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Sara’s Juice Fast: Day 2

What a night.

2am: Woke up with a splitting headache and nausea. Violently ill for an hour. Threw up several times. (Did some research: this is apparently a not-uncommon “healing crisis” (a.k.a. a Herxheimer Reaction) to detoxification.)

8am: After a rough night, all is well now. Started the day with some Earl Grey tea.

12:30pm: Amazingly enough, I haven’t been hungry at all this morning. Finally realized how late it had gotten and drank some vegetable juice (carrot, celery, cucumber, ginger, kale)

2pm: Green tea and some Odwalla Berries Go-Mega (which probably breaks the juice fast rules since I think it’s technically a smoothie)

4pm: More veggie juice, still no feelings of hunger. High energy, feeling great.

6:30pm: Work out at the gym. Feels completely normal.

8pm: green tea

9:30pm: dinner: juice (carrot, parsley, cucumber, celery, radish) and vegetable broth from the juice pulp [Ed. note: making broth from the pulp was a brilliant idea].

11pm: dessert juice (watermelon, grape, lemon, ginger) and mint tea

Ron’s Juice Fast: Day 2

What have I done to deserve this?

I felt pretty miserable for most of today, but I can’t tell whether it’s because I lost a lot of sleep tending to Sara last night, or whether it’s a result of this farkakteh juice diet (though I think it’s the former). I’m tired and somewhat weak. (But at least I haven’t hurled. :D )

Tonight we noticed that our tongues have some sort of white coating. We’d be worried if we hadn’t read that this is a normal occurrence during a juice fast.

Today’s menu:

• water
• juice (carrot, celery, cucumber, ginger, kale)
• juice (carrot, parsley, cucumber, celery, radish)
• vegetable broth (see above)
• juice (watermelon, grape, lemon, ginger)
• green tea
• mint tea

Last thing for tonight: I want to give a shout-out to our Breville juicer, which is by far the best Sara and I have ever seen. And we’ve seen several: Acme, Juice Lady, and most recently, Jack LaLanne’s pathetic excuse for a juicer. We happened upon the Breville by accident, and this juice fast would be 30 times harder, were we relegated to using that crappy Jack LaLanne contraption.