Raw O'clock

For years I've wanted to try a juice feast (as opposed to a juice fast). I get freaked out by the thought of going without solid food because I love solid food so, so much. I get hungry just thinking about trying to go without a nice bit of bread or some noodles.... mmmmmmm-nmm-nmmm solid food.


You've probably heard of this 90 day feast that people are raving about; well I'm not doing that. What I have been doing is slowly introducing juices back into my diet over the last 2 weeks or so. The main thing has been starting the day with a fresh juice, and then having the odd glass in the mid-afternoon.
I've lost 1.5kgs without trying anything else. But this needs further explanation; I've never owned scales before, but at the beginning of the Israeli summer a friend and I decided we wanted to get rid of some of our extra bits that had started appearing - and sometimes actually pouring out - over the tops of our jeans. So we each bought a set of scales (which took almost 6 weeks to accomplish). Then we joined a basketball team. Then my friend went overseas for 6 weeks. Now, the scales have become a favourite toy for my children, the basketball totally f*@ked my left wrist (which has really upset my yoga practice - no arm balances, headstand, wheel pose etc) and my friend is either going to return skinny & beautiful or will look exactly the same.
In between my kids using the scales for their games I did manage to weigh myself most days, usually in the morning & at night. I'm not giving out the grand total here on this strange, public page, but when I weighed in over the last 3 days it's been at least 1.5kg down.

I've been juicing for years. My mum used to make fresh juice when I was a kid. Then a few years ago some friends got us a juicer (actually they got us an espresso machine, but we switched it) and I started a love affair with liquefied fresh produce.
My main recipes were always based around the combination of carrot, apple, ginger and often beetroot. Totally delicious! But now I'm trying to steer towards this green juicing world I've been reading about for a while.
Availability of many of the leafy greens used in most recipes is not readily available to me here in Tel Aviv, but I am starting a good hunt for these ingredients & will let you know where these things can be found. Meantime I'm using spinach, celery& parsley as the base greens & topping up with cucumber, lemon (my newest fav addition to all juices) and ginger.

Lunch today was watermelon, carrot & lemon. They'd all been in the refrigerator so it was one seriously awesome chilled juice. I had to snap a photo to share. Check out that colour!

Add to all that goodness a divine workout by Shiva Rea. I just got one of her yoga videos from Amazon for my birthday and today was the christening. Feedback: I can't wait to do it again.
Another little goodie I stumbled upon is this little workout for arms by the personal trainer of all the hottie 30-something actresses, Tracy Anderson. Have a squiz, it's pretty damned fun. And if you can keep going constantly for longer than 4minutes, you're doing better than I am!

You've got to grab the bull by the horns when inspiration takes hold. And I'm doing just that by getting serious about juice & yoga! Peace!