I'm really, really excited for this juice feast. I've got my nut milk bags, my Vitamix is all ready, I have a refrigerator FULL of greens, but...no supplements. Yet, at least. I'm debating about whether or not I want to include supplements in my Juice Feast. On one hand, I feel like they're totally unnatural and in no way necessary (except for zeolite!). At the same time, I feel like supplements might be beneficial if you take into account the fact that my diet for the first 20 years of my life wasn't really "natural" at all anyway.
While I never really ate a lot of dairy growing up, I ate a fair bit of meat until I began eating a predominantly vegetarian diet in 2000. Once I made the switch to eating vegetarian, that meant tons of soy, artificial meat products, and PASTA. I cringe thinking about what I used to eat. I could go for weeks at a time eating nothing fresh at all! Sure, I ate lots of veggies..but they were mostly frozen with the exception of an occasional salad or carrot sticks.
I really started hitting salads hardcore my junior year of college. That was right before my transition to raw foods, when I had cut out most of the wheat in my diet, and was eating tons of beans and veggies. I was drinking about a gallon of water per day at this point. I felt and looked great, and the ball just kept rolling as I tried new ways of eating...macrobiotic, vegan, vegan with lots of raw food, organic, no processed foods...I'm really quite pleased with the transition.
My journey so far has been fantastic! I've made some incredible food, and met some incredible people who've inspired and motivated me to be where I am today. I might take some time later on to describe them and their influences individually in later posts. I think it'd be an interesting tribute.
Wish I was there. :)PS: My alfalfa babies started sprouting! I'm soo excited to have a fresh, delicous sprout salad. Yum.
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