Last Monday I started my juice fast.
Weighing in at 159.8 and feeling like crap.

A week later, I’m 150.6 (another 25 pounds to go until I hit goal weight and NO I am not juicing to lose weight though it is an added benefit) and mentally & physically feeling better.

I spent the weekend working and organizing/cleaning.
It felt great to not only clean out my body but some clutter in the condo here as well.
I spent time in prayer, yoga, biking, helping my daughter with homework, watching The Help (awesome movie) and just letting life happen.

I’m not ready to transition off the juice fasting quite yet.
As mentioned before, I would do this until my body & mind said otherwise.

I’ve been enjoying some new juice combinations and some have asked for juice recipes.
I don’t do recipes, I kinda just throw stuff in my juicer and wing it.
I will admit though, I am NOT into adding greens to my juice (though I put in a minimal amount of kale, spinach or celery on occasion–after bad experiences with wheat grass & spirinella I just cannot stomach it).

Here are some juice recipes though that others have said are great!
Give them a try or design your own…
either way, juicing has lots of benefits.

Cherry Strawberry Passion Fruit for Anti Aging
Ingredients:
25 Strawberries
25 Cherries
2 Passion fruit
Directions:
Remove the seeds from the cherries
Scoop out the passion fruit flesh and seeds
Place all in juicer
Drink immediately

Orange Nectarine Lime Anti Aging Juice Recipe
Ingredients
3 Oranges
2 Nectarines
1 Lime
Directions
Peel the skin from the oranges.
Remove the seeds from the nectarines.
Peel the skin from the lime.
Place all fruit in juicer.
Drink immediately.

Berry Juice for Clear & Smooth Skin
1 cup blackberries
1cup blueberries
1 cup raspberries
1 cup strawberries
Juice all the ingredients
Drink immediately

Clear Skin Juice
2 large carrots
1 cup of spinach (or kale)
1 apple
1 celery stalk
1 cup of broccoli florets
Juice all and drink immediately.

Detox Delight
1 cucumber
1 large cup of spinach
1 large cup of parsley
1 celery stock
1/2 medium lemon (peeled)
Combine all in juicer & drink immediately.

Energize Me
1 large pink grapefruit
1 large orange
3 tomatoes
1 cucumber
Combine all in juicer & drink immediately.

Cleansing Juice
1 pear
1 celery stock
1 inch piece of fresh ginger root
Combine all in juicer. Drink immediately.

Question of the day
What is your favorite juice?