When day 3 arrived, I realized I needed to approach this juicing detox differently. And when I say this I mean I had to dig a little deeper and look past the hunger pains, thoughts of cheeseburgers, and perhaps throwing in some true self discovery. For breakfast I put together all of the prettiest yellow colored fruits in my fridge, just to see what type of blend I would conjure up. Lemons, pineapples, oranges, peaches and then I decided on a splash of kiwi for color. It was so good.
I thought wow, I could definitely juice in the morning. And then it hit me. I could not simply juice fruits all day long. All though fruit is indeed healthy, and it is all natural sugar, I still need a little salt intake to balance out my body. I was not too thrilled about juicing vegetables, especially since I really had not been forcing myself to make any. Not to mention, I only eat peas, asparagus and green beans when it comes to solid vegetables. So why would I be more excited about juicing others? So I played around with the juicer. I threw in some carrots, kale, spinach, onion, bell pepper and celery. I have to be careful when I am juicing though, because the device itself is so quick and easy, you can easily find yourself having fun and getting very carried away and you might accidently add too much jalapeño and the entire taste of your juice is overpowered by that one pepper.
By the time that juice was finished, I took a sip and found myself putting the mason jar back down and shook my head as I thought of a better way to approach this. I said to myself, ‘do I normally eat cold or room temperature veggies, or do I steam/heat them up?’ DING! That was it! I would take this fresh juice and heat it on my stove as though it were a soup. This would make drinking it a lot easier. So I heated this concoction on the stove and tried to drink it once it cooled down a bit. It was MUCH better. But if you ask me, it still smelled unkind and so like a shot of alcohol, I said “Cheers” and took it all down. Afterwards I immediately grabbed a bottle of water as if it were my alcoholic chaser just to flush the vegetable juice down and get the taste of pure greens out of my mouth.
Later on in the day I decided to take myself to the swimming pool in my apartment complex. I had just drank 12oz of juice, so I headed downstairs with my towel, my medication music station on Pandora blasting through my headphones and just really took some time to pray to baby Jesus while I waded in the water. I just focused on clearing my mind and really accepting this challenge. I did not want to go through this detox where I would always be thinking, is it day 10 yet? It is only day 3?? While the relaxation and water against my skin felt amazing, my meditation did not last long as my Iphone began to warn me that it was dying. That is not to say that I could not meditate without music, but with Georgia heat and the sun beaming down upon you, not even frosty the snow man could withstand the heat and still have a dripping smile on his face. That is just not real life in the south. And by the time I got ready for bed and felt like I wanted a snack, I thought ‘no, THIS is not real life. You know you want to walk in that kitchen and get a cookie.” But I fought against it. This determined woman was going to keep her self IN bed and pretend that that cookie, was something I would just have to see in my dreams. On to day 4...
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