Since I started this group I guess I'll start.

I've always classified myself as a "vegetable hater" and my main diet was meat and starch. "Meat and potatoes girl" as I'm sure some of you can relate. Over time and two pregnancy's later I don't like the way I look and I don't like the way I feel and I just know in my bones my diet has everything to do with it.

But what to do? I "hate" vegetables, so what can a person who hates veggies do? I think I'll fast and think about it. Really think about it and do some research too.

So at this stage I knew I wanted to revolutionize my diet so I decided to do a master cleanse. I've done one before so I could look better in my wedding dress and I could do one again but not to lose weight but rather to cut myself off from caffeine, oils and fats, and refined sugar. I needed to go cold turkey and I knew a master cleanse could do because it had done it before. After my first master cleanse in 2006 I ate healthier because I had severed my craving for sugar and fatty food. I went vegetarian, but then Thanksgiving came and it was all downhill from there.

But even when I went vegetarian back then I wasn't eating many vegetables. In that earlier experience I had went down from 165lb to 145lbs and I maintained until my second child 8 years later. This December I was wearing 190lbs of flesh on this tiny 5 foot 3 inch frame and boy can my back feel it.

So this time I decided a good 60 days was a commitment I needed to make for myself to improving my diet and my health. I wasn't going to juice fast for sixty days like Joe Cross in his Fat Sick and Nearly Dead Movie but I did see juicing as a way of introducing my palate to the taste of fruits and vegetable so I could better adapt to a plant based whole foods diet and adopt that for 40 days after my cleanse and juice fast.

After the master cleanse I juice fasted for 7 days. I couldn't drink juices that were all veggie. I need the fruit to make them palatable to me but I made sure all my juices had a 3 or more different colors going in. I also included a protein smoothie mid afternoon snack and a hot pureed soup for dinner. The soups I could add 5 or more different veg to and spice and make really delicious without needing any sweetener or oils.

So far so good. I'm enjoying all the foods I am eating immensely. There's been some trial and error but very little has gone to waste. I now need to look into composting though. Then from composting into gardening. I'm not going to start to discuss my two brown thumbs. I'll start small with an herb garden and work from there.

So why 60 days? I don't really mean to quit and go back to my old unhealthy diet but I look at each stage as a goal to attain. 10 days on the master cleanse (w/a 3 day ease in) and 7 days on a juice fast. With each little accomplishment I feel a little bit better about myself. Now if I manage to stick to a an oil and simple carb free plant based whole foods diet for 40day...wow...what a BIG accomplishment that will be. So that's my goal and from their hopefully long healthy life.

So that's my story. I work part-time in wine & liquor sales and full time in managing a household with 3 adults and 2 children. I'm happy and I'm social both online and offline. Sometimes I have a hard time balancing the two social lives though.

Thank you for reading