Real Talk

Des ate meat and cake yesterday. Not just a bite or two. He ate 4 slabs of smoked meat and a 8 in round cake. He didn't fall off the wagon, he jumped off, rolled under and was run over by it too! Not even 24 hours into it and the juice fast has been broken! So lets be real here. We love the juicer, but don't need to drink ONLY juice to justify our purchase and feel healthy and full of life. We need to keep it real and make sure we don't waste all the fruits and veggies we bought at costco! After re evaluation we have decided to make it simple and use our common sense. Read labels. Know what we are putting into our body. Conscious balanced eating. Word.

Juicy

Today we are beginning a new JUICY life. Not not couture, but CONSCIOUS. 

Watching this: 

On netflix, either inspired us...or scared us. Either way we decided our next purchase would be a juicer! This documentary follows a guy who was well fat, sick and nearly dead on his path to better health through juice.  I recommend watching it. that and FOOD MATTERS (another food doc on netflix). After some research we decided to go with the BREVILLE BJE200XL JUICE FOUNTAIN COMPACT.

We got it from Best Buy! Then off to Costco we went to purchase a cartload of fruits and veggies! Des has decided he wants to take the juice challenge and drink straight JUICE for 10 days. Since I am still breastfeeding and don't want to risk losing my milk or upsetting the little one I'm keeping my solids but have decided to cut out meat and see how things go.  In general we want to lead fresher, healthier, long lives together because we're so in love right. (OK it's February so I felt the need to be mushy for a sentence haha). SO whole wheat, fresh food, less sugars and less processed food, more fruits and veggies. (sorry SPAM!) 

We in no way want strip the pleasure from eating. It is such a big part of our lives here in Hawaii. So here's my challenge. make meals/snacks that my family will beg me to make and remain healthy and full of energy! If you have any suggestions, PLEASE get at me. 

The first juicing experience was...interesting. The juicer is awesome. A tad quieter than a blender (important when there are sleeping babies in the apartment), easy to clean, powerful and a great size for our limited space. Oh and it was $99... best buy offers a 2 year protection plan for only 15$, so we added that on as well. As for the juice... well we'll need to get down our food combos because carrot, cucumber, apple and orange was a little off, haha but Des drank it all!  

Cheers to JUICY DAY 1!