Day 2

So this juice fasting thing isn't as hard as I thought it would be so far. But that is probably because I've been keeping busy these last two days. As I am a "bored eater" that probably helps. Today, like yesterday, I feel like I cheated again. Today worse than yesterday. I think I have resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to eat watermelon during this "fast" so it won't be a true juice fast as they say. But today I went to Jamba Juice and had a fruit and veggie smoothie which is probably not allowed on this fast. I ordered a "Berry UpBeet" smoothie and according to their site it is made of strawberries, blueberries, mixed berry juice, red vegetable juice which is made of carrots, beets, broccoli, spinach, kale, and lettuce, and then topped off with some mango and ice. I asked the girl at the counter and she said there were no additives or sugar added to the smoothie. It wasn't bad though I could taste something...different in the smoothie, probably because I don't normally eat beets. Anyway, I made a large batch of juice this morning but with school coming up I took one of my kids out for school clothes. When I left I felt fine, energetic even, and I'd only had 16 oz of juice and a small amount of water. But after about 2 or so hours I started to get a headache. I toughed it out for a couple more hours and then couldn't take it anymore. I went home and then tried to drink water. I ate some watermelon, drank some water and it seemed to get better but not enough to take away the desire for an excedrin. Here it is 10:00 at night and my head is aching, my stomach is a little upset and I am thinking I should just go to bed. I don't know if this is what is considered detoxing or what but I could do without the headache. It has me questioning how long I am going to stick with this. I had planned on going for 10 days to 2 weeks but I may only last as long as I have food. I haven't really had any cravings until my dear husband decided to be so kind as to eat a pickle in front of me and rub it in my face. I weighed myself this morning and I don't know what to make of it because my previous weigh time was in the evening so we'll see what we get in the morning just to be safe. I know you shouldn't weigh in every day but I'm trying to see what this does and if I have too much weight loss in a day or even weight gain I don't want to try my luck. So at the end of my day, I have a dull headache, a slightly upset stomach, and very slight swelling to my ankles.

Today's juice consisted of
4 bunches of spinach
2 cups of watermelon
half a large peach
half an orange bell pepper
9 baby carrots
2 celery stalks
1 lime

It made about 32 oz