The Green Light

I wish I was talking about the movie Juice, perhaps at that point I would be a bit more interested in sharing with you my journey of "growing up in the hood". But in this case, we are visiting an entirely different subject.

I have decided to take on an entirely new realm of being "healthy". Welcome to the world of fruit and vegetable juicing, also known as, detoxing. A good friend of mine actually introduced me to juicing when I moved to Atlanta earlier this year. I caught her just in time to see what actually goes on during a 10-day juice detox.

For 10 days my friend used a hi-powered juicer to turn fresh fruits and vegetables into liquid form. During those 10 days, she could not have any solid food what-so-ever. Even the pulp remains from orange juice were not permitted to enter her digestive track. I felt as though this were some type of 'get slim fast' diet or perhaps a smart way to save on buying groceries. Everyday I would see my friend and she was as happy as a lark. I could not wrap my mind around the fact that she was only drinking juice from morning until bedtime and had a smile on her face. I thought perhaps she had slipped a few mickeys in her morning blend, but if not, the effect of juicing had to be giving back something good. She let me sample a few of her juices throughout the 10 days. I must say that they did not taste as bad as I thought they would. But why would they?

 

Once my friend arrived at her 10th day of juicing, she had lost 12 lbs. I was amazed at how a transformation such as this could happen in such a short period of time. She reminded me that just because she was not eating did not mean she was not giving her body the nutrients that it needed to function. She took away all of the sugary and processed foods that were sticking and becoming apart of her body. That is when it clicked for me, and it just made sense.

She invited me to her juicing seminar a few months later, since I was interested in possibly juicing. This seminar was more than informative, it was persuasive and impressive. Not only did I enjoy the presentation itself, but I got the raw facts about the benefits of juicing. It is crazy how ignorant we can be about the foods that we intake and why pharmaceutical companies are so rich. I mean think about it. You try to eat healthy, for some this eating habit will last longer than others, but for most we still ingest high amounts of processed food. Those foods are slowly damaging our bodies and when something eventually becomes so damaged its becomes evident by how we feel, we want to fix it. This is where medicines come into play, and we pull out a pocket full of money just to some how 'get healed'. Oh but we have a lot to learn, dont we?

I suppose I should blame my tongue for giving me the green light on this detox. If all the fruits and vegetables juices tasted worse, I would have easily declined. But I always find myself loving a challenge, and this notion of mind over matter would truly prove itself to be true, to me, if I could get through juicing for the next 10 days.