On Reaching Day #40

 

I haven’t shared this with many people but today I am so happy that I can’t wait to share my good news. For 40 days now, I have been juicing fresh fruits and vegetables straight from my juicer at home. I’ve been eating nothing else! About a month and a half ago, I was browsing through my Netflix, when I came across the film “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead,” by Joe Cross. Joe Cross began this documentary film weighing at a whopping 310 pounds and was severely sick because of it. His unhealthy diet was slowly killing him. The entire film followed him as he juiced for sixty days in an attempt to gain his health back. Although after his sixty days he began implementing other foods into his diet, he continued eating healthy and helped others begin their journeys as well. I decided I’d do the same. I won’t share how much I used to weigh, because that would just be seriously mortifying. I will, however, say that I am now 30 pounds lighter and happier. Initially, I only wanted to juice for ten days, but when I saw my results on the scale, I decided to juice for three weeks. Three weeks turned into a month, a month turned into 40 days, and 40 days turned into, “What the hey, go for the sixty days.” So here I am. Every morning I wake up excited and energized to continue on this difficult journey, but ever night I go to sleep dreaming of biting into a carne asada taco or my gramma’s enmoladas. I seriously don’t know how much more of this torture I can take, but I hope I have the strength to see the sixty days through.