10 days

About two weeks ago, my husband and I were just laying in bed doing our lazy routine before sleep, I had taken over the remote which is something I never do and found a documentary on Netflix called "FAT SICK AND NEARLY DEAD". Needless to say, we both wound up getting sucked in. Its most basic explanation is about a man from Australia who is very over weight, sick and well, nearly dead. He decides to juice. Exclusively for 60 days and see what happens. Long story short he loses a lot of weight and is on the road to a healthy recovery. Along the way he meets others who are in the same boat as he is and converts them over to try juicing at least for 10 days, the results are pretty amazing! If you'd like to learn more about Joe Cross (the fat, sick, dying man) here's the link to his story.

   Jamie and I were pretty inspired, and after some talk we decided to go a head and try this juicing 10 day detox. My mom used to juice regularly when my siblings and I were younger but it was simple carrot and apple juice, nothing too crazy. I am excited to try some different combinations. Now as we are a young married couple scrimping and saving money for a house of our own we want to do this as a cheaply as possible so 

                              We borrowed a juicer from my parents : $0

                               We bought a small citrus juicer             :$04

                         Cost of produce for an estimated 5 days    :$69

                        ........................................Total cost so far.........

                                                                               

                                                                                             $73

Eating healthy ain't cheap y'all! I know this from starting to switch over to organic foods, our juice won't be completely organic but about 50% is. So its a start. 

I am really curious to see what health benefits we'll see from this. Jamie hopes to lose a little weight, I'd like to as well. I'm most interested to see if it clears up my skin and how much energy we have. Its going to be really hard to cut out my daily caffienated diet coke and 2-3x week latte habit. But in the interest of health and science I'll submit to the experiment. I might be super cranky though for a few days. 

Tomorrow starts the big day, I stayed up late prepping for our juices tomorrow. Unfortunately, we won't be able to juice fresh for every meal, instead we'll have to bring our juice to work with us, but we're going to through with it anyways. It will be really hard for me because I cook for a living and am around delicious smelling food all day long. Yikes.

Hopefully I'll post some amazing before and after photos when this is all done with!