Decision time approaches

6 days are in the bag. I didn’t get a chance to update this yesterday.  Spent the day playing XBox and watching TV with the wife last night so I never got on the computer. This morning I was at 292 so that’s a total of 15 pounds down on the 6th morning.

Overall, today was one of the toughest days yet.  I’m getting really frustrated with the redundancy of juicing.  Even the juices that taste different just feel the SAME day in and day out.  I’m getting really frustrated and understand why after completing the 10 day fast my wife can’t stand to drink juices anymore.  I’m thinking I might cut the juice only portion down to only 7 days and then juice in the morning and eat veggies for dinner for days 8-10. 

I’m not looking for excuses to start eating again.  My brain tells me that food is good and I want more, but I can deal with that.  And after this long of not having any solid foods thinking about actually chewing on something to eat kind of seems foreign.  It’s an odd switch but I guess it makes sense.  You rarely have to think about chewing food, it’s just something you do, then you stop doing it and start thinking about it and it seems weird.

I haven’t made any concrete decisions yet, but if this keeps up and I can’t stand juice anymore by the end of it then I really wouldn’t have helped myself so much, in fact I feel that it would hurt more to remove something as good for me as juice.

To end this on a positive note, either my pallet is changing from having so many veggies and no sweeteners or fresh grape juice is one of the sweetest and tastiest things ever.  I’m gonna have to remember how good that home made cran-grape was I made for future reference.

40% of the way there.

With that, 4 days down.  Nothing new to relate.  I went to the gym today and did get a little more tired than I usually do but not too much and that’s to be expected.  The scale put me down another 2 pounds from yesterday this morning putting me at 296 and a total of 11 pounds down over 4 days.  Again I’m not expecting to keep most of that off, but hey it’s nice to see. 🙂

Other than that not much to report, I had almost no juice today.  I just wasn’t hungry so I ended up only having about half a quart’s worth all day.  Quite a bit of water, but not much juice.

1/3 the way there!

Okay, well it will be 1/3 at 3am, but I’m counting it cause I’ve gotten 3 days down! Woo! Today wasn’t so bad, again though I REALLY wanted some food by about 8 o’clock. It’s textures that I miss the most. But I need to keep going so I can prove to myself that a) I can do this, and b) food doesn’t have to be in control of me.

The scale this morning was down another couple of pounds today putting me at 297 for a total of 7 lbs so far. Tomorrow I plan on starting going to the gym as well as the juice fast. I had a lot of energy earlier today and was thinking about going to the gym then but didn’t feel like going because I was dreading going to school and didn’t want to add something else to the list of things to do. As far as side effects I was pretty good today. My knees were a little sore earlier and my brain was a little foggy while I was at class. Nothing major but I had some troubles doing some relatively simple math in my head, something I usually don’t stumble on so much. I guess if that’s the worst my “brain fogginess” gets then I’m doing pretty good.

Day 2 is in the bag!

Alright, 2 days down 8 to go.  I’m not feeling too bad.  I still have issues with wanting to eat though I know that I’m not hungry.  It’s funny how much food is ingrained in my mind.  I just want to eat for the sake of eating, especially something that I really like to eat.  For instance, if I had a T-Bone steak in my fridge this fast would almost certainly be over already.  Luckily I don’t so things are good so far.

I had a lot less juice today than I did yesterday, I just wasn’t hungry so I didn’t have any.  So far other than wanting to eat the only problem I’ve had is my knees are kind of sore.  Both of my knees don’t have enough cartilage  in them and it might just be the weather switch (it suddenly got cold and rainy).  Anyway, I’m 1/5 the way done with this, wish me luck!

Interesting

Firsly, I juts wrote a blog entry and posted it and all it put up was the title… that’s a little bit annoying, but whatever.

So to make this short since I don’t want to retype it. I got on the scale today at 11:00am and it said I was at 299. I’m not entirely sure where all that weight came from (probably water mostly) but it’s nice to see the scale drop. I also woke up with more energy than I’ve been having lately another good thing. Though I’m not entirely concerned about weight loss, who doesn’t like seeing the scale drop? In the long run I think I can expect maybe a 1 lb a day loss through this as I should burn approximately 3500 calories a day in my current shape and I couldn’t be bringing in more than 200 or so calories I don’t think with this juicing. I’d have to look it up but that’s a close guess.

Day 1 Complete!

One day down 9 to go.  Today wasn’t too bad, though the weirdest thing was that I really really wanted to eat something.  Wait, that wasn’t weird that’s normal.  The weird thing was that even though I wasn’t hungry I really wanted to eat something.  I mean I REALLY wanted to eat something, in fact I still do.  I’m not too entirely enthused about this feeling continuing for the next week.  But I keep telling myself that it will go away as my body adjusts.  And I sure hope that I’m right.

I learned a couple of things today though.  Firstly, I learned that watching TV commercials really really sucks. There is SO much food, and if it’s a football game then I am smack dab in the middle of their demographic for food, cause it all looked SO delicious.  But, just as i had to stop thinking about food earlier I am now going to stop talking about food as it’s not helping.

I wasn’t able to weigh myself this morning like I wanted to.  (I might not be doing this solely for weight loss but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to lose some weight)  The batteries in the scale chose today to die.  But by the time that I finally got the batteries and got to weigh myself it was almost 6:00.  And at that time I weighed 304, so I’ll use that as my starting point.

As far as my plan for tomorrow… much of the same.  I’ll probably also do some more reading. (I’ve still got 2 Dresden Files books left)  If the cravings for solid food continue I might find a corner to hide in and something to try and lose myself in.

Wish me luck!

The 5 Ws and a sneaky H

Who, what, where, when, why and how.  I’m going to discuss those here covering everything from what I’m doing and why the hell I’m making a blog about it.

I’ll start simple.  I’ve decided to do a 10 day juice fast.  I’m going to live off of only juiced fruits and veggies. (And drinking lots of water)  Why in the world would I ever want to do such a thing?  Well there are many reasons and I’ll get to those in a second.  Firstly some history on myself.

I’m a big guy, ever since I was 6 years old I’ve been bigger than most everyone else in size and height.  At 7 years old I was 5ft tall and 110 lbs.  I grew fast until I was 16 when I (luckily) quit growing for the most part and I graduated high school at somewhere between 6’1″ – 6’3″ and 315 lbs. (tall people rarely know how tall they are exactly, we leave those trivial points to short people 🙂 ) I have wide shoulders and a huge rib cage and I’m just big.  Most people are surprised to hear that I weigh over 300 lbs. I truly feel that if I was down around 220 or so I would actually be too skinny to be healthy given my skeletal structure and muscle content.  That being said I’m nowhere near 220 usually hovering right around 300 sometimes dropping down to 285 or so and climbing up to 315 during periods of no exercise.

Why a juice fast?  Well 6 months or so ago my wife and I watched the Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead documentary on Netflix and it caught our interest.  We then went out and bought a juicer, I always wanted one anyway and love kitchen gadgets so it wasn’t a hard sell for me to agree to get one.  Then my wife did the same 10 day fast/detox that I’m planning.  I wanted to do it at the same time but I was working and my job is VERY physical and I need to make sure that I have the energy to do it properly, especially since it can be quite dangerous so being groggy and hungry could prove…. dangerous.

Now I’m not working and we have enough money so I’m going to finally do this.  All that being said it didn’t at all explain why I’m doing this.  There are a few reasons.  Most of which is that my eating habits and my attitudes toward food are just not good.  I eat a lot of sugary foods and I am very much an emotional eater, I also eat simply because I’m bored and I want something to do with my hands.  Basically if there is a bad habit regarding food I am probably guilty of it.  So, while the juice fast is a good way to lose weight quickly my main goal is to try and rearrange my eating habits and learn how to eat better.  The last reason is that I just don’ feel that great.  I noticed after Thanksgiving that I just don’t feel “good” after eating, I feel wrong and overly full and like I just don’t like myself.  That’s no way to live so I’m trying to change it.

The blog.  I like blogs, I like them a lot for things, and since I know this is going to be pretty difficult I am making a blog to chronicle my journey.  This isn’t necessarily because I think anyone will find it interesting or even read it.  In fact I doubt anyone has made it this far.  I am doing it for accountability and my own piece of mind. If I write down what I’m thinking and how I’m doing then it will make it easier for me.  It will also give me a place to whine and bitch about it when it’s difficult without having to take it out on my wife who doesn’t deserve that.  And if I’m too much of a pain in the ass she will probably just taunt me by making my favorite food or something to get even. 🙂

There, first blog post done! If you’re wondering about “where” the answer is… HERE!  Also I will be trying to frequent the forum on jointhereboot.com (name is robofriven over there) especially if/when it gets difficult.  Hopefully from here on out they won’t be quite this long but I have a tendency to be kind of verbose so I make no promises.

Alright, so this is all starting at midnight, so in a little less than 4 hours I’ll have 240 hours of no solid food for the first time since I started eating solid food.  Wish me luck!