Day 5 was a bad day for me all together. I didn't sleep well the night before and I woke up just not feeling well. Thank goodness on the evening of the Day 4 I had juiced like a mad woman and made about 3-4 gallons of juice, maybe more. I used a new juice and it made a gallon all by itself. I didn't juice anything today fresh due to my not feeling well. I believe that God was indeed helping me by my doing all that juicing. :)
My daughter has co-op on Wednesday's & my husband usually takes her so this allowed me to not have to get out of bed so early. Thank you, honey! I rested (some included sleep) and drank juice pretty much the entire day. I drank about 12 oz of our homemade Almond milk about lunch time which almost immediately my stomach was churning. I could feel it moving its way all through my intestinal tract even. It finally dawned on me that I hadn't eliminated anything in days. On a personal note, this has always been an issue for me, all of my life. Since working with the naturalpath in San Angelo, we have worked hard to remedy this due to all the toxins staying in your body otherwise. Since moving to Wichita, I have done much better about drinking water regularly and that in itself has helped tremendously. All that being said, here we are juicing to detox/clean out and if I am not eliminating then I am just holding on to the toxic waste which is staying in my system still doing its damage. Today I felt the damage. Drinking the Almond milk did help me some. I never realized until at that point that I should be drinking the milk several times a day. That was the only protein I was getting.
Towards the afternoon I was still feeling so badly that I was beginning to wonder if four days of only juicing was enough for my MS body. I was really trying hard to listen to what my body was saying. I skipped church because of how badly I was feeling and then around 6:30 pm I ended up eating 2 celery sticks and a tablespoon of all natural peanut butter. I felt very full and my mouth enjoyed the treat. By the time my husband made it home from church, I was beginning to get a little energy, a LITTLE. We recapped briefly the events of my day and he headed back out to go to the grocery store to get me something to help with the elimination process, an enema. I was not excited about that but I after my day, I was willing to try anything. I talked to my dad earlier that day about what was going on and he suggested doing an enema,my dad is a pharmacist by the way, but I laughed it off and said that I don't want to ever have to do that again. By the evening time, and my husband and I had the same conversation, I decided that maybe they were on to something. & I was just being stubborn. Shock, not me! I do realize how blessed I am to have family who listen and give advice, even if I don't want to listen to their advice :) Needless to say, I did the dreaded enema and it was successful :) Yea, me, then I went back to bed for the night.
Recap of Day 5: Lost .4 lbs & didn't feel good all day. The new juice that was added, Grapefruit, was by far the nastiest juice yet and I have to say that we won't be making that particular recipe again. In order for us to even get it down, we had to mix it half and half with the Pear Juice. The fact that it made so much juice was great, but why did it have to taste so bad? Way too bitter. We love grapefruit, it was just the combination in the juice, I suppose. I had issues with not eliminating in days so I finally hit the wall. Understandable. Praying that all my efforts at the end of the day pay off and tomorrow I will feel much better. Some of my not so obvious blessing for the day, my daughter had co-op so I was able to rest, didn't need to teach. My dad and husband suggesting an enema. Ugh!
Grapefruit Juice:
1 lime
1/2 cucumber
4 stalks of celery
head of Kale
1 green apple
1 grapefruit
(I just realized that I put in a whole cucumber per recipe I made. My cucumbers were huge too. That makes sense why it made SO much. But I can't imagine how much more bitter it would have tasted if I hadn't.)
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