Hello fellow health lovers,
It's been a while since I've been able to post, however I am still going strong on this interesting game of life alteration.
In the last month I have made two new additions to my life. The first, and the most painful, was a kickboxing class. Although the instructor of this class is bent on making every movement as painful as possible, I have never realized the sheer joy of beating the snot out of inanimate objects (a.k.a. the kickboxing bag).
Now the second thing is what I would like to focus on: Juicing. The odds are that if you have randomly (or not) found your way to this small, inconsequential blog about a lifestyle that is not very well known, you have at least heard about the juicing craze that is starting to make it's way around the health conscious circles. Juicing, in it's simplest form, is when you take fruits, vegetables, roots, and herbs, and send them through a juice extractor. The extractor then chews the food to a pulp (no pun intended, it just happened all on it's own), and sends the fresh, delicious, juice to a nice little container that makes for easy drinking (Okay, complete bunny trail, I'm watching Shaun the Sheep which is an Irish claymation, and they totally just used a segment of a song from Disney's version of Sleeping Beauty...). Anyway, long story made short, last week I purchased a juice extractor off of Amazon, and have been using it almost everyday. You would not believe how amazing the juice is, trust me, you have never tasted juice until you have it straight from the juicer.
Alright, just to make my intentions on this post clear, I am not saying that you should go the rout of Joe Cross with his Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead mentality. I do not think that juice is a suitable replacement for solid food. With that being said, I would normally never have a bowl of carrots, cucumbers, and celery in the morning, but with juicing I am able to enjoy ingesting what I normally never would. My body gets an easy-to-digest health boost, and I am more satisfied throughout the day with the solid food I do eat. I honestly think that for the rushed individual (or family) that may not get the chance to eat the amount of fruits and vegetables that would be considered the necessary amount for a well balanced lifestyle, juicing is the most efficient way to go. So if you get the chance, look into it sometime.
Now, last but not least, I am posting a juicing recipe that I made the other day. A lot of the recipe's I have found thus far have included things that are not supposed to be on my initial phase diet, which means quite a bit of tweaking. So far my favorite has been just plain carrot and celery juice, but for the ones who need a little less of a vegetable flavor the following recipe is pretty good if I do say so myself.
3 large adult carrots
1/2 cucumber
2 granny smith apples (even if your juicer says it fits whole foods, it might be a good idea to cut these down)
7 or 8 strawberries
1 knob ginger root
Enjoy!
