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Juicing Day 2

I was surprised how not hungry I was yesterday. We drank just about the minimum amount, plus 1/2 cup of almond milk and I felt totally fine. I even slept pretty well!

Today, day 2, I woke up hungry, but nothing too out of the ordinary.

Jonathan and I made a breakfast of grapefruit, orange, lemon, cucumber and kale which was super citrus-y but not too shabby in my book. We even added a tablespoon of chia seeds just because it is another fad I find interesting...

I tasted grapefruit in my mouth all morning, i've learned there can be worse tastes in my mouth, so I was okay with it.

By lunch I was full on hungry though. Like stomach growling like a ravenous beast kinda hungry. But the problem was solved by our favorite juice so far! Who would have thought too? It just had sweet potatoes, beets, and carrots. It was still really earthy tasting (I decided earthy is a good way to say it tasted like dirt), but it was sweet. We were impressed.  This is on the agenda for dinner too so maybe i'll scrub the veggies a little harder to remove more earth...

Between lunch and dinner snack is an always delicious (delicious used in the LOOSEST sense) juice of kale, cucumber, celery, pear and apple. Either we are doing something wrong, or the apple and pear just aren't cutting it when it comes to sweetening things up. I had higher expectations not going to lie. Jonathan packed it in his bottle to take to work, and mine is sitting in the fridge to be had...this one tastes too much like celery...so I imagine it will be sitting in there for a while.

Anyway, my fear at the moment is exercise...i'm still training for that marathon, which is number one on my health priorities right now (over juicing) so i'm nervous about the week of running I have ahead of me on such little food. If I find myself being more tired then i'm going to switch to the Dr. Oz juice detox method which is juice until dinner, then a dinner of raw and cooked fruits and veggies. Not too much different, but just a little more food and more calories. We'll see though, just some biking today so nothing too crazy happened.

But I am feeling a little tired. And the next term of class started today, about triple the size and half the age. Okay half the age is an exaggeration, but they are probably 90% freshman and all of them were 100% shocked to see me as their teacher. I had a lot of people come up and talk to me about it after, one even said I am a huge inspiration because she wants to get her PhD and teach like I am.

I think i'm beginning to like these freshman :)

All in all, juicing day 2 has been a little better than I thought it would be. I'm tired, but I expected that. And the juices have been better than yesterday. I even just found a yummy sounding one with peaches, apples, and sweet potato with a dash of cinnamon!! I'll let ya know how it goes tomorrow, I'm all for sweet potato since today's successful lunch. But i'm feeling good, proud of myself for doing this and sticking to it! Can't believe it is Jonathan's last day on the cleanse tomorrow!

Day 3 is the one I dread most...I hear it is a hard one to get through. Here's to hoping!!