Juice Feast: Day 10

....Lord Vishnu, the sustainer of all things...today I draw upon his wisdoms to help me get through the mid sections of JFing, which are not nearly as fun as the beginning and end.....
Sleep: 12:00am-8:00am -- woke up with a terrible sore throat, throbbing head, and general flu-like symptoms. Also, not exactly a stuffy nose, but all of a sudden I felt the urge to blow and lots of goopy yellowish mucus would come out! What's going on???
Water: 16 ounces with, lemon, MSM (3 heaping tsp), probiotic, zeolite (x5 drops)-- I think I was a little over zealous with the MSM because on top of my flu-like stuff I had the runs all day. But it was not like normal diarrhea, but kind of gravel-like stuff with mucus plaque mixed in! Yuck-ola
Skin brushing/tongue scraping
Hot/cold contrasting shower
Juice: 64 ounces "Green Lemonade" -- romaine, celery, kale, cuke, apple, ginger, lime, zeolite, pure synergy, spirulina and a generous dash of Himalayan sea salt
Juice: 32 ounces "Bleeding Hearts" --beets, romaine, kale, carrot, burdock root, celery, apple, ginger, lime, 1Tbs Pure Synergy Powder, Liver/gallbladder Detox tincture (x10 drops), liquid Kelp
Juice: 32 ounces "Apple Pie" --apple, GINGER, lemon, cinnamon and a scoop of spirulina that just got clumpy and chunky --not nice kids, not nice.
Juice: 22 ounces "Pretty in Pink" --tangelo, orange, pink grapefruit with liquid C
Ginger Tea
Additional Supplements: E3 live, vitamin D, Intestinal Movement Formula, Zinc Lozenger
Body Work : Sadly had to cancel because I was feeling so poorly
Walk: 3 miles

So, it seems like I am definitely in the thick of detoxing, phase one. I have had mixed emotional reactions to it -- first, I just felt crappy and confused as to why I am getting sick now when I so rarely ever even get a sniffle and here I am doing more lymphatic and immune support than ever before? Then I got a wave of relief when I saw mucus plaque in the toilet (strange, I know), because it confirmed that all of this juicing was really doing something. That was followed by another wave of feeling no enthusiasm to drink juice or to continue the juice feast for much longer; and now I am back to feeling like this is part of the process and needs to be happening. Geez, these past couple of days have really been a roller coaster!

But really what a blessing. I realized that all these hot/cold contrasting emotions is just an example of how react in general to life's challenges. I am such a start up girl --getting REALLY into something, almost obsessed in the beginning and then after the honey moon phase ends I loose interest quickly. In the past this has lead to projects left half completed, never feeling like I get very "specialized" in any one subject or profession, investing lots of time and money into whatever phase I am in and then dropping it, and then feeling like a failure.

JFing is definitely making me face myself and it is not always fun --hey, we are detoxing after all, nobody ever claimed it was going to be all fun and frothy! But to help me get through this part of the process that I usually shy away from, I am going to take the "92" day pressure out of the equation and just relax and sit with myself to get clear on what my heart is really telling me to do. So often I just go with my minds agenda because it is the most aggressive and fiery, but now it is the hearts turn to take the reigns and be the leader.

Peace,
Kyle