Juicing vs Extraction

Hey All,

It's been about a month since I've posted. I have been planning my wedding and that has taken a lot out of my free time. This post will be centered around my new efforts to get maximum nutrition with out the digesting of vegetables. I have been experimenting with juicing and extracting.

First of all I can not digest vegetables. Every time that I do they come out looking like they did after I chewed them up. For example; I eat a salad. When I look in the toilet after said salad I can still see the full leaf of the lettuce but it just looks like its been wilted and degraded a little bit. If I eat too many vegetables I get diarrhea. Its not fun at all. Not even when I would cook them would it work out too well. My logic was that if they were cooked they would be easier to digest then when raw. That was a bust as well.

So I got the idea that if I couldn't eat them the regular way then I would juice them and drink them. My dad got me a juicer in 2012 about May-ish. While I was home from the hospital for a small stint he brought it over and said that it would heal me. I of course in the midst of the most terrible part of that experience didn't want to hear about his supposed miracle cure. I gave it a try to make him happy but I got the worst stomach ache of my life, exaggerated, but it was painful. So I said no thank you. We kept it however and it sat in its spot in the kitchen waiting to be used again.

I had been juicing since the week after Memorial Day weekend. I have seen really positive results from it. I am pooping better. Not more partially digested food. I am going a lot less often however. I don't know if that is partial constipation or what. I like the way it is making me feel as well. I have more energy and clearer thinking and mind. Juicing is easy but the machine is so annoying to clean. It take about 15 minutes for juicing to cleaning to be done. The mixture of fruits and veggies that I have experimented with have turned out great. I love juicing as a part of my other solid foods I eat. I don't think that I could juice fast or anything. I get too hungry and then I binge on chicharron or something. The juicing I saw as a positive solution to my not eating vegetables. Not that I was looking for anything to change but I was gifted a present that I was really excited about.

My lovely Auntie Linda had the idea of getting me a Nutribullet. I started using that a few weeks ago. It was different since the flavor was not as sweet and the texture was very gritty and thick. The machine is basically a better version of the Magic Bullet. It pulverizes the fruits and veggies to a smoothie texture. It is suppose to give maximum nutrition from not only the flesh but the stems, seeds etc. I was just experimenting with fruit and veggie combos and when I was starting to like it I noticed that I had gone back to full blown diarrhea. I was actually passing the drink completely as is. I don't know the exact science of the whole thing but I think that the fiber was causing me to pass the shake at speeds that my body couldn't handle and there was no solidity that could take effect. I will still probably use it to have fruit smoothies because I can tolerate fruit just fine. I frequent Jamba Juice for the fruit only drinks and they are so good that I would like to make them at home and save time and money.

So I have decided that I just can't eat a vegetable in any form other than juice. I have been drinking juice again for half a week and everything is back to normal. Its amazing how fast the body bounces back. I just wish that some day I can eat a salad and a raw carrot.

It's crazy how my wants have changed from chips (although I could go for some at any time) to wanting to just eat a celery stick.

Its a crazy reality that I live now.

I hope that everyone enjoys their forth of july!

Till next time XOXO!