Day Twentysix January 27, 2014

Today is day 26 of 'My Big Fat Juice Cleanse'.
Forty eight hours...that is how long it took me to recover from a nasty stomach bug.  My husband was  the carrier of it...he is still feeling poorly.  He became sick on Wednesday of last week, I got hit on Saturday.  I am recovered...he is not.  One of us is juicing like a maniac...one of us is not.  I don't ever recall such a speedy recovery from something like this.  I credit my current diet.  That virus didn't stand a chance against the 60oz of fresh organic vegetable juice, plus 32oz of fresh organic fruit juice.  I drank more fruit juice in the last two days because I was craving it.  This cleanse has taught me to have a better ability to listen to my body.  I took nothing to help me through this...no Tylenol, flu med, nothing but juice.  I now feel like I wasn't even sick.

There is such power in listening to our bodies.  So few of us do it...until it is to late.  If I hadn't gone through breast cancer, I'd probably still have my head in the sand regarding my health.  It's unfortunate that it takes such extremes to teach us (or at least me).  This cleanse has freed me from so much...I no longer crave sugar...that alone was reason enough to do it.  I'm not just talking about sugar sugar, I mean all white stuff...flour, refined carbs etc.  It is frightening to realize the damage sugar does to us.  The disease causing inflammation alone is reason to ditch it.  I am also free of caffeine, that one took me ten days to get over completely.  I'm not saying I'll never have a cup of coffee again, but I sure as hell won't have it with dairy and sugar.

This cleanse has been such a gift to myself.  I have four days left to the juice only portion of my plan.  I miss eating, but I don't feel deprived.  My body is getting everything it needs for now.  I will continue to blog my journey during the next phase, in the hopes that I may inspire someone else that has treated their own body as poorly as I did mine, to take the steps to change.  I won't say this has been easy...but it hasn't been hard either.  I've learned so much about myself through this process, how and why I eat the way I do (or rather, did), and that I have the power to change.