10 Day Juice Fast: What Does It FEEL Like?
In Tuesday's article, we talked about the potential health benefits of juicing but as a lifetime athlete, I’m always far more interested with people’s hands on experiences than I am with expert opinion. My own experience doing this fast was as eye-opening as it was unpleasant. Enjoy: At around 9:17am on day one, I was hungry. This did not bode well. Let me clarify that actually, at around 9:17am on on day one, I was really really freakin hungry. I had been forewarned by my fellow acupuncturist/nutrition guru/fiancé that trying to survive on juice and juice alone with my current lifestyle, workout schedule and general output level was not a smart idea in any capacity. Staying to form, I ignored this advice and forged on. Quite honestly, days one through three were pure hell. Hell, yes, but an eye-opening hell none the less. Eye opening in that as the days went on, I became less and less “hungry” but more and more ensconced in this idea that I needed to eat every 10 minutes or so. My desire to eat as I said, was less about become satiated, I was pounding juice and water to take care of that,
10 Day Juice Fast: Is Juicing Good For You?
Today is day eight. Since this is my first writing assignment here at Breaking Muscle, I thought it would only be appropriate to open with a dramatic statement like that. Today is day eight. “Day eight of what?” you ask. Great question. Well folks, for the past eight days, I have lived (primarily) off of the ingestion of juiced fruits and vegetables. Yes, I was greatly inspired by the documentary, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. Yes, I was inspired enough to ask my good friend and business partner Eric to watch it as well. Of course as a CrossFitter, I was also game to try his recommendation of a 10 day juice fast. What better way to derive fodder for articles and Facebook updates then through self experimentation, eh? The documentary, if you haven’t seen it (and you should see it immediately) is about an Australian fellow that finds himself in a midlife/poor health crisis of sorts and sets out on a 60-day, juice-fueled quest through the United States. His days are spent travelling around our great nation interviewing people on their thoughts on health, wellness and his 60-day experiment. I should also add the main “character” of the
