Day 12 is upon us, and it get me dreaming of food. See the picture above, a salad that I made last summer. Yum! I really do like food, and cooking and all of the yummy, chewy things that come with it. So with all of this food in my head, it got me to start to think about how will we start to eat again? I mean I haven't forgotten how to chew.(At least I hope not). but rather how do you introduce food back into your diet, when, the amount and what kinds of foods?Upon research here is what I'm finding.. First everyone says make a health plan before you get off the fast. Why? So that when you get off the fast you don't go crazy and retoxify yourself after all of your hard work! That would be just nuts! It is best if you set up goals of how you want to continue getting healthy then you're ready to go when you're coming off of the fast. A health plan includes things like exercise, what foods will you eat, how many juices you'll drink a day, even planning for when you'll eat your favorite unhealthy foods. eg. exercise 30 minutes a day, drink on green juice in the morning, only eat ice cream 1 time a month, etc.The idea of this juice cleanse is to start your body a better path, after the 15 days, you're not done with the journey, you've just begun it. You don't have to stop eating your favorite foods completely, but reduce the amount you eat them and increase the fresh raw vegetables and fruits in your diet. That is the key, give you body more of an ability to regenerate itself with vitamins and minerals and nutrients and lots of water..
My Plan?
Well I feel like we do a pretty good job of eating healthy already, and we exercise too, but we could tweak a few things to make it better. I think that we could add more fresh vegetables into our diet and I want to have a green juice every morning and maybe once or twice a week have a dinner of juice instead of food.I was thinking about how I accomplish this because it takes more time to make juice and prepare fresh vegetables than other meals, and I need to wash and cut the vegetables once or twice a week and put them in plastic bags to have them ready for use. Little things like that will save me so much time. Because it is sooo time consuming to have to cut up vegetables every day, 2 or 3x a day. So instead, I just have a veggie chopping party at my house, every week. :-) Anyone what to come?Tomorrow I'll discuss, what foods that you want to introduce first and how to do it! ^^
Story of the Day:
Today was good, it was easy. Even though we didn’t have enough veggies to juice for the morning, both Juan and I felt good and we were able to go to work a little less than full stomachs, and still make it through the day with a lot of energy. Exactly one week ago, I was about dead when I had to work, even though I had drank my full liter of juice. My body is really acting better and my energy is quite constant. This is exciting. I hated having low energy, but today the energy was great.The only sad part of today was when a friend saw me in a cafe and bought me a coffee without my knowledge and I had to sit there and watch the poor sad coffee go to waste :-( Then a student invited me out to a cafe today, and I couldn't order what I wanted. I got pure kiwi juice. It was fine, but a nice hot almond milk would have been perfect.. Oh well, I guess you have to make sacrifices for your health.. But why couldn't I get random free coffees next week? Dear God,.. Can I get a random free coffee next week? That would be nice. Just one. I promise that is all I need, Thank you and Amen.For Juan though it is much harder for him to sustain the energy levels. We're not sure why, but it could be that we need other greens or we should use other vegetables for our juices that we're not. I think that is the downside of trying to do this in Korea. Your options are limited, so it makes it difficult to experiment with many types of green or vegetables. The variety of vegetables is growing, but it is still quite limited and hard to access. But long story short the past couple of days have been really hard on him, and he swears he won't do a complete juice fast again, and that all he wants is chicken. Only 3 more days!Juan:Juice: 2 Liters / Water: 1 liter Weight: 5.5 kg less than the start Energy: Consistent.. Mood: Stable Hunger: Normal Detox Symptoms: None Cheats: None Cravings: Pollo (Chicken), PastaIngeJuice: 1.5 --> 2 liter Liters / Water: 1 liters Weight: 3-4 kg less than the start Energy: Quite good, every day it gets better Mood: Pretty good mood all day. the weather was rain but nice today too. Hunger: A good bit, but that is just because in the morning we didn’t have the produce to make much juice Detox Symptoms: None really, they seem to be easing for now Cheats: Nothing Cravings: Something like warm almond milk with a little bit of honey. That would be nice.
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Read The Juice Fast Series
1. Juice Fast Introduction2. Juice Fast Day 1 ~ Juicing Resources3. Juice Fast Day 2 ~ Special Guest4. Juice Fast Day 3 ~ Think Long Term5. Juice Fast Day 4 ~ $$$6. Juice Fast Day 5 ~Juice Your Greens7. Juice Fast Day 6 ~ Keep Going8. Juice Fast Day 7 ~ Give Your Veggies a Shower9. Juice Fast Day 8 - Coffee Enemas and Detox Dreams10. Juice Fast Day 9 ~ Lazy Saturdays and Honey Masks11. Juice Fast Day 10 ~ What To Do with Juice Pulp? 1 of 212. Juice Fast Day 11 ~ Juice Fast Challenge: Day 11 - What to do with Juice Pulp? 2 of 213. Juice Fast Day 12 ~ How Do you Start to Eat Again? Step One = Make a Plan14. Juice Fast Day 13 ~ Happy Days!15. Juice Fast Day 14 - Cranky Days! & Transition to Food16. Juice Fast Day 15 - Before and After Photos
Tip of the Day: Drink Green, Why? They are so good for you! Green Leafy plants, like spinach, kale, parsley are really powerful. They have Vitamins C, K, E, and A, micronutrients, minerals like calcium and magnesium, and even protein. Crazy right? They are know to give you amazing energy, fight cancer, help your heart, your blood, your bones, almost anything and everything. Also I heard that if juice enough of them, then you may fly like Superman! It's true. I think it will take me about 2 more weeks of juicing greens to fly. :-)Even professionals say so..."Greens are the No. 1 food you can eat regularly to help improve your health," says Jill Nussinow, MS, RD, a culinary educator in Northern California and the author of The Veggie Queen.See, I told you that they are amazing.So throw a couple of handfuls of this into your juice or smoothies every day.Types of Greens to Juice:- Spinach (preferably baby spinach)- Kale- Swiss chard- Collard greens- Dandelion greens- Turnip greens- Beat greens- Parsley- Arugula- Romaine lettuce- Green and red leaf lettuceResource:
Cost Saving Tip of the Day: How do you save money when you juice? Look for sales! When something is on sale, just go crazy and buy, buy, buy, buy! And don't worry if the clerk lady in the supermarket thinks you're nuts for buying 50 cucumbers at a time. It's a free country. (Well, I hope so!) Also choose the produce that is in season and available in your area/country.In Korea we don't have the variety of vegetable/fruit options like the USA or the Dominican Republic. We have to work at buying smarter, but if we buy in the street market and buy the vegetables that are in season, we can stretch our dollar (won) super far. And the street market people will give you a nice discount too, if you woo them enough with your foreign charms and a few nice Korean phrases. ~ buying a lot and being a regular customer helps too. ;-)Story of Day Four : Today I set out to find what we spend in a day for juicing. It is cheaper or more expensive than a regular day of eating for us? Today we had a variety of Juices. Here is the run down of the day with produce cost attached.Green Pepper Carrot Tomato Juice = 2 Green Peppers, 6 Carrots, 4 Med Tomatoes $3 = 24oz of juiceMean Green Juice = 10 cucumbers, 4 apples, 2 lemons, a ginger knuckle, 25 leaves of Spinach, 25 leaves of lettuce = $7.5 = 78 oz of juiceJuan's Special Juice = 3 kiwis, 1 bag of spinach, 4 cucumbers, 2 apples, 1 small peach, 3 bananas = $5.50 = 40 ozPumpkin Cucumber Juice = 10 cucumbers, 1/2 Korean pumpkin, 1 carrot, 2 apples, 1 banana, ginger, 1/2 spinach, 1/2 lemon = $6 = 65 ozTomato Spinach Juice = 2 handfuls of spinach, 4-5 medium tomatoes, 3 green peppers = $2.50 = 20ozToday's Total = $24.50 = 227 oz of juice or 1.8 gallons of juice$24.50 for two people to drink juice isn't bad. If you're single only about 12-15$ a day., very doable. I think that this is a bit more than when we eat only at home, but less than days that we go out to eat. Also we are getting many more nutrients and fresh foods then in a normal day. The key to juicing on a budget is to know what fruits and vegetables are available in your area. In Korea, you can't go out and buy cilantro or celery or green apples here unless we travel far and/or spending a lot of money, but we can buy romaine lettuce and spinach and Pumpkin Leaves easily. There are almost always nutrition substitutes. You just have to look for them.Juicing Resource : Here is a great resource I found today from 
Tip of the Day: If at all possible stay in your home the first few days of the fast so the evil people in the world don't tempt you with food. If you go out you run the risk that any food, I mean any food, even the food you normally thing is just gross, will all of the sudden appear sooooo delicious. So do yourself a favor.. Start this on the weekend and stay home! ^^Story of Day One: We've completed day one! :-) Asah! (is a Korea way to say, Hoorah!) So happy! The day wasn't so bad. I didn't experience many detox symptoms, at one point of the day, I think my temperature was higher than normal, but not too much. I think the worst part for me was just the mental battles. Like at lunchtime there were all these delicious smells coming from our neighbor's house. That was painful.After our green breakfast juice, Juan got a nasty fever, and went back to bed for 4 hours to sleep it off. When he woke up, I was annoyingly cheery and energetic, and he asked me why I wasn't suffering like him. "Perhaps, I'm cleaner than you?" I said. But for some reason, he didn't seem to appreciate that conclusion so much. hehehe :-) But I really should practice more humility, because the detox will probably hit me in a couple of days and I need him to feel sorry for me when I'm sick in bed and he's jumping off the walls.Most of the day we relaxed, drank lots of juice and rested because the cornerstone of a juice fast is to clean and restore your body. Rest is an essential part of it. You can't heal properly if you're not allow it to rest. So we had a perfectly lazy day.The only hiccup in the day was when we went to church for a meeting and they were serving dinner. Chinese food!We arrived with our beautiful liter-jugs of 
So I got this email from my sister this week. Here is how it went...Heyyyyyyyyy Inge,We are trying to remember what you put in the salad that you made for Christmas last year... it was soooooo good and I really want to make it again. Please say that you remember???? :)My first response?? Oh, Did I make a salad last year? really? I forgot that I even helped with the cooking...Oh and you liked? cool... hehehe because usually when I cook, I just put random things together and pray to the Lord above that they taste good and luckily! Last year's Christmas, I managed to score a hit.. Good timing, God! :DSo I couldn't remember for the life of me what salad I had made last year.. Until I went back into time in my pink polka dot time machine and realized for Christmas 2011 I was then obsessed with Thai food.. And then the pieces of my salad making brain started to come together :) I love time machines, don't you? They are all the rage in Korea now.. I named mine the super Western Digital Harddrive... ;)So here is my response to her recipe request... just incase you feel the need to make A Thai inspired salad for Christmas or any other day of the year ;)Hello, Hello!