Juice fasting: Day 2 and 3

Day 2

On my second day of juice fasting, I woke up feeling great! My eyes were wide open and the sunny day and fresh morning air helped encourage my journey to improved self-discipline and possible heightened spiritual awareness. I started off my morning with watermelon juice which I ended up drinking throughout the afternoon. The headache came mid day and stayed until the late night….I would describe the feeling similar to when I would try to study and there’s some annoying background noise that would keep me from giving my 100 % concentration..well that annoying background noise would be my headache now. I began to fantasize about how great I would feel in a few days which got me through most of the day. I had a lot on my mind, job hunting along with my nursing licensing exam (really big deal) and graduation coming up but oddly enough these things did not seem as serious as they were before I started the juice fast. I knew I had some major studying to do but I just did not have the energy and that damn annoying background noise!

In the evening, as I was indulging on some weekly guilty pleasures on television, was when the major food cravings started coming. It may have been the cause of the multiple commercials centered on food (that looked oh so good at the moment) but it was probably just because of simple pure hunger. I’ve read that after three days, your stomach shrinks back to its initial size (the size of a fist) and that the body doesn’t really need the solid food, it’s just the mind telling the body that it does. So I tried to exercise some will power and tell my body that it’s the mind playing mind games but let’s face it…after 23 years of chewing and eating  it’s a pretty hard habit to break. My fantasies about food were very peculiar…for example, I was thinking how great the frozen vegetables in my freezer would taste and I could picture the carrots and broccoli freshly steamed and in a fork on its way to my watering mouth. Yes, I had more of these throughout the night and I just let myself get swallowed in them because it was actually quite enjoyable.

Evening recipe:

1 banana

1/2 orange

6 strawberries

Day 3

Today, which is my third day on the juice fast, I woke up early because I had to attend a job fair. I’m usually a morning person but found it particularly hard to get up this morning. I woke up with a slight headache but was too busy getting ready to pay much attention to it. I had time to make my cucumber and celery recipe but for some reason, this batch did not taste as good as the one I made on Day 1. I drank 1/3 of the juice and decided to just bring a bottle of water for the travel. My hunger could not be ignored and I felt weak. I was scared of fainting (paranoid much? lol) so I made sure that I was constantly aware of my body to notice any subtle changes that may take place. I finished reading The New Earth on the subway ride but found it hard to focus. I may have to reread the last chapter after this juice fast. I was able to converse normally with the professionals at the job fair  but could not feel like my normal self. It did not help that it was lunch time and everywhere I looked people were eating. It was a nightmare. I was so tempted to break my fast and succumbed to my food cravings but somehow I gathered enough will power and got home in one piece and decided to take a long nap to forget about my hunger. I woke up only to feel just a bit better but felt even worse after tasting my worst juice by far. It was a veggie juice experiment consisting of: celery, sweet potato, tomato, cucumber and apple.

To be honest, I feel like giving up very soon. My special person told me I look like “skeletor” lol. It is taking a lot of effort to keep a positive attitude but if it becomes intolerable for me I will have no choice but to stop. It is true that I had a bad day today so I hope things will start looking up tomorrow.

Update: About to have watermelon and orange juice! Yum!

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