Juicing: Day 2

I went to bed around 11pm last night, which is much earlier than I usually do. I generally have a lot more energy this late at night (probably from eating bigger meals, later at night) so never quite make it to bed earlier than 12am-1am. But not during this cleanse; I was definitely feeling low on energy and decided to hit the sack earlier than normal. When I woke up this morning, I had a LOT of trouble waking up. I was extremely tired, even though I got about 8 hours of sleep. Not good since I had to juice still.

Breakfast (8am): 1 Apple, 4 Pears
Because I was short on time, I decided to just make a simple juice that required little prep. Plus, mornings should be heavier on the fruits anyways, so I made this one and got a little over 20oz of juice. Tasted great, as you can expect, but it's essentially sugar.

Lunch (12:30pm): 1 head of broccoli, 1 cucumber, 4 carrots, 4 stalks of kale, 1 red bell pepper, 2 apples
The apple and pear juice from the morning actually powered me through quite easily until lunchtime. I actually had a friend over for this one so I made a bit more than usual. This probably made closer to 32oz of juice, and the combination of the sweet produce (carrots, apples, and bell pepper) really blended nicely with the greens for an all around satisfying lunch drink. Luckily, my friend enjoyed hers as well.

Afternoon Snack (3:30pm): Orange and Carrot Juice
I forgot to make an afternoon snack and I was reallly starting to fatigue and get that "cloudy" feeling back. Luckily, there's a Jamba Juice across the street and I called to ask about their purported freshly squeezed juiced. I confirmed that the OJ is 100% freshly squeezed oranges, and carrots freshly squeezed so I decided that it would be a good snack for the afternoon. And it was; definitely freshly made in front of you, but for $5 for 16oz, I'll just make it at home where I can spend less than half of that on organic ingredients and get more juice.

I had to stop by Whole Foods again on the way home to pick up some more fresh produce for the rest of the week and probably weekend. I spent another $40, so that brings my total up to $90; that should be enough to last me about 5 full days of juicing. At around $20/day

Evening Snack (7pm): 1 Apple, 1/3 Pineapple, 6 Strawberries

Wow. This concoction was more like a smoothie than a juice, and it was amazing! Definitely recommend this one since it leaves you pretty full and satisfied. Good thing too, because I was definitely getting really tired and the mental cloudiness was back with a vengeance, and I was feeling a headache coming on, too. But after drinking this one, I was back to normal for the most part. I even had enough energy to get some work (grading) done which I was able to focus on to get finished before making my "dinner" juice.

Dinner (9pm): 1 Cucumber, 1 Broccoli Crown, 1 large Kale Stalk, 1 Red Bell Pepper, 2 Apples,  1 Tomato
Another good blend. I was apprehensive at first to throw in so many different fruits/veggies, but the end result was a refreshing juice that contained lots of different "things" that are good for me. I ended up going to bed around midnight without feeling too tired.

Day 2 Summary
Looking back on the day, I probably juiced too many fruits. I'll scale that back for Day 3 and utilize a vegetable heavy juice for my afternoon snack so that I'll have 3 vegetable rich juices and 2 fruit rich juices to wrap up my cleanse. I did get 11 different types of produce, so that's always a good thing to see. Let's see how Day 3, the last day of this cleanse goes.