Day 3

This morning our alarm clock croaked, so we woke up late and in that terrible panic where you think you are late for work. We still had just enough time to make the juices though, with both of us chopping and cleaning. It was like a ninja juicing team.

Again this morning I wasn't a bit hungry, but enjoyed the lemon tea and lemon ginger zinger enormously. That's definitely my favourite juice so far, and it was great to have it in the morning instead of the powdery green stuff. Although, the powdery green one is lined up for a mid-morning juice. I feel very energized today, so I hope I'm through the withdrawal symptoms section.

Today we are due to do another load of shopping. Hugh is going to do it while I'm at orchestra rehearsal. We did a quick check this morning and found that we don't need the whole list of ingredients at all. We used hardly any of the leaves we bought, just hand fulls here and there, and none of the parsley or watercress at all. We need more carrots than listed though, the first shopping list said 1 carrot, and the second says 1, but we've already gone through a full bag of carrots and I know we'll need around another bag too. Weird.

I'm definitely starting to think that juicing will remain part of our lives, having a juice every day. I think though the obscure ingredients will go - kale and watercress for example, as they can be replaced by a bit of the green superfood supplement, which stores much longer and is less of a pain to shove into the juices.

Also we are starting to think about the next phase of the plan - the 2 weeks after the detox, reintroducing food gradually. We realise that if we go back and eat our normal diet on day 1, it won't be long till we are back to the size we were. That makes sense. So we will probably follow the plan of having a juice for breakfast, fresh soup for lunch, and a mainly veg based diner for a week or so afterwards. With perhaps some fish at dinner. I'd murder some grilled mackerel right now. Strange how my tastes have changed. I haven't craved anything sweet or fatty since the beginning, I've been more after bread and butter or mackerel.

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The rest of today was very straight forwards. I did a tough circuits class at lunch and was tired from that for the rest of the day. Usually I would have had a very big lunch after it and that would have helped with my energy levels, but what I really needed was a nap. It kindof reminded me of the people on that show, the world's deadliest catch, or something where they go crab fishing for like 4 days straight with no sleep. One of the guys on the show was saying that they don't need to sleep if they just eat loads and loads. So it's probably better to just actaully have a nap when you're tired, instead of trying to fight it with carb-loaded food. Unfortunately I think my employers would be a bit upset if I just went off for a nap after lunch, so I struggled through without one, and slept like a baby last night.

The juices are getting tastier and tastier as our avocados get more ripe. Unripe ones don't blend well at all and float in bits on the top, while the ripe ones blend perfectly and make a lovely thick smoothie.

Oh, yesterday's shop was a bit of a disaster. I would definitely recommend going to Aldi or Lidl for the shopping, as Hugh could only walk to Budgens yesterday (I had taken the car to orchestra) and all the apples were 4 for a pound. Needless to say the bill came to a lot more than with apples at 10 for a pound, when you need to buy 70 of them. Eek.