I'm juicing! My wonderful husband suprised me and got me a Jack Lalaine Juicer from Costco on Tuesday. I have wanted a juicer ever since last summer when I started juicing in my not so great blender. It took a lot of time to juice this way and the juice was pretty clumpy because I was using a strainer to strain the pulp out. I should have found a paint bag or nut bag to use for straining, but still I found this method a little time consuming and really wanted a juicer to make the process easier.
I really like the juicer so far. I did have one accident last night when I tried to juice kiwis. Two things went wrong. First of all the bowl that I was using catch the juice as it drips out of the spout was too big and it was pushing up on the spout so the juice wasn't coming out. I was thinking to myself, man, kiwis don't produce a lot of juice. Wrong! It was all collecting in the machine instead of coming out and so all of a sudden all of this kiwi juice started coming out of the sides of the machine and just made a huge mess of the whole unit. I was a little worried that some juice may have gotten into the motor unit which is not washable of course. Grrr, took me a minute to clean that up. Kiwis produce a lot of juice folks!
The second thing that went wrong, was that I put the kiwis in whole without peeling their fuzzy skins off first which resulted in the juice making my mouth feel itchy and like I was drinking little fuzzy things, although I couldn't see them but you could just minutely feel it in your mouth. Kiwi juicing last night was a complete failure. I dumped it down the drain and ended up feeling bad for waisting four kiwis. Next time I will take the skins off before juicing.
Yesterday I made a juice concoction out of pears, strawberries and oranges. Yummy! I also ate regular food on top of the juicing yesterday but today I am going for juice all day up until dinner. I haven't decided on what I'll do for dinner yet. My daughter is staying the night at a friends house and my husband may work late. I'm hoping that I'll feel like juicing something and not go for solid foods but I want to leave that open so that I don't feel bad if I can't make it all day.
My goals for juicing are to loose some weight. I'm not really sure how much I need to loose because I don't know how much I weigh. Today I will walk over to the cafeteria at my work and use their free weight scale. I'd like to get to 140 lbs and I'd also like to get into a size 8 jean. Currently right now I wear a 12 or 14 depending on the brand. My other goals are detoxing, reseting my body, gaining energy, feeling healthy, and letting go of some strong addictions that I have in my life. Mainly alcohol. I have a problem with drinking and I want to stop. I also want to work through some things emotionaly. I'm not exactly sure what yet, but I do know that I have a lot to forgive myself for. I am so angry with myself for a lot of things that I have done to myself and others in this lifetime. I need to somehow rectify the things I've done and do some good somewhere for someone or something in order to at least pay my dues for those bad awful things that I have done. I also need to stop doing this bad things. It's time for change. I'm going to be 30 next month and I can't keep going on this same path. I want to be a good God loving person who gives love and accepts love from others. I want love, peace & hapiness.
I'm also hoping to get on a new path together with my husband. We want to have babies! We want to find a way to think outside the box and earn an alternative income for our family. We want to get out of the 9-5 rat race and working for the man. We are working paycheck to paycheck and that is all we are working for right now, a paycheck. We don't enjoy what we are doing. It's not in our hearts. Perhaps for me way more so than my husband, but he still had that desire to live a different lifestyle. His work is very hard and I amazed at how little he gets paid, although if he sticks with the company and is able to stay on board through these economically bad times than he will make better money in the future.
I'm hoping to clear some energy and space within myself to work on some of these creative endeavors. My husband and I would like to look into alpacca farming! And my dream has been to make a living writing. I dream of having a succesful blog that pulls in a decent income. I have so many ideas but have followed through with zero of them and I want that to change.
So first thing is taking care of myself and my health and kicking the drinking. I am so excited and feel this renewed since of well being surging through my body. I am taping into some real postive energy and I can feel it radiating through me and healing me from the inside out. Today the grass looked greener, my daughter actually made me smile and I felt proud of her, the beautiful carrot and orange juice smelled sweeter and I just feel so full of hope and ready to love.
Here are the juices that I made this morning to drink today at work:
Orange and Carrot Juice
Orange, Pear and Strawberry juice
Tomato, Green Onion, Radish & Carrot, with a pinch of sea salt, cayanne peper and a splash of fresh squeezed lemon juice.
I drank the Orange/Carrot juice first thing wh en I got work around 9 AM. It's now 10:30 AM and I do feel a little bit of hunger. I'm going to wait until 11 and then go drink the Tomato juice mixture. I tasted a little sip of this earlier today and it was SO yummy and fresh tasting.
