PECAN JUICE!!!

OK....well not really pecan juice but i had to tie it in with my blog somehow right? :)  Well i know its a bit late for Thanksgiving but i wanted to post my pecan pie recipe so those that have asked me about it can make it themselves.  I've been making these for YEARS and i've added and changed a few things to make it what it is today...those that have tried it know how frickin' awesome it is...lol.  The recipe itself is pretty basic but its the extra steps i take that kinda set it off.  So here are the ingredients you'll need.  This recipe will make enough for two pies since pie crusts come in two's.  I haven't tried making my own crust yet but that's on my to do list.  Go ahead and preheat the oven to 350 degrees while you get everything ready...

Ingredients:
1 cup Karo Light Corn Syrup
1 cup Karo Dark Corn Syrup
7 eggs
1 3/4 cup sugar
4 tbsp butter
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups pecan halves
2 deep dish pie crusts

Go ahead and mix up everything except for the pecan halves...it should look like this:

 

Now what you need to do is STIR the pecans in, dont MIX them in or you'll chop them all up...it should now look like this:

Ok so now go ahead and get some foil and cut it into strips like this...about 2 to 3 inches wide...you'll need about 4 strips...
 

What you're going to do is fold the strips in half and then line the edge of your pie crust with the foil...just pinch it onto the crust as you go around in a circle...usually takes about two strips to cover each pie.
 

Here's a close up of what the crust will look like with the foil on it.  What this does is prevent your crust from burning.  It will still brown just fine, but it wont burn on you...trust me i've made this a thousand times and it works!!!
 

Now give your filling another stir and then SCOOP it into your pies...if you pour it then you'll get more liquid than pecans in the pie...scooping makes sure you get the same amount of each into your pies, this is what it should look like...
 

Here's a closeup of how much to put in your pie...do NOT put too much or else it'll spill over as it cooks...the filling expands and even balloons up but will go back down when the pie cools.  Try not to get any filling on the foil if you can because it can cause problems later...i'll explain in a bit.
 

Now put both of your pies on a cookie sheet in the middle of the oven...again by putting a cookie sheet on the bottom you will keep the bottom of the crust from burning and allow it to cook evenly.

Now here's the KICKER!!!  The pies will be in there for at least 50 minutes...when it gets close, check on the COLOR of the pecans on top...when they get to a shade just lighter than how you want it to look in the end, place a sheet of foil OVER the pies in the picture...do not fold them down just place it on top.  What this will do is keep the top of the pie from burning while still allowing the pie to cook.
 

Go ahead and stick a toothpick into the middle of the pies towards the end and when it comes out clean you're done.  It doesn't have to be completely clean, if it comes out with the filling stuck to the toothpick that looks like a gel or jelly then you're good, it'll stiffen up as it cools, what you don't want is for it to still be liquid.  Once the toothpick comes out clean go ahead and take your pies out to let them cool.  Now here's one last important tip...take the foil off of the crust BEFORE it cools.  If you accidentally got filling on the foil and you end up letting it cool, the foil will stick to the crust, and that's no fun, trust me...but if you take the foil off right as soon as you take it out of the oven, you wont have any problems with it whatsover.  If ya followed my recipe to a "T", your pie will come out looking like this:

See how the crust is not the least bit burnt, yet is still browned and crispy...same goes for the top of the pie, nice golden brown without any black pecans on top...and YES that is my pie, i promise you its not store bought!!!
 

Now you might ask yourself what's the difference between my way and other ways?  With my way your pie wont come out looking like this:
 

 

Pie all burnt and dried up...who wants to serve that at their table...not me!!!  So there you go...there's "Big Los' World Famous Pecan Pie" recipe..., it took me a while to convince myself to post it because its been my little secret for years...but feel free to try it out and let me know what you think!!!

Banana What!?!?

OK so I'm trying to use up the last of my fresh fruit that I stockpiled when I went with my sister to Costco.  So I put together this juice that starts with my base vegetables I tend to use and then mixed up the fruits to get the taste I want.  I got lazy yesterday and didn't feel like making juice so I bought a 32 ounce bottle of some off brand juice to try it out...it tasted the same as the Naked Juice but was about $2 less...which is pretty good.  Theirs had a bit of a banana taste to it so I decided to go with that.  The color of the drink may not look too appetizing but I promise you its really good.  I could have thrown 1/4 beet in there to change it to a reddish color but i decided to leave it as is.  Here's what this one has in it:

9 red apples
3 oranges
3 carrots
3 cups spinach
8 cups of red grapes
4 cups crushed ice
2 bananas

After juicing everything I ran it through a strainer to take out any extra pulp that was in there, I'm not too crazy about pulp myself.  After you strain it, add your crushed ice and stir till its almost gone...and boy lemme tell you!!!  You can taste the hint of apple and grapes but has a predominantly banana taste to it...bananas carry a lot of flavor, but its not overpowering, just right I'd say.  This yielded about 130 ounces of juice or almost 9 servings...so it should last me and my wife about 3 days.  If you are really interested in juicing I strongly recommend you try the recipes I've posted on here.  If you've never juiced before and you just start throwing stuff in there you're not gonna be please with the taste and might possibly give up on juicing all together, which i don't want anyone to do.  I post these recipes because i want others to have a positive experience with juicing.  and if your juice doesn't taste good, you're not gonna keep doing it...you have to like the taste to be able to get you through the 10+ days you may be doing!

On a side note, this is the container I'm using now for my juice..its air tight, dishwasher safe so its super easy to clean and holds 32 ounces with is two servings for me, enough to get me through my work day.  I got it at Academy for like $10 which I think it is well worth it.  It may look like a squirt bottle but its pretty hard so you don't have to worry about crushing it if you throw it in your bag.  Hope yall liked the blog...lemme know if you try this one and what you think of it!!!

Frozen WHAT!!!???

Ok well i've heard and read that frozen vegetables and fruits may actually be better than fresh...which to me was totally the opposite of what I thought.  Better in that they pack more nutrient-packed than "fresh" produce that has been sitting on shelves and because frozen is typically going to be cheaper...which for some people can mean the difference between juicing and just trying something else.  So I started googling around and read quite a few articles on it and the consensus does say frozen can be better...here is a little blurb I got from one of the articles...I chopped out all the extra stuff to give yall the Cliff Notes version...

  While canned vegetables tend to lose a lot of nutrients during the preservation process, frozen vegetables may be even more healthful than some of the fresh produce sold in supermarkets.  Fruits and vegetables chosen for freezing tend to be processed at their peak ripeness, a time when—as a general rule—they are most nutrient-packed.

  While the first step of freezing vegetables—blanching them in hot water or steam to kill bacteria and arrest the action of food-degrading enzymes—causes some water-soluble nutrients like vitamin C and the B vitamins to break down or leach out, the subsequent flash-freeze locks the vegetables in a relatively nutrient-rich state.
 
  On the other hand, fruits and vegetables destined to be shipped to the fresh-produce aisles around the country typically are picked before they are ripe, which gives them less time to develop a full spectrum of vitamins and minerals. Outward signs of ripening may still occur, but these vegetables will never have the same nutritive value as if they had been allowed to fully ripen on the vine. In addition, during the long haul from farm to fork, fresh fruits and vegetables are exposed to lots of heat and light, which degrade some nutrients, especially delicate vitamins like C and the B vitamin thiamin.

So now I am going to start looking for places to buy frozen produce in bulk.  This SHOULD drastically cut down on how much it costs to make these juices and allow me to stock up on more of them so I have more of them available to experiment around with if I'm feeling a little bit brave.  I'll do some shopping around and let yall know what I find!!!  Thanks for stopping by!!!

JUICE THIS!!!

Allright this juice is a variation of the Summer Punch recipe I posted the other day.  I'm trying to get to the point where I can do all my juicing on one day and have enough to last me the week.  This took me about one hour to do from the very beginning, taking everything out of the fridge, to the very end, everything all cleaned up and put away.  When you think abou tit, its actually pretty good because i don't have to worry about making any meals (for myself of course) for the entire week, its super quick, easy, and really good for you...what else can you ask for.  Oh and for those that can't believe it, these juices ARE very filling...believe it or not. 

I went to the Fiesta grocery store over in south side to check it out today.  I usually go to El Rio Grande off of I-35 and Berry because they have the best fruit and cheapest prices, but i have been going to new stores looking for the bigger and better deal...well i found it today.  Fiesta, I would have to say, has the BEST fruit at the cheapest prices I have seen so far...I bought all kinds of stuff, and not only did I spend less than do when I shop at Albertsons and Walmart, I actually spent less than when I go to El Rio Grande.  People say that juicing is expensive and so thats why they dont do it, but here are the numbers that I see when i do MY shopping.  I'll use Albertsons as my baseline since that's where I started shopping first...when I went there I would spend about $160-$180 a week on groceries...change that to Walmart and my bill drops down to about $120-130 a week, NOW to El Rio Grande and my grocery bill dramatically dropped to $100-110 a week.  Well today I was expecting my bill to be around $100 because I went crazy on the fruits/vegs because of all the sales they had going on, well when the lady told me my total I was shocked...$86!!!  Now THATS awesome!!!  

So I brought all my stuff home and wanted to put together another juice that had about a 50/50 mix of fruits and vegs...and dont just assume that just because it has fruit in it, that its not good for you...a lot of these fruits have benefits of their own, other than making the juice sweeter and visually more appealing...so here's what this juice had in it:

6 large carrots
2 LARGE broccoli crowns
3 cucumbers
1/2 head of cabbage
1 medium beet
1 1/2 pineapple
6 large red apples
30 strawberries
3 cups red grapes
3 cups black grapes
6 cups crushed ice

Well believe it or not this was enough to make a little over 2 1/3 gallons of juice...so lets do the math.  2.3 gallons of juice is roughly 294 ounces.  Say you are drinking 16 ounces per serving, which is how much I drink...and that gives you around 18 servings.  Depending on how much juice your body needs a day you will more than likely need between 3 and 5 servings per day...I would say in the beginning your body will be soaking it up while its detoxing so say 5.  Right now I'm drinking about 3 a day...so this would be enough juice for 6 days...not too shabby ay?  Well this is what the juice looks like when I'm all done with it...

I want to try another one so if anyone has any suggestions as far as main fruit combinations let me know and I'll add the vegs that it needs and tweak it until I feel its just right...thanks again for stopping by and make sure to share this blog with your friends!!!  See yall later!!!

Juice or Smoothies???

Which one to pick???
Ok well a friend of mine asked me why would I pick juicing over smoothies...because with juicing you are throwing away quite a bit of pulp...and instead of putting a really long post on FB I thought it would be better to post it here...here is my OPINION as to why juicing is better than drinking smoothies...

"I say they are two different animals all together.  The one big difference being the smoothies are filled with pulp/fiber which will make you feel fuller a lot quicker than a juice...and because of the amount of pulp in a smoothie, it takes a lot longer for all of the "good stuff" to get into your system because your body has to digest the smoothie before it can extract whatever it needs. Also you will feel fuller, longer with a smoothie for that same reason, you body takes longer to digest it.  With juice its already in a liquid form so your body more quickly absorbs everything, which is why with a juice, you'll have to "go", 20 or 30 minutes after you drink it...the body grabs what it needs and then passes the excess water through your system.

The other advantage of juicing over smoothies, in my opinion, is that is serves more as a "reset" button for your body.  What I mean by that is once your body realizes that its not going to get more solid food, or "quick energy" it starts to metabolize its stored energy, or the fat, that you have for what it needs.  This is another reason why you'll feel more tired in the beginning, your body has to work harder to burn up the fat, to use as energy...whereas before, you were just providing it to your body, albeit not very GOOD energy, but energy none the less.  With juicing you're not starving your body, you're not forcing your body to do anything.  Your body is going to do what it was meant to do...which is store "energy" in the way of fat when you have an excess of it, and burn it up when your body needs it.  You are still pumping your body full of nutrients with the juice, so its getting essential vitamins that it needs...but has to go to its "reserves" for everything else.  Whereas with smoothies, you're still getting a lot of fiber and other nutrients in the form of pulp, which your body is having to digest to use it as energy.  If your body is having to process the food you're taking in, it isn't going to "need" to have to metabolize the stored energy in all those places we wanna get rid of.  This is the "reset" button that I am talking about.  

I think smoothies would be good at MAINTAINING your weight because you still get all the fruits/vegs you need as well as the fiber, all in a very natural way.  But as far as shocking your system and getting it to burn up what it has, i feel  you have to give it that kick in the pants it needs.  I'm not saying you cant lose weight with smoothies, but I think you will lose it quicker by juicing.  Now again this is just MY opinion...so take it for what its worth...hope that answers your question... :)

7-Day Juice Fast...

Ok so today I started day one of my 7-day juice fast.  This time I’m going to try a couple things different.  I’m going to mix up my juice so that I’m getting about a 50/50 mix of fruits and vegs instead of the green juice from before.  Also, the first time I cut out coffee straight up and man it made me super tired, so I brought coffee back in on the last two days and saw no negative results from it, so I’ll still be drinking coffee in the mornings and two to three servings of juice throughout the day.  I weighed myself on the scale we have at work and I’m starting this 7-day juice fast at 145.5lbs which is a lot less from when I started the first time (161lbs).  So I don’t expect to have any problems reaching my goal of 20lbs in the next week, and since my body is used to the juice I shouldn’t experience any of the side effects I did the last time, but if for some reason I do, I’ll make sure to let everyone know. 

The good thing about juicing is it is very forgiving, from what I can gather.  After I came off my original 10-day juice fast I have been eating regular dinners and lunches on occasion and I have been able to still lose weight, albeit not as much as before…but if all I have to is drink one juice for breakfast/lunch a day and still eat normal at night and not only NOT put on the weight but still lose it, WITHOUT having to exercise…shoot I’ll take it!  Heck I’ve been eating burgers and fries, pizza, shoot last night I had some wingstop with some of those awesome fries they have…MAN!!!  Ooo it was good!!!  Name another diet that lets you eat like that and still allow you to lose weight without having to exercise!  Well I’ll keep those of you updated on what kind of results I have…should be a very interesting week!!!  PEACE!!!

Summer Punch Baby...YEA!!!

Summer Punch...
Ok so Edwin, my co-worker that first introduced me to juicing, started a 10 day juice fast yesterday and now I'm thinking I wanna do it again to.  I weighed myself earlier and I'm down 15.5 lbs from when I started, and I KNOW my 20lb goal is very attainable but I wanna get there as quick as I can.  I'm starting to see the OUTLINE of six pack people and its inspiring me even more...yea crazy huh...not necessarily the outline of THE six pack...you cant see the 6 blocks, more like A six pack...i.e. one big block...but hey the outside is there, just have to work on the inside right?  :)  

Well being in a rush to watch the Chargers vs Chiefs, I hurried up and threw together a quick juice from my notes and added my base vegs to it.  It came out REALLY good, probably one of the top two juices I could drink all day long.  I liked it so much after I made it, I doubled everything which netted me about 90 ounces of juice (about a gallon and a half)...which if you're drinking 15.5 oz at a time, is about 5.8 servings.  Here's what it has in it:

4 large carrots
4 cups spinach
2 large broccoli crowns 
1/2 beet
40 small/medium strawberries
1 pineapple
6 cups of red grapes

As you can see its got a lot of vegs in it but I can promise you, you cant taste any of it in the drink.  I think this time around I am going to drink my fruit/veg juices instead of just straight veg juices like I did last time...it should net the same results just as long as the drinks aren't TOO sweet.  Hope yall try this one, definitely worth it!!!

Tropical Sunrise

Tropical Sunrise...
Allright, this one I got out of Edwin's book of juice recipes, here's what it has in it:

2 red delicious apples
1 papaya
1 mango
1 kiwi
1/2 pineapple
1/2 pint of raspberries
2 cups crushed ice

Ok with these fruits it gets a little tricky...with the Papaya and Kiwi I went ahead and quartered them and then used a filet knife to separate the fruit from the skin.  The mango is a tricky son of a gun...once you start cutting into it, it starts to fall apart so you end up wasting a lot of juice on your cutting board and not the juicer...so here's what I did.  Get a potato peeler and use it to remove the skin from the mango, don't cut it up quite yet just treat it like you would a potato.  Then use the same filet knife to cut the fruit away from the seed...its ok if you skin the seed a little, the juicer will be able to handle it.  Keep cutting off chunks of fruit until you're left with just the seed.  This is the way i've been doing it and it works pretty good so far.  You can also put it in the freezer JUST FOR A LITTLE BIT, enough to firm it up..that way the juice is somewhat frozen and won't go all over the place when you cut into it...just dont forget you have it in the freezer.  The pineapple is pretty straight forward, just slice it up the same way you would if you were just going to eat it...and the raspberries just rinse them off and throw them in the juicer...hope you like it!!!  Even though this is all fruit you can add a few vegetables to it to make it a little healthier...

Berries!!!

Berries!!!
Ok this is the first juice made on my own, well not totally on my own.  I got this from a bottle of Naked Juice, they put their ingredients on the side of their bottles, I went and got some from the store and juiced it up myself.  The only difference is I juiced everything except the berries, I blended those in because I wanted to keep the skin from the berries in there...supposed to be really good for you...that's what you're seeing in the pic.  Here's what it has in it:

30 Blueberries
3 Blackberries
3 1/4 Green Apples
1 Banana
2 cups crushed ice

Remember that green apples are a bit more tart than the red ones.  So when you're making your juices, if its not as sweet as you'd like replace the green apples with red ones...same thing goes for grapes.  Oh and bananas don't juice very well, you CAN do it but it comes out more like paste :)  So if you want a thicker "juice" just blend the banana in instead of juicing it.  It'll also make you feel fuller because its going to thicken up the juice.  The only thing about bananas is that, from what I've read, the juice won't keep very long afterwards.  I juiced mine and drank it the next day and it was fine...I just wouldn't chance letting it sit there for three or four days myself.  My wife really liked this one a lot...said it didn't taste like ANY of the other ones I made...which I didn't know if that was supposed to be a compliment or what.  So if yall try this one out let me know what you think of it!!!  

And then came the juice!!!

Green Juice!!!
Ok so here is the green juice I drank for my 10 days.  I tweaked the original recipe a little bit for my liking.  Here's what it consisted of:

1/2 head of cabbage
1 cucumber
2 stalks celery
1 1/2 cup spinach
1 thumb size of ginger
3 green apples

I did this for a few days then I would add a fruit to it just to change it up a bit.  Edwin liked to add lemon to his and give it a citrus type kick, which knocked the veg taste back quite a bit so if you like lemons add half a lemon to the above recipe.  I'm more into the fruit stuff so i would add half a watermelon or cantaloupe or red grapes or red apples or pineapple.  Just play around with it if you want and find something that tastes good to you.  Just make sure you don't put TOO much fruit in it...the objective isn't to drown out the veg taste but to just give it a hint of fruit.  The juicer that yall have been asking me about is the one in the pic above.  Its a GE wide mouth juice extractor sold at Walmart for like $49.  One thing I'm doing now that I didn't before is straining my juice after I juice it.  Juicers don't remove 100% of the pulp, and I've never been a fan of pulpy juices...lol, is that a word, so I'd run it through a strainer twice and its a lot better to me.  There is nothing wrong with the way it came out of the juicer, it was just more of a personal preference for me.  As far as the green juice, I promise you it tastes a lot better than it looks, and after a couple of days your body will start to like it.  If you want to thin it down more without adding water, throw in a couple more green apples or cucumbers.  They have a LOT of water content and don't change it much in the way of flavor.  And remember the colder the better, if you try to do this and your juice is semi-cold or room temperature you're not going to like it...if i'm going to drink it right then and there after juicing, i'll add 1-2 cups of crushed ice to it and it'll be good to go.  Otherwise just put it in the fridge overnight and keep it refrigerated when you get to work...hope that helps!!!

Before I started to juice...

A little introduction...
Ok so lets start out how I got into juicing.  I would always see one of my co-workers (Edwin) drinking a glass jar with green juice in it. I always thought it looked kinda gross and one day asked him about it.  Then came a flood of information, I could tell immediately he was very passionate about juicing.  I later on found out he himself did a 45 day juice fast and lost well over 30lbs doing so.  Me being the curious type asked question after question after question.  I had been wanting to lose weight for a long time but with my schedule I hardly had time for myself.  Most if not all of my time outside of work was spent on the kids or the house...let alone time to go work out or go running/walking.  So for me I needed something that would enable me to lose the weight without having to exercise much, if at all.  Another condition I had was that I didn't wanna change my eating habits because once I came off the diet I'd just put it back on.  Then I realized I was the way I was BECAUSE of my eating habits.  I watched the movie Edwin recommended...Fat, Ugly, and Nearly Dead.  You can find it on Netflix.  It is a story about a guy that does a 60 day juice fast and loses TONS of weight, and it practically saved his life.  Very inspiring and very informative.  If you're really looking into juicing I suggest you watch this movie first, it'll answer a lot of your questions and answer some you may not have had. 

My previous experience...
I tried different kinds of diets in the past, one's I've heard about and ones i made up...and none of them seemed to work.  I guess I needed someone to be able to relate to, that inspired me to achieve the same kind of results THEY did.  I've tried the magic pills that are supposed to up your metabolism and help you burn fat but they seemed to only get rid of excess water and not really the fat.  I always seem to have gone through phases...where i can see myself putting on the weight and didn't care, then eventually I'd get to the point where I would see myself in the mirror and not like what i saw.  And I would attempt to lose it but it would come back and the cycle would repeat itself again.  Well after seeing what Edwin accomplished and seeing as how I HATE vegs and this would probably be my only chance at getting the vitamins and nutrients my body needed, i decided to give it a shot! 

Juicing 101...
I'm sure you can google juice diets and fasts and get the real background on what they are what they do but this is what I my interpretation of it is.  It's strictly my opinion and may or may not agree with what others say.  I feel that we live in a society where everything is processed and has tons of fats and carbs in it that we don't necessarily need.  I was a straight up meat and potatoes kinda guy and my veg intake at its best consisted mainly lettuce, potatoes, corn, stuff like that...I never liked anything that you'd truly consider a veg. Before your body can start to burn up its "fat reserves" one of two things need to happen, either you need to up your metabolism which tells your body it needs to start using up its reserves, or you can force your body to do it by limiting the amount of food you are taking in.  And forcing is a strong word, your not really forcing your body to do anything, its gonna do what its supposed to do which is store it and use it as needed.  This is not like a liquid diet where you just drink broths and clear liquids of different sorts, when you do that, you're body is not getting the stuff it needs to function, that's why they don't work.  By eliminating solid foods all together and replacing it with 100% natural, vitamin and nutrient filled juice, you're telling your body..."ok here are all the things i need to function, anything else in excess of this you're going to have to get from wherever you stored it".  This in my opinion, is why the juice fast works.  You're replacing all the nasty junk food, fast food with fruits and vegetables...so your body WILL go through a bit of a shock when you start...which leads me to my next topic...

What to expect...when you're juicing... :)
Ok so you've decided to juice, you're determined to do it and hopefully I've inspired you somewhat to get into it, because if i can do it...I promise you can.  Now keep in mind not everyone is going to lose the same amount of weight. But then too remember that you have nothing to lose, if anything you're eating a healthier diet and your body can only thank you for it.  Don't expect to see huge results overnight, although you will be seeing them daily.   For the first couple of days, usually 3-4 days your body will go into shock because you're changing EVERYTHING that your body has been used to, which is a good thing.  You may experience a few side effects of juicing in the beginning but i can assure you they will go away.  From what I've heard, these are the side effects you may experience in the first few days...hunger pains, headaches, diarrhea, and drowsiness.  Not this may not be a full list but these are the things I've heard people personally having that have tried it.  If i haven't scared you away yet let me first say none of these side effects are as bad as they sound.  The diarrhea you MAY experience isn't the kind of explosive-i need to make a fast break for the restroom- kind you sometimes get, you'll feel the urge to go just like normal.  The headaches I experienced were slight headaches, not head pounding ones.  If you've ever worked on your yard when the sun was out and came in and got a headache, this is the kind i had...it wasn't unbearable, but you could kinda feel it.  The drowsiness comes into play because your body is starting to use a lot more energy because it now realizes its going to have to work harder to get the energy it needs by converting the fat into usable energy instead of getting the ready made-unhealthy kind its used to.  And the hunger pains you get are just the normal ones you get when your body needs to eat.  The whole purpose of the diet is to ONLY drink the juice and water, and an occastional coffee or two (we've tested this and it doesn't seem to have a huge affect on the juice fast).  No matter how tempted you may be to eat something solid, don't do it...not even a sunflower seed!!!  Just remember and keep saying to yourself, "If I cheat...even a little, I'll only be cheating myself...and I deserve better than that!"  Once you get past the first couple of days you'll be fine.  You can be around food, see food and smell it and WANT it but you won't crave it like you did before...so be strong no matter what and you'll get through those ten days.  Shoot i feel like i've been rambling on forever, sorry but i've never felt so passionatly about something before and i truly want to share this with others so that THEY can have that same feeling about themselves and hopefully pass it on to others.  So feel free to share my experiences, and your own with everyone you know, and if you want to share my blog site with others, by all means do so.  I'll be posting more details on my Juice Fast here in the next day or so, so please check back often...thanks!!!

Ok...Lets Go!!!

OK I tried another blog hosting website earlier and I didn't like it one bit.  So I'm off to the second one, hoping it'll work better.  I figured it would be more beneficial to have a page dedicated to those that are interested in reading all about my Juicing experience without having to filter through all my FB posts, because yea i know they can be a bit lengthy :) 

If any of you have any questions what so ever about what I'm doing or what I've done please don't hesitate to ask, I'll answer all questions 100%, it may take a day or two but I promise I'll get to it.  I'll post what I've gone through, where I plan to go and any juice recipe's i run across or make along the way...I'll start off with some background tomorrow because its a bit late right now, please feel free to post any questions or whatever you may have here...good night all!