When Andrew and I finished watching "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" we were both very inspired, and I had made up my mind while watching the movie i was going to give this a go, (I hope by now you have watched the movie, I added to my post on Monday) over the years I had tried all the diets and followed all the advice, but I was still on medication for my diabetes and now the doctor wanted to give me tablets for the cholesterol. So if Joe Cross managed to get off all his medication and cure his disease why couldn't I, well I could that is just it, this is the magic pill or the silver bullet, that the "everything in moderation crowd" like to say doesn't exist, well I think there are a lot of people that are living proof that this "Juicing Vegetables" is the magic pill, now it only depends on how much you want "Health and weight loss".
We had already been having the occasional veg juice, as I had read on other posts how important it is to have certain vegetables everyday for optimal health (Kale and Broccoli) are two important ones, but I have never really been a fan of green vegetables, but I had a small "Black and Decker Juice factory" juicer that my father bought for me over 30 years ago in the hopes I would get healthy, I resurrected it from the back of the cupboard and we would have a veg juice nearly everyday with a Krill oil capsule, because we both wanted to fix our cholesterol. It would take me hours just to make two juices so when we embarked on the juice fast we went and bought a Breville juice fountain (so glad I did), next we went and stocked up on veg, we started on Monday 4th August 2015, and would have 3 to 4 juices per day, our goal was to do a 10 day fast. First day was good but you had to keep reminding yourself that you were not eating, ha ha, the second day I was starting to feel a little head-achy so I went to bed early, on the 3rd day I honestly felt like my throat had been cut, Andrew was feeling hungry too, I should have thought to have an extra juice, but being the hero I am, I just persevered, I wasn't going to stop my fast now, only 3 days in I had lost 2.3 kilo and my blood sugar had dropped to 6.1 so although I am thinking this is the hardest thing I have ever done at least I know this is working. On the fourth day I felt great, got through the whole day on 4 juices and felt fully satisfied, day 5 I felt even better lost another .6 and blood sugar down to 5.2, the miracle had begun for the first time I could not only see the results in my weight loss daily (I like to weigh myself daily on the Wii) but I was watching my Blood Glucose Levels dropping, I started checking my BGL at bed time too, one night it was down to 3.8. By the second week I decided to stop taking my Diabex for the diabetes and my 1/2 of blood pressure tablet, every day was better than the last, I didn't miss eating and by day 9, my weight was down by 3.9 kilo and my blood glucose levels with no medication were 4.9. I really didn't want to finish the fast on the 10th day, so we decided to go 15 days. I should add that other than Andrew's cholesterol being a bit high (by the doctors standards) he didn't need to go on this juice fast but did so to support me, even though I offered to still cook for him while I was on the fast, looking back now, I really do appreciate his support and we are both better for it. Well day 15 came and went and we decided to go another 5 days, neither of us were feeling hungry and we were really enjoying the juices, Joe Cross's "Mean Green Juice" was my favourite juice, day 20 came my BGL was 4.0 no meds, and my weight was down by 6.5 kilo this is the greatest thing that has happened, in fact I don't want the fast to end or my weight loss to stop, for the first time in 16 years I feel that maybe I could get back to my weight before I got diabetes, and all the effects of having diabetes are gone. I wake up in the morning and feel great, not tired or stiff no pain and I am told I am not snoring anymore either, I would do my happy dance for you to show how happy I am but you couldn't see it. We decided to keep going every time we got close to the date to end the fast we would extend a couple of days, and we would have probably gone longer than the 28 days only we had to go to Armidale for Terri's Valediction dinner, and although we stocked the esky with juices, we did have to eat, when we ended the fast on the 28th day we decided to have one meal per day, usually the first meal of the day, although our first meal was around lunch time as we have been practicing, intermittent fasting as well. I remember we had bacon eggs, sausages, tomato and avocado (Andrew had toast but I didn't) and I didn't really enjoy the food as much as I had been enjoying the juices. On the 28th day my blood glucose was 3.9 and my weight was down by 8.1 kilo, Andrew's weight had dropped by 6.5 kilo as well he was almost at optimum weight (according to the Wii), I still have a way to go to get to optimum weight, but my health couldn't be better. Next Post: our blood tests after 28 day fast
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Andrew
13/12/2015 12:10:37
I will go to the website and give my tick of disapproval
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Wendy MeersI am a mother of two grown daughters, 3 beautiful grand-babies. Retired freelance Web Designer and a Sugar Free - Juicing Crusader& Keto supporter Archives
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