juicy day 22

today has been beautiful! i got to see my two brothers wes and casey, sisterabby and dad today! it was so wonderful to connect with them, and i look forward to spending more time together with them next monday or tuesday! love them so much, they're all beautiful people. i also talked with my grandmother, inez! she is just so loving! hope to see her, my uncle, aunt and cousins in august too! the friday explosion is healing so well, and so is the torso spot -- thanks to some gse spray that gaya lovingly gave on fri. just so happy about this body! school is going great, stayed in my office till 4 doing work. also bought some major produce! thanks birthday gift certificate from inez!

jucies!
1 qt: cuc, celery, romaine, kale, ginger, lemon
1 qt: cuc, celery, spin, green pep, garlic, jalepeno, greeeeen powder (yes! i love!)
1 qt: celery, kale, romaine, jalepeno, tumeric, celtic sea salt

bee pollen, honey, hemp oil, gse sprays

lovelovelove

day 21! celebrated 3 weeks with gaya!

i feel so lucky and joyful this weekend! gaya came to visit, and we got to spend our 21 day juicing anniversary together! i got a special day 21 gift of a full body massage, and i can't express how wonderful it was, in manymany ways! gaya also helped me to begin cleaning my apt friday, which is really helping me during my cleanse! thanks, beautiful! friday morning a huge boil popped up, and i had a really hard morning. amazingly, it got bigger and came to a head naturally throughout the day. a sign that my body is healing itself quickly and effectively! it (haha) really started um healing while gaya and i were shopping at the coop on friday (in one day -- a first!!); and while it was not the most comfortable place for such a healing event, it was wonderful to release the way i did! gaya and i had a great weekend, juicing together was great, and she juiced for me all of saturday!! (you can see her blog for exactly what we had :) ) today, after being treated to a massage, we made a quart and a half of green juice together:

cuc, celery, arugala, cilantro, basil, lemon

and then pizza juice!!! yummies: spin, jalepeno, romaine, arugala, onion, basil, garlic, tomato and tomatillo scrumptious!

my friend claudia's birthday party was fun, and the pizza juice really helped me not crave the authentic mexican food that they served!

after returning home, i realized i had to get some more veggies to make my last juice:

cuc, celery, romaine, lemon, garlic, spin, ginger and watercress. it was kind of difficult to drink, but i really felt a pick me up afterwards.

vive le 21eme jour!!! vive l'amour et le jus vert!

juice feast day 17 and 18

this juice feast is bringing so much to me, i'm so happy to be doing this for myself, my body, and my future! i had two revelations yesterday. first, that green juice is the chambord of champions (see pic), and secondly, after a hard and painful realization (see sad pic), that i need to bring this cleanse and purification, this act of love, to my whole self. i am taking control, putting order in my professional and creative life. grounding myself here (though my roots were, are, so joyful with my love!). i look forward to the good productivity that will soon come to me in my life, i envision myself being the best emilyrose that i can be. and that's fucking beautiful! i also blissfully see sharing that best emilyrose with gaya. (let's be honest, babe, you're the only one reading this. i choose to be sappy and express my love to you here! so i'm sad not to be physically with you in the near future, but so happy to be with you!) i had two low blood sugars today, one during class. so i'm contemplating cutting down my lantis for the first time. how exciting! my juices have been green and beautiful!! here's the lovely and rich produce that feeds me the past two days!

cuc, celery, lemon, ginger, spinach, dino kale, romaine, watercress (yes!)

i'm just finishing my third quart of today, made it to three and a half yesterday. i'm too exhausted to write the blood sugars. off to sleep blissfully. i am filled with joy, overwhelmed with love! and have added an element to a certain mantra: cleanse, purify and EXAMINE thyself.

juicing 16!

it's been a long day, having taught (though with a 2 hr break) from 9h45 to 2h45. oy! went to trader joes and got some lovely produce, including some live watercress, which i'm really excited about. won at cards again (wootwoot!) and had a good but intense conversation with a dear friend. despite some emotional letdowns today, as well as a high bs this evening, i am feeling good on the feast. actually drank 4,5 qts today! amazing!

juices, 3 1/2 qt: celery, cuc, dandelion, collards, romaine, grapes (high blood sugar!), lemon, ginger, cilantro
1 qt: celery, cuc, romaine, lemon, ginger (lots!mmm!)

supplements: gse, garlic in an interesting place....., bee pollen

on a closing note, i feel an enema is due. dammit all i know i'll feel better, so why not just do it? larry david in curb your enthusiasm has a similar moment that cale reminded me of today: "get a colonoscopy! everyone does! just get one!" nighty night!

15!

hi everyone! i'm juicing but lonely here! when i went to the local coop to get romaine and kale (mmmm) today, an artist had built like an 8 foot tall sandcastle to celebrate the coop's anniversary. it was awesome. teaching was good today, got lots done at school -- and enjoyed my bus rides around town....no car today! i wish walking places weren't hindered by the fact that i live off a highway. oh, and i won at cards today! pinnacle, much more complex than setback yesterday. i got 4 quarts down today, but i'm tireeeeed. here's what they had:

1st 3 qt: dandelion, cuc, celery, collards, ginger, lemon
qt 4: dandelion, cuc, celery, collards, ginger, lemon, kale (dino!), red romaine.

lovelove sleepies

day 14! two week mark!

i'm so happy that gaya and i have made two weeks of our lives gloriously green and juicy! i had a beautiful connection with my body friday night, i know that it was because of the juicing. i had a headache behind my right eye all evening, and while watching a relaxation yoga session i decided to try something. placing my palms first over my eyes and letting the muscles drop down, i applied pressure around my eyes, going where my body called me to go. it was such a powerful feeling i had, a real communication with my body! amazing! and then, after about fifteen minutes my fingers traveled to where my brows meet my nose. as i moved up to my lower center forehead, i felt a warm joy (a strange pleasure that is difficult to describe) rush though my body. i smiled with joy, and a split second later realized that i had felt my third eye. i really feel that my body is thanking me for taking care of it by juicing, and that my mindbodyspirit was calling me to continue doing so despite some economic issues i'm facing. i felt such joy and peace within myself; and i continued to touch my face, falling into a relaxation that led to a deep sleep.

i've been treating my body to lots of sleep this weekend, which i know it needs! i've had ups and downs (just a few), and besides missing my juicing partner terribly i'm quite happy. this evening my blood sugar is high: 212. emrose forgot to give herself insulin for the juices today. don't know what she was thinking! i won both hands of cards (setback) i played with my friends today, haha! manhal (not even myself!) called the green juice responsible.

9h00 fbs 106 (30 lantus)
9h45 1 qt green juice (they're all the same today. need to go to the grocery tomorrow!):
cuc, celery, cilantro, ginger, lemon, dandelion, collards
nice long nap!
4h00 1 qt green juice
8h00 1 qt green juice
9h30 bs 212 (3 novolog)

sweet dreams of green!

juice feast day 12!

greetings of green! it's been a long but beautiful day, i'm tired and looking forward to some much needed sleep. i've not experienced much pain today but have a headache right now, concentrated behind my right eye. damage to the eyes is a common complication of diabetes; however, my doctor always says my eyes are clear of any diabetic complication. i wonder if there is something hidden back there that is healing? i can only hope. i am still releasing infection from my open wounds, always wonderful. and now little bits are emerging from pockets of existing ones, maybe the cause of their not being fully healed until the present. i also had some emotional release around 9, remembering vividly emergency room experiences from when i could not stand the pain anymore of wounds so impacted with infection i could not move or function normally. these memories were painful to relive but joyful in their release. i expect more. and happily :)

8h00 fasting bs 89 (30 units lantis)
8h30 1/2 qt green juice: celery, cuc, dandelion, lemon, few grapes, ginger
10h00 (while teaching! weird to experience, but it was calling to my body, my body was calling it!! qt of first juice: celery, cuc, dandelion, lemon, grapes
12h30 bs 179 (2 units novolog)
4h00 1 qt green juice: celery, cuc, dandelion, cilantro, lemon (damn, forgot ginger!), sea salt (1 unit novolog)
10h20 bs 127, 1 qt green juice: celery, cuc, dandelion, ginger (lemon got to me today, couldn't take any more!) beeeeeee pollen!


making my last juice i realized again (i do so every day, but deeply today!) my love for cucumber, celery and ginger! i am loving life! today i got to catch up on some juicefeasting.com videos, enjoyed angela's about loving juicing so much she wanted to keep doing it. i feel that way, it's going to be hard going back to solid foods. but i know i'm eventually going to get used to it, and love eating raw. i will still start my days with a green juice. makes me feel wonderful, and my body remembers the love and joy of sharing morning green juices with gaya during my first experience of rawness! it was beautiful to share that with her, i'm eternally grateful for her love and guidance, for her introducing me to raw, green, loving nutrition. to loving my body, to offering it acts of love -- green love food and loving touch. i leave you tonight with this verbal offering of love thanks to beautiful gaya. a demain

day 11

it's been a while, my friends. the juicing has been on, and my life's been busy. after a sad and painful departure, i return to chapel hill -- and since have been revisiting many connections with people here. all have been extremely positive, and most people very interested in my juicing (especially my friend jackie, who i feel may become my yoga pal/guru here in the hill -- yes!). i had a great experience today teaching the first class of my summer school session of french 2. what fun, it went very well! i felt quite at ease, on target, had fun with my students -- and we connected well for the first day. i'm really looking forward to being able to challenge myself, to explore my teaching at this time of transformation for the most positive! and with boundaries set pretty much only by myself i know i can be fully in my power. i feel and know that this will be a great experience! also got really positive, quite flattering and inspiring feedback from my mentor hassan today on some recent writing. i'm so inspired now to write and to teach!

my grocery experiences here have been good, though expensive -- oy! my friend manhal lent me a great blender! it's slower with a few intricacies but i'm quite happy with the green vibrancy of my juices. the first sip overwhelms me these days with a rush of happiness! love and thankfulness from my body! it's quite powerful and intimate, this connection with my body through nutritive juice! i can't wait to explore it more!

the most notable bodily transformation is the expulsion of toxins through my skin. a major goal of mine for this juice feast is to heal existing and preclude future skin problems -- essentially boils produced by a melange of toxin buildup in my lymphs and large/underdeveloped folical ducts. they're painful, tolling emotionally and keep me from my full potential as a teacher and a student. this release/expulsion is fascinating, gross, wonderful all at the same time. small bumps are trying to release toxins on my scalp, which has in the past also been a problem area for such infections. it's beautiful, so cleansing, feels so incredibly pleasurable and painful at the same time!

my blood sugars have really stabilized -- i'll post specifics in the future! with only 2 in the 200s, it has been under 160 since i left! tuesday i drank 3 1/2 quarts of juice, yesterday 3 1/2 quarts, and today i made it to 4! yay! here are my ingredients (mmmm!):
celery, cucumber, lemon, ginger, romaine, kale, collards, dandelion greens, spinach, grapes! (just a few!)
must say i miss the vitamix a little. miss gaya and juicing with her very much. i also miss making juices for g! putting love, thought, delicious green together for her was really special for me. i can't wait to do it again!!

love joy clarity green surround me, entrance me, envelope me.
a demain

Day Eight

Sharted this morning. it was not awesome. By the sea quenc of photos at the right, my amazing state of emotional fluidity is well-noted.

7:00 MSM water with lemon (1QT)

7:20: bloodsugar 231

8:45: 271

12am: 119

Green Juice:

cucumber, celery, fennel, kale, romaine, lemon, ginger, cayenne, sea salt

*1/2 QT at 11:30

*1QT at 2:45

*1QT at 6pm

Supplements:

probio's, gse, n-zimes, vit c, green pow, bee pollen, psyllium/bentonite shake, Arise n' Shine herbs

yay! Day Seven

Felt good most the day. 

June 15, day's juices (1Q):

1) cucumber, celery, dino kale, ginger, cilantro, parsley, lemon, probiotics, vitamin c, enzymes, gse, cayenne, sea salt

2) celery, spinach, cucumber, ginger, lemon, 1/2 carrot, green pow

3) bee pollen, 1/2 left-over #1, 1/2 unfinished #2.

4) salsa juice: tomato, onion, garlic, jalapeno, celery, romaine, spinach, lime

Blood Sugars:

9am: 119

3:30pm: 149

9pm: 76

2am: 226

Juice Feast Day Five and Six

I'm so tired. Rough night, but awesome mornings today and yesterday. Really enjoying making the juices. Loved the palpation Gaya gave to my feet and legs today; that truly helped me. Really liking chewing bee pollen, even more than the oil. Blood sugars are better: 109 at 1:30, and 200 at 2am (now), for which I just took 2 units. Yday at 6:30, I was at 60; 2:30, 212, 4 units; 4:30, 45. As for juices:

June 13 (Yday):

1) Celery, romaine, lemon, cilantro

2) Spinach, celery, lemon, kohlrabi, cabbage, parsley, green pow, cilantro

3) Spinach, dandelion, celery, lemon, parsley, ginger, burdock

June 14 (Today):

1) Romaine, cucumber, lemon, ginger, spinach, dandelion, lemon

2) Cucumber, celery, romaine, dandelion, lemon, ginger, parsley, green pow

3) #2 left-over, bee pollen, ginger, celery, cucumber

Supplements:

B12, MSM with lemon to start day, True Radiance C, Genuine N-zimes, Primal Defense Probiotics, Barlean's Omega Twin.

See Gaya's post from yesterday about the awesome concert we attended! 

Days Three, Four and the origins of my cleanse

though it seems like a lifetime ago, in december i had never heard of raw foods, consumed meat and dairy (though loved veggies and only ate meat when someone else prepared it), and smoked toooo much. since then, and thanks to gaya i've discovered the beauty and vibrance of raw food, green veg juices, and not smoking -- yay! yesterday was my third technical day of juice feasting, though i had a good preparatory fri sat sun, eating raw hummus fri and sat and frisee with olive oil and sea salt (i couldn't help myself -- sooo good!) sat and sun. i think it's helped me, but it's weird to be in a slightly different place than gaya in this feast. i'm loving it, despite the rough times!!

yesterday was a muuuuch better day than day 2. woke early, had msm water and made gaya's juices, saw her off to school, then skin brushed, shower with hot/cold/hot/cold/hot/cold!!, and put bentonite clay on some skin issues i'm having. i'm really looking forward to their disappearance soon!! oh and two enemas, though to my chagrin all i got was black water -- didn't eliminate at all day three actually. thanks to some senna tea last night and herbal laxes this morning i have and it feels sooooo much better. expect to be a poop monster today....

woke with low blood sugar day three (61 mg/dl) and today (67 mg/dl), mostly because i've had high readings in the evening (day two soir 241 day three soir 261) which are frustrating to me! took 5 cc novolog each night, which backfired i guess!! at 3h30 day three my bs was 231, so i took 4,5 cc novolog to counteract it. i guess these juices have a higher glycemic index than i am thinking? why is my blood sugar continually high? in addition to the novolog for caloric intake and bs adjustment, i take 30 cc lantus every morning.

day three, 3 quarts green juice: 1 stalk celery, 1 medium cucumber, collards, dinosaur kale, 2 lemons, baby romaine, parsley, 2 carrot, garlic, jerusalem artichoke

shared quart of salsa juice (mmmm) with gaya, though it raaaaaised my bs: cherry and grape tomatoes, cilantro, cabbage, celery, parsley, lemon, yellow onion, cayenne, sea salt, garlic powder and chili powder (don't know if the last two are verboten or not)

was in pretty good spirits day three, though got a little down around 4h30. had bee pollen, flax oil, green powder, enzymes, walked the boardwalk at 5 and then round 10 with gaya, very nice :)

day four, 3,5 quarts green juice: 2 heads celery, 2 lemons, 1 med carrot, kale, spinach, parsley, cilantro, burdock root, jerusalem artichoke, onion, aloe, cabbage, cayenne

6h45 fbs 67, 1 tbs raw honey, 30 cc lantus

9h00 quart 1

12h00 1/2 quart

2h00 1 quart

4hoo blood sugar 297 whhhhhy?! headache, feel sugar in blood but lethargic, 6 cc novolog

5h30 bs 167 1 quart juice

made a last juice of celery, lemon, cilantro and romaine at 9h, but just sipped it, will drink tomorrow!

probiotics, green powder, bee pollen, enzymes, barlean's, probiotics and camomile tea!

feel great going to bed, a demain!!

Juice Feast, Day TWO

salut!  today was a rough but good day juice feasting, woke with a fasting blood sugar of 191, had a green juice that beautiful gaya prepared; then a small parsley, cucumber and lemon juice round 2.  had a hard time at the grocery though, lusting after the produce -- berries were on sale, i wanted the red peppers and zucchini, and the sprouts displayed were killing me :)  later i prepared a juice of carrot (really wanted to chomp them while preparing), kale, collards, lemon, cucumber and celery!  had a little more then a liter, bringing my juice consumption total to probably 2.5 to 3 quarts today.  my blood sugar is 201 now, which is enervating, as the only glycemic things i've had today are 1 carrot and a bit of bee pollen.  hope things will be better tomorrow! ciao

Juice Feast, Day ONE

i'm juice feasting with gaya! with type 1 diabetes since age 4.  Currently, I have lower blood Sugar, 73 mg/dl at 11:45 pm. so in lieu of words, here's a video documenting the day!  love, EmRose (another raw woman warrior!)  

Craving of the weekend:  Nut/Seed pate dehydrated, wrapped with strip of raw zucchini.  :+)