So after the fortnight of celebrations for my youngest daughters 21st, I did do 11 days on a juice fast to compensate the weight gain and the yuckiness of the over indulgence of the celebrations, and by yuckiness I meant the lethargic lifeless feeling you get when you experience a carbohydrate overload, even though I didn't eat excessive amounts of carbs because I am so over that, what I did consume in the way of carbs was excessive for my now low carb system, so using my magic "KEY" I embarked on a vegetable juice fast.
The perfect time for me to do the fast as my daughter had returned to UNI and I wouldn't be tempted by the treats that I cook for her, although all treats cooked in this house are sugar free, when your on a juice only fast it is tempting, my plan was to fast for as long as I could while the daughter was back at Uni, but she was home again after just 11 days so I took myself off the fast, I had already lost the weight I had gained plus a little bit more in these 11 days and was feeling good again, so to take a break from fasting was not going to set me back too far, after all she was only home for the weekend and then I started to juice again. One difference though, because of the cold weather we have been experiencing I have taken to drinking tea again, which has been playing havoc with my sleeping (again), and also I have been using Sugarine to sweeten the tea, which is a big no no according to Dr Mercola a health guru that is dead against these types of sweeteners, and my cousin Kathy also gave me the wave of the disapproving finger about using Sugarine, even though Kathy voiced her disapproval via an email, I could still picture her finger pointed and waving telling me, " No good cuz it will kill you!" so for Kathy and the need of a better sleeping pattern, I am calling it quits on the tea drinking again, as from tomorrow when I start a new Juice fast, and this time go as long as I can. My very first juice fast which was around this time last year, actually August 2015, I went 28 days without stopping for anything, and I mean anything, at the time we had my daughter and her family living here and my daughter was cooking for her husband and my grandkids, I thought would make it extremely difficult, but admittedly some meals they enjoyed were not to my liking anyway so that makes it easier if you don't crave the food, but some were quiet tempting but I was feeling so good with the vegetable juices that I wanted to see the end results, so I managed that juice fast for 28 days without drinking any tea or coffee and not having any Sugarine tablets, so I know that I can do it again. The weekend just gone saw me at another birthday celebration, this time for my eldest daughter at her house, and for most celebrations I am always going to go with the flow, everyone I know or who knows me, is aware that I am sugar free, but rather than making a big song and dance about it, I like to go with the flow of things and not make a fuss, i don't expect anyone to make something special for my wants and on most occasions I will bring along something that meets with my sugar free mantra. But having said that and although I did take along some sugar free carrot cakes, I was not tempted but curious to try a slither of birthday cake that was purchased for many dollars from Michele's Bakery, mainly because everyone was oohing and arring this cake, although even the person that bought the cake was unsure if it was caramel or butterscotch, but I can tell you that it was the sweetest thing I have tasted in such a long time, it was sickly sweet, and most of the adults had to have not one generous slice but two, still they failed to say if it was caramel or butterscotch, myself from the slither I had, put my money on caramel, and while it was moist and creamy and quiet tasty, I no doubt consumed more than a days worth of sugar in that one small serve of cake, which to be honest gave me a very sick feeling after eating it, which may have been the guilt of doing so or just the amount of sugar didn't sit well with the other food I had consumed. I bang on so much about the evils of sugar but I just want to be like everyone else and therefore have concluded it would make my life a lot easier and guilt free if everyone just went sugar free too. I am more than ready to start a new juicing fast called a "Reboot" which is apt in name as I will be rebooting my system back to the state it was in last August, the one thing I will miss most on this next fast will be the recently created recipe of low carb muesli bars, I will have to write up the recipe and post it here on my page under recipes, it is the best thing I have created to date (my opinion of course) well I am off to make a batch of juices for my Reboot starting tomorrow 18 July 2016. "Keep calm and Juice!"
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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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