Day Nine

I apologize for missing the blog yesterday, folks.  I had a busy evening, what with Cub Scouts, a trip to the farmers' market, dinner and watching a couple episodes of Sopranos with mama.  I hyped up my weigh-in all week and then  let ya down.  Sorry.

Okay, so weigh-in results:

(drum roll, please)

251

No, I'm not kidding.  That's 14  lbs. down in just a week.  I'm pretty stoked too.  It's more than I was expecting when I first started.  I know I can't keep up those kinds of results.  I've watched Biggest Loser.  It's always Week Two that kills everyone.  I don't expect as good of results next Thursday.  And by the way, Tresa has lost 7 lbs. as of this morning.  She would want me to remind everyone, however, that she is a day behind me in our juicing.  Still very respectable results.  I love her for doing this with me.  I don't think I'd be able to stick to it otherwise.

Last night, after the kids went to bed, I cut up a sweet potato and an apple, placed them in a baking dish with some orange juice, cinnamon and nutmeg and baked it for an hour.  It turned out pretty good and satisfied our craving for something hot.  As nice as it was though, it wasn't fasting and it wasn't raw. I can only do that once a week or so.  I need to be consistent in juicing.

This morning started off well.  Even the kids had some of the juice and liked it.  It was oranges, ginger, lemon, strawberries and fresh pineapple.  Pineapple is my favorite fruit, so it's a real treat to put it in juice.  I forgot to add mango to the mix or it would've been even better.  When you've juiced about 30 different fruits and veggies in the last week, it's easy to forget what all you have.

Lunch was fine.  I can't even remember what all was in it other than red lettuce and tomatoes. I like that stuff.  It makes a lot of juice.  I've had to get creative with what we have left in the fridge.  It's definitely time to go grocery shopping again.

Speaking of shopping, I didn't find any cucumbers at the at the farmers' market last night.  When I asked, they told me they were out of season.  Bummer.  Israeli cucumbers have a great flavor and a lot of juice.  I'll try to find them in the grocery store.

Oh yeah (I know I'm jumping all around here) I did go a farmers' market of sorts yesterday at work.  It was to raise money for charity, so I decided to check it out.  Someone was selling an enormous head of green cabbage, tomatoes, Gravenstein apples, zucchini (anyone ever juice that?) some garlic and a big ol' gracery sack of kale.  I bought it all for $15.

The cabbage went into tonight's juice.  It's a simple one.  Just cabbage, apple, carrot, celery, kale, parsley and ginger.  The cabbage is sweeter than I had expected.  I'm actually pretty happy with this juice.  If I had any lemons left, they would've made it even better.

It's a long weekend coming up.  Plenty of opportunities for some good juicing.