Day 25: Trials in Life

I always want to start out with something I am grateful for. Today I am so blessed to have wonderful daughters who make life so meaningful. They remind me to slow down and enjoy the simple things like today at the beach. We collected various seaweeds, sea shells and looked at all the bugs and animals around the shore. It was an amazing day. I feel truly blessed to be their mommy.

So today I weighed in and I am down 23 lbs now! Woohoo! Still going strong even during that "time of the month."

Today I enjoyed:
2 quarts of Green Juice: Kale, Celery, Cucumber, Lemon, Parsley, and Green Apples.
and
2 quarts of Black and Red Grape Juice 

I am worried about my new juicer after the incident with the large nectarine pit my daughter accidentally put thru it yesterday. It just isnt acting the same. I am on the fencing of returning it and getting the Omega 8006 (which is actually cheaper.) It creates less pulp (which i do NOT like in green juices, but enjoy in the fruit juices but it takes longer to juice. It is a lot easier to clean up though. I HATE cleaning! Or I am thinking of calling in a repair for it as it isnt working properly and waiting to see what happens. Not sure yet. I will let ya all know what I decide soon. The 8006 Omega does do more things too so I am leaning on returning this Omega VRT 350 for it but I will miss the ease of juicing. Hmmm.......I will sleep on it.


So I wanted to touch base on life "trials" or whatever you would like to call them, when life gets a bit tough. What happens when life gets tough and you are drinking all juices? And you are a food addict?! Well I can tell you! It gets TOUGH!  I have been going through some life "trials" sort a speak recently and I can tell you I am really seeing clearly how much I have the tendency to turn to food! I have to stop my train of thought before I get to the kitchen. I realize that if I can redirect my feelings and take a LOT of deep breaths and clear my mind of the negativity I CAN and HAVE got through it! It is amazing the clarity I have now. I cannot believe how much I could of been eating at this point in my life if I had not been on the juice feast! Also, a TIP from me! When you get cravings, drink a LARGE glass of water or 2 or 3! It works almost every single time for me to curb my cravings as I have been experiencing some recently.  My cravings are almost always for salty things like tortilla chips or seeds/nuts. So I am thinking I may just be thirsty! And I think I am right. I also think I am going to be more diligent to juice more celery/bok choy to keep my sodium up and maybe even add some Himalayan sea salt to my water and see if that helps too.


Well thats its for now ladies and gents. Its off to bed for this juice feasting mama.

Peace and Love,
Laura