Yep I am doing it again, the vegetable juice fast, inspired by Joe Cross's movie "Fat Sick and nearly Dead". Way back in 2015. Andrew and I were so inspired by the movie that we started a 7 day juice fast and ended up going for 28 days, with some fantastic results. Over the years we have half heartedly done a juice reboot, but like I said it was half hearted and it was hard, also I have to say it is very hard to socialise while juicing, although I can remember going to a party at my daughters house and adding a few shots of Vodka to my juice. So since the Juicing phases we have done the low carb, ( can't really remember the last time I had white bread, rice or pasta) then I discovered Keto! which is like low carb on steroids, and I still think Keto is King. I have to say that I was having a few too many cheat days were happening, anyway I wasn't feeling the best the weight was sneaking back on and generally I wasn't feeling real good. Meanwhile back in August of this year I was put on a new drug (new to me that is) Trulicity, for my diabetes, I have heard that this is sometimes prescribed for weight loss. I totally understand how this could work, the first two weeks of taking this once a week injection, was horrendous, I have never experienced nausea and vomiting like it, just in one weekend I lost over 4 kilo, and I had no appetite and after that episode I was a little scared to eat anything, thinking it would just come back up. Fast foreward 13 weeks and 13 shots later and the nausea has almost completely gone, I still don't have an appetite, and if I'd only eaten when I was hungry I wouldn't have a problem, but because of this lack of hunger it has made this Juice fast a lot easier than the couple of times we tried the reboot. So last Monday Andrew and I decided to give the Juicing fast another whirl, I sheepishly suggested 5 days, but now we are 7 days in and don't look like stopping for a little while yet, another 10 days may be the ending date as I have a blood test on that day and I am booked in to get the second jab for bloody Covid. Just to leave you with some statistics from the first 28 day fast: My BGL - 3.9 (without any medication for diabetes) : My weight was down 8.1 kilo Andrew had lost a total of 6.5 kilo his weight loss was more noticable than mine. So far this week, I have lost 3.7 kilo and BGL 6.4, Andrew has lost 2.5 kilo, we are in lockdown at the moment so that makes it easier also, we won't be allowed out of lockdown until we have had our second jab! will keep you posted. As Joe Cross use to say "Juice On
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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
May 2022
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