Juice Feast: Day 20~

......"S" is for Spring!
Sleep: 11: 00pm-6:00am
Hot Tea: 16oz Peppermint
Skin brushing/tongue scraping
Hot/cold contrasting shower
Juice: 32ounces "Bleeding Hearts" --beets, romaine, kale, carrot, celery, apple, ginger, lemon, liquid kelp drops, zeolite
Juice: 64 oz "Green Lemonade" -- romaine, kale, celery, apple, cuke, ginger, lemon, pure synergy, zeolite, salt
Juice: 32 ounces "Pineapple Paradise" -- pineapple, apple, ginger, spirulina, lime
Juice: 32 ounces "Pretty in Pink" --tangelo, orange, pink grapefruit with liquid C and MSM
Colonic: Still lots of big releases, but endured several rounds of intense nausea right before them. I've been drinking lots of liver detoxers recently so that could be the root of the nausea. Thankfully it passed quickly every time.
Walking: 3 miles

Today was a long work day starting at 6:30am to make juice, followed by colonic clients all morning and then uptown to my nanny job where I stay till 9:00pm on Thursdays. I find that my energy is so even the entire day, with little to no dips or dives. It's so liberating to be able to function fully and optimistically all day! I used to have lots of ups and downs; super moody and then often come home and project it onto poor Michael, but now I am spunky and happy all day long.

So for the past week I have been a food magazine junkie! It started last weekend at my sister's who has a subscription to Bon Appetite magazine and gave me all her old copies. I am having a total field day just pouring through each page-- carefully studying all the recipes, ingredient by ingredient and devouring the pictures up with my eyes. It's funny because I have NO desire to eat the things I am looking at, but I have the biggest craving to make them ALL!

So I have come to face the fact that I LOVE to cook, and I think I might actually love cooking food more than I like eating cooked food. I would be so happy if I could cook cooked food all the time, but only eat raw foods! The problem for me with making raw foods is that it is all prepping and chopping, all of which are my LEAST favorite things to do. My love really lies in the creating, spicing, stirring, and tending to food over the warm stove. Ironically, even though I am killing it, I feel very connected to it. I also love to carefully plate each dish and make them look as beautiful as possible. I love to have people over, throw dinner parties, wine and dine my friends and play hostess.

If I were super rich I would cook for fun all the time for others and then hire a personal raw food chef for me! That is the best solution for my duel passions, don't you think!?! haha

Well, it is fun to dream and I am certainly going to manifest this idea, because why the heck not, but until the day comes where I can actually eat solid foods ( 9 more days!!) I will continue drooling over my latest Martha Stewart (yes, I am a big fan of her genius staff, who put together a very inspiring magazine). Oh, I really want a garden too....hum, maybe on the roof?