Day 53 - Empty fridge + Empty stomach = Empty wallet!

Bear with me today. It’s going to be one hell of a long entry.

The things I want to cover today are as follows:

• Mega shopping adventures


• Falling in love again with juice feasting


• Acupeds and Parasite zapper updates


• Weird dreams (about my colon?)

Mega grocery shopping

Have you ever heard that saying “don’t do groceries whilst hungry”? Yep! Ridiculously bad idea! I went shopping yesterday for groceries and I should have had some juice before going but seeing as I have to run to the washroom every hour when drinking juice, I try to avoid drinking juice prior to going grocery shopping. The first stop was Loblaws where I managed to spend a whopping 100$! I bought a lot of stuff though. I mean, I woke up this morning to find out I had only enough ingredients to make juice for today. I actually had to make two green juices to bring to work today because… I ran out of fruit!

Needless to say, my body was on a rampage. I also had to buy more agave nectar and I found some honey with royal jelly mixed in. It’s non-pasteurized and I hope it’s raw! It’s very tasty and when I have a teaspoon of it, I’m not craving more of it. It’s very satisfying! I think this will help my recent honey binges! The next stop was the health food store where I bought a whopping 120$ worth of stuff! What the hell? This week has been a really expensive week for juice feasting! 240$ in total (add the coconuts from Chinatown that my dad was kind enough to buy for me).

I was a bit upset about this until I started thinking about how I used to spend my money before juice feasting. I always think “before juice feasting, I used to spend 100-120$ a week on groceries”. Hmmm… Let’s look at my pre-juice feasting lifestyle, shall we?

Groceries 120$
Cigarettes 20$
Coffee 20$ (or more)
Snacking at work 25$
Restaurants and ‘fast food’ 50$ (average per week, over a month)
Health Food store purchases 20$

That’s a total of $225 a week on food/vices. In actual fact, juice feasting is costing me LESS than my pre-juice feasting lifestyle. This really explains why I haven’t gone into debt or anything while juice feasting. It just SEEMS like I’m spending more money because I’m spending it all in one place. Lets not forget, this week’s splurge of 240$ on juice feasting stuff is an exception; last week I only spent 160$ which is a pretty consistent average. Anyway that’s all I wanted to bring up! While juice feasting seems expensive, you save money in a lot of other places.

Falling in love with juice feasting again

I have to admit, breaking the feast earlier has been on my mind lately. As Carrie mentioned, a lot of the fellow feasters I started juicing with in the earlier days have since transitioned back to solid foods. I’m determined to juice feast for 92 days unless my body tells me otherwise. But yesterday, I was passing buy the prunes and I stared at them for a while wondering if this was the time. Nope! It’s not. But I decided I was falling into a slump with juice feasting. I needed to fall in love again. I realized one of the things I miss most about solid food is being creative in the kitchen. I LOVE to cook and invent recipes. Why couldn’t I invent a new juice? Well I did just that… but I warn you… this juice cost me 23$ to make. It yielded 1.5L of juice.

Love juice

2 Pomegranates (5$)
6 Fresh black mission figs (6$)
2 Blood oranges (1$)
1 bunch of organic red globe grapes (roughly 3 to 4 cups worth – 6$)
8ox Organic Strawberries (5$)

First I put the pomegranate seed thingies through the Samson juicer to extract the juice. That juice went into the Vitamix along with all the other ingredients. I pulverized it and strained it through a nut milk bag. If I had to do it again, I would omit the figs, or put less. It made for a very THICK juice. Probably too thick for juice feasting… but I didn’t care. It was SOOOO tasty! Mmmmmm! Just what I needed… a little honeymoon from the green juices! :) Which brings me to….

Today I had:

1.25L water+msm+lemon
1.25L celery/green chard/cilantro+E3Live+kelp+Himalayan salt+spirulina1.25L grapefruit/apple/carrot
1L celery/spinach/collard greens+spirulina
1.5L Love juice1Tbps bee pollen+agave1Tbsp honey+royal jelly mix
Probiotics
Enzymes

Today I also did:

Skin brushingParasite Zapper (all day)
Manual labor (we moved boxes around for 2 hours straight at work yesterday!)
(Missed yoga! Darn!)

Zapper & Acupeds update

The zapper is really weird. Yesterday I’d wear it at work and everything would be fine… then it would start to burn like a bitch and I’d move it around…. I was moving it around constantly. Interestingly enough, if I put it near my ascending colon (where worms apparently live) I would need to move it after 5 minutes. I can normally keep it near the descending colon for 30 minutes or more. Weird eh?

Ad for the acupeds, I woke up yesterday morning to find out that they were all gross and gunky again… but only in certain spots!! I guess this means maybe I’m not so toxic after all! :)

Weird dream

I had the strangest and most vivid dream last night. To be honest, I’ve been having a lot of weird vivid dreams during juice feasting but this one takes the cake. I dreamt that the airline I used to work for was short flight attendants and they had called me in to do one flight as a favor for them. I showed up with my suitcase only to find out it was practically empty and I didn’t have a uniform (duh… I haven’t been a flight attendant in over a year now). I was a bit worried about going to the UK with only one shirt and one pair of pants. Then we walked over to the bridge to the plane; two bridges were out; one to the forward door and one to the aft (rear door). That basically forms a U shape right? In the dream, I actually interpreted that image as being my colon. When I got into the plane, I realized the whole thing was empty. I guess my body is telling me that I’m not carrying as much junk anymore. My ‘suitcase’ is empty and so it my colon. I guess I don’t have to focus so much on detoxing anymore and I need to focus more on healing. Consequently, I don’t think I’ll be doing regular ionic foot baths after this Saturday’s appointment… I will nonetheless continue to do colonics… but I guess I’ll just focus more on healing activities.

Anyway… I think my little slump might be over. I know I’ll feel a lot better once I hit day 60. I think the 92 day goal will feel a lot more achievable at that point.

That’s all for now… sorry for ranting on so much.

- Ben

Day 43 - Teenage lust

I had a really bizarre experience today. I went to buy some raw honey from a local guy and then went to the natural health food store to pick up some agave and a few other veggies/fruits. I love the health food store; I always feel like a kid in a candy store whenever I go there. Now, you'd think, while fasting, I would try to be in and out of there as soon as possible. Nope! You'd think I was into S&M or something. I walked through EVERY aisle and looked at all the food with an intense fascination. I was craving everything I was seeing. I was picking stuff up, reading ingredients (is this vegan?) and imagining how it would taste like. There was so much new stuff... tons of vegan indian food too! I even found some unpasteurized sauerkraut! Yep... I wanted to eat it all... I almost turned into the incredible hulk!

I was STAAARVING by the time I left the store; the torture I put myself through was not a brilliant idea. I asked myself "what the hell was I thinking?". I came to the conclusion that I was looking at this food... not to feel strong (as I felt weak).... not out of fascination .... I was in fact LUSTING for that food. I was looking at it....drooling.... with an intense teenage lust I only feel when looking at pictures of Axel Hermann.

I want solid food... REALLY badly. I'm feeling very week today in that department... I feel like I may not reach day 92 (but I know better). Let me rephrase that.... I know I'll do this until day 92... but I don't want to... I just want to sit back and eat 1kg of cashews (not even the raw ones, the roasted salted ones). What the hell happened? I had it together!

I guess that's why I bought that sugary stuff (honey & agave). I got home and had a few spoonfuls of the honey (try not to do this whilst juice feasting... not good!). It momentarily calmed my inner child that just wants yummy things to eat. Fuck... I feel so deprived of culinary experimentation in the kitchen... I love to mix flavours etc.... God... I just want this to be over... and I'm not even halfway done yet. Arrrghh!

Sorry... but you know what... I thought I had to be honest about my moment of weakness. Sigh. Anyhow... rest assured, I didn't eat anything solid yet :P I'm still in this for the long road.

Today I had:

1.25L water+msm+lemon
1.25L celery/spinach/parlsey+kelp
1.25L grape/blood orange/strawberry (I could live on this juice!!)
1.00L cantaloupe
1.00L coconut water
1.00L grapefruit/beet
1tbsp bee pollen

Today I also did:

Fuck all!... housecleaning! LOL Seriously need to do some yoga again... but I worked a 10 hour day today so I was tired! :)

Mit liebe ♥ ! :)

- Ben

Day 40 - Confessions of a juice feasting shopaholic

I've been doing way too much online shopping lately. So far today I've purchased:

• Healthforce Parasite formula (day 60 is coming soon!)
• Healthforce intestinal movement formula
• Healthforce intestinal drawing formula
• "Total leaky gut" formula
• Terminator Zapper (Thanks Suki for letting me know where to buy it!)

• Tomorrow... I may possibly buy a needak rebounder...

The office of healing is one hell of an expensive office! LOL. I'm worth it though right? Plus all this shopping is cheering me up.... I've decided no more yoga classes for a while. I think I do better at home and it will be less expensive AND cut down on travel time which means I'll have more time to do other stuff. So that's it; I've compromised by swapping regular yoga classes for a rebounder.

I can't believe it's day 40 and my chanca piedra isn't here yet. I'm kind of annoyed at this. I ordered it a while ago... uuurrrgh! I should have just gone with the capsules I had found in the health food stores here. I really wanted to get the tincture though.

I hope all this other stuff gets here soon. I feel like a druggy at work lately; popping pills left right and centre (probiotics and enzymes mostly)... I can't imagine when it will come the time to take all the healthforce products and the parasite formula... I'm going to wait until AFTER the parasite formula to start taking the total leaky gut formula though. Detox first, repair after...right? :)

I was drinking my coconut water at work today and my senior director asked "how long has this been going on now??" and I said "40 days" to which he replied "so... it's almost over?". I said; "yea... in 52 days".

"You're nuts!"

LOL. Well maybe it seems that way to 'normal people' but I'm quite enjoying touching my legs at night and feeling only smooth skin. From a visual point of view, you can still tell where the lesions were... but it feels very smooth now. There still is a lot more healing that needs to happen on my arms and torso though... so I'm just going to have to keep going with the healing. We apparently get a whole new set of skin every 28 days.... so maybe by the time JFing is over, 2 new sets of skin from now, I'll have beautiful flawless psoriasis-free skin. Keep your fingers crossed! :)

Today I had:

250ml water+slippery elm bark
1.25ml water+msm+lemon
1.25ml celery/collard greens+spirulina+kelp
1.25ml pineapple/blood orange (yum yum!!)
1.25ml pineapple/apple/blood orange/carrot (yum yum yum!!)
1L coconut water
1L apple/black kale
500ml American Saffron tea
1L cat's claw tea (throughout the night shift, I'm hoping)
1Tbsp bee pollen+agave nectar
6 Probiotic caps
6 Full spectrum enzymes caps

Today I also did:

Skin Brushing
No exercise today....but I got a good nap before coming to work at the hotel :)
"Very satisfactory crap"

**Poop report... you've been warned!**
...Yea... to quote Carrie, today I had a most "satisfactory crap". I stood there, baffled as to how this was possible... but I had a 'normal person' bowel movement today... Actually... I had a 'vegan person bowel movement' (which are typically larger than normal people bowel movements and flow out faster). I just had a colonic like... 4 days ago!?!!? Where did this come from??!?!?! I haven't had anything solid to eat in 40 days and I haven't had a BM this size in over a month! Am I sleep-eating? LOL... I could just see myself making artichoke-almond pesto in my sleep and eating it over spelt noodles! Hahahhaa! :)

- Ben

Day 38 - Yoga Mania!

(late posting… backdated for blogging accuracy…sorry for the delay!)

Today was pretty uneventful. The good news is, I started taking the probiotics as directed by David and Katrina and my tummy is feeling much better already. I was getting pretty sick of feeling like a hot air balloon all the time. I went back to Aylmer today for another fun filled day of kiosk fun. It was another ‘parade of food’ during lunch time. It occurred to me that on day 2 or 3 (I think) of juice feasting, I was at the exact same hotel watching the exact same parade of food. I was ready to hulk out back then, but this time… it all seemed quite weird to me. It was also funny to see other kiosk people being really concerned at the fact that I wasn’t eating. They said things like “you don’t have to be shy eh? You can go eat something!” I told them I packed my own lunch and I was fine.

Seeing as I wasn’t bloated when I got home, I decided to go to Yoga. I decided to take the Kundalini class, thinking it would be like the Namaste yoga show. Nope! It was pretty much all floor and breathwork and heavily based on meditation, mantras and chanting. It was all a bit too much; the chanting especially. I found out later that I should really take a Hatha yoga class or a Vinuyasha class. Something to keep in mind for next time. I’m not entirely sure if I’ll go back to yoga class; I found it really distracting to be aware of other people around me. I find I’m more ‘focused and meditative’ when I’m doing yoga at home, alone. Also, I’m starting to think I’d like to save that money I’d hypothetically be spending for yoga classes and buy a rebounder. I’m going to check my finances and figure out what to do about that.

Today I had:

250ml water+slippery elm
1.25L water+msm+lemon
1.25L celery/collar greens/parlsey+spirulina+kelp
500ml Echinacea tea1.25L watermelon juice
1.25L pineapple/blueberry1L coconut water
1L red gala apple/pineapple/strawberry (YUM!)1L granny smith apple/kale750ml cat’s claw tea

Today I also did:

Skin brushing
1 hour kundalini yoga
30 minutes meditation

That apple/pineapple/strawberry juice was amazing! It made me so happy… plus it gave me tons of yoga energy!

That’s it for me!

- Ben

Day 34 - The teenage years

Today was mega-groceries day again. If it weren't for the fact that the way I buy groceries whilst juice feasting is exceptionally planned out, I would move mega groceries day to another day. I'll have to explore that option.

Saturday mornings at 8am, my mom or dad picks me up with their car so I can venture out for mega groceries. I don't have a car... so it would have practically impossible to do a week's worth of groceries on the bus. When my dad comes, it's awesome. My dad is the calm and relaxed one. When my mom comes.... Well today was a 'mom' day and it didn't go so well. My mom is the most nervous and stressed out person you will ever meet. Driving in the city stressed her out... on a Saturday. She CONSTANTLY second guesses everything I do (or in this case, purchase). She CONSTANTLY gives advice on what I "should" do.... She can be frustrating to be around. I know that it stems from a good place, a place of caring... but after working an overnight shift, being sleep-deprived and grumpy... it's aggravating. We got on each other's nerves a lot today. I could feel my skin reacting to her negativity. I've tried, in the past, to explain how her stressful nature stresses me out, and impedes my ability to heal my psoriasis.... She just doesn't get it.

Sigh... it feels good to let that out in the open. Don't get me wrong, I love my mom and I really appreciate the fact that she acted like a taxi for me today but man... take a chill pill! I'm wondering if she was harder to handle today because I'm 15 years old (retracing-wise) right now and am reliving teenage angst/rebellion? ;)

I got home and I took a well deserved nap. I made some REALLY awesome juices AND I did lots of yoga to some episodes of Namaste I had TIVOed. That show isn't easy to follow... but I think I did good today. I want to try doing those episodes again. I like the flow.... and the challenging asanas that I'm not quite familiar with.

Today I had:

250ml water+slippery elm
1.25L water+msm
1.25L celery/collard greens/parsley
750ml blood orange juice (I think I'll always think of Carrie everytime I see a blood orange from now on! LOL)
750ml Summery juice (see below)
1.00L Grannysmith apple/Spinach
1tbsp Bee pollen+agave
500ml America Saffron tea

Today I also did:

Skin brushing
40 minutes yoga
Napping

Can I just say... for a 'zombie day'... I'm surprised and really proud of myself for getting 4L of juice in... plus all my 'psoriasis superfoods'. :) Yay Ben!

Summery juice

I noticed today that I was missing being innovative and inventive in the kitchen. Suddenly I conjured up this juice. It's very tasty! Tangy yet mellow... :)

1 grapefruit
2 red gala apples
1/4 cantaloupe
1 cup butternut squash (cut into tiny cubes)
2 dates (pitted, finely chopped, soaked for 5 minutes)

Into the vitamix it goes! Strain through nut mylk bag and enjoy! I was going to add a spice but after tasting it, I decided it didn't really need anything. :)

Restez juteux! :)

- Ben

Day 27 - Too much energy?

Ahh yes. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing (except pineapple/blackberry juice... that rule doesn't apply there hehe). I work overnights on weekends (midnight to 8am) and I have to say... these shifts have gotten a lot easier to do since I've started juice feasting. I used to have to drink a lot of coffee to make it through the night... not anymore.

When I got home yesterday, it was time for mega groceries. I think I caught a short nap from noon to 4pm and never managed to fall back asleep again. I'm at work now (on day 28) and I'm completely knackered and zombified. I just want to go to beeeeeeeed.

I used to take melatonin, in the pre-JF days, to get me to fall asleep. It's a completely natural sleep aid; the brain already produces that same chemical when it starts to get dark outside.... that's why we get sleepy when it's dark. I've been refraining from using melatonin during the JF... it's tough because I have so much energy... it would be nice to use it to knock me out. Oh well... only 2 more months of juice feasting and hopefully not much longer of having two jobs!

Today I had:

1.5L water+msm+lemon
1L celery/kale+kelp+E3live
1L pineapple/blueberry (yum! Thanks Carrie!)
1L pumpkin pie juice (see previous posts)
1L apple/spinach juice

Today I also did:
Skin brushing
No time for anything else... too tired.

That's it for me! I can't wait to go to beeeeeeeed. Plus! I have a big date tomorrow :) :) Send some good vibes my way! :)

- Ben

Day 25 - Epsom salt baths & retracing

We've all had those days where *everything* goes wrong. I just had one of those days today. My stress level was off the roof. I could feel my spine and my back just taking on so much stress. My back was killing me. I ended up going for a massage after work. Best decision ever! My massage therapist ordered me to have an epsom salt bath tonight. I just had one and I feel great. My RMT explained that, as well as having an overall detoxing effect on the body, epsom salt baths help to clear out released lactic acid. It's a great idea to have one after having a deep tissue massage.

I wanted to talk about some retracing symptoms I've had. It's really quite bizarre. The most intense of the symptoms was last week, when I was absolutely convinced I was coming down with strep throat. I immediately started gargling with apple cider vinegar. It would burn when I'd swallow juices, the lymph nodes in my neck were swollen and my voice was getting scratchy. That night I forgot to rince with ACV and the next morning I totally forgot about the strep until many hours later... only to find out it was gone. Was it the ACV? I think it was retracing, actually. I doubt gargling once with ACV would have cured my strep...?

I've also had knee pain a few weeks back. I had this knee pain a few years ago... it stayed for a few months and suddenly went away. I have no explanation for that knee pain. I was scared it had come back... but it only lasted a day!

This severe neck pain I've been experiencing for a few days now... isn't only a result of today's stress. I used to have really bad neck pain between the ages of 15 to 22. I don't know if this is part of the retracing... I'm just about to hit '17' in my juice feast.... Anyway... I hope the massage did the trick! My chiro is out of town for a bit; my next adjustment is Thursday.

Today I had:

1.25L water+msm+lemon
1.25L celery/kale/parsley+kelp+spirulina
1.25L pineapple juice
1.25L apple/baby bok choi/daikon
1L apple/kale+E3live
1L electrolyte drink; coconut water+Himalayan salt, agave, lemon
1tbsp bee pollen
1tbsp coconut oil

I also did:
No yoga :( No time this morning + RMT banned me from yoga for tonight
1 Epsom salt bath
1 hour massage
2L burdock root tea enema

5.75L of juice! Pretty good! :) I saved the coconut water for last; my RMT mentioned how epsom salt baths will make you thirsty and dehydrate you.

***Oh! I need someone's expert advice! So yesterday I woke up to find out I had left my hemp oil on the kitchen counter while I was sleeping... so probably out there for 6 to 8 hours.... do you think it's still good? I put it back in the fridge now... but.... *eg*

- Ben

PS: Here's the recipe for yesterday's tasty butternut juice;
1 to 1 1/2 cups chopped butternut squash
1 large navel orange, peeled and sliced
2 bosc pears, chopped
2 dates, pitted and chopped

Place the orange, butternut squash, pears and dates in the vitamix. Add a wee bit of water and blenderize!!! :) Strain through nut mylk bag and serve in a glass, topped with cinnamon! :) Yummylicious!

Day 24 - My story to inspire others?

Juice feasting is getting easier and easier. The buffet parade by my kiosk today didn't affect me at all. I had one random craving for hummus today but it passed very quickly. I thought, today, how fortunate I am that I live alone and don't have to cook for anyone. That's certainly making juice feasting a lot easier for me. I can't imagine doing this with a family to cook for!

I stumbled upon the nicest comment from Jack and Jill's blog today...specifically for me! :)

Yours is the kind of story that will make many people sit up and notice and has the potential to help lessen the suffering of who knows how many people.

I am very touched by this. I do hope that, through my experience, I can help others who have psoriasis to make the necessary changes to heal themselves from the inside out. Psoriasis isn't a terminal or disabling disease... but it does take a toll on one's self esteem. It's frustrating to constantly have to explain to strangers on the bus "what that rash is" on your arm. It's tiring to be self conscious about leaving flakes of DNA everywhere you sit. It's annoying to have to be careful not to stretch to much because the tight dry psoriatic leasions might tear and start bleeding. It's especially annoying to wake up with bloody sheets knowing that you must have cracked during the night. For the last three summers, I've rarely worn short sleeved shirts. I'm tired of everyone's perplexed gaze.

It is a disease that leaves one very hopeless and drained. What does Western medicine have to offer? Topical treatments full of steroids that do long term damage to your skin, UV treatments that give short term relief but may give you cancer and finally, really intense biologics that alter the immune system by suppressing it. These methods often offer short term relief, but usually psoriasis comes back worse than before. Western medicine is only treating the effects of the disease and not looking further. Psoriasis is a manifestation of something going wrong inside. The sheer fact that I am healing at such a rapid speed is a testament to this theory. I've applied a topical treatment of coconut oil/msm 3 times at most. The massive healing I'm experiencing cannot be attributed to topical treatments; it is a result of massive internal cleansing.

I'm 1/4 of the way into juice feasting so I thought this would be a good time to make that kind of speech. :) Jack and Jill's comments were a nice catalyst to this type of post. :)

Today I had:

1.25L water+msm+lemon
1.25L celery/collard greens/cilantro+kelp+spirulina
1.25L pineapple juice (with the skin! yum!)
1.25L apple/red cabbage
1.00L coconut water+extra apple/red cabbage juice
500ml butternut squash/pear/orange/date/cinnamon (yum!)
500 ml chamomile tea
1tbsp bee pollen+agave

Today I also did:
Skin brushing
1 hour evening yoga
2L burdock root tea enema

I can't really believe it... but I drank 6.5Litres of juice! This is nuts! It used to be that I could barely get 4 litres in! What is happening to me?

I just want to mention how yummy that butternut squash juice was! It was like a tasty chai pumpkiny drink. Yum! :)

In case you're wondering about today's picture, it's the Buddha boy of Nepal. It was something that really inspired me when I read this story in GQ. Read it. :) It's a great story.

Namaste~

Day 15 - Hic !

Yes! Hiccups! I don't know why... but I've had them for most of the day. Off and on, of course. It started last night and continued throughout the day today. Could this be a detox symptom or is it just a fluke? Oh well! :)

I had MASSIVE amounts of juice today! I also discovered that my mason jars, if filled to the rim, hold 1.25L... not 1L! So this means I've been consuming more juice than I thought, this entire time! I won't amend my previous stats... but I feel good knowing that the days where I only got 3L, I actually was getting at least 3.5L.

I also want to mention how I had a f$#%ing kiosk to do this morning, which meant I had to be at work for 7am. Despite not getting a lot of sleep (I don't know why, I stayed up late watching TV LOL), I got up at 4am and made my juices, skin brushed, contrast showered, got pretty and ran out the door. On my way to work I realized... that in my pre-JF days, I would have been utterly knackered; zombie-like, groggy, bitchy and ready to stab anyone that stood between me and a venti soy latte........ This is how much energy you have while juice feasting! It's unreal! And I just thought I wasn't a morning person!

Today I had:

1L water+msm+lemon
1.25L celery/red chard/cilantro+kelp+hemp seed oil
1.25L Cantaloupe
500ml Apple/Orange/Strawberry (BoosterJuice)
60ml Wheatgrass (BoosterJuice)
750ml Carrot/Orange (yuuuum!)
750ml Pear

Total! 4.56L!!!! I'm so happy to have finally broken the 4L mark. I think back to Angela Stokes' blog and how she used to drink 5 or 6L in one day and I feel silly that I can't manage to do the same. Though, I guess, I do have to take into account that I am working 60 hours/week while juice feasting...

I wanted to ask other juice feasters about their juice-drinking habits. When it comes time to drink your juices, do you drink a juice in one sitting or do you find that it takes a while to get through 1L of juice? I personally find that I alternate.... the yummy juices will go down easy... but the morning green juice and the coconut juices might take me an hour to drink down. Don't worry; I am chewing all my juices... despite how much my coworkers think that's weird!

PS: I just wanted to say how much I LOVE all the comments I've been getting on my blog. It's fun to know that people are actually reading this :) I appreciate the comments, feedback, suggestions and little hellos from other juice feasters! I feel the love! :)

Can you believe I'm 1/6th of the way there? I sure can't! :)

Day 10 - Sweeeeeeeeet!

It's day 10! And boy, was this ever a good day. I made the BEST juices today. Also, I made it a point to pamper myself a bit. :)

Today I had:

1L water+msm+lemon (up to 2tsp of msm now)
1L celery/cilantro/red chard E3live+kelp
500ml Peppermint tea
1L pineapple/blackberry (Yuuuuuuum!)
500ml coconut water+mystery melon (Mmmmm!)
750ml Orange/Carrot (extra yuuuuuuuum!)
500ml celery/field greens juice (yuuuuck!!!) + hempseed oil
1Tbsp bee pollen

Okay so that last juice was so nasty I was only able to drink half of the 1L I made. Don't make that juice. It's nasty! The other 3 were really good though!!! :) I was worried about the carrot/orange one, after Katrina Rainoshek warned me about mixing citrus with other things... but this was SOOO TASTY and it didn't give me any stomach pains. :) I did have a wee bit of stomach pain earlier in the day, immediately after nibbling on the bee pollen.... This was exactly the same time as yesterday. So... I'm not going to take any bee pollen for a bit and see what happens. Maybe it's taking bee pollen on an empty stomach?

So when I got home, I decided I needed to treat myself. I had stopped by the health food store to pick up organic oatmeal and avocados. No no! I wasn't about to cheat and eat any solid food! I made a facial mask out of avocado, almond oil, oatmeal, aloe gel, veggie glycerin and coconut oil. :) yay! My face needed it; it's been a dry and cold winter so far.

I made a similar mix for my hands... which are SO dry from washing all those veggies. I just... don't want to put anything unnatural on my skin right now.

I'm toying with the idea of making a cream out of coconut oil, msm and almond oil to put on my psoriasis to see if heals faster... maybe I can try it on a few patches? Some areas are already healing nicely... fingers crossed that it all goes away by day 92! :)

- Ben