Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

Juicing is fine as long as you are eating at least as much veggies as you are juicing otherwise you are forgoing all of the fiber, which is important for a healthy digestive system. Also watch your sugar intake by juicing, usually sugar from fruit is fine as it is pared with fiber, but in the juice there is very little fiber and the sugar will cause your blood sugars to spike and a sugar crash may follow after.

My point it that juicing should be used to supplement your diet, but only be a small portion of your overall caloric intake.

I was a vegetarian for a few years in high school. I did not watch my protein intake (or any intake for that matter). I ended up in the hospital 3 times in 3 months, which is less of a reflection on a vegetarian diet and more of a reflection of a "eat nothing" diet. It's taken me the better part of a decade to feel like I was in control of myself enough to go back to being a vegetarian. I'm doing it healthily this time, and things couldn't be better!

I live with a meat-n-taters guy. His mom wasn't adventurous in the kitchen, so he pretty much ate like 10-15 meals his whole life before we started dating. For Lent this year, we gave up meat together. He was able to experience a vegetarian diet and gained respect for that lifestyle decision. Once Easter came, he went back to eating meat occasionally, whereas I stayed with a vegetarian diet.

I've never really had a taste of meat. A steak is a steak is a steak - it all just tastes like meat. I figured that there wasn't really a reason to keep eating something I didn't honestly enjoy. I've got quite a few reasons why I don't eat meat. Some are personal health reasons, some are philosophical and ethical. I will say that if you decide to become vegetarian, be prepared to be accosted for that decision. I'm not saying that every omnivore is going to preach at you, but it'll happen. I don't go around telling everyone "Meat is murder" and stuff like that. I just get my lunch and go to the break room. But I've had people notice that I don't put add the chicken to my chicken ceasar salad. When they ask why, I'll tell them that I don't eat meat. Simple as that. But for some reason that makes them angry and I get to listen to them go on and on about why being a vegetarian is stupid or unnatural or whatever. I thought I was just trying to eat lunch, but I guess not adding meat means I'm making some political statement.

Not everybody does that. But it does happen. I've started just giving them off the wall, random answers to "Why don't you eat meat?" if I can tell that they're gonna be all crazy about it. "Oh, I don't eat meat because my grandpa married a chicken, so they're related to me by marriage. You don't eat family, man!"

I watched "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" on Netflix a couple of days ago. Getting a Breville juicer off of Amazon this Friday. I started my juice fast today though using Odwalla and Naked Juice juices. I didn't want to wait.

What impressed me most was not the weight loss, but the health from the autoimmune disease. I have Lupus which is an autoimmune disease and am dreadfully tired of the pain and fatigue.

I just went through a bout with cancer, and fell off the vegan wagon for a while. But now it it time to get back on and regain my life. I feel like I have a new lease on life and am going to juice for a while and get healthy and balanced and move forward.

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I just watched this film. At first I thought it was sort of lame.. maybe the first 5-10 minutes. Bad animation and a lot of repetition. It's a little unbalanced as a documentary, and I was confused why netflix recommended it to me so highly. It was Phil's journey at the end that's truly inspiring. I totally forgot about the australian guy at that point, I just wanted to see him wear that yellow shirt!! Really inspiring stuff. I just asked to borrow my mom's juicer.. autoimmune diseases are common in my family. I can't wait to start!