I am on Day 5 of a juice detox. Not a morsel of food has entered my mouth since Sunday night and I am not even hungry. This is my seventh time doing this program. I have gained and lost the same 25 kg nearly three times in the past five years. This is not a reflection on the effectiveness of the program but rather me getting pregnant. Let me just say, you do not really know a person until they do a juicing detox. All the refined sugar, caffeine, alcohol, food addictions and general gunk that we all use to pep our personalities up, giving us false energy to survive yet another day …. take that away and see what is left. A quivering wreck in panic mode. So when I am going through my 72 hour withdrawal period I tell myself: imagine what state I would be in if I didn't do this juicing detox before every season, but rather it accumulated years upon years. What state would I be in then physically? Mentally? Tis the stuff of nightmares. I then pick my one year old up who weighs exactly as much as I want to lose and then feel the relief when I put her down again. That is how I will feel all the time when I lose the weight. Lighter. Freer. I will be able to run with the deer instead of scaring them away like an elephant.
Actually, I would go as far to say, you probably don't really know yourself until you do a juicing detox. When I started there was no way I thought I could do a juice detox. I quite simply did not have the willpower. So I spent a lot of time looking and making excuses; protein, calories, calcium, elimination “issues”, hyperglycaemic, high blood pressure etc. But I literally just sucked it up and did it. The transformation went way beyond the physical. I may have lost weight but I gained determination. Confidence. Self belief. Will power. I could see clearly those who were supportive and encouraging in my life. Detoxing gets rid of lot more than just excess weight and impurities. It makes you mentally and physically stronger. The exact same recipe for becoming a runner.
So when I finally run a marathon you will not see me chomping on any energy bars but rather finding some kind soul handing me my juice. But for anyone who is already at that level and wants to learn more about juicing and running specifically this is a fantastic free guide by someone who runs marathons and juices http://www.juicemaster.com/running-on-juice
PS – Big juicy Hello to all my fellow juicing detox people doing the program via Facebook. First time I have done it with 10,000 other and must say it is really beneficial knowing we are in this together.
