Day 2 - 291

Woke up and weighed myself - i've dropped 5 pounds overnight.  That's a little bit crazy.  The books said that the first week or so would be drastic weight reduction as you detox and if you continue after that it'd be about a pound a day - i definitely wasn't expecting 5 pounds over night.   Likely "water weight" but that's still a little impressive.  That's a motivator to continue for sure.

Breakfast

Pineapple/watermelon Juice

Watermelon is incredibly sweet and tasty - it's like drinking a vitamin water that doesn't taste like chemicals.  Seriously you juice a watermelon, dilute it down with water and there's not much tastier - i'm very surprised at how sweet it is.

Lunch

Raspberry/Blueberry/Banana

So Audie made this one for me on my way out to a meeting and i didn't realize it was a smoothie rather than juice, but i drank it anyway cause i didn't have much other choice - delicious, but I'm not sure if it's kosher for a juice fast.

The Mexican challenge


We had a business lunch today at a Mexican restaurant - i thought that might have been harder than it was but it wasn't too bad.  For some reason when i decide I'm going to do something, and there's not a lot of wiggle room for error in it I do much better. So i made it through the Mexican lunch without much incident.

Later today we went to the movies - at this point i was fairly tempted.  But made it.  Lots of water helps quite a bit.

I've noticed that i don't really feel too bad to be honest, around 3pm things get a little hairy - so i usually find something to do to distract me like go shooting but other than that it's going great.


Dinner

Pear/Kale/Spinach/Cucumber

The pear really made this green drink not quite as disgusting as the one i had the night before - it was incredible.


Day 2 reflections


The hardest part of this entire thing is the social aspects of a juice fast - that's much harder than the physical constraints of not eating for me.  Chevon was having a hard time tonight because she misses eating dinner together and feels like she's left out of what i'm doing.  With that in mind we're going to continue to have family meal times, but i'll just have my juice while her and Siena have something else. hopefully that'll work.  I also think once we make it through the first few days things will get better. But that brings me back to my biggest worry - the social pressures.  If anything causes me to fail it'll be that, so mentally that's what i'm trying to prepare myself for.