First post late in the day - the 66th day of 92 - juice & smoothie feasting

5 Nov 2011 Day 66. Weight: 138.8 lbs

Bit late in my juice & smoothie feasting to start up a blog - but, geez, I just wasn't sure how to do it. So here I go plunging in on Day 66 of what I hope will be 92 days. Lots of slips, but a first for me will be that I pick myself up out of what could be the mire of cooked & deadly foods, brush myself off, & keep going. If this can be a life lesson for me, then I will be very pleased.

I live in the beautiful Comox Valley on the eastern side of Vancouver Island - which is on the west coast of Canada, in the province of British Columbia - rainy west coast forest - what's left of it & fought for from the totalitarian greed of the logging industry.

Yeah, yeah, I do have this intense undercurrent of rage toward human-made destruction & harm inflicted. Don't know if I clean out my mucoid plaque encrusted colon (finally! I have been in denial for decades) - if that will brighten my festering outlook. Will I ever turn into one of those beatifically smiling positive thinking people who is confident that I can change the world?

Today I awake to a dreary overcast day, feeling fairly clear, but have lain awake for an hour or so worrying about money, my clutter, my started & dreamt-of projects, my teeth, my hernia, the rats encroaching (yes, human & the furry ones!) - but, other than all that, I feel pretty good!

Will get up (I do love writing in bed! My cat, Misty, asthmatically wheezing near me & Maggi-May, my 4-year old Jack Russell terrier (her birthday today) lying under the covers, over my feet).

Will start off with a drink of the juice of two oranges, with a teaspoon of powdered greens & a heaped teaspoon of Avena Herb Cocktail to apparently gently claw at the muck that's been clinging in my colon from, at least 1992 when I had my own cafe that catered to my & everyone else's food addictions.

Then I will make a huge green smoothie - a VitaMix full - about 9 cups, pour off 2 cups for the hubby & take the rest with me to sip on through the day.

The smoothie will contain about 4 or 5 cups of water, 3 heaped teaspoons green powder, a good squirt of agave, 2 or 3 bananas, fresh raspberries, a few frozen strawberries, & then I will cram it with as many greens as I can get in there, shoved down with the tamper from the juicer. Comes out quite thick, very, very green, sweet & quite delicious.

I am not making nearly enough juice - it just takes so long to make juice - though I do love it.