Juicing: Day Five - Cold Remedies

Today's weight: 208.8
Today is less about juicing, but more about using juice and other remedies to help a cold.  My wife had been sick for nearly two weeks with a cold.  Somehow I managed to avoid it...until last night.  I took NyQuil before bed, but still woke up with a sore throat and ears.  It feels like the cold is just sitting in my throat...which is the sure sign of a cold about to hit hard.  I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home again today so that I can focus on getting better.  I'm hoping to get in to the office tomorrow--we have a holiday lunch!--and I have a meeting that's much easier to have in person.

My game plan for fighting this cold:

• Vitamin-C packed juice
• DayQuil
• Multi-vitamin (with lots of zinc)
• Emergen-C Immune+ fizzy drink
• Garlic (recommended by a friend)...to be mixed with an avocado for a mini guacamole (lunch)
• lots of tea with honey and ginger root
• Dried apricots and blackberries (zinc-packed) 
• echinacea
• a couple pieces of 73% dark chocolate (really helps after all the garlic!)

                                         Vitamin-C Packed juice:

• orange
• half a lemon
• kiwi
• pineapple
• mango
• canteloupe
• blueberries
• grapes
• beet

Lunch: Mini guac

• avocado
• 2 crushed garlic cloves
• lime juice
• tomato

Juicing: Day Four

Today's weight: 209.8.
I guess that eggnog really messed up my weight loss!

I'm definitely more tired and hungry today.  Yesterday's eggnog and lack of juicing or large doses of fruits and veggies has taken its toll.  Luckily, I'm able to work from home today, so I got to sleep a little later and juice.  Tomorrow, when I go back into the office, I'll bring a yogurt and have that and almonds for lunch.  I think that I need to ease into juicing a bit more, especially while I'm donating platelets every couple of weeks.  I take medication for bipolar disorder that does best if taken with food.  Though, I think that if I eat once a day and juice for the rest of the meals, I'll be fine.

This morning, I made a beet juice with some other fruits and veggies.  It was as yummy as it is pretty!

Warning about beet juice: It can cause diarrhea.  It's not a terrible thing and I guess it's supposed to pass in a few days, but it's something to be aware of.  If you're juicing and plan on driving long periods...well, you might want to hold off on juicing beets!  I looked it up and I guess the reason for the bathroom runs is that beets cleanse the liver and kidneys.  It pushes out the bad bile...which unfortunately comes out very, very quickly.  It doesn't make you feel sick at all, just pushes out the bad stuff.  Also, beet juice heavy decrease the metals in your body, as does cilantro.  Mix them together and you'll have a great metal-cleanse!

For lunch, I had salad with kale, lettuce, mushrooms, peapods, and cranberry walnut trader joe's dressing.  I also had hummus and pita bread with a little cheese.  Trying to get my calcium and iron back up so I can donate platelets again in two weeks.

Tonight, I made a pretty great juice.  I was scared that putting a whole lemon in would make the juice too sour, but it didn't at all!  I actually forgot I had put one in!


Tonight's juice:

• 1/2 beet
• whole lemon
• 2 carrots
• pineapple
• handful of grapes
• blueberries and blackberries
• cilantro
• parsley
• chia seeds

Jucing: Day Two

Fruits and veggies that don't need to be in our full-of-veggies fridge

So today was a little bit of a fail.  My nephew's birthday party was today and I gave up resisting the grilled veggies and steak...and chips and ice cream.  Nonetheless, I still substituted the other meals of the day with juice.  The good news is, I woke up at 209 pounds.  We'll see what tomorrow's weight has in store!  I try to weigh myself as soon as I get up and before drinking lots of water.  Tomorrow is platelet donation day, so I'll be drinking extra water, too.


This morning's juice:

Mason jars make excellent juice holders

• Pineapple
• Orange
• Kiwi
• Lime
• Cantaloupe
• Ginger
• Chia seeds, cilantro, and parsley (sprinkled on top)

Cilantro and parsley on top

 

 

 

Tonight's juice:

Pretty weird looking before mixing it together!

• Kale (not much, very hard to juice)
• Beets
• Carrots
• Mangoes
• Grapes
• Pears

All mixed up!