Sigh! ha I really DO want to continue blogging about my triumps AND my struggles with losing weight by juicing and exercise and eating healthy in between juicing periods. Therefore.....here I am....again! :) After much reflection (and lots of temptation)....I begin again, today. My hope? 14 days of no solid food and only healthy vegetable and fruit juices. My stomach protested a little today and growled at me and said, "Hey, what up, pizza girl?" That's right. I recently had a nasty one-night stand with a pepperoni pizza! But my brief affair is over now and when I weighed in this morning (because I have continued to exercise and eat healthy....but for my affair with the pizza), I found that I have still kept off the original 29 lbs. I lost during my 29 day juicing recently! Could I have continued to lose more eating healthy EVERY day. Yes. But I've had some slip-ups and it's probably ONLY the daily exercise that has saved me. So....still 29 lbs. down (I did gain 3 lbs. back but my recent juicing...even though resulting in a FAIL....caused me to get that back off). So....here we go again. :) 14 days. SURELY I can do 14 days! After all, I went 29 days without solid food and only enjoy freshly-juiced veggies and fruits. Well, the proof will be in the pudding, right? What does that mean, anyway? I have no idea, but you get my drift, right? So here we go. I'll weigh in the morning (my official day 2) and let you know what's what. I juiced up some wonderful watermelon juice last night and great green juice for today's breakfast/lunch and for dinner....well, I haven't had that yet but probably some apple/celery/carrot/strawberry concoction. The good thing is that I can throw just about anything in my juicer......all kinds of strange combinations....and just drink it. I do not fear the juice! ha I have, however, banned that pizza delivery guy from gracing my front porch ever again! ha Oh, what a moment! ha Let's not talk about how very delicious it was or whether I ate it ALL in one night (I didn't) or how many days it lasted (okay, 2!). ha I'm here to be honest as much as it pains me (uh....SHAME! Don't you just HATE shame and guilt? Why did God have to bestow shame and guilt upon us?). So off I go once again. Hopefully, my struggles can help others see that it's not easy to lose a LOT of weigh via juicing and exercise but that you CAN continue to keep it off once you've lost a lot of weight in a short amount of time. Here's some pics of today's juices:


See that pill bottle in the background? That's my high blood pressure medicine. I was diagnosed with slight high blood pressure while living in China. I continue to take a small dose every day. However, my doctor says that with just a bit more weight off, he's likely to take me off of it completely. Last time I went to the doc I deliberately did not take it for a full 48 hours and my blood pressure was almost completely normal; actually just slightly elevated. So that's a great thing for me (this particular medication causes fatigue, among other side effects). That medication is the ONLY medicine I take and with my blood sugar still remaining normal, I have hopes of coming off the BP medicine soon and never returning to any medications just because I am overweight. It's just one of my many incentives. From my own little juicing world, T.