Hungry for Change... again!

So, in my last post.... (if you couldn't tell) I was way totally bummed after my doctor's visit on Monday. Like I was sobbing on the way home. I had such high hopes that my new doctor was going to be able to point her magic doctor pen and say, "Here! this is what you can do and you'll be fixed!" and then all would be good in the world. 

Sounds a bit silly when I think about it now. I don't know. I'm trying my best not to throw a pity party because I have much to be thankful for, but I just didn't think I'd really run out of options so quickly. Its time to start taking things into my own hands and see if I can fix this on my own.

A while back I wrote a blog on a documentary I saw about Hungry for Change. I love my juicer. I don't use it every day but at least a 4 times a week right now. I sat down last night and I watched another documentary. Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. Basically, guy has medical issues, maxed out on his meds.... decides to go on a crazy 60 day nothing but juice fast. He loses a crazy amount of weight and gets taken off of all his medications, gains extreme health and learns to continue to eat healthy afterwards. If you get the chance, watch it. (Its on netflix) It's amazing what the body can do when given the proper nutrition. I 'll put a youtube link at the bottom with a short trailer to his film.

(I can see some of you shaking your heads right now) .... Just Chill. I'm just thinking of trying it for 5 days. After those 5 days I'll see where I stand and make a plan from there. I'll either continue to 10 days or quit. And move on from there. What have I got to lose? I think it'll be a good amount of time to see if I'm able to tolerate it.

I want to share this with you...

TaDa! It's my groceries for the week! (at least I think it is... I may have miscalculated some? We shall see!) It can get expensive. I always buy a mix of organic and non organic produce, when I shop. For those that are curious, (and for my own knowledge) I totaled up my grocery bill on produce from thsi trip... $38.39. Not too terrible in my opinion. There is celery, oranges, carrots, cucumber, apples - green and braeburn, lemons, romaine, spinach/kale mix, blue berries and pineapple, ginger....

Aaaaand this.....

Y'all....... I bought beets. Apparently you can't just buy 1 beet. To move them off the shelf faster, they only sell them in bundles of 3? Never in my life have I been walking through the grocery store, passed the beets and went "mmmm lunch!". But while I was standing there second guessing my decision and if I wanted to possibly waste my money.... A quote popped into my head. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you always got. Not sure who said it originally, AND I'm pretty sure he wasn't referring to any form of beets, but ... It was what I needed to hear so I bought the beets! Embracing the change! In with the new!

I didn't go full on juice today because we were having a BBQ lunch at work today. (I know its a sorry excuse, but I love BBQ!) I did have a mean green juice this morning and another juice this afternoon. By the way, Beets: not half bad. Terrible on their own, but when mixed with other juices... tolerable.

I was contemplating pushing my full time juice fast off till Saturday because I'm taking the kids to the movies tomorrow and I love popcorn. Then it hit me. As if God stuck a huge note on my forehead that simply said "nope." There isn't ever going to be a perfect time to start. Its now or never. So tomorrow it is! I'll be sipping on water!

Its not hard to drink juice. I like juice... the hard part is going to be willpower to not eat EVERYTHING else. I know I'm going to be doing a lot of praying and relying on God to give me the willpower to complete this.

Anyways, I can't totally tell if I'm super excited about this yet or not. Whats the worst that can happen right? It certainly can't be any worse than what I'm dealing with right now surviving on pills every day. Also, I have no objections to ending my fast early if I don't feel right.... Its just more or less an experiment to see what my body can do when given the right super foods. I probably won't post every day, but I'll be back to update on how things are going... :) Wish me luck!