Day 1
Today I am starting a Juice Fast. The reasons why are three fold: 1) a couple of months ago after a Saturday run I was sitting at my computer and turned my neck to massage it and found a lump, since I don’t have any insurance I haven’t had it checked. I did up my Iodized Salt intake marginally in case it was a goiter, but that seems very unlikely. 2) On Friday, 25th of April, I got out of the shower after a run and noticed purple spots all over my trunk but according to the skin rash worksheet on http://www.familydoctor.org/ my condition is like any of the rashes. It seems mostly likely to be irritant contact dermatitis but I haven’t changed products really -- I did stop using my body scrub and changed the sheets on my bed but to no effect. 3) Weight, my health is suffering, my endurance is but a fraction of what it was when I went to school 4 1/2 years ago and I can’t seem to get it back. My weight has pushed around 165# - 168#, it looks unattractive, it makes me sluggish and less active.
So, today I start a detoxification/spring cleansing per Elson M. Haas, M.D. on the Nutritional Program For Fasting excerpt website. Since I am heavy and I have a social obligation today and a UC Berkeley graduation tomorrow I am going to start with meal reduction and meat and diary cut back and do the cleansing on Thursday starting the full juice fast on Friday.
After researching juicers online I decided to purchase the Breville Juice Fountain Compact BJE200XL, however, all five of the online sites were sold out and aren’t expecting stock until July, not very useful for me. So I am off to Fry’s Electronics, Circuit City, Best Buy, Linen ‘N Things all of which normally carry the product. I may have to settle for something else although as a very last resort I could stick with Naked® or Odwalla® juices which are the closest to pure juice I know.
So, yesterday I managed to get to the guy and do an hour of weights and last night I ran with the FrontRunners/FrontWalkers Sacramento and put in 8 miles at an 8 minute pace. It is said you will drop a minute/mile for every 10# your drop, so I want to see a 15# decrease (no loss, I am not intending on finding it again :-p ) and really want a #20 drop. Weigh-in today: 165.2# and 34 3/4” across the navel (30” or even 29” is my goal).
Today I am starting a Juice Fast. The reasons why are three fold: 1) a couple of months ago after a Saturday run I was sitting at my computer and turned my neck to massage it and found a lump, since I don’t have any insurance I haven’t had it checked. I did up my Iodized Salt intake marginally in case it was a goiter, but that seems very unlikely. 2) On Friday, 25th of April, I got out of the shower after a run and noticed purple spots all over my trunk but according to the skin rash worksheet on http://www.familydoctor.org/ my condition is like any of the rashes. It seems mostly likely to be irritant contact dermatitis but I haven’t changed products really -- I did stop using my body scrub and changed the sheets on my bed but to no effect. 3) Weight, my health is suffering, my endurance is but a fraction of what it was when I went to school 4 1/2 years ago and I can’t seem to get it back. My weight has pushed around 165# - 168#, it looks unattractive, it makes me sluggish and less active.
So, today I start a detoxification/spring cleansing per Elson M. Haas, M.D. on the Nutritional Program For Fasting excerpt website. Since I am heavy and I have a social obligation today and a UC Berkeley graduation tomorrow I am going to start with meal reduction and meat and diary cut back and do the cleansing on Thursday starting the full juice fast on Friday.
After researching juicers online I decided to purchase the Breville Juice Fountain Compact BJE200XL, however, all five of the online sites were sold out and aren’t expecting stock until July, not very useful for me. So I am off to Fry’s Electronics, Circuit City, Best Buy, Linen ‘N Things all of which normally carry the product. I may have to settle for something else although as a very last resort I could stick with Naked® or Odwalla® juices which are the closest to pure juice I know.
So, yesterday I managed to get to the guy and do an hour of weights and last night I ran with the FrontRunners/FrontWalkers Sacramento and put in 8 miles at an 8 minute pace. It is said you will drop a minute/mile for every 10# your drop, so I want to see a 15# decrease (no loss, I am not intending on finding it again :-p ) and really want a #20 drop. Weigh-in today: 165.2# and 34 3/4” across the navel (30” or even 29” is my goal).
