The Juice is Loose!

I have taken on the habit of juicing at least once a week.  I just started last week so it's not like I've really been dying of hunger or can really say it's a habit yet but it's definitely something I'd like to add to my diet more often.  For those who aren't aware of juicing yet, it's basically taking a lot of veggies and fruit and sticking it through a juicer and replacing meals/snacks with juice.  Some people do it as a cleanse where the point is that your system isn't actually digesting anything so it's supposed to cleanse your body of toxins or something...I'm not a nutritionist, doctor, or any other profession that fully understands how this all works but either way, for a couple of days you drink nothing but this juice.  I haven't made it past a day, but I also haven't really tried.

To start, I went to the store and purchased a bunch of fruit and veggies, preferably organic.  My purchase consisted of:

kale

spinach

mangos

pineapple

apples

pears

cucumbers

kiwi

lemons

carrots

cellery

blueberries

Our friend was nice enough to give us her juicer so we were finally able to put this to use.  The process is so easy.  Just put whatever you want in the juicer.  The only things I peeled were lemons, kiwis, mangos, and pineapple.  I cut the ends off of the cucumber and carrots and cored the pears and apples.  I didn't use everything but made enough for about 8 juices (around 160 ounces).  I mixed and matched the combos making sure to use spinach, kale, blueberries, celery, and carrots to each batch.  A lot of people add ginger but I chose to leave it out.  Lucky for me, we buy pickles in huge jars from Costco.  We had recently finished one jar and had been wondering what we could use it for and now I know.  It holds all the extra juice perfectly.

I know it doesn't look delicious, but it's surprisingly not bad.  Of all the reviews I have read and people I've talked to, everyone seems to really enjoy this juicing process.  I choose to juice once a week during the weekdays because it's the day I don't go to the gym.  For me, that's Monday.  People always say they feel they have more energy and aren't hungry.  This was NOT true for me at all.  I was STARVING all day! I don't know how people do this for multiple days.

Update: I start week 2 of my weekly juice today.  Last week, I ended up juicing for 3 days, but with the 2nd and 3rd day only during the day and then eating dinner.  I was still hungry the entire time.  I left out the kiwis for today's juice because I feel like something about them made my throat hurt so we'll see if it makes a difference.  I decided to eat what felt like 5000 calories yesterday so we'll see how starving I am today =/