Day Seventeen of My Health Journey - and How to Make Green Juice

Well, I am feeling much better today! Since yesterday I have been like 99% raw (with the exception of my herby mayonnaise salad dressing. Oh, and my Welch's grape juice and Mott's apple juice! Yesterday I felt like I had been run over with a Mac truck, but as soon as I had my first glass of green juice I began to feel better - immediately! The fibromyalgia symptoms dwindled, though my asthma was still bad. Today, I am feeling alot better than I was yesterday, and I have been coughing up quite a bit of mucous. My system is cleaning itself out. I can't wait until I am fully recovered! I am so tempted to eat regular foods; they taste so good, but every time I do, I get sick. It it isn't the tummy rumbles and diarrhea then it's asthma and fibromyalgia attacks, and as bad as I hate to admit it - the regular food (Standard American Diet) just isn't worth it! No wonder it is called SAD. It's makes one's body so sad with toxins and sickness. Does this mean I am going to go at and stay 100%? Probably not. I do enjoy regular food and I know I am going to fail at being completely raw. I can't even get past my salad dressing now, though when I have more resources (money) I am going to try to make some raw vegannaise for my dressing - or I may try some avocado for creaminess. Without much money it's just very hard to do all these things.

I showed you yesterday the green juice that I made. After that I had a banana, and later on a fruit salad (with grapes, an apricot, and a plum.



Even later in the evening I made a smoothie out of a banana, a peach, some spinach and some filtered water.

It was packed full of goodness...



and came out nice and green.



When my husband came home we had a salad of spinach, tomatoes, onions and cucumbers. (Here is where I had the un-raw salad dressing, which I make.) It's so yummy though!



For snack we had a pear.

This morning I got up and made green juice again. Here's how.

In the blender I put a handful of spinach and parsley, along with some filtered water.



It will all blend up like this. It has liquid chlorophyll along with pulp.



I strain it through a coffee sock to get the pulp out.



And I came up with this much juice. (My pitcher is stained with kool-aid.)



I sat this aside.

In the juicer I juiced 2 stalks of celery, a cucumber, half of a lemon, some jalapeno pepper, a small clove of garlic, a Granny Smith apple, an orange and a tomato.



It yielded this much juice.



I combined this juice with the previous juice.



And it made three cups of juice...



and a meal for the guinea pigs.



The reason that I juice the spinach and parsley (or if I had mustard greens or kale of any leafy green vegetable) in the blender is because the juicer does a really good job on water based vegetables and fruits, but as far as leafy vegetables - it just chews them up and spits them out and very little of the chlorophyll is removed.

Love,
Kimberly ♥