Mummy Your'e Beautiful The Way You Are

Can you believe I'm half way through day 7 and my total loss is 1 stone! So I am now 15 stone 10 lb
This now puts my BMI at 35.5 and although I am still 'obese' I feel like I have come a long way in such a short space of time.
However according to the NHS website someone of my age and height should be 8 Stone 3lb which to be honest I think with my bone structure, I would look seriously ill if I were to be that weight!
My goal is to reach maybe 10 stone which I think would put me at a size 12.
To be honest I don't know what clothes size I am as I spent 90% of my time in jogging bottoms and bagggy jumpers.
My wedding dress just over two years ago was a size 26/28.

My husband says he has noticed some physical changes to me already, mainly my arms look thinner and this morning I put on some 'proper' trousers to help out at my son;s school and they are too big!

Yesterday I did say that every time I reached 1 stone off i would treat myself but to be honest, now I have reached this landmark I don't fancy treating myself at all!
I am positively spurred on!

This morning I juiced a bag of apples and a bag of pears which made just under a litre of juice and poured it into a bottle to take to school with me in case I got peckish.
Usually at break time the kids get toast and fruit as a snack and normally if there is any toast left over I stuff my face with it. This morning however, even the smell of the freshly cooked toast didn't bother me at all!

So I'm sat here now with my juice as I write.

My son, bless him, he is only five and is bit baffled why Mummy isn't having tea anymore and this morning when he got his fruit at snack time, brought me over an apple as he said I could take it home and juice it.
He is worried that I will lose too much weight and not be cuddly any more,
I told him that I want to be beautiful and he say's "Mummy your beautiful as you are"

As for the health implications. Last week I had a whopping cyst on my belly and without having to lance it, it has dissapeared, only leaving minor scarring where it was.

I think when i set out my aim was to 'see how I got on with a 7 day fast' but now I feel really spurred on to do a full 30 days!

Heres me in my wedding dress 11/6/11 at my heaviest weight ever!

Beginning of day 6

So I've done 5 full days and am half way through day 6.

So far I have lost a total of 10lb :-)
I have joined a website called joes reboot which gives me loads of idea about recipes and is full of people who have lost so much weight on this program giving their stories which are really inspiring.

As it is quite a wasteful diet with all the fruit pulp that I have left I decided to research as to what could be done with it.

The coconut I put the pulp in with some boiling water, let it stand and then sieved it so I can extract whats left of the coconut oil.
I'm going to try putting this on my hair........so will keep you posted about that!
The pineapple pulp again I let is stand in boiling water and again once strained ended up with some watery pineapple juice which I had for my breakfast this morning.
It wasn't as satisfying as the pure juice but kept me going till dinner.

I suppose the one thing you want to know is..........am I hungry?
The answer is no.
Yesterday I felt a bit hungry but it was the weirdest feeling I have had regarding food.
I have been craving a chicken donner kebab on garlic naan with salad and garlic sauce but I know that if it was put in front of me, I doubt I would actually eat it!

I have come to an agreement though that every time I reach a 1 stone loss I am going to  treat myself to some food stuffs!

The weekend went ok really as I was at a kids party on Saturday and a chocolate fondue fountain was there.............I didn't crave any of the food ! :-)
And although the house smelt really good while my husband did himself bacon and cheese butties...........I coped!
:-)

Weight Loss Already!!

OK So I'm embarking on day 3 of the fruit juice fast.

I know I shouldn't have done it but I jumped on the scales this morning and guess what? I'm 16 stone 4lb..........That's a massive 6lb lost in 2 full days!

I need this sort of dramatic initial weight loss to spur me on, and needless to say that this morning I feel very excited and happy and of course very proud of myself!

To be honest I'm actually finding it very easy at the minute. I don't feel hungry and I don't feel full. I just feel 'nothing'.
Last night I went shopping and bought myself some more  fruit.

When I got home I juiced 2 pineapples and 2 coconuts. The coconuts I had to get my husband to help me with though.

Now you might think that with all this fruit juice that I would be constantly on the toilet but surprisingly ...........I'm not. So far I have no adverse effects of this diet, no headaches, no upset tummy, no fatigue as of yet. In fact I feel great, and so energetic this morning. My belly was making weird loud gurgling noises last night but that's about it.

I do get exercise by way of walking my two dogs every day, but I don't do anything too energetic.
Generally speaking my day involves me sitting on the setee on my laptop most of the day and spend a lot of time sat down.

Which got me thinking about the stuff that I normally eat, home made pies, chips with nearly every tea, takeaways on a Friday night, toast, bread, crisp butties. essentially a heavy carb diet and how stodgy and unhealthy it really is.

This weekend I intend to try and blend at least half a carrot with my oranges to see how I go on and whether I can get past my mental block of vegetables!

My aim with this fast at the moment is to go for 10 days and see how I get on and then if I am seeing dramatic results then to carry on for 30 days.

I AM still drinking 2 or 3 cups of coffee in the mornings with skimmed milk and 2 sugars in each, which I know that if I was doing this as a detox would be out of the question but I have cut so much out of my diet already that my husband and I decided that this is my 'treat'.

Lets see how I get on on day 3!!!

Day 1 of the fast!

So...........Yesterday, Wednesday 5th February 2014 I decided to give this fruit juice fasting diet a whirl!
On Monday I saw a program on Channel 5 about Australian Joe Cross and his fasting and how much weight he lost. I was inspired!
Now I am currently 16 stone and 10 lbs which isn't the heaviest I have been in my life but at 5 ft 6 inches puts my BMI at 37.8 which officially puts me in the obese catagory.

So a bit about me.........My 40th birthday is coming up fast, this August. I have a 5 year old son, and have been married for two and a half years.
My other half is skinny....... next to me anyway, at 11 stone exactly.

In 2004 I had a discectomy and now my back has started hurting again but I won't go to the doctors about it as I know the first thing they will say is 'lose weight'.

I also get subaceuos cysts on my belly, in my groin and have even had some on my boobs before now.
I very rarely wear a proper bra anymore and really couldn't tell you my correct bra size.
I tend to wear these sports bra things and every now again I get this awful fungal infection underneath which smells disgusting!

So, now I reckon its about time to sort myself out! Get back to looking somewhere how I used to and of course all these health implications 'should' disappear once the weight comes down.

Luckily my brother in law has lent me a juicer, as I didn;t realise at first what the difference between a blender and a juicer was. I know your probably thinking 'what a bimbo' but hey! My culinary skills are very limited!

I researched a few websites on the net about fruit fasting and to me it sounds very easy....................but there is a major flaw in my plan................I HAVE MAJOR ISSUES ABOUT VEGETABLES!
I always have, its a proper phobia. The only veg I eat usually are potatoes and marrowfat processed peas. Garden peas wont do, and I suppose onions I like too. But that's about it! I reckon I can count on one hand how many times over 39 years I have tried to eat carrots. And Brocolli and cabbage has never passed these lips.
I always used to joke that although I'm this size I do eat salad.............on a big mac or kebabs!
So I'm not adverse to a bit of lettuce every now and again.

So Tuesday night, juicer all cleaned and ready to go, my husband came home from work sporting a bag of fresh fruit.
Oranges, Apples, Pears, cucumber and tomatoes.
He didn't know I don't like tomatoes!
But I got to work straight away juicing away preparing my 'food' ready for a fresh start on Wednesday morning.

My first experiement was the full bag of pears and full bag of apples, which produced 1 litre of juice.
I bottled it and put it in the fridge ready.
After a clean I then juiced the oranges. it looked so beautiful I found it hard to keep my lips off it, but I poured it in a jug and put it in the fridge.

Wednesday morning I woke up, went to the scales weighed myself and wrote down my weight on the calender.

This was it, the first day of the fast! Right lets get that orange juice out......................."URRRGGGGHH"
It was totally disgusting.............I had made a fatal error in my preparation of the oranges before juicing them............I hadn't peeled them before shoving them through the juicer.
Schoolboy error. Must remember this for next time.

During the day I consumed 1 litre of apple and pear juice and later on that day I juiced 2 pineapples and 2 mangoes and consumed that aswell.
I must admit, I wasn't starving and yet I wasn't full either.

I suppose the hardest part of the day was cooking tea for my son and my husband. The smell was gorgeous even though only eggs and chips, and I cut into the cucumber as I intended to try juicing a bit with my next bag of apples.
But all I could visualize is the salad that I have on my chicken donner kebab.

I don't feel brave enough yet to experiment with cucumber yet but that is ok. My son loves cucumber so he can have it in his packed lunches for school.

So now. I'm on day two of the fast and to be honest it is a lot easier than I imagined. Haven't juiced anything yet so far today but I will need to buy more fruit later!
Dinner time will see me juicing more apple and pear I think.