Connies Health, Juice fasting for a million benefits.

Okay we started this adventure, juice fasting only, a whole week without chewing.

Sunday morning, 5 January 2014, and we are doing three different juices. I initially had the idea about juicing every other day - but I soon realised that - that wasn’t practical. The amount of juice we need to go through makes it necessary to mostly juicing twice a day.

Joel Cross, one of our teachers / mentor’s, suggest that for a full on fasting process like the one we are doing, we need about 3 L of juice each / day.

Anyone should get on to juicing as a supplement, which is what we’ve been doing for years now, and if so drinking half a litre to a litre juice every day. A very effective way of limiting appetite, preventing over eating, and this is because you actually provide the body with the nutrition it needs - rather than junk food, or other over processed foods that fill your tummy for a false and temporary feeling of satisfaction.

So, 2 – 3 litre per day it is, and in addition to that the normal standard of water drinking applies - approximately 1 L of water per 22 kg body weight.

Here’s today’s recipes;

Cabala Juice
1kg Carrots
1 green apple
1 red apple
1 yellow apple
1 medium size beetroot
1 lemmon

Cold and flue Blast
4 lemons
2 limes
3 clove garlic
1 inch fresh ginger root
4 cups parsley
2 apples
2 large grapefruit, keep the white pith on the grapefruit.

Power Gulp
3 large leaves of kale
1 cup green grapes
1 medium green cucumber
1 green apple
2 stalks of celery

This was the morning juicing, Connie then had to do an additional batch of cabala juice in the afternoon, and she also did a green juice. Both partly for her lunch box - her nutritional supply - during her nursery work on Monday.

By the way; Connie started this week on 68kg and I weighed in at just over 86kg this morning. (This is not a weight loss challenge at all, just fun to check the numbers.)