Juice Fast Day#1

In truth, this first day wasn't so bad.... Even though breakfast food is among my favorite food groups, breakfast is a meal I generally force myself to eat, because I usually feel better for having eaten. And so consuming a juice made with nectarines, mangoes, carrots, grapefruit, apples, and honey dew melon wasn’t an exercise in torture, heck I even felt full. Lunch time rolled around and I was just starting to get hungry, so I had my really healthy juice: it was made from spinach, cucumber, broccoli, celery, granny smith apples, and half of a lemon. Again, I was quite full. A few hours later, however, I found myself fantasizing about a spoonful of peanut butter, and that was just the beginning; I was having rapid fire cravings, usually that’s when I head into the kitchen to cook, but this time the cravings just kept coming more rapidly and with an ever increasing amount of force. By the time dinner rolled around I was feeling pretty week, especially in the face of the amazing smelling the left over BBQ, potatoes, and beans from last night. I was offended that my girls didn’t finish every scrap on their plates, as I would have done if it had not been for my guilty resolve. Cold turkey is an abrupt ride for a carnivorous food addict like me; I just hope it is all worth it or that BBQ brisket will haunt me months from now.