Fresh apple, carrot, and ginger juice is fantastic! Photo credit: Paul |
I’m not saying a juice feast is a bad thing, just that it was a bad thing for me yesterday. I’m not sure if it was juicing or the migraine that did it, but yesterday was a miserable day.
When I heard about the 24 hour juice feast on Facebook, I decided to give it a shot. I’d had an iffy few days of eating and thought it would be an awesome way to help flush the heavy away and get back on track. I didn’t think ti would be bad. I’ve mixed green smoothies and veggie/fruit fresh juices with eating for quite a while now and wanted to try a feast. It was not pretty.
The day started great. I took my dose of Candigone and followed it with a glass of lemon water like usual. My morning juice was really good and I’ll have it again. Apples, carrots, celery, ginger, lemon, and cabbage made a slightly sweet and satisfying start. I sipped slowly and had plenty of water. I felt fine for a while.
At lunch I went savory with a tomato, celery, garlic, onion, broccoli, pepper, and lemon juice. It was fantastic and is a keeper. While drinking I thought it would make a perfect soup appetizer or dinner with some salad and garlic bread another time. I was satisfied for about an hour, then was suddenly starving. I made a second batch and was enjoying it when I saw the migraine aura. I felt the beginnings of a migraine on Sunday, but what hit me yesterday around 2:30 pm was horrendous. I could barely stand and my kiddos told me I should go lie down. I went to bed, but took the laptop with me so I could work. Ha.
By 6 pm, I was done. I hurt, was just sick, and could not see. I had to get something else to eat or drink but could not bring myself to turn on the juicer. The sound would have pushed me over the edge. I grabbed a cup of cinnamon tea and was again told by the teen girl to go to bed. She sat next to me and hugged me. I must have looked like death warmed over because both teens were nice to me and not snarky at all. I remember hubby getting in from work and leaving to take the boy to baseball practice, and think I remember them coming back. I do remember asking them to stop yelling because it felt like everyone was standing around me and scream talking. I was in bed and they were all on the other side of the house.
Yeah. Wasn’t pretty.
I have no plans to do it again anytime soon. I will keep fresh juices on my menu, but not as meals. Maybe it was the migraine, but I am in no rush to go again.
Have you feasted? How did it go?
I've done juice fasts for anywhere from 10 days to 90..recently just did 22 day one…<br /><br />a lot of people 'suffer' the first few days because their body is detoxing of all the crap/junk which brings on migraines, upset body but after the first few days they feel wonderful…<br /><br />each body is different and how it reacts is different..you have to do what YOUR body says to
This was the mother of all migraines and I'm still feeling it. Detox I've been through before. I'm about to log off for the day in hopes it goes away before the family gets in tonight.