I try and take 3 shots in the morning:
(1) 2-4 oz. of Wheatgrass
(2) 2/3rd to a full bulb of garlic + 2" of turmeric root + lemon
(3) 1 peeled bitter melon (non-organic)
Yah, that garlic shot ALWAYS kicks my ass. It like drains all my energy, and I feel like I have to rest for 15 min. after. It's pretty much instantaneous. I'm hoping my system will adjust to it eventually, but I don't know.
Oh yah, I'll explain why I haven't been posting so much soon.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Hunger
I'm hungry. I've been hungry since yesterday. I think I didn't make enough juice last night and it triggered hunger pains which have continued to this morning. I'll have to make sure to drink more juice today. It's definitely harder to stay on the juice feast when hungry. All sorts of things look good, even just the temptation to directly chew on and eat the veggies I'm juicing.
It's funny. I had lots of cravings for the first week. They died down the second week. It got to the point where I had dinner with my father on day 16 at a Vietnamese restaurant. I had 2L GVJ and he had a vietnamese chicken and banana flower(!!!) soup. It smelled wonderful, but I really wasn't tempted overly much. But yesterday and today... boy. I NEED to eat something solid.
I only got 3.5 hrs of sleep Monday night, because I'm trying to adjust my sleep schedule to wake up @ 630am in the morning. Last night I got 5.5 hrs of sleep - better, but not great. I am learning to take it slowly on days when I lack sleep. The high energy bound of the two days prior is gone on these days, although at times I felt energized yesterday. There were also long stretches of time where I felt tired and sleepy.
Yesterday's juices were nothing special. I was extremely lazy so made lots of celery and cucumber and little else. Mung bean sprouts tend to go sour within 3-4 days of purchase, so I'm only buying 2 bags of them from now on.
It's funny. I had lots of cravings for the first week. They died down the second week. It got to the point where I had dinner with my father on day 16 at a Vietnamese restaurant. I had 2L GVJ and he had a vietnamese chicken and banana flower(!!!) soup. It smelled wonderful, but I really wasn't tempted overly much. But yesterday and today... boy. I NEED to eat something solid.
I only got 3.5 hrs of sleep Monday night, because I'm trying to adjust my sleep schedule to wake up @ 630am in the morning. Last night I got 5.5 hrs of sleep - better, but not great. I am learning to take it slowly on days when I lack sleep. The high energy bound of the two days prior is gone on these days, although at times I felt energized yesterday. There were also long stretches of time where I felt tired and sleepy.
Yesterday's juices were nothing special. I was extremely lazy so made lots of celery and cucumber and little else. Mung bean sprouts tend to go sour within 3-4 days of purchase, so I'm only buying 2 bags of them from now on.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Asian veggies
Stopped by the Vietnamese market yesterday. Everything there is super cheap, but I fear they use tons of pesticides. There were so many things I wanted to get, but didn't: Pennywort, chives, pea sprouts, and various other leafy greens. I also passed on a Jicama for fear of the sugar content. I ended up with 2 daikon radishes, 12 bitter melons (bitter gourd), and 4 chayote. I will peel and juice them. The daikons are much less spicy than traditional radish, and I ended up juicing one whole radish and putting it in my cucumber/ginger/lemon juice this morning. I juiced one bitter melon. It made about two ounces of juice which I just took as a shot. It wasn't that bad, but the aftertaste was strong. I washed it down with Kombucha.
I went off my hypertension medicine a couple days ago to monitor my blood pressure. It went up today, the systolic is normal: 130-145, but the diastolic was high: 85-100. I also felt a bit of chest constriction I associate with hypertension. I decided to go back on the medicine for now. I also prepared a half a head of garlic juice with a full lemon. I took that as a shot, and chased it with my cucumber juice and some Kombucha. I will start taking the garlic regularly. I'll also start doing some research into other natural options for hypertension. I wish I could eat cocoa. lol.
Sunday and Monday juices
I took it really easy on Sunday, making the following:
4L GVJ.
1L cucumber/ginger/lemon
1L mung bean stir fry.
Monday, I had to rush majorly to head up to Orange at the last minute, so I cheated.
I started the morning with 32 oz. of spinach/celery/cucumber/carrot juice from the local green lunch place.
Then I made 3L of GVJ for myself.
I then picked up 60 oz. of ginger/lemon/celery/cucumber/parsley juice from another local juice bar I just found.
The latter place is cheaper, but doesn't have spinach. I'll probably be going there more in the future, though. They do have ginger, lemon, and parsley, which are all great.
I skipped my skin cleaning/enema/contrast shower on Sunday, and I felt it in the evening. I had gotten enough sleep, so it wasn't sleep deprivation. But my skin got itchy in places, and I had to scratch at it for a little.
I went off my hypertension medicine a couple days ago to monitor my blood pressure. It went up today, the systolic is normal: 130-145, but the diastolic was high: 85-100. I also felt a bit of chest constriction I associate with hypertension. I decided to go back on the medicine for now. I also prepared a half a head of garlic juice with a full lemon. I took that as a shot, and chased it with my cucumber juice and some Kombucha. I will start taking the garlic regularly. I'll also start doing some research into other natural options for hypertension. I wish I could eat cocoa. lol.
Sunday and Monday juices
I took it really easy on Sunday, making the following:
4L GVJ.
1L cucumber/ginger/lemon
1L mung bean stir fry.
Monday, I had to rush majorly to head up to Orange at the last minute, so I cheated.
I started the morning with 32 oz. of spinach/celery/cucumber/carrot juice from the local green lunch place.
Then I made 3L of GVJ for myself.
I then picked up 60 oz. of ginger/lemon/celery/cucumber/parsley juice from another local juice bar I just found.
The latter place is cheaper, but doesn't have spinach. I'll probably be going there more in the future, though. They do have ginger, lemon, and parsley, which are all great.
I skipped my skin cleaning/enema/contrast shower on Sunday, and I felt it in the evening. I had gotten enough sleep, so it wasn't sleep deprivation. But my skin got itchy in places, and I had to scratch at it for a little.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sleep heals psoriasis?
Catching up on sleep these last two days. I've woken up late, lazy, and still sleepy. When I do, my skin loses a lot of the inflammation and redness. Large sections of my shins this morning seem almost smooth when I run my hand over them. Only when I run my finger over them and slowly, can I feel the small perturbations on the surface. Those are accompanied by slight pinking, and not redness.
Emotional Flares and Physical Neglect lead to Psoriatic Flares
So I've been meaning to update the status on the psoriasis. For awhile there, I was trying to remain agnostic about the situation, neither believing in nor disbelieving in whether it was improving. I can't any longer. It is undeniably improving.
My inner thighs almost cleared completely - they are 90% smooth normal skin, just a bit dark and red. My upper thighs are 60-70% clear. Those are the two most obvious areas of clearing. There are smaller patches of clearing on my shins and torso. My face has improved immensely, and I would tentatively say 80-90% clear. There are still some areas of redness, but almost no scaling left. Areas on my right shin that were thick and scaly when I started have now become smoother and have stopped scaling.
My arms seemed like they were clearing nicely. Most of the redness had been leaching out of them, and the raised areas seemed to be getting smaller and less raised. Then, I had 4 nights of upheaval. Lack of sleep, emotional turmoil, anxiety and stress. All enemies of health and psoriasis. My arms flared up again, and got pretty red during from Wed through Fri. But they've started calming down again now. During the period of upheaval, I missed 1 skin brushing, 1 enema, 1 normal shower, 2 contrast showers, had one day of minimal juice, and lots of missed sleep. I think it's the sleep that was the worst. I would be up at 3-5am in the morning, and could feel my psoriasis flaring and getting itchy. But everything's getting back on schedule now despite the late post time tonight ;-).
I have to find the time to go through the pics I've been taking and decide what to post.
My inner thighs almost cleared completely - they are 90% smooth normal skin, just a bit dark and red. My upper thighs are 60-70% clear. Those are the two most obvious areas of clearing. There are smaller patches of clearing on my shins and torso. My face has improved immensely, and I would tentatively say 80-90% clear. There are still some areas of redness, but almost no scaling left. Areas on my right shin that were thick and scaly when I started have now become smoother and have stopped scaling.
My arms seemed like they were clearing nicely. Most of the redness had been leaching out of them, and the raised areas seemed to be getting smaller and less raised. Then, I had 4 nights of upheaval. Lack of sleep, emotional turmoil, anxiety and stress. All enemies of health and psoriasis. My arms flared up again, and got pretty red during from Wed through Fri. But they've started calming down again now. During the period of upheaval, I missed 1 skin brushing, 1 enema, 1 normal shower, 2 contrast showers, had one day of minimal juice, and lots of missed sleep. I think it's the sleep that was the worst. I would be up at 3-5am in the morning, and could feel my psoriasis flaring and getting itchy. But everything's getting back on schedule now despite the late post time tonight ;-).
I have to find the time to go through the pics I've been taking and decide what to post.
OMFG LMAO
http://www.psoriasisfish.com/?p=cure_method
Today's juices:
1L: Cuc/ginger/Lemon w/ a tad of kale (I used it to push the cucumber through, but it tasted fantastic)
4L: GVJ: Cuc/celery/romaine/kale/chard/collards/sunchokes/burdock/arugala
1L: bok choy/mung bean sprouts/nori/hemp oil/phytoplankton/garlic/ginger/green onion
That standard GVJ is getting really easy and quick to make. Honestly, the lettuce takes the longest. I wash it fresh, so it takes washing, then stuffing it into the Omega 8003, and it gets backed up, so I need to feed the dry stuff though to clear it.
Today's juices:
1L: Cuc/ginger/Lemon w/ a tad of kale (I used it to push the cucumber through, but it tasted fantastic)
4L: GVJ: Cuc/celery/romaine/kale/chard/collards/sunchokes/burdock/arugala
1L: bok choy/mung bean sprouts/nori/hemp oil/phytoplankton/garlic/ginger/green onion
That standard GVJ is getting really easy and quick to make. Honestly, the lettuce takes the longest. I wash it fresh, so it takes washing, then stuffing it into the Omega 8003, and it gets backed up, so I need to feed the dry stuff though to clear it.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Delayed posting
As many of you have noticed. I haven't been posting at all recently. I've been deluged by a bunch of personal issues that have kept me up late at night and sapped my time during the day. I've also learned a valuable lesson about sleep during the first phase of the juice feast - it is extremely important, - and I haven't been getting enough of it. Quick summary of juices I've made the past 3 days:
Day11
1L: ginger, lemon, cucumber
2L of standard GVJ.
1L: Mung Bean + Nori + garlic/ginger/green onion + hemp oil: delicious
2L: 1/2 Butternut squash + 1/2 sweet potato + carrot + celery + base + cumin.
I wanted nutmeg, but only had cumin, so used that. At first I didn't use base, but it was too sweet.
I then split the 1L into 2L's.
Day 12
Day11
1L: ginger, lemon, cucumber
2L of standard GVJ.
1L: Mung Bean + Nori + garlic/ginger/green onion + hemp oil: delicious
2L: 1/2 Butternut squash + 1/2 sweet potato + carrot + celery + base + cumin.
I wanted nutmeg, but only had cumin, so used that. At first I didn't use base, but it was too sweet.
I then split the 1L into 2L's.
Day 12
1L: ginger, lemon, cucumber
3L: Standard GVJ
Day 13
1L: ginger, lemon, cucumber
2L: mish-mash of everything tossed in, including a beet and some fennel. Not as bad as I expected
1L: standard GVJ
1L: cauliflower + celery + radish + various roots
The cauliflower was ... meh. Very weird and not good. Not buying that again. Same with the squash (it was left over from before). Neither cauliflower or squash juice well. They're both too dry.
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