Juicing cleanse day 1

Here is what you need to know about me:

I'm in my twenties. I have two children, a girl and a boy. Along with those bundles of joy came lots of extra weight, that I want to be rid of! My husband is in the army and just recently left for deployment. Now, let's get into juicing since that's probably why you are reading! I have heard about juicing a bit from various sources, but I felt like it wasn't healthy and didn't bother to learn more. Then while I was recovering from having my tonsils removed I decided to watch Fat, Sick, and Nearly dead. And now here I am about to start on a 14 day fresh fruit and vegetable juice only cleanse. A few of my weak points are:

fried foods: I love everything fried, I try to eat it only on occasion, but sometimes that doesn't work out for me!

pumpkin and chocolate baked goods: It's almost fall, which means plenty of these will be available!

movie popcorn

CAFFEINE which I am trying to get myself off of as well

and chocolate

On the whole I eat very healthy I only indulge on the things above every once in a while, but I recently discovered that I am a stress eater. And since I am trying to lose weight, I just need to give my body a overhaul and get back on track.

Starting out on my juicing I weigh 143 pounds. Which means I've gained about 5 pounds in the past few weeks! I was eating a TON of carbs and crap with all the stress from the deployment. Which is partly why I timed my juicing for now. Anyways, so far so good. (so far being the key words here) My goal is a 14 day cleanse, and at that point I will re-evaluate. I may go longer, depending on my results. I will also be walking, nothing too heavy as far as workouts go.

For breakfast I had Honeydew, Cantaloupe, and apple juice. Thinking back I probably should have added in some celery or cucumber to get some veg in there too. But I will make the lack of veg up with lunch and dinner.

Lunch was spinach (which had arugula mixed in, more on that later) kiwi, cucumber, celery, and apple, and lime. I got a bag of mixed spinach and arugula thinking that both would be good because I eat arugula in salads all the time. I was wrong, the arugula was VERY strong. I had a hard time tasting anything else. So I kind of chugged it down and decided to remove the arugula from the mix and set it aside for future salads.

I am a bit hungry this afternoon, but I had some left over juice from breakfast that will make a wonderful snack. I did about 10 minutes of a kettlebell workout, but I came to the decision that it was a bit too much while I am just starting out on juicing. :) I was feeling very optimistic. Luckily the intense heat we've been experiencing here in Texas seems to have let up a bit so I'll go for a walk tonight.

So on the whole, so far day one has been pretty nice. I got some cleaning done, and I don't have the dreaded caffeine headache. I'll try to post every day, to keep track of the weight loss. I am also going to measure myself today, I can't find my tape measure. I will post that tomorrow.