I'm On To Something!!!

Stepped on the scale this morning and what to my wondering eyes see but a digit that didn’t begin with the number three! I finally broke into the two hundreds. I looked down and saw 297lbs! Now that means I am down 38lbs.

I am excited to say the least but it has not been all fun. Last night I considered throwing in the towel but through encouragement from my wife and decided to look at it through clearer eyes today. Something about seeing a number in the two hundreds breathed new life in me. I have more determination than ever.

Since I began Juice Fasting eight days ago I have lost 17lbs. This short journey has brought me to a completely new way of thinking about how I eat, what I am eating and the amount I eat.

If I can survive on juicing kale, cucumbers, green apples, ginger, celery and carrots why do I need massive amounts of food at every meal? Not only am I surviving but I have more energy, I am sleeping really well and I have a renewed mental clarity. Spiritually speaking brand new revelatory sense has emerged. With that being said, the way I have lived my life in regards to my eating habits have been complete wrong. It isn’t so much about what I need to eat to survive as it is about what I don’t need to eat.

The other thing is that due to a back injury in 2008, I usually have to take prescription pain medications as well as muscles relaxers two to four times every day. Since the fast began I have taken them once…ONCE!

My conclusion here is that if am feeling better and thinking clearing and not having to ingest drugs to maintain then I must on to something! It is all about how I eat.

My life is changed forever.

Thanks for reading.

More tomorrow,

Retro Rudy

I WANT TO EAT SOMETHING!

This had lost its luster. I WANT TO EAT SOMETHING!

It’s day eight and I am not having as much fun as I was. Of course watching three hours of the Food Network didn’t help. I am craving not hamburgers or pizza but Cha Cha salad from The Co-Op and couscous with vegetables. It isn’t that I want to eat unhealthy food, I just want to eat something…chew something. Plus I have come to a complete stand still on the weight loss. Losing a few pounds a day made drinking my green concoction of doom worth it.

I guess I only have six days to go.

Well, I just poured my last glass of Mean Green Juice.

Thanks for reading. Bon Appetite!

Retro Rudy

Milestone One

This morning a milestone has been reached. Today I weight 300lbs for the first time in years. Today I have officially lost 35lbs, 15.8757 kilograms! That’s over 17 quarts of fat! In comparison, 35lbs is the weight of approximately 4 newborn babies or 6 chicken fryers! According to internet sources it takes 17 packs of Jello to make 35lbs of Jello, which is enough to feed one hundred people!!!

I am 35lbs down, 85lbs to go to reach my goal weight of 215lbs.

I started the change my lifestyle on January 15th this year. I changed what I was eating and how I thought about eating. It took 40-days for me to reach my first milestone. I am celebrating today with a “Mean Green Juice” and water, water and more water. I am proud of myself.

Next milestone is 275lbs!

Thanks for reading!

Retro Rudy

Day 3 isn't so easy.

Okay it's the end of day three and I am not feeling so hot. I ache all over and I feel like I have the beginning of a flu. Slight headache and I may have a fever. I feel hungry and nauseated all at the same time. The good thing is I'm committed and the last thing I want to go is go out and eat a big greasy cheese burger...in fact I don't feel like ingesting anything at all. So I drink water...lots and lots of water with my juice and I'm doing okay with that.

It looks like the detox process is hard core. I've have never done anything this radical before. I hate the way I feel but it is interesting to me. My skin is oily, I have a nasty film in my mouth and I go pee 20 times a day! My joints are sore and my muscles hurt. It's the dioxins being purged from my body. It is really cool and worth it! In a way it hurts so frigg'n good!!!

Well I'm calling it a night. Tomorrow brings another day of being healthier!

Thanks for reading.

Retro Rudy

So It Begins...The Juice Fast

I started a juice fast yesterday. This came after changing a few mind sets to prepare for consuming nothing but fruit and vegetable juice. The past three weeks I have eaten only fresh food eating mostly vegetables and fruit. Almost no bread and practically nothing processed. I did this to prepare for the Retrofit. In the process I dropped 16 pounds and when I stepped on the scale yesterday I was 314 pounds.

The only thing I have been eating is "green juice" and water. The juice consisted of kale, celery, cucumber, green apples, lemon and ginger. I drank 64 ounces of the juice and around 4 quarts of water.

Much to my surprise, I made it through the day with ease. Even when people were cooking and eating dinner.

Today is the end of the second day and I feel great so far. My energy is up and I feel amazing. This morning when I weighed myself I was 310 pounds! Down four pounds in a day! That is very encouraging.

I think I am beginning to detox a little because I am getting a slight headache and I am noticing a little bit of acne on my face. I didn't realize I was going to have to reenter puberty to get healthy!

There is the update... thanks for reading and your encouragement,

More later!

Retro Rudy