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DON'T KILL YOUR BABIES!

If you have a 10y.o. or know a 10y.o who's been consuming animal products since birth, research says s/he already has heart disease. Sadly, the ten y.o. isn't reading my post, but YOU are. So, what are you going to do to stop this child - who is depending on you to have a decent shot at adulthood - from succumbing to death-by-plaque-coated-arteries?

DON'T KILL YOUR BABIES!

Let them eat fruit and veggies. More raw than cooked.

Juice Fast Day 3 of 60 (100 Day Fully Raw Challenge)

 Juice Fast Day 3 – Thursday, December 29^th

Woke up with really cracked lips; I can feel my breathing is improving as I usually have to use the inhaler through the night – I only used it once – this is progress. My nose is running as soon as I awake – I’m okay with this as it means toxins are leaving my body – Yay!

My goal for today is to again stay on the couch all day. I do have to go to the grocery store to buy more greens and juicy fruits – but other than that, I don’t plan to do much moving around. I will continue to watch youtube videos, and I may do some pleasure reading (I ended up not doing any reading at all).

Starting the Day

Getting up from the couch to pour my first 32oz of water; I am feeling weak.

845AM – 320z water

945 – 32oz warm lemon water

1030 – took a morning shower and I must say I am winded. My body is telling me it needs glucose, so I am about to make a carrot apple orange juice. I am slightly wheezing, but I can tell there is tremendous improvement. I know I will have to do a breathing treatment today, so I’m looking forward to the day when I am free from this bondage (didn’t have to do a breathing treatment).

Also, I carry stress in my right shoulder blade area – and for the last month this spot has been inflamed – after the first day of juicing, the pain substantially diminished.

I had to take the inhaler at 1030 – but I suspect it has a lot to do with the 32oz of warm lemon water I just drank (citrus fruit has high histamines and my leaky gut reacts negatively by causing me to wheeze as an allergic reaction).

1130 – 1 cup of Breathe Deeply tea w/a tad bit of maple syrup.

1pm - 32oz coconut water.

At 2PM I was prepared to head out the door for a produce run when I felt faint and weak – so I poured 32oz of store bought freshly squeezed orange juice to give me the glucose boost I need to complete my errands. [This was a bad idea as the orange juice prompted more wheezing and an overall feeling of “unwellness” – reminded me of my last juice fast when all I drank was orange juice, and I knew nothing about my body’s intolerance for high histamine foods). Moving forward, I am going to do my best to omit orange juice as much as is possible until I am further along in my fast and my gut heals.

Daily Excursion

Shopped for produce – paid attention to sale items. Left the grocery store to go The Vitamin Shoppe to buy more L-glutamine and wheat grass powder; I’d like to have at least one wheat grass shot each day of this fast.

Came back from shopping - made two juices – 1 for my juicing buddy (my 21y.o. daughter) and 1 for me.

·      Hers: 1 stalk celery, 1 pineapple, 1 lime, 2 cucumbers, and 1 green apple

·      Mine: 8 carrots, 2 apples, and 2 cucumbers

After making the juices, I headed to the bathroom for my daily salt water enema – I decided not to do three enemas today.

It’s 5:30PM and I’m sipping on my carrot apple cucumber juice (with ice) while watching Youtube videos on raw foods.

Asthma Observations

Took inhaler twice today (noticed each time was after I had citrus – I really need to eliminate citrus until I am healed)

Healing Protocol

About 7PM made a wheatgrass shot and took L-glutamine. At this stage of my healing, I consider L-glutamine as a medical protocol and not a supplement. I don’t believe in adding supplements to a true juice fast – all my peripheries are part of a leaky gut healing protocol.

Ending the Day

The carrot apple cucumber juice revived me – I feel 100 times better than I did with the orange juice;

Passed out after my juice – the next thing I know it was 11:30PM; I woke up – realized I didn’t have enough juice for the day but was too lazy to juice at midnight, so I settled on 20oz of coconut water filled with ice chips.

[The verb tense changes often because I blog throughout the day then I go back the next morning to revise and add additional comments without always changing the tense of the verbs of the day of my journaling.]