The End

Well, I am officially done with the fast, I did fourteen days of juicing and raw freggies (thanks Alex for the term) with the occasional pizza or taco!  =)  The last few days my parents have been in town and there has been lots of visiting with family.. aka restaurants.  On Friday, day thirteen, I made the sunset blend recipe off the website.  It called for a sweet potato, oranges, apples, carrots, a beet, and a red pepper.  I don't like red peppers or beets but for some reason I thought this bad boy sounded good anyway.  It was flavorful, just mostly tasted like red peppers.

Sunset Blend

It made a ton of juice, and I realized all my cups were in the dishwasher... so I brought out my fun Pimpin cup that my friend Lisa got Will last year for graduation. 

Big Pimpin with the juice

That cup was a little too large for drinking

 Both of my neighbors on either side have decided to garden this year, which is awesome, I am jealous of them.  I don't talk to either of my neighbors, but I really want to ask them if I could have leftovers!  One family spends a ton of time watering, pruning and loving their garden.  I haven't seen the other family out in their garden once.  Can you tell which is which???

Neighbor #1

Neighbor #2

 My friend Patrick came over with his two kiddos for a bike ride and his son Gabe saw me drinking my juice.  He asked if he could try and I said sure!  He took a sip and looked up and me smiling stating that he thought the juice tasted like lemonade.  I asked him if he wanted any more and he said.. umm no thank you.  Haha, it did NOT taste like lemonade.  

It tastes like lemonade!  

 My parents showed up a little bit after our ride and wanted to see the juicing in action.  My dad doesn't eat veggies so I knew I need to make a fruit juice in order to have him enjoy it.  They brought some fresh peaches from South Carolina which I combined with kiwi, blackberries, strawberries and oranges.  It was absolutely amazing!!  Definitely the best juice I have made yet.  It was more like a smoothie.  Very thick and delicious.  

Friday night we went out to dinner at a place called Squealers.  I'm sure from the name you can only imagine it was a bar-b-que pork place.  The smell alone made me want to chow down.  I ordered a salad with lots of veggies.  It was good but surely not as good as everything else at the table.  Saturday I decided to make my last day on the fast.  I made a mean green in the morning and had a salad for dinner.  I drank beer that night.. eek!  It was delicious too!!  

Today, Sunday, was my first day without juice.  I met up with family for lunch and had another salad.  It had chicken on it which I could not force myself to eat.  I tried.. just couldn't do it.  Meat does not interest me at all right now.  I also couldn't even finish half the salad so I know my tummy has shrunk away.  All in all the juicing fast was great, I am glad I did it.  My long term goal is to continue to juice at least one meal a day, possibly even two.  I plan to do a 10-day reboot every 6 months, summer and winter.  The next one I do is going to really be a full 10-day of juice only.  I was kind of disappointed that I didn't do that this time, but no beating myself up about anything.  No regrets!!

Thanks for reading my blog, I will update if anything exciting happens!!

Day Fourteen - 188.2 Pounds

Total Weight Loss - 9.7 Pounds