AllisonWilder said:
I bought a juicer today as an early birthday present to myself! I'm stoked to go out this afternoon and buy up lots of produce.
Camstory, you're darn inspiring in this juicing thread. As of your last update you'd lost nearly 20 pounds from the first weight posted and I applaud you.
I'm going to watch that video today, too and hopefully become even more inspired. I have big goals in mind and I'll post some before and after pictures when I start seeing results. =)
Yay for juicing! :dance:
How nice is that, thank you.
I have some bad news. I had a f'ed up Friday and being out of produce gave me excuse to binge eat since. I just weighed myself and 230. Not bad but backwards, or upwards, or I guess most correctly outwards. :lol:
I am so glad someone else is posting here, I know without any doubt it will help me stay on track. Now let me tell you something that is not made so clear in the video. If you do it the right way, it's not jumba juice bb. Before I got my juicer and for a while after I had a lot of fun making all sorts of fruit juices. The day I added some veggies is the day the fun died.
I don't want to run you off before you even start, it's not that bad. Though I would have appreciated more honesty in the vid, I think. There would not have been so many juicers sold, and maybe I would not have wanted to start, so maybe the video is exactly as it needs to be. The mean green juice of Joe's is for me doable but not fun. I don't like cucumbers so that is a huge part of it. For me it was the smell more than taste that took some getting used to. I now juice a modified mean green, that I'll call a, "Not so mean, funer green". I have reduced from 1 cucumber to half, have added 1 Apple or 2, increased the half lemon to 1 roughly pealed, done away with the celery, (MFC profile, favorite food = well, I don't like celery) and kept the Kale, and ginger the same. With the 1 Apple add, it is better than without, and Prolly not too sweet. With the 2 Apple add I have gotten to where I enjoy it, tho it proly is too sweet to keep blood sugar at a optimal level. I have just before running out of produce, added two carrots to the mix and found it hardly changes the taste, and for the better I think, and makes me feel better about the fruit to veggie ratio.
Bottom line it is, no big deal if your ready to diet, and the results are pretty good, but it is more diet than fun. I am pretty stoked that you will be here for a while anyway. I sure wish some of the others would post again. Like, Sophia, JJ, Nerdgasum, FernshKiss and the other Ladies who were posting here. Oh, also I found that Jaydenrainey was right, when she suggested that even tho it was not stickily a juice diet, that eating raw can help to stay dieting when you feel like you just have to eat something. (a large spinach, mushroom, olive, pepper, and tomato salad can fill you up the way juice can't) Can't forget the guys, Lex was posting for a while, and there is SoTx, and Nordling, who never said they were juicing but keep some fun mixed in with their juice and smoothie ideas, and MyNameIs, who was creating some really good combos if not strictly diet :mrgreen: juices. Schlmoe, was the green grocer it seemed, with a fantastic wealth of knowledge about foods.
I am again motivated to reach my goals, but will have to sub v8 and beer for today - a fun juice,,,,, what, hops and barely are a grain which is a kind of fruit or veggie I'm sure of it. (BTW Janbe I could use a ride tomorrow to restock, if you can.)
Thank you for the post Allison.
) I will throw them on the grill for a bit on each side, or if I'm not grilling I'll use a torch (the $10 kind with a screw on propane bottle). Then, using a sharp knife, scrape against the grain to remove the spine nubs and "eyes" (like scaling a fish). Hold on to the cactus paddle with tongs, or wear those cheap leather palm gloves. After that, you're ready to prepare your dish.
