So my three day juice fast has come and left, and I am sad to report I failed miserably. I meant to post each day of the fast. I meant to do a lot of things. What did I do? I can't really remember, because I was so fuzzy, lightheaded and dumb my memory of the fast is more like a long hallucination. Day one started out simply enough. I had my six juices I had picked up the day before from The Big Squeezy in Baton Rouge (at the tune of $49 a day plus tax). I read the directions and followed as specified on The Big Squeezy's website, and drank the juices in the order listed on the bag. I say website because when I picked up my juice the girl who checked me out was new and couldn't answer any of my questions. I did fine, except ran into a problem. If you drink a juice every two hours and only have six juice that means unless you stay up for only twelve hours you're going to be without nourishment for a few hours. I've got a life, damnit. I've got stuff to do. So I did what any red-blooded starving American did. I ate a baked potato from Whole Foods. So day 1: utter failure. Rinse and repeat on day two. Except on day two extreme lightheadedness and irritation set in. And then there was day three. OH DAY THREE.
So the thing with The Big Squeezy is you get two days of juice at a time. You make an appointment to pick up the juices, they're ready (in theory) when you get there, and you grab them and go. Easy, right? EXCEPT IT DIDN'T WORK LIKE THAT THE THIRD DAY. And I was hungry. And I was cranky. So when I placed the order and made my appointments to pick up the juices the girl who took my order asked what time I would like to pick up my juice on Sunday. I asked her their hours on Sunday and they said from 7 a.m. to whenever. I told them I would be there at 9:00 am for the rest of my juices.
Guess who doesn't open until 10:00 on Sundays? Guess who was stuck sitting around until 10:00, and even then still had to wait for them to get the damn juices together? Guess who was starving and quite over The Big Squeezy after their half-assed excuse blaming "the new girl" again after pulling up my paperwork and seeing their error. Yep.
It probably didn't help that I nixed caffeine and any unnecessary medication during the fast. I feel it was poorly instructed on their part and poorly executed on my part. I probably don't have the willpower required to nix food, caffeine, and modern medicine for three days. I also might have tried to cut out too much at once. Either way my experiment was a blatant failure. I think the next time I attempt a juice fast instead of buying expensive premade juices I'm going to make my own. I have a Breville juicer and juicing manuals, but thought buying the juices premade and set out would be the way to go for a first fast. I was so wrong. Luckily for me no one was seriously hurt, I didn't incurred jail time, I have not been disowned by any of my friends, and I'm only out $160 and three and a half days of my life.
Oh, and I forgot to mention a few more things of note. After the third day I crashed. Like laying in bed, crying, just all around feeling horrid. My transition back to my normal plant-based vegetarian diet was rocky and at times *ahem* uncomfortable. I also had a severe spike in asthma attacks during the fast which was EXTREMELY unsettling, and likely explains a lot of the lightheadedness and passing disorientation.
My original intent for the juice fast was for detox purposes. I'm not sure if I succeeded in detoxing, I think I may have screwed that part up with the potato. Hopefully my next *homemade* fast will yield clearer and healthier results.
Edit: Does anyone have any suggestions for my next juice fast? I'd love to hear other's experiences and comments, opinions, any feedback below!
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