During President's day holiday (in USA 2/20/2012) I decided to do a juice fasting ( why am I doing? because I watched that video on netflix fat, sick and almost dead -:) ) .
My real reason is very simple I want to give a rest to my internal organs. I always feel how hard my digestive system must be working when I enjoy foods mostly greasy foods, needless to say !
So Friday I had a nice mutton biryani and from Saturday till Monday night I drank only juices.
By the way I bought that Brevellie Juicer and bought all my vegetables, fruits from local Farmer's market. First day I drank 3 liters of juice (I didn't measure well, so its a guess ). Second day a little less and 3rd day may be 2 liters. I squeezed orange juice also and counting that too. Though it has very little pulp I felt that is fine.
2nd day was tough. I started feeling headache by evening and I was so tempted to eat when my spouse was having dinner. But anyway I survived that and continued. 3rd day was normal again. During those 3 days I did all my stuff normally (probably I should have simple slept at home, rather went outside and did normal chores which could have been caused that second day headache) I lost 5 lb in 3 days (I weight 175lb at start) Coming to fruites and vegetables I used: apples, asian pear, celery, blue berries, oranges, kale, baby spinach, beetroot, ginger, pine apple, carrots. Though I used to mix lot, I made sure at least one juice is to my liking and remaining times it is simply picking which ever is handy. Toughest thing is preparation and cleaning the juicer. I juiced like 3 times day.
Finally I guess I achieved what I want and it may be a good idea to do it at least once a month.
Usually when I am in India we used to fast due to some religious occasion, but pretty much lost that habit.
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