Juice Feast Day: 30!!!!!

...Queen Me!!! I wanted to post my before and after shots but our camera battery died...needs more juice! ;)
Sleep: 11: 30pm-7:30am
Hot Tea: 16oz Peppermint
Skin brushing/tongue scraping Hot/cold contrasting shower
Juice: 32ounces "The Killer Pineapple"-- Pineapple, EXTRA ginger, EXTRA cayenne pepper! This is a nice variation to apple. I also diluted it with water so because it sure is sweet!
Juice: 64 ounces "Green Lemonade" -- romaine, celery, kale, cucumber, ginger, lime, zeolite
Juice: 32 ounces "Pretty in Pink" --tangelo, blood orange, pink grapefruit with liquid C, Vitamin
D3 and MSM
Juice: 16 ounces Apple Cider- unpasteurized, farm fresh goodness from the green market
Walking: 2 miles
Celebratory Outing: It took our friends from Europe to get us to leave the city! Not that we don't want to-- believe me it is always on our minds-- but there is something about NYC that keeps you sucked in and always too busy to make it happen. But guest are a great excuse to go off your usual course and be adventurous. So a packed up my juices and we took the train along the beautiful Hudson River up to Dia: Beacon, a little art oasis in upstate NY. This place is AMAZING! Everything from the space, the art, the beautiful sunny warm day, the fresh air and the company of good friends made my last day of Juice Feasting so magical. It was the soul candy at the end of a long journey.

So I did it!! I set a goal and I saw it through from start to finish, just as I had manifested. I feel so proud of myself for sitting with the hard moments and finding my breath for support, reaching out to others when I needed their love, and staying true to my original intentions.

There were days when JFing felt equivalent to climbing Mt. Everest and there MORE days when it felt like getting to the top and enjoying the view.

For sure this process was more emotionally transformative than physically. Certainly things changed and shifted for me physically, but some how that part does not seem nearly as significant. I suppose if I came into the feast with a specific physical issue I was trying to cure, than I would have found that more transformative, but the way my mind has shifted is RADICAL. The clarity I have received is such a gift. Having to just be with your hardships for a significant amount of time is humbling, enlightening and life changing. I now understand the powers of the mind, but more importantly the SUPER powers of the heart. The heart can over come anything if you give it the time and space to do so. Pausing, breathing, responding before reacting is my recipe for over coming hardships and making empowering decisions for myself.

So let's now look at the numbers and results of my physical-self. Here are my JFing stats:

Days juicing: 30
Starting height: 5' 7.5"
Ending height: 5' 9 --haha, just kidding!
Starting weight: 134
Ending weight: a very healthy looking 118--lost only body fat no muscle tone or strength thanks to all my walking, rebounding and yoga, yeah!
Skin: Much more even complexion, with just a few recent breakouts, probably due to another round of cleansing. No longer little bumps on upper thighs, arms or back.
Hair: As curly and thick as ever, but seems stronger
Nails: VERY strong -- no breaking or zinc deposits (those little white spots)
Colon: I continue to have big releases on the table along with cellular gases. These results I am sure would have continued no matter how long I JFed for. I did 3 colonics a week with some enemas in between. Zero noxious gas of any time, some rumbling in my tummy ever so often, but no discomforts to really speak of. I did feel some nausea in the beginning of my feast due to my liver detoxing, but that passed with the bile in the second week.
Nose: Lots of mucus week two and three, but after stopping all bee pollen it really subsided.
Moods: Much more stable, less irritability and acidic responses, more patients with self and others, more gratitude towards life and people
Energy: Mostly up, up, up and really getting better the longer I juice. Although I have to say, I feel like my sleeping clock has really regulated itself. I naturally want to sleep between 11 and midnight and get up around 7:30. Feels perfect for me! When on raw foods, I want to stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning, so it feels good to be off that cycle.
Cravings: Well, that kind of varied from day to day. When I was feeling really cold week 1-3 I wanted warm things and warm foods looked much better than raw. So I drank a lot of hot tea. But now that it is getting warmer out raw is looking more appealing -- mainly fruit and salads. I really have not been craving sweets, which is refreshing!!
Revelations: Emotions, feelings, cravings, urges WILL PASS if you just let them go! They are nothing unless you give them power and will go away if you just sit with it for a few long minutes. Now I know I have the capacity to do that, where as before I was too anxious and impulsive ( slave to my mind not my heart) to be with the uncomfortableness. Now I am not scared!

I want to end this post by saying thank you thank you thank you to all of you who have been following my journey, sharing your love and support and sending me all your "good vibes." I could not have done this without feeling like I had you all there to catch me and lift me up to my full potential. I want to particularly thank Carrie and Raw B for inspiring me to join the JFing band wagon and giving me my initial "consultation" and starting wisdom. I also want to acknowledge David and Katrina, the most inspiring juicy couple, for creating all of this and sending me love messages when I needed them the most! Juicy Ben for being such a rockin juicer and also being such a source of inspiration ( and still is! Go Ben GO!!!). Susan, my beautiful co-worker and friend for being such a rock and my #1 fan, who is now going on her third week of JFing, (yeah!). My family for not understanding me all the time and as a result pushed me to get clearer on what I do believe in (reverse psychology!). And last but not least my beloved Michael for ALWAYS supporting me know matter what wacky thing I come up with next and for enduring this last 30 days with me. You have made a lot of sacrifices for me to do this and I love you to death. Hey, do you still want to marry me?? hehe

Juice on my fellow Juciers! Even though I am going for the prunes tomorrow, I am still with you on this life long journey!!

Also, I will continue to blog for a good while on how transitioning into solid food world goes. I am curious too!

All love and light,
Kyle