Juiced
blogMy best Christmas present this year was a juicer. Easy to set-up, quick to produce juice, and seemingly very efficient; I have also never felt better (drinking juice) than I did after my first experiment with orange, carrot, and red pepper.
This morning I had orange, clementine, tomato, carrot and celery, which was just okay. Tonight, instead of drinking myself into a stupor, I will be drinking watermelon, kiwi, blackberries, and apple juice. Laura thinks that the health benefit I feel might be psychosomatic, but it feels pretty somatic to me.
A part of me wants to take it all too far and go on a raw juice f(e)ast, like Steve Pavlina did a couple of months ago. In his case the effects were not very benign at all and he seemed to be quite unhappy by the end of it. The thinking is that by consuming nutrients in juice form your body doesn’t have to spend as much energy digesting heavy loads of fibre and cellulose. Just think what you could do with all that energy. Well, if you’re Steve Pavlina, you might want to write lengthy articles about self-development. Hmmm.
Tonight I am going to be eating caviar, writing poetry, and watching Die Hard. Hope you have a similarly fantastic start to 2009!