Day 1

Breakfast

Super Juice

• 1 lime - peeled
• 4 Gala apples - stems removed
• 1/2 pineapple - peeled, but not cored 
• 1/2 cucumber
• 1/2 avocado - just the flesh
• ice cubes

This recipe yields enough for 2 drinks. I would like to add some wheatgrass, acidophilus and spirulina if I can find it. I also 'prepped' my stomach with some lemon and hot water when I first woke up.

I threw everything into the juicer except the avocado flesh. After blending for a minute I put the mixture through a metal mesh strainer. I'm using a Vitamix so there is no pulp but I wanted to get a smoother consistency. I put the mixture  back into the blender, added the avocado and blended another minute.

This one tasted ok. I need to work on the consistency though, more ice cubes maybe. Consumed at 7am, it's now 9am. Starting to feel hungry. Next juice is at 11am.

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Juice Journal

Prologue

This morning as I was choking down my first juice of a 7 day raw fruits and vegetables program I wondered to myself how I got here. My weight is always something I have struggled with but I thought I had it under control. I was biking hundreds of miles a month, going to the gym and eating right. 'Best shape of my life' is to cliche, I was a fucking beast! Then I got divorced. What should have been an opportunity to push my body and health to the next level turned into a period of life numbing depression. I now had all the time in the world to ride and work out but I didn't. My weight has now ballooned to 290lbs. My diet is a mix of a healthy breakfast followed by binge eating to the point of exhaustion, followed by a nap and finishing the day with more binge eating.

Seeing a scale go up to almost 300lbs made my heart sink. I have to young sons and I want to be around a lot longer than the short 43 years I've been on the planet. I wanted to kick-start my transformation and decided to give juicing a try. What follows is the recorded events during my week long program.