Day 1

     Welcome everyone to our day 1!
     I proudly woke up at 7am this morning, and started cleaning and cutting up my vegetables.  We decided to make the Mean Green Juice.  The mean green juice includes Kale, Celery, Apples, Ginger, Cucumber, and Lemon!  Everything took me about an hour.  I doubled the recipe and it made enough for my husband and I for breakfast, AND for lunch.

       Seems like a lot of vegetables and fruits doesn't it?? Well it makes a lot more juice than you would think!  My husband had a hard time drinking it, I thought it was okay, but not great. But we are persevering!

       Now for dinner/dessert, I made a sweeter fruit juice! It was SOOO good! Probably the best juice I have ever drank!  It had Pineapple, Carrot, Apple and Celery.  So yummy!

       Yummy Yummy Yummy!  So our first day is over.  All in all, we slept a lot today,  I had headaches, we had to pee a lot.  It was an okay day.  One thing we noticed is we both feel very full after we drink our juice.  

I had some pretty fierce cravings today.  It's like I just wanted to be chewing something! Just wanted something to snack on!

Tomorrow we will weigh in!

Welcome to our new blog!

Howdy everybody!
You came just in time to read about the beginning of our juice fast!
     I will start by telling you a little about myself, I am 23 and my husband is 22 (yeah yeah, robbed the cradle I know).  We have been married for three years, no kids and we have had a blast! The problem is, as the years have crept by, the scale numbers have crept up!  When we were dating, my husband was around 175, and I was around 130 (with my frame, that was skinny!).  NOW my husband is around 220, and I'm about 170.  OH BOY.

    




     I have never stopped being on "a diet".  Seems like it's always one thing or the other.  But this time, my husband and I are doing it together!  After watching the documentary  "Fat, Sick, and nearly dead", we are ready for a change!
    We just got home from our first night of grocery shopping and buying our first juicer!  We checked Bed, Bath and Beyond, Best Buy, Home Depot, Walmart and Target, trying to find a Breville blender like the one on the show.  It was sold out everywhere! We finally settled for the "Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer".  It's pretty much the only one they had and at 99.00 I really hope it doesn't let us down.  Best Buy said there was a 30 day return policy so that makes me feel a little better.  
     Anyways, I would like to document this as much as possible (I'm a huge fan of facts and data), so here it goes!!


Beginning Weight - 


ME              HUSBAND
171.4           221.6


Measurements - 


     ME              HUSBAND
Arms - 13"             15.5"
Hips - 43.5"           46"
Waist - 32"
Thigh - 26.75"         27"


     I will also be documenting our various health concerns and if this fast makes a difference, for better or worse!


Headaches - We both have around 1 or 2 pretty bad headaches a week.


Skin/Face - My  husband has a skin condition on his face and sometimes his hand that breaks out.  He has gotten it checked out and every doctor seems to say something different.  It has been diagnosed as psoriasis, rosacea, eczema, even an allergic reaction.  It strikes at random times, random seasons, random days, we can never figure it out. His cheeks and nose just get really red and kind of weepy, and the skin flakes off.  My poor husband hates it so much.  They give him creams for it, but it just makes his face really shiny.  Anyways, so we are really curious to see the effect this juice diet has on his skin condition.


Allergies - My allergies are SO bad.  Somedays I can't wear my contacts because my eyes are so irritated.  Sometimes I wake up and my eyes are stuck shut from allergies.  My nose is always runny.  Anyways, yet another thing I'm just curious to see.


Tired/sleepy - We are constantly sleepy! Pretty much at anytime we could take a nap :(  We both feel we sleep decent at night, but it never feels like enough.


So! Now that you know all about our stats!  Tomorrow will be our very first juice fast day! We are very prepared to be very cranky and go through withdrawals. :)

Here we go!