Day 21 - 28: Checking In

Good evening everyone.  I know I've been getting messages from people asking what's going on.  I kind of cut off abruptly in the middle of the attempted juice fast last weekend.  Well to start off with, I'm fine.  It was a bit of an emotional setback to find out that the juicing thing just wasn't going to work for me.  No matter how hard I tried the green juices just were not happening for me.  My body had involuntary and violent reactions to them in very unpleasant ways.  I just couldn't see putting myself through that much suffering to try and get healthy.  If doing the juicing made me miserable then I would never be able to keep it going and make it work.  I would have failed at it and probably ended up totally ruining all my work with a severe bout of emotional eating.  So instead I kept control of what's going on and made the decision to come up with a Plan B.

Day 13 - 19: Ramping Up

So this past week has been the "Ramping Up" week for our first all-juice Reboot.  Following the guidelines on the Reboot Your Life website this week was about trying to get our bodies ready for what's going to be a very drastic change in diet.  Even though we're starting easy with a simple 3-day juice fast it's still going to be a shock to our systems.  And so the point of the ramp up period is to give yourself every advantage you can in preparing your body for the change. The recommendations include reducing and then eliminating things like dairy and caffeine, and also completely eliminating junk foods and processed foods.  And of course along with that is the need to increase your water intake.

Days 7 - 12: Going Strong

Good evening everyone.  Just checking in with a blog post to let anyone whose actually reading know how I've been doing.  Things are going well, but not too much has changed.  The Plan is proceeding.  This was a pretty calm week without much new going on in the way of diet or health.  My girlfriend's birthday was this week, so we did have one night with a slice of cake for each of us.  But I figure if you're going to be so rigid you can't even enjoy a birthday cake you're setting yourself up for failure.  Passing on the ice cream after the play last week was one thing, but birthdays are at a different level.