Day 5 - GBJD

So, I've lost weight already. Of course, I am pretty happy about this. I've found a happy medium doing both juicing (for most of the day) and eating a vegetable based dinner at night. Tonight I made a spaghetti squash with a brushetta topping of fresh basil and tomatoes (from the garden!) and garlic and olive oil. It was divine.

I got to go swimming today at a friend's parents pool, which was lovely and totally relaxing. The nightmare caffeine withdrawals have ended it seems and I seem to have my energy back, which is a great feeling. It's nine at night and I am about to go to bed. I'm planning to get up early tomorrow and start getting things done!

Day 3 - GBJD

It's Day 3. Tomorrow I'm supposed to start feeling somewhat normal again. That would be nice, because right now, I'm lightheaded and befuddled. I've managed to be out and about all day running errands, but I'm glad I wasn't driving. I stopped in at Whole Foods and got a juice from their juice bar. I think they are the only people in Nashville who do that - there are a couple of smoothie places, but from what I can tell, most of their stuff comes from concentrate and is loaded with sugar. I'm actually doing fine without eating. If I felt good, it would all be okay. I think a lot of the way I feel results from lack of caffeine, still.

You're supposed to be nice to yourself during times like these. I treated myself to a couple of gourmet loose leaf teas from Franklin Tea, a fantastic little tea shop in Franklin, TN. Usually I get annoyed with the so-called tea shops around here, most of which are indistinguishable from pot-pourri shops. I cannot stand flowery, perfume-smelling and tasting tea, but Franklin Tea (although it does have some of these) has mostly sensible, strong, delicious, tea-tasting tea. I'm currently drinking a chocolate orange rooibas and I bought a couple of green teas, just because I'm trying to have an open mind. Red tea, or rooibas, has as many antioxidants as green tea, but I guess the health nuts haven't caught on yet, or they don't want you to drink it because it tastes too nice.

As for weight, you might ask? Well, I don't have a scale, or at least I can't find the one I did have, so I don't know what my exact starting weight was, but already, the jeans are much looser, and the bras too. I think my boobs are shrinking - that's really the last thing I need to shrink, but I'll take it any way it comes. It's six-thirty, I'm tired and about ready to go to bed. Isn't that a strange thing?

Late Night Update

It's 11pm of Day 2. I napped from noon until 2 today because I couldn't keep my eyes open. I spent most of the  morning and afternoon with a headache that wouldn't budge. Thankfully, the headache relinquished its hold on me shortly before I had to go in to work. I didn't think I could get through a whole night teaching, but I did. I think it's not the lack of food, but the lack of caffeine that's doing me in. Not eating is definitely weird, but it's actually, in an odd way, kind of nice. I feel free, somehow, like I have broken free of the stranglehold food has for a while, like I've divorced food. Somehow, I think it's easier to eat nothing than eat something.

Now before you think I'm totally nuts, I'm not going to do this whole not eating thing for too long, and I am ingesting nutrients and calories. However, I am not eating any actual chewable food. I'm not sure why this is appealing to me, or why I can do it. Some friends have said that I just like an opportunity to show off my willpower, and perhaps this is true. I do love a good deprivation challenge! Bring it on!

You're supposed to feel good after three days of fasting. Right now, I feel better than I have in the past five days, but I feel weak and tired. Tired isn't necessarily bad though (I mentioned I'm a little bit of an insomniac, right?) because it's nice reach 11pm and actually feel like I could go to bed and sleep (like regular people do). Perhaps it's the lack of artificial stimulants and depressants (caffeine and alcohol) that are letting me find my own natural tiredness.

I'm going to drink a Rooibas tea and go to bed and sleep for hours and hours.... Perhaps I might even end up liking this clean lifestyle?

Day 2 - GBJD

Wow, being healthy feels like shit. Without caffeine, alcohol, sugar, fat, meat, and dairy, I feel like a mere shell of a person. I have a splitting headache and I went to bed last night at 7:30 and got up about six this morning, which is totally unusual for me. The headache has returned this morning, with a vengeance, but I have been told all this is normal. I had a productive first few hours, which are now lapsing into laziness and a wish to have the ground swallow me whole. I hope this gets better or I'm going to have to have an Irish Coffee and a steak.

Did I mention I'm not hungry though?

Day 1 - Garth Brooks Juice Diet

It's Day 1 of my Garth Brooks Juice Diet. You're supposed to wean yourself off bread, potatoes, grease, meat, cheese etc. for a few days before you start the diet and I was planning to do that. However, I got a stomach bug and haven't really been eating at all for the past few days. I honestly don't really feel like eating anyway, so this might be the best time to start a juice fast. I began somewhat yesterday, but today I'm going whole hog. I am sure I will be hungry at some point, but not right now. If I think about not eating, then I'll be hungry.

I just made an apple, pear, and ginger juice that was extremely good. Last night I made celery, carrot, sweet potato, orange and ginger juice, which tasted exactly like a juice version of the salad you get at Japanese restaurants.. I think I'm going to go for a Thai version very soon with cabbage, carrots, basil and mint. I have to get gourmet even when I'm not eating!

Anyway, wish me luck. I have 50 pounds to lose.