a wedding, & voice; Stu: screenplay and music video).

A positive start works wonders.