A Day of Renewal and Rebooting

Have you read any good nutrition labels lately?

Of the ingredients on that label, how many of them were in clear, understandable English? Would the food you are consuming, and feeding to the family, be recognizable by your grandmother? Generally speaking, if you can't pronounce it, don't eat it!

Here are just a few of the noticeable highlights of Week 1 of my Juicing Adventure:

• improved mobility and flexibility
• increased energy throughout the day
• blood sugar down significantly 
• no more caffeinated or carbonated beverages! It is said by some that it takes 21 days to make a new habit....I am 15 days into that one!

Moving forward from this point!

An important principle to remember is that you should be looking for improvement, not perfection, in this journey of health renewal. And it should be a journey of HEALTH RENEWAL as opposed to a journey of weight loss! As your health works on the reboot, you will most likely reduce your weight, often significantly. But, the goal should be health renewal!

One major difference between shopping for a juicing adventure and the "normal" way of shopping is the quickly recurring need to restock! Typically, I would go to the store a day or two after payday and buy most of my groceries for the coming month .....meats, canned goods and packaged foods, non food stuff, and some produce. I would go home, portion out the meats into single serving portions and pop them into the freezer. Of course the canned goods would go into the cupboards, etc. Now,  under this newly adopted routine, I need to visit the market much more often! Real foods don't store the same! Many things I intentionally didn't have in the kitchen already (sugar, flour and such). I already managed avoiding much of that junk when I moved into my new man cave six moths ago!