Day 3 from a 60 Day Juice Fast

Unfortunately I gained 3 kg (6.6 lbs) during the past 3 weeks while I wasn’t able to stay on the wagon … But today, after having stayed on and having been good, I went on the scale again and found, I had lost 5 kg (11 lbs) again during the past three days … YEA!!! I lost 9 kg (19.8 lbs)
So far I’m not feeling too bad. I think I may be past the stadium of detoxification or I may have detox symptoms I don’t really notice … who knows. I know for sure that I have to go to bed much earlier though!!

I don’t feel as if I was able to tear out trees, but luckily I have no pain, no headaches or anything either. My blood pressure seems to be quite normal so far. The only thing I noticed, is that my right elbow hurts massively. When my husband and I returned from a trip to Tutzing I had a bad pain in my right elbow and it turned out I suffered from a „tennis elbow“ which is a condition in which the outer part of the elbow becomes sore and hurts badly. So now I had the feeling the pain in my elbow got worse, which I now think it might be some sort of an initial aggravation. On the long run, I hope to cure the arm when I drink enough juice. All will be well … :-)

Yesterday during the day I noticed I was extremely hungry since I hadn’t been able to drink as much juice or water as I had wanted and planned to. Having to sit in conference rooms attending meetings is quite inefficient as in regards to juicing. I kept a bottle of water at all times, but the water wasn’t enough … obviously … The minute I got out of the room and had my juice, my stomach stopped growling and all was well.

Do I feel any different now that I’m juicing? Well, I do feel „lighter“, my tummy is not as gased up as it used to be. But to tell you the truth, it is now near to 15 hrs and I’m not feeling too well. My stomach is giving me a hard time and I have a feeling I might have to throw up. I’m weak and when I get up I get dizzy. So either I didn’t drink enough or I drank the wrong stuff or my body is shoving out the toxins now. I decided i will buy lots of fruit today and  a few more veggies to stack up for the weekend. Tomorrow I will start the day with a lovely Banana Lemon juice and maybe add some Parsimmon, depends on how sweet or sour it is. I need to drink tasty juices now for a change. So far I have been drinking juices that weren’t too tasty since they were too old. I made today’s juice in the morning and drank it during the day, but it turned bitter and lame. Maybe cause we haven’t used Bio produce. We will for sure have to go and seek Bio farmers to deliver us food!

Day 2 from a 60 Day Juice Fast

Woke up feeling tired which just goes to show that 2230 hrs p.m. is way too late to go to bed when you want to get up at 0400 hrs a.m. I will drink up the leftovers from yesterday’s juice, have a 500 ml cup of lemon water first thing though.
Looking at the scale I was really happy to see it went down again one kg.

Actually I had started juicing around the end of October. I was on vacation for a week and used the time to start a juice fast. On October 28 I began the journey and lost 7 kg (15.4 lbs) during that same week, but much to my disapreciation I didn’t stay on the wagon after I had gone back to work, because making juice in the morning was not possible any longer, since our juicer was too loud. I usually try to get up at 4 a.m. and since we live in a building with neighbors it's quite hard to use the juicer so early in the morning without waking everyone up. But honestly … that of course wasn’t the only reason … i also fell off the wagon, because once I returned home I couldn’t resist the food we still had around, be it silly soups or a piece of bread with vegan cheese. Unfortunately I didn’t eat because I was hungry, I must confess … it was more likely „appetite“ which made me eat. After I ate it I felt terrible … for one, because I knew it was wrong and threw me back one day and two, because I physically felt not well at all.

We were able to change the first reason so far … we decided to buy a good juicer which was also quiet and chose the Omega VRT 400. We bought it three days back on Nov 17 so when I returned home from work today, I found the package in the kitchen. Hubby had built a shelf for storing a few things near the kitchen window while I unpacked our new "treasure" :-) It was really a nice feeling to see the new juicer and I was so anxcious to drink the first juice made with it. To make long things short: The juicer is a dream come true ... quiet, efficient, clean. The first juice was magnificient.

Considering the fact that my feet at times didn’t even fit into my shoes, I’m feeling quite relieved now, because my shoes fit now. I’m using a leg support cushion at night when I go to bed for better lymphatic flow. I also go to bed with a warm water bottle I place on my liver to support its function, so usually when I get up in the morning, my legs are „fairly“ thin nowadays. Of course they grow big again during the day, since I sit on a chair all day while at my office so they store water … lots of water. But iIm hoping it will be better after the juice fast.

Day 1 from a 60 Day Juice Fast

Ok ... So today is THE day!! Today WILL be THE day!!
I started my 60 day juice fast a few times during the past two to three weeks, but I always failed. Yesterday I thought it might be a solution to sort of write a diary and keep track. It's going to be embarrassing to flunk or to give up, so I hope to stay on the wagon, finally!

It's a hard thing to do and even though I know it will change my life for the best, I have an extremely hard time not to sit and eat anything.
Just now I returned from a meeting in my office. Do you know just how embarrassing it is to sit in a conference and your stomach all of a sudden starts growling so loud that everyone in the room turns to stare at you and even the speaker stops talking and looks at you ...!!!
I have not really had a chance to dring juice before I went to the meeting. I only had some water and took some supplement capsules, enzymes dandelion, thistle and minerals and some wheat grass capsules, hoping the capsules would dissolve and I would stop me from being hungry. Well ... I now know, I should've taken a juice or more of the wheat grass powder itself. Luckily I had a large bottle of water with me at least, but regardless ... even though I drank it, my stomach still growled noisily, plus ... at the end of the meeting I was in a bad hurry to rush for the women's room!

So why do I do this fast? Well, honestly, I do it for the sake of health and also for losing weight, I must admit. I'm not "nearly dead", I don't have tons of pills and medication to take, actually I'm not taking any medication at all. But I do suffer from an illness called "Lipedema". I have been suffering from that illness for all of my life. Only when I was a child, it wasn't as clearly visible as it is now.

So what exactly is a Lipedema?? I checked wikipedia and it says: Lipedema, known as lipoedema in Europe, is a chronic disorder of the adipose tissue generally affecting the legs, which causes the legs, and sometimes the arms, but not the feet, to accumulate fatty tissue. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipedema)

I can't remember not having big legs ever. As a child I never bothered though and when I was old enough to date, I was always ashamed to wear skirts or short pants. I heard a lot of bad mouthing from others ... kids can be very hurting ... and even doctors told me to stop eating so much then I wouldn't gain that much weight and wouldn't be so fat.

Only in 2006 - meantime I was already fed up with the stupidity most doctors confronted me with when telling me to lose weight and not to eat so much - I was finally diagnosed a Lipedema ... finally!! Finally a doctor treated me for what I was ... a human being! A person! And he didn't tell me to lose weight. I was already quite annoyed when I entered his office. Much to my very surprise he looked at me and before I even said "hi" he said: "Wow, how many times were you told to lose weight and not to eat too much?" I was flabbergasted and wasn't even able to answer at first. He was actually the very first person to take me serious, to tell me there was an illness called "Lipedema" and that this was what I suffered from.
So now I finally knew what the cause was and why I had big legs. I finally knew I wasn't stupid, I finally knew now it wasn't my fault ... well, not ALONE my fault. Of course I was also guilty of eating junk food for years and not doing enough sports, even though I practiced Judo and Karate and Body Building for a long period of time. But then I had a slipped disk and not being able to move at all I rapidly gained a lot of weight which I had never been able to get rid of again. Nevertheless it hit me like a slap in the face, because this meant I wasn't able to lose weight ever ... so I thought.

So, this shall be the motor to get me going I hope. As far as I was informed, a Lipedema is not curable, but I'm hoping, I might still be able to at least lose weight to make it a bit more "bearable". That's what I'm doing this for. This is the reason I've started this journey and desperately hope to be able to stay on the path for at least 30-60 days. And this is also the reason why I started this blog. I hope it will help me to hang in there and somehow support me.