Showing posts with label juice fast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label juice fast. Show all posts

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Day 3

Last night, I went to bed with a headache. Partially from dehydration. I did not drink enough water at all. We are continuing to work out, but today was really challenging-hardly any energy. The little kids have a cold, so they were up and down all night. My stomach has been very upset and I don't have much energy. Still, my hunger pangs are at a minimum. I think that this is mental, since I can eat in a little while. The girls are hungry.......still, I am thankful we are able to do this together.
God is really pressing on me about how I respond to the people in this house as well as others.
I am doing ok at times, failing miserably more often.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Day 2

So far, so good.....we're having good results and are still exercising...only day 2 though.
Lunch was hard to not eat-it smelled really good. But I have it made compared to dd2.
She doesn't see the light at the end of each day like I do. She has purposed in her heart just like Daniel. She wants to do this in the Lord's strength. DD1 is really wavering and in this half-hearted which is a bit discouraging. We have to keep our eyes up.....

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Day 1,Total Honesty

    I had the sudden realization of a couple of things yesterday and this morning.
      The first one is that I cannot go on a full-bore juice fast. I am still nursing. Even though dd3 is going to be 2 in a few days, from everything I am reading, it can't be good to be passing my toxins from the juice fast/cleanse straight into her system. Just the possibility that it might make her sick-no thank you. The compromise that I have been able to come up with is this: juice fast breakfast and lunch then have a real snack and real dinner.
     The second thing I realized was about myself. Even though we just started this, I can see I am too hasty in a lot of things. Like responding to the people my family. Jumping into things without researching them enough. I can see God is going to use this in ways I don't even know about yet. I pray I am listening and learning....



Monday, December 31, 2012

New Directions

A few days ago, I stumbled onto a blog....it has changed my life. For the better. This blog post is what got me really going. I actually went to the blog looking for a post about fasting, but didn't see it. What I did see was a woman sharing her faith and her heart very honestly and openly. I saw that she had written an ebook  about her struggle with weight loss. After reading the sample pages on amazon.com and seeing it was on sale for only 2.99, I purchased it for my kindle fire. It was wirelessly delivered to mine AND my daughter's....she read the book before I had the chance to.
It is about juice fasting and how the Lord used her illness to draw her close to him, especially during her fast, which she did with 3 of her older daughters. We are getting ready to try a 30 day juice fast, now too. We are starting tomorrow. DD1 [for 2 weeks until she goes back to college], DD2, and I.
We have already started doing Beach Body's Turbo Fire apx. 1 week ago. We took our measurements and weighed ourselves before we started working out so we have our starting points.  I am going to try to keep our challenges and progress logged here as we go.
I highly recommend, just as Cherly Long from Treasures From a Shoebox that you watch the movie "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead." I'm warning you just like she warns:there are a couple of scenes that are going to have to be your discretion. One of  Joe in his underwear and a bikini scene. And some evolutionary ideas.
Please consider watching it as you ring in the new year and WATCH OUT, you might want to start juicing yourself.