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| Sometimes I feel like this truck stuck in the mud. Gotta push myself to achieve my goals. |
So for those of you don't know, I've been on a juice fast since Sunday and it hasn't been the easiest experience of my life. I was utterly exhausted and had the worst headache I've had in years. (Think hangover of your life x 2!) The smell of food made me want to cry and watching my son eat the things I miss so dearly was harder than I can say. Days 1-3 were the worst of it, they were the days I absolutely didn't think I could continue on my juicing fast and that I should give it up and quit. I decided to go to sleep instead of pig out on the oh so yummy spaghetti I made my son the night before and sheesh, I'm so glad I did. On day 4 I woke up energized and ready to go. It was like I drank four cups of coffee but without the jitters, no mood swings, no head aches, no pains. It was wonderful. I have to tell ya, it's day 5 now and I got the all clear from my doctor to go up to 60 days on this juice fast as long as I get blood tests every couple of weeks to make sure my levels are all healthy so I'm thinking this might be doable for me. I know it seems extreme but it took a lot of years of extremely bad eating and no exercising to get me here and it's going to take rather extreme measures to get me back to normal. I haven't been in a single digit dress size since middle school and I'm so ready to change that!
Extreme as it may be, I wasn't prepared for the exhaustion days 1-3 presented me with and I am so far behind on everything that I used to do at night like blogging, answering emails, following people and all of that. I used to do most of my blogging at night and prepare ahead of time but the last few nights I got so tired so early that I ended up going to bed. Normally I'm up into the wee hours of the morning doing my blog work so it's definitely an adjustment and I know I need more rest than I normally get so I have to figure out a balance. So if you are awaiting a response to an email, a contest, a follow, or anything else, I'm so very sorry and I am literally working on all of that right this second to get back to all of you!! Another superdy duper not-so-fun thing was having my email server crash on me for two days so I wasn't getting any email. Frustrating! Thank goodness it's back online!
I'm about 9 lbs down from where I started on Sunday so it's worth it. Thank you all for being so kind and understanding while I go through this adjustment period. I hope all of you are having a lovely week!
Aloha,
In the human body, this energy is used for all your daily functions, including breathing, talking, digesting, walking, heart-beating and, of course, working out. However, we're an efficient race (at least, on the inside), so if you consume more calories than you burn, it doesn't shoot out of your ears as steam or anything like that. Instead, the body turns it into adipose tissues (body fat) to be converted to energy at some future date. In other words, when you eat more calories than you burn, you put on fat. This is the case whether you're eating carbs, fat, or protein.
