I have lost and gained and lost and gained weight over the past months.  I put on 8 pounds during my holiday which I am very fed up about.  So, I decided to go on a 5 day juice fast by following Jason Vale’s 5lbs in 5 days plan.  I have the app, which is really good and was intending to start at the weekend but having weighed myself last night, I decided to get cracking today instead.

I began the day with a hot water with half a lemon squeezed in it. I checked out the garden while I sipped it to see what had happened during my holiday. Not all good news unfortunately.  The lettuces had bolted, The courgettes have become marrows, the sunflowers have drooped. The trombetti triffid is taking over the veggie patch! The trombetti themselves are huge! At 10am I had a ginger shot made with half an apple and a chunk of ginger. It doesn’t make much juice but it certainly wakes you up. I didn’t have all the ingredients I needed so I foraged what I could from the garden.  This tragic looking thing is a cucumber! I juiced 2 apples, my weird cucumber, chard leaves and stalks, celery, ginger and pineapple. It made 500ml of juice and wasn’t bad.  I was meant to blend it with an avocado but I didn’t have one but I couldn’t go out, partly because I was working from home but also because I was waiting for a delivery. I had none of the veggies required for the lunch juice but I did have the ingredients I needed for one of the day 2 juices so I just swapped.  To make a juice called ‘Ruby Tuesday’ you need beetroot and I had a whopper – look at the size of it compared to the egg I sat beside it for scale! I chopped up everything I needed to make my juice; carrots, beetroot, pineapple, ginger and basil.  Chopped up because the masticating juicer I have been using, which did make lovely tasting juice, required the fruits and veggies to be cut up quite small which was a real bore. Before I could juice it my new juicer arrived 🙂  Ta daa !! So I washed the juicer and used it for the first time.  It was incredibly fast to use and very quick and easy to clean afterwards.  The Ruby Tuesday wasn’t bad either. I finished working at 6pm and took the dogs over the road for a walk to get some exercise in.  I then prepared the ingredients for the ‘Turbo with a Kick’.  I made extra so Lara and Harvey could have some too.  The quantities for one person are;

2 apples
1/4 of a pineapple
1 handful of spinach
1/2 a lime (peeled)
1/2 a stick of celery
3cm chunk of cucumber
1 cm chunk root ginger
1/4 medium avocado
1 small handful of ice cubes

To make this lovely drink you juice everything except the avocado and then blend the avocado with the juice.  Absolutely delicious and I am very pleased with the new juicer.

I literally consumed only what I photographed and am just going to get a mug of herbal peppermint tea.  No coffee, no tea and no food.  I feel OK which I am surprised about as I thought I would miss the tea and coffee, but no, I have no withdrawal symptoms at all.   Tomorrow I will do day 2 !