Sunday, January 18, 2009

What exactly am I doing? My regimen

I feel the need to completely clarify, as best I can at this point, what it is that I am doing.

I am not doing a "juice feast" as it is exactly described on http://www.juicefeasting.com/. My understanding from just reading the site, is this:

1. You actually juice the greens and vegetables through a juicer, removing the fiber from it, and drink enough whole juice to equal the same amount in calories that you would normally consume from eating solid food. You do it for 30 to 92 days.

2. You give yourself enimas, get colonics, and take other supplements.

I am sure there is a TON more information than that - but that is what I can glean from their awesome website. They are true pioneers.

First, I don't want to go through that, because of several reasons:

1. The enormous time it would take to do all that juicing. I read blogs of it taking an hour to juice all the juice that you need. Then there is clean up, prep, and all that would amount to it taking WAY TO MUCH TIME for me, a father of 4 kids, a full-time law practice, commuting at least 2 to 3 hours a day from court to court. The time involved - can't do it.

2. The enormous cost of buying all those vegetables. If I bought organic, I would be spending enormous amounts of money on vegetables alone. Organic vegetables are very expensive. Organic apples cost 5 to 6 bucks a back. What also makes the cost go up, is that it takes a lot of vegetables to make enough juice to drink over a gallon a day.

3. Dropping 300 to 500 bucks on a juicer. I am stubborn - I am not going to spend that much on a juicer so I can sit and juice, juice, juice. And, the whole vitamix thing, really makes me mad. All it is, is one huge expensive blender. Why buy a vita-mix, when my Oyster blender blends it perfectly for me? Don't get it, and I am not going to spend 500 bucks to get started, then spend ALL THAT TIME juicing vegetables and ALL THAT MONEY buying them.

For me, and speaking ONLY FOR MYSELF, that is not sustainable.

SO, here is what I have been doing for the past 6 days, and it really seems to work for me:

1. I use my 8 year old Oyster Blender.

2. I take a bunch of green leafy vegetables (so far: kale, cauliflower, cabbage, collard greens, spinach, carrots, and so far the following fruits: apples, blueberries, and pears) I shred them into smaller pieces, and I fill up my blender about half-way with different recipes and concoctions.

3. I then fill it up about half-way with organic apple juice, and then the rest of the way with Distilled Water (to not use so much apple juice). Sometimes I put in some soy milk, and some times I put in Hemp Oil and some really powerful superfood green powder.

4. Then I fill up my 20 ounce container, and drink it down.

5. I drink as much as I can during the day. I don't think I have gotten a gallon of juice down into me, but I try to drink as much as possible.

6. Total time from prep to clean up: about 15 to 20 minutes. I can actually grind up almost a days worth. Cleaning up consists of rinsing out the blender, putting the veggies away, and wiping the counter.

7. It's cheaper because I am not dropping a ton of money on a juicer, and because it takes less vegetables to get the juice.

So far, in 7 days I have lost 6 pounds, and the feelings of clarity, laughter, joy, and heightened energy is indescribable, priceless really.

And for the first time in my entire life of juice fasting and cleansing, I have not experienced any excruciating hunger pangs like before. (knock on wood!)

But I am not just juicing and cleansing my body. I am combining this with a process of deep breathing and spiritual transcendence - of asking 108 Infinite Beingness Questions every single day. This is what makes this unique.

I guess you could call this "The Daniel Peebles Juice-Gorging Spiritual Awakening 92 Days Festival"

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