The Vegetable Centric Kitchen

Day 70 feels so huge. And I feel great. I feel like my senses are heightening. I’ve always had a very poor sense of smell. My mom used to get mad at me for not cleaning out the cats litter box but I’d just forget about it because I couldn’t smell it! Today I went into Target and the whole thing smelled like plastic. It was very odd. Target seemed very odd. Like a giant box filled with lots and lots of plastic. Interestingly, I was at Target to buy some plastic My mom sent me this great book for my birthday called The Ultimate Body Rolling Workout. She raved about how amazing she felt using this program and told me she was confident I’d end up blogging about it someday She was right. I’ve been wanting a way to incorporate massage into my life but it was really out of my budget. As it turns out, this is my solution! I picked up a plastic ball at Target and went to work with the “exercises”. When I finished I felt like a cross between just getting out of a yoga class and getting a great massage! I highly recommend it and I’m looking forward to playing with it more.

If I could remain this steady, energized, and upbeat for the duration of the fast that would really be awesome, I’m not too attached to that though. My body will do what it needs to do and my job right now is just continuing to clean up the waste that all these gorgeous juices are awakening. Speaking of, colonics in the morning seem to be far more productive than any other time of day. I’m going to do my best to get up early more often and get that business out of the way.

Juice:

32 oz celery/cucumber juice

water with lemon/ginger/jalapeno/turmeric juice and orange stevia

32 oz cucumber/kale/cilantro/parsley/dill juice

24 oz carrot/golden beet juice with orange stevia and cinnamon

32 oz carrot/orange/ginger juice with raw honey, frozen in the ice cream maker

32 oz orange juice

1 Tbsp raw honey with propolis, ginseng, and royal jelly

Tomorrow is the start of the final three weeks of this juice feast. For some reason that just seems really significant, like I’m on the home stretch. In honor of this I want to recommit myself. I’ve gotten a little lazy about a few things, most notably excusing chlorella and spirulina tablets (and not just a few) as “alright”. I won’t be buying them for the duration of the feast. I think I said this earlier last week when I first fell into algae-love but there will indeed be plenty of time for chewing in my life and it’s time to stop making excuses and remember that I am on a juice feast.

Yesterday I skipped any colon cleansing. It was one of those “I feel soooo amazing, I don’t need to bother with that!” days. I also had some unexpected company so that made it even easier to not bother. I did feel great yesterday but today there was just so much awakened waste to catch up on. By mid-day I didn’t feel as strong and energetic and there was much emotional and excessive consumption of algae and oj. Alas, I should have known better.

Juice:

28 oz celery juice

juice of 3 lemons and a knob of ginger with water, cayenne, turmeric, orange stevia, and vanilla

32 oz cucumber/kale/dill juice

28 oz carrot/beet juice with orange and vanilla stevia

a shot of wheatgrass

8 oz orange/beet/apple/lemon juice

40 oz orange/pineapple juice with chlorella

40 oz orange/pineapple juice

16 oz orange juice with spirulina

Today I did something I don’t think I’ve done the entire feast. I spent nearly the entire day on vegetable juices. Since beginning 80/10/10 I sort of got it in my head that I wouldn’t have any energy without fruit sugar. I don’t know why I thought this as I lived for a couple of years without fruit sugar (or much sugar at all!) and spent a good chunk of that time feeling really great. When I started struggling and not feeling so great, I experimented a lot. Most notably living on tons, and tons, and TONS of fruit with little of anything else. I’ve discussed my experiences with that before so I won’t go into any more detail. Anyways, I’ve kept a lot of fruit juice throughout my feast and today was the first day I decided to let it go a little (I saved my favorite orange juice for the evening) and see how I did. Wow. I felt amazing. So grounded and with such consistent energy. I don’t know if it was directly related to the veggie juices or if today was just going to be a good day regardless but I will continue to experiment and keep you posted.

Juice:

22 oz celery/cucumber/romaine juice with a pinch of Himalayan sea salt

a shot of E3Live

20 oz cucumber/celery/kale/spinach/lemon/jalapeno juice

juice of 4 lemons and a knob of ginger with water, cayenne, turmeric and orange stevia

36 oz cucumber/parsley/kale juice

30 oz carrot/beet juice with orange and vanilla stevia

32 oz orange juice with spirulina

32 oz orange juice with spirulina

So if today I sampled some maple sugar, chomped on chlorella tablets and had a few sips of red wine…am I a bad juice feaster? How about a rebel juice feaster? Ooooor maybe just an imperfect juice feaster who doesn’t let little slip ups turn into big ones? Yes. That sounds about right.

My energy was good and consistent all day though I’m pretty beat by the end of it. I felt a little off after the maple sugar, even though I just had a little in my tea but it was remedied by a big jar of green juice.

I did some yoga this morning which was completely delightful. I’m feeling every twist and stretch and deep breath so much more deeply and my body loves it.

That’s all for now. Good night

Juice:

32 oz cucumber/romaine/dill/lemon/garlic juice

32 oz celery/cucumber/pineapple/lime/cilantro juice with cayenne

herbal tea with stevia and a little maple sugar

20 oz coconut water with E3Live and Vitamineral Green

32 oz watermelon/ginger juice

32 oz orange/romaine juice with chlorella

32 oz cucumber/romaine/lemon/garlic juice

a few sips of red wine

I woke up mildly nauseous but it passed quickly though I was really bloated for the majority of the day. Shocking considering all that my body released yesterday. My mood was good and I had a great evening, especially post-colonic, I’m feeling really great. I’ve also been sleeping really well which is wonderful.

These past few weeks I’ve been really loving The Life Regenerator on YouTube and recently joined Dan MacDonalds Regeneration Nation so I’m soaking up all sorts of cool information. Dan has a really interesting juice/tonic protocol that he uses during the day prior to eating a great big salad at night. Sounds right up my alley and I’m thinking of trying it out post-feast I’ve also been asked a lot lately what I’m planning on breaking my feast with. The standard seems to be soaked prunes but I’m really feeling watermelon. We’ll see as the day approaches!

Lately I’ve become really sensitive to the ways in which I spend my energy and really feeling like I don’t want to waste any of it. I’m grateful all the time that I’m not stil sitting on an airplane reading People magazine! I seem to have a lower and lower tolerance for most fiction reading and television. I’m not opposed to either or to entertainment in general, I just want it to be really worth my precious time and energy! I’m currently loving reading some David Icke, it’s pretty out there and I’m not sure what to make of all of it but I haven’t been able to put it down!

I’m headed to bed deliciously early now in hopes of at least nine hours of rejuvenating sleep!

Juice:

32 oz cucumber/celery/pineapple/cilantro/jalapeno/lime juice

32 oz coconut water with E3Live, Vitamineral Green and vanilla bean

32 oz cucumber/celery/dill/lemon/garlic juice

40 oz orange/kale juice

24 oz cucumber/romaine/lemon/garlic juice

32 oz orange/romaine juice

Today was long and busy, I woke up puffy and continued to get more bloated and headache-y as the day went on. I seriously felt like I looked pregnant by the time I got around to my colonic unit tonight. Has anyone ever described a colonic as epic? I can’t imagine a session any crazier than today. So, so, SO much heavy, dark, sticky, disgusting smelling matter poured out for TWO hours between pockets of gas. Graphic enough for you? I’m exhausted but my head feels spacious and light as air.

It was an emotional juice drinking day with the addition of the spirulina that I’m having such a hard time parting with. Really though, if algae is my biggest worry then I think I’m doing alright.

Juice:

32 oz celery/kale/apple/fennel/lemon/ginger juice with cayenne

32 oz watermelon/jalapeno/lemon/cilantro juice

40 oz celery/cilantro/pear/lemon juice

12 oz coconut water with e3live and vitamineral green

40 oz orange juice with spirulina

28 oz carrot/romaine juice

60 oz orange/kale juice

I need to find a way to relax after work. Since changing jobs I haven’t established that habit and I find myself wanting to guzzle juice to get a sort of grounded feeling when there are probably better (or at least other) options.

It was another great colonic today, similar to the heaviness that poured out of my body yesterday but as soon as I got a juice down afterwards I felt immediate gas pressure in my head again which remained throughout the day and turned into a headache by evening. It was a decent day but I’m still feeling challenged and like this last third is going about a hundred times slower than the first two thirds.

My juices were really sugary today. I’m not overly concerned, it’s just something I noticed. I like to keep things fairly balanced between the veggie and fruit juices but I just happened to swing towards the fruity side of things today. I’m also in love with coconut water which I’ve been adding Vitamineral Green and vanilla bean to at work. Today I thought it tasted like vanilla frosting!

Juice:

16 oz carrot juice

20 oz celery/pineapple/cilantro/lime/jalapeno juice

16 oz cucumber/kale/lemon/dill/garlic juice with spirulina

32 oz celery/pineapple/lime/kale/apple/jalapeno juice

32 oz orange juice

32 oz carrot/romaine juice with chipotle powder

12 oz coconut water with Vitamineral Green and vanilla bean

32 oz orange juice

12 oz coconut water with Vitamineral Green and vanilla bean

16 oz orange juice