Day 3

One of the first side effects I was warned about were headaches.  Yesterday one hit me around 9am and plagued me for the remainder of the day and all through the night.  I read that the headaches are brought on from lack of caffeine, which might be true for me since I usually have 2 Monster Energy drinks by lunchtime every weekday.

I went home again for lunch yesterday to make my juice and visit with my beautiful woman.  I don't make my lunch juice before hand because I read that the juice looses a lot of nutrients if it isn't consumed 10 - 15 minutes after juicing.  This may be a load of crap, but the information came from Jack LaLanne and he looked pretty darn good up until the day he died last year, so who am I to second guess.

My lunch juice consisted of:
4 carrots
1 beet, greens included
1 apple
1/2 lemon

I'm sorry to inform you that creating that recipe was a mistake.  I managed to choke down the whole glass, but I swore I would never do a whole beet plus the greens again.  The only thing that tastes more like dirt than a beet is dirt.

My lady and her son had a good laugh watching me fight the gag reflex while drinking that nasty thing, so at least someone was having a good time.  Actually.... we were all laughing in the kitchen after I made my juice, because we were watching my woman make herself a juice and she jammed so much stuff in the juicer that it got lodged in the little in-feed tube.  I told her that she had to go slower because this thing is a juicer, not a wood chipper.  We were all laughing so hard our eyes were tearing.

At the end of the day we had another healthy dinner last night consisting of boneless, skinless, chicken breast on a bed of spinach leaves with a very small amount of tariyaki sauce (15 calories) for flavor.

DAY 3
I weighed in this morning as soon as I got out of bed and emptied my bladder.  I now weigh 250lbs.  That means I've lost 4.6lbs in two days.  I would say that such a large amount lost in such a short time is simply water weight, but since I started this diet I am drinking WAY more water than I was before the diet, so technically I should have more water in me now.  Anyway, the weight loss has gotten me a little more enthusiastic about what I'm doing.  If you only knew how many times I've said to myself "screw this juice diet. I'm getting a pizza".

I didn't sleep super great last night.  The headache kept waking me up, but I felt like I slept better than I have over the past two days.  The headache is still with me this morning, but it's really dull and I believe it will subside completely before today ends.

Last night I went to the store and got a few more ingredients to liven up my juices.  I picked up some more apples, some ginger, a few bags of grapes (green and purple), and some mint.  So far the rest of my supplies are holding up.  I bought my carrots, spinach leaves, kale, beets, etc. in bulk at Costco.

For breakfast this morning I had:
2 apples
1 large handful of spinach leaves
1 thumb sized piece of ginger
4 carrots
3 sprigs of mint

It tasted pretty good.  It was still as green as fresh cut grass thanks to the spinach, but it tasted good nonetheless.

I am still not having any problems in the bathroom.  I think that perhaps having the small healthy dinners of boneless, skinless, chicken breast are keeping everything solid.

So far I haven't started any kind of light exercise regimen, but tonight I plan to walk my dog for a decent distance and Thursday I am going to buy "Your Shape: Fitness Evolved" for my Xbox Kinect.  I downloaded the demo a few days before starting this diet and it seemed like a really good exercise tool.  Plus it has gotten some fairly nice reviews by fitness experts online.

So this is day 3.  So far, so good.