Day 28

Juices ready for today (though we didn't drink them yet):
1 qt h20, lemon, 1T msm
2 qts celery, cucumber, spinach, carrots, pear, turmeric, cilantro, garlic
1 qt grapefruit, tangelo, lemon, 3 T E3live, 1 T msm, 2 T Udo's DHA oil, 1 T grn superfood
1 qt apple, kale, romaine, dandelion, lime, ginger
1 T bee pollen
zeolite, additional h2o

Jill: so sorry for the few days absence! We unintentionally ended up taking the weekend off from blogging. It all started on Friday afternoon when, for lack of a better way to put it, I got completely PUNKED at my studio. Maybe a better word would be POISONED. Some woodworkers in the building were on a tight deadline finishing up a furniture order and so, against building rules, busted out the power sprayer and were blowing varnish into the enclosed air of the building. Now, I am chemically sensitive anyway (my own fault as I used to do this kind of spraying and using of nasty chemicals in my previous life), but with the building pretty tightly closed because of winter and all the gaps sealed around the windows, these fumes choked up the air really intensely. I didn't know what was going on, just minding my own business and working in my studio, when I suddenly got walloped by a massive headache, nausea, etc. I went into the hall and could immediately smell the spray. I got them to stop, but the damage was done. Had to get out of there as soon as possible, though I stupidly tried to first finish what I was working on. Anyway, maybe it's the principle of when your body gets cleaner you feel the new toxic stuff more strongly (I can only hope this is the reason!), but this was the worst reaction I've ever had. I was on the couch drinking glass after glass of water, just desperately trying to flush the system, feeling like crap until bed, and then a bit still in the a.m. until after some rebounding and more water. Ugh!

It was a weekend of physical crises for me, as the OTHER thing that happened is that I decided to switch my oils back to Udo's DHA instead of the hemp and coconut recommended by juicefeasting.com. I have no argument with the logic of taking hemp oil over flax for most people as we must all be getting an awful lot of Omega-3s from the 2 lbs per day of greens, and we (Jack and I) are taking 3T apiece of E3Live every day (which we have been doing for a few years), but nonetheless I could feel that my brain was needing something more. I can't explain it, but I was plagued my whole life by bad depression and the thing that cured it was going on high doses of flax oil (which I eventually switched to Udos for the DHA). Jack has done a lot of research on this stuff because of the psychotherapy work and originally helped me figure this out. So, when I started feeling this relapse I chalked it up to "detox" and then as my body continued to feel better and better, but this particular quality of despair and sadness began to feel bizarrely recognizable (it is different from "sadness" that connects with actual life and is one that has been gone for the several years since I started on the Omega-3s) I just decided that I need to modify for myself. Maybe I have extra high needs, maybe the fat that my body is breaking down knocks things out of balance, I don't know...

Anyway, feeling better now! That was such a lot to report that I'll stop for now. Thanks for the comments and will respond to specifics later - I hope all the rest of you juice feasters had a great weekend and are doing well!!! Lots of love from me and Jack.

Just a quick disclaimer: I am not recommending to anyone else that they switch out the oils they are taking as hemp oil is appropriately balanced for the human body between the necessary types of fats. & David Rainoshek has clearly done a tremendous amount of research and created the juicefeasting program with a lot of care. I am sure the recommendations there are the best for most people and my own experiments are just my own.