Day Four

Sunday morning.  Normally, I'd get up and make a big breakfast of pancakes, bacon, eggs of some sort and maybe hash browns.  My woman and I would have a couple cups of coffee with sweetened, flavored creamer.  This Sunday was different.  Today I drank my breakfast.

Let's see, 1 grapefruit, 1 small lemon, 2 carrots, 1 mango, 1 cup of blueberries, 1/2 pint of strawberries, 2 kiwis, 1" cube of ginger root, 1 granny smith apple.  It yielded about 32 oz of smooth, delicious juice.  A good energy boost for the day.

We had an early lunch around 11.  We drank the juice left over from my "pulp soup" the night before.  See yesterday's post for the ingredients.  I'm not gonna lie; we choked it down.  No fruit, no seasonings, no ginger, no lemon, nothing but vegetables.

I'm drinking my 2nd lunch right now.  1 cucumber, 4 carrots, two leaves of kale, 2 leaves of komatsuna, 1 sweet potato, 1" cube of ginger, 1/2 lemon, 1 granny smith apple, 2 gala apples, 3 stalks of celery, and 2 big broccoli crowns with stems.  I juiced it all once and got about 56 oz of juice.  Then I dumped the pulp container out on a plate and slowly fed it back into the juicer chute.  To my surprise, I got another 8 ounces of juice out of it!  So T and I each get about 32 oz of smooth, green juice that doesn't taste half bad.  I really like the sweet potato in it.  And using lemon and ginger in the juice really helps "brighten" up the otherwise bland taste.

I don't have any real significant detox effects yet.  I've heard that the worse your diet was before the reboot, the worse the detox symptoms are once you start.  That is encouraging.  Maybe I wasn't eating as bad as I thought?  Hell, who am I kidding?  I've also read that some people detox early and some might not detox until a week or more later.  That's probably more likely.  I'm still waiting for the headaches and such.  For now, I feel pretty good.  Still limping slightly on my left ankle/foot.  My big toe is still sore from the gout attack two weeks ago.  I think some of that joint damage is irreversible.  I see gout commercials on TV with images of rough, arthritic bones and I cringe, because I know that's what my toes look like now.

Anyway, I should be working on some paperwork instead of blogging away.  Gotta run.