Who said watching TV isn't life changing? Well it was for me, Bill went up to watch a ball game or curling or hockey or something equally boring (to me!)
So my chance to watch one of my favorite channels, The Food Network. Well there was a movie on, unusual but I started watching it. The more it went on the more interesting it became. It was a story about a man named Joe Cross, he was 100 lbs overweight and I came to learn he had an auto immune condition, that was like hyper active hives and he was on pregizone a heavy duty steroid with tons of side effects. Well that part that got me was about being 100 lbs overweight, as you know I'm a big gal myself and if he had a way that I haven't tried to loose weight, I was going to listen and see what he was going to do. The movie was called Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, which would certainly catch your attention.
Well it was the best hour and a half I ever spent! I was amazed how he lost the weight and wasn't hungry. He did struggle with seeing others eat, and at first the smells of food he used to eat, food addictions. But he suffered though and did the juicing fast for 60 days, yep that's right 60 days! He lost the weight and eventually went off all medication he was on. Did he crave the food that got him sick and fat afterwards? No...he looked forward to eating a salad, a nice juicy apple, did he ever eat anything he ate before, yes but sparingly. Juicing got him to a place where he had so much energy, he just had to move, moving helped with the weight loss...and his adventure back to health!
At mid point of his journey he met a truck driver and spoke to him about his weight as he was a very large man and he found out that Phil had the same auto immune disorder Joe had. Asked him how he felt and told him about his juicing journey and how he was going to try to heal himself from the inside out, even took the truck driver to his car and juiced up some vegetables and fruit, then let him try some...he liked it. Then you saw Joe saying good bye to him and if he wanted to try it sometime, Joe said he would help him.
Well Joe continued on his journey and finished his fast, and on day 61 had an apple! He was down the weight, he was healthier and man oh man what a difference in his appearance! He eventually got off all the medication he had been on for years.
You don't see the time frame in the movie but it was 6 months after he met the Truck Driver in Winslow, Arizona that he phoned Joe and asked for help. Joe was back in Australia, working on the movie, but being a man of his word he came back to the States to help Phil, the truck driver.
So then started Phil's journey, he committed to a 10 day juice fast. But Joe said you have to go to the doctor to make sure everything is ok to go on the fast. He found out he was heading toward diabetes, heart failure, even death, he weighed in at 429.6 lbs on a 6" 1" frame. The doctor said it was ok for him to try the 10 juice fast, and they say the first few days are the hardest, about day 3 is when people quit, but not Phil he got to 10 days and felt really good, he even lost 20 lbs! He continued on to 20, 30 days until he ended his journey at 60 days, just like Joe. At the beginning of his journey he could only walk 5 minutes out and 5 minutes back. At the end he was swimming and even jogging and what an amazing transformation, he lost 200 lbs!
Well I can tell you that changed my life, you say watching a movie, "Oh I really liked it" or "I loved it" ... but change my life, nope never before. The reason I say that is, at the end of the movie I made the commitment to give this juicing a try. I was online ordering a juicer!
Went to see the doctor today and told him I was going on a juice fast for 10 days, he was hesitant, he said you will have to have some protein. But I said it was a total juice fast of only vegetables and fruit. Then he said, "well 10 days would be ok". But if I get to 10 days and I'm ok, even feeling better, I'm going onward. I'd love to go 60 days like Joe and Phil, don't know if I can do it, but I'm going to try.
Phoned the company asking why my juicer hadn't been shipped in a week and he said it was the funniest thing but a real run on that particular juicer went out and they sold out, but another order of them was coming in and I should have it shipped out in a few days. I laughed and told him, I'm not surprised and proceeded to tell him the story I just shared with you. He asked me what the name of the movie was again and he wrote it down, he was going to watch it as well.
Well I've spent my days looking for juicing recipes and getting in a positive frame of mind. I love my beer and that is going to be gone, bacon oh I love that too, but farewell dearly beloved Bacon and Beer to pass these lips no more. Don't get me wrong I'm having some before my juicer arrives but after that it's juicing for me! Wish me luck!
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I wrote all this before the juicer arrives so I will not back down. In the days ahead I will be posting pictures of my journey, hopefully I will encourage others to get healthy by my example.
In the words of Joe Cross, Juice On!
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