A Piece of Cake

Day Two of my Juice Feast was a piece of cake. Literally and figuratively. I made it through the main part of my day just fine, with my usual 64 plus ounces of parsley, kale, apple, carrot, celery, juice. I may have also added the last zucchini. All was fine and good until I got off of work and had to go out shopping for a birthday cake for my husband. I went to Wild Oats, and while they did not have what I was looking for, they did have samples of carrot cake set out in small cups. I had two. sigh. Then later on at home, after I had made the rest of my juice for the evening, I had a small small slice of my husband's birthday cake. Chocolate cake with some white fatty icing all over it, (at least it was good and didn't taste like sweet axel grease). He didn't notice me eat that, but when I was eating crumbs of the cake, he said don't! He said he was proud of me for doing this juice feast and didn't want me to mess it up. I knew he was supportive, but I didn't realize he was PROUD of me...cool. So, now I am even more motivated to do this, and recommitted to doing it 100%. From now on if I get the desire to eat, which hopefully will diminish as time goes on, I will leave the danger zone, have more juice, go do something, but I won't eat. It only affected me a little bit, I did notice my face in the mirror wasn't as bright and glowing as it had seemed to be only an hour earlier. But I drank the rest of my juice (which was apple, pear, parsley, a whole head of red leaf lettuce and maybe some kale, to which I then added the juice of a not quite ripe mango...and drank it down. It was good, better with the mango, but a bit green for me. You are advised not to juice mangos for this feast, but I have a very good juicer and mango is just so good. I figure a little every now and then will be just fine. My pears are still a bit green as well, but good change and since the grapefruit was irritating to my bladder I don't think I will be having anymore of that. I meant to buy some oranges and more tangelos and make orange juice...will have to get some today. Also, I did an enema this morning. Haven't really felt the need to prior to this morning, but as my usual morning activity did not take place I knew it was the time to start. Oh, my so very wonderful husband just brought me some more of my juice. I am down in our basement study, typing this, and feeling quite hungry from lack of juice....so he went back upstairs and got it for me. He is a sweetheart. (And he cleans and does laundry too!) ok. So there exists another story entitled
"A Piece of Cake". It is a book written by a woman, Cupcake Brown, about her life. She has lived more in her one lifetime than most people, hard things, but now, she has a good life. This is her story and it is very well written and very readable as she is witty and intelligent, and amazing. I loved her story and found it very inspiring, even though my life hasn't been anything close to hers. What it is I think, is just relating to the truth of it all, and to what everyone needs to do to get beyond whatever it is that is holding them back from making their dreams come true. I also just love reading people's life stories. Have since I was a child. Today's juice so far is around 75 ounces of a variation on a theme...parsley, kale, whole head of celery, half of a bunch of wonderful young organic asparagus, so would love to just gently steam it and eat it, it's lovely asparagus, but I am not eating now am I, also put in lots of apples and carrots, more kale than usual, and a whole cucumber. It is yum. Later on will have some yummy fruit juice, probably orange and tangelo, and then perhaps some more green juice. So happy that my husband is behind me all the way in this. Thank you. Thank you. peace, love and laughter to all.
Alessandra