Global Juice Feast Day 36!

I Love Maca!

Juice Feast Day 36

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we got up and made six quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, romaine, spinach, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, carrot, and yam. We also made three quarts of orange and pineapple, one quart of watermelon lemon, and two of grapefruit garlic. (Phew! I added a LOT of garlic to this baby! David says he has garlic coming out of his eyes! I liked it.)

DAVID:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 3 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 6 QUARTS

KATRINA: 3 QUARTS GVJ, 3 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 6 QUARTS

Added to juices: MSM, bee pollen, Vitamineral Green, maca, Flax/DHA oil, hemp oil, spirulina, and Kelp Granules.

Also taken: Vitalzym, MSM, Break Stone Tea (AKA Chanca Piedra), and water.

Your Questions:

I have been concerned since the beginning of my juice feast about eliminations. I do not have them unless I do an enema. How many times can you enema safely? I have been doing organic coffee and I alternate with water about every 2-3 days. I wonder, has my body built up a dependency on enemas as it has done with laxatives? In the past, when I was much younger, I abused laxatives. I have stopped using laxative some years ago. Do you think that It could be constipation and that is why I am unable to do it on my own? I'm kind of afraid to start using laxatives again.

Tuliza

We Say:

Hello Tuliza!

Doing a Juice Feast is one of the best things you can do to get your digestive system running well again.

Doing daily enemas for your Juice Feast will not hurt you, and you can safely do a daily enema for the duration of your Feast. Once you begin eating solid foods again, you should find that things work very nicely, as long as you stick to fiber and water rich, raw foods and get exercise!

I doubt that you are constipated at this point in the Juice Feast. I too am not having very many spontaneous BMs, and have been using enemas almost daily. I have suffered from constipation in the past while eating cooked foods, or even over eating too many nuts on raw foods, but after my first ten day Juice Feast I found that this was no longer! My digestion has continued to get better and better as I go along with live foods, and so I am not worried about the fact that I am not having much come out while Juice Feasting! That isn’t to say that stuff isn’t coming out, cause it is! Just not with out an enema. Again, don’t worry, once you add fiber back into your diet, things should be running like a sleek express train again.

There should be no need to use laxatives if you are doing enemas, unless you are experiencing detox symptoms such as headaches, nausea, etc.

Enjoy your juices!

Another Question:

So guess what?? I am back on the juice! Well, I have not being feeling good about the way in which I kind of haphazardly transitioned back into the solid food world and I want another chance to set things right. Nothing feels worse than having made it through the thick and thin of 30 days and then not stick the landing! So, I have decided to go back in time, juice for at least another three days to undo the past and then try again. Any suggestions other than the prunes to transition with. I can understand their function (all too well!) but they were too strong for me (gave me non-stop diarrhea and cramps) and also way too sweet (which I think totally through off my blood sugar and lead me to other bad choices). I had a little green energy soup which felt much better than the prunes, so I am wondering if that is an ok alternative in your expert opinions? Practice makes perfect and in this case I think I need to get back on the juicing bandwagon and manifest a more graceful homecoming. Thank you for all your insights, love and support! xxkyle

We Say:

Hi Kyle!!

Great question! We would not advise you to break your Feast on energy soup due to the complexity of it (being made from a number of different ingredients including fats) Instead you could try a simple green smoothie, with greens and fruit. Please see the Juice Feast Breaking protocol for details.

OR you could try some juicy fruit, low glycemic fruits and berries. For those of you reading, this is not a common experience for people breaking the Feast on just one serving of soaked prunes the morning of their Feast Breaking! The important thing is to eat enough to prompt a bowel movement.

I think, as you have laid out in your blog, that is was due to other factors in your day such as being un-prepared, starting the day with a fruit juice, not drinking enough water, eating prunes twice during the day rather than once in the morning, and eating miso soup and flax crackers, that your system got thrown off. The fruit juices that you were drinking on your Feast would have been far higher in sugar than the prunes, and because the prunes have fiber the release of sugar would have been slower into your system.

What you are doing is wonderful. David has had students who have had the same experience as you and he will tell them to do exactly what you are doing. He once had a student eat pizza before properly breaking out of a 92 Day Juice Feast, and as you can imagine the poor guy felt beyond ill. So, he went and did 7 more days of Juice Feasting and then broke out of it properly. I guess he just needed first hand experience of what his new, clean body was capable of doing, such as violently rejecting a pizza, which is cause to celebrate! Remember to check out Day 83 on Juice Feasting.com for an excellent way to eat post-Feast!!

Congratulations on your Juice Feast and enjoy your second Feast Breaking!!

Personal Journal:

Happy Saturday!

We finally got around to introducing Break Stone Tea today, I am drinking a cup as I write. It is good! If you do not have access to the loose leaf tea, you can also get the tincture form of Chanca Piedra! I made a HUGE pot to last a few days since we have such a small kitchen and to use the stove for boiling and simmer tea means we have to give up the cutting board over the stove, which is a large part of our counter space. When my dad came to visit, he asked about the cutting board, “is that so you won’t be tempted to cook?” He is now a well practiced raw foodie, makes amazing dehydrated flax and seed crackers and green smoothies, and is on Day 36 of a Juice Feast!!

I have not yet added in coffee enemas, and am not sure I want to. I guess I should at least give it a try, but I have always been very sensitive to caffeine, and somehow putting coffee in my body ANYWHERE does not feel right just yet. I’ll let you know if I decide to add them in.

We went on a beautiful hike today up into the quiet hills of national parkland. It was so peaceful and quiet, not a sign of cars or humans, I felt like I was floating the whole time on a cloud of bliss.

Love to YOU!!!

Katrina and David Rainoshek

Global Juice Feast Day 35!

I Love Fresh Young Coconuts!
Juice Feast Day 35

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I got up and made three quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, romaine, spinach, carrot, apple, and yam. I also made two quarts of orange and pineapple, and one of grapefruit garlic. David, who did feel so well yesterday afternoon or this morning felt it best to water fast for most of the day, until around 3 o’clock when he made himself some orange juice, and I had some too.

DAVID:

2.5 QUARTS ORANGE JUICE

TOTAL JUICE: 2.5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 3.5 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 6.5 QUARTS

Added to juices: MSM, bee pollen, Vitamineral Green, maca, and Kelp Granules.

Also taken: Vitalzym, MSM, and water.

Personal Journal:

David for the first time in all of his Juice Feasts did not feel like drinking juice this morning. His stomach got really upset after an orange juice yesterday, and so he felt it would be best to try water fasting for most of the day. He feels much better now, and is wanting orange juice again and it has not made his stomach hurt. Hooray!! I think it may have been because he has been mixing his oil in with the fruit juice (which I tried once and it was not good according to my tastes) and so he is going to stop doing that and see how it works.

I am still feeling fantastic, exercise really is the GOLDEN KEY for me and I have been staying consistent with getting some in every day and working up a sweat. I know that I have felt better eating cooked vegan and exercising hard than I have at times eating raw and not exercising. Very, very important. Today I went for a 30 minute walk, did 15 minutes of rebounding, 20 minutes of dumbbells, and 10 minutes of stretching. Yum.

In juicy personal news, I have not been bloating since ceasing to EAT bee pollen and feel so much better over all. As I mentioned I was chewing on about 5 TBS a day, and now I am using only 1-2 TBS in my juices. So far I haven’t missed it, I think I just had to pass that threshold into Juicy Land where I wasn’t feeling the need to chew.

Happy Friday! I hope you all have a beautiful Friday evening!

With love,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 34!

I Love Making Juice!!
Juice In The Making.
All Finished!

Juice Feast Day 34

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we got up and made six quarts of GVJ with cilantro, cucumber, celery, romaine, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, spinach, carrot, apple, ginger, and yam. We also made four quarts of orange and pineapple, and one quart of watermelon and lemon.

DAVID:

2 QUARTS GVJ, 2 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 4 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 2.5 QUARTS FRUIT, and the water from one coconut!!.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS plus coconut water.

Added to juices: MSM, bee pollen, Vitamineral Green, Hemp Oil, Flax/DHA oil, spirulina, and Kelp Granules.

Also taken: NCD, Vitalzym, MSM, Antioxidant Extreme, Ginger, lemon and honey tea, and water.

Rainoshek’s (sometimes daily) Tips:

Remember that your skin eats too!!

Have you begun to notice that your skin is AMAZING!!?? You are feeding it very well from the inside, and it is important to feed it well from the outside as well. I have heard it said that you should not put anything on your skin that you would not also put in your mouth. I agree.

My favorite skin foods are coconut oil (very useful in the dry, desert air) aloe vera, and MSM cream. I don’t use them every day, and will only use them one at a time depending on what the moment calls for. Pre-sunbathing or post shower I really LOVE coconut oil. If I notice my hands or feet look a little chapped, I will use MSM cream. If my face is a little blemished, it is aloe vera all the way baby! I put it on at night before bed, and in the morning almost always the blemish is greatly diminished. I don’t use anything on my face accept aloe before bed time. My makeup is the kisses from the sunshine and life from the greens!

That’s it! What do you use?

Personal Journal:

We were "tagged" a while back by both Terilynn and Courtney. Does that mean we have to share 10 things? (being "tagged" means you have to share five things about yourself that may not be known by your readers) I don’t think so, I think five is good. So, five things you may not know about me are:
(we’ll see if we can get David to add five things too, but he is awfully busy. Just keep watching the videos, you’ll learn all about him!)

1. I was a skilled Tom Boy for several years from around 8-10. I wanted to be a boy SO badly, one of my favorite role models was the Tom Boy in the movie My Life As A Dog who bandaged her boobs up to prolong her years as a Tom Boy. I also felt very strongly that I had been Charles Ingles, Laura Ingles from Little House On the Prairie’s dad, in a past life. I felt like boys and men could be so much more adventurous and strong, they climbed trees, slept in the woods, climbed mountains, rode horses, built houses, hunted for their families, and swam in rivers. Girls stayed at home sewing……funny that I ended up loving to stay home sewing! I learned that this wasn’t true and that I could be just as adventurous as a girl, but I had fun pretending to be a boy. I used to carefully tuck all of my long hair up into my granddad’s old golf hat and the biggest complement I got in this phase was when the fish man handed me a fish my mom had just bought at the market and said “Here you go son!” I was thrilled.

2. I have lived in 30 places in 30 years (I will be 30 this month!) This includes different houses, cabins, tents, and boats in Ottawa, Victoria, Salt Spring Island, Vancouver, Oweekeno, Lasqueti Island, Guatemala, The Sonja (a beautiful wooden sailboat), Montreal, Sooke, and now Arizona. This is only counting those places where I hung my bags for longer than six months. As a child I did not like moving, and created all kinds of trauma around it, leading to WANTING to move around a lot as an adult. I think that because I felt so out of control when I moved as a child, I felt like I needed to get good at it, I had to practice moving until I felt at peace with it, so that is what I have done! I now love moving, and feel that it has been a great gift in my life to have lived in so many different spaces and places. My greatest lesson it this has truly been to create home where ever I am, and that home is deeply where the heart is!

3. One of my greatest joys is to set sail! When I was 17 I set sail on a 9 month trip on the wooden schooner, The Sonja, with my dad and my sister Heather. We cruised down the West Coast of the US, spending a good long time in San Francisco Bay area. I dyed my hair purple while we were on a dock in Sausalito, and felt totally at home there. At this point we were all trying to make some income while we traveled and so I sewed hats (by hand!) and tried busking on the street with my flute, my dad painted watercolors in the park, and my sister busked with her violin. My dad made a lot of money selling paintings of boats to tourists, my sister too got coins dropped into her violin case, but no one wanted funny, hand made hats or to hear a wooden flute. I was not the bread-winner in this story!! We did not end up carrying on with this money experiment, but it was fun while it lasted.

We also spent a nice long time cruising down the empty, white sand beach laden coast of Baja, and then up into the Sea of Cortez, bibbling about among chocolate brown islands, swimming with sealions, writing in journals, playing music, exploring, SAILING! Then it was across to mainland Mexico where we further explored for a time, and then we set sail across the great wide South Pacific towards the pearl necklace of South Pacific Islands, starting with the Marquesian group. I turned 18 in the middle of the electric blue ocean, so warm you could sit naked out under the stars even on the night watch, and on my birthday an iridescent blue Mahi Mahi fish swam next to boat all day long. We tried to catch it for dinner for about five minutes when we realized it was too beautiful to eat and that we would rather watch it swim along side the boat. The islands were a dream, and I really could go on and on about this trip, but I’ll save that for a book. I flew home to B.C. from an airport in Tahiti, thinking I needed to get serious about life and finish high school. I lived with my grandmother and finished high school (grades 11 and 12) in 6 months of self paced education, and realized that all I really wanted to do was get back on a boat. I am still dreaming of the day when that will happen!

4. Before I moved to Arizona, I had a clothing design/sew business called Johnny Now Joe. Everything was made from recycled materials, and was re-cycled, re-cut, re-loved, and re-ally happy! I would go to Vancouver with my pick-up truck, and visit a second hand clothing warehouse where I would hand pick up to 400 lbs of tee shirts! When I first went to the warehouse, I realized instantly that I should never, ever buy new clothes again! There is enough out there to last a very long time. This place was massive, and contained MOUNTAINS of used clothing, all being sorted into different categories (tee shirts, jeans, leather jackets, velvet jackets, silk saris, baby clothes, scarfs, dress shirts, skirts, etc.) to then be sent to Africa and Asia, where they are re-sold. I learned that thrift stores such as Salvation Army don’t make their money from re-selling used goods in their store fronts, but from selling their donated stuff by the pound to warehouses that then sort it and re-sell it by shipping it over seas. This in turn has caused much damage to the traditional textile arts and industries of the countries where this glut of used clothing is sent. There is simply too much stuff being bought and sold for prices that don’t reflect the true cost. I was quite sickened the first time I went there. You really can’t imagine the sheer mass of stuff until you see it for yourself. Most of it was in perfectly good condition, simply replaced by the years latest fashion, or no longer wanted by the owner.

So, I would pick through these mountains of tee shirts all day finding the fun stuff to take home and play with. I love textiles and sewing, and can't wait to get back into it! I still have about 300 lbs of tee shirts waiting to be transformed in storage, along with my four sewing machines.

Here are a few images from a photo shot that was done with early on Johnny Now Joe wear, my sisters, my friends Renee (who was pregnant with a beautiful baby girl!) and Bre, and Ariel took the shots!!









Such good taste in books!!

5.I have always been interested in health, healing, and the human body. When I was 9 I saved up for an “Invisible Woman” anatomy doll and both my mom and dad thought that I would become a doctor of some sort. I always used to choose the damaged toys over the nice ones, and when I was three I picked out a really messed up doll at a garage sale and named her Garlic. I must have somehow known the healing properties of the bulb, and I hope that dear Garlic enjoyed her days with me. I’m glad I got into raw foods and Juice Feasting instead of becoming a doctor!! I would much, much rather see people become responsible for their own health when possible than depend on a doctor, as useful as they can be at times.

There you have it! A few things about me that you may not have known. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them, rolling over sweet memories across the taste buds of my mind!!

I in turn would like to tag Mary, Chaya, and Bronwyn!

Have a beautiful evening!

With love,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 33!

I Love Cayenne!
Juice Feast Day 33

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we got up and made 5.5 quarts of GVJ with parsley, cucumber, celery, romaine, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, spinach, carrot, and yam. We also made two quarts of orange and pineapple, and one quart of orange, carrot and yam, and one quart of grapefruit and garlic.

DAVID:

2.5 QUARTS GVJ, 2 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 4.5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 2.5 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS

Added to juices: MSM, bee pollen, Vitamineral Green, Hemp Oil, Flax/DHA oil, spirulina, maca, cayenne, and Kelp Granules.

Also taken: NCD, Vitalzym, MSM, Antioxidant Extreme, and water.

Your Questions:

Greetings David and Katrina,
Thank you for being on this journey with us. I am so looking forward to the book The Four Means To Get Your Greens. Eating post Juice Feasting is important to me. I had a rough time limiting the nuts seeds and avocados on my 100% raw lifestyle before the Juice Feast. I was wondering about making spinach flax crackers. Will they present a bread addiction problem as you mentioned in the video on carbohydrates? I had just purchased a dehydrator to make my own green powders and I wanted to make green crackers with the powders also.

Blessings,
Tuliza

We Say:

Tuliza,
Thank YOU!! The most common thing for people new to a raw food diet is exactly what you experienced, difficulty with not over-eating the fats!

Until we become re-nourished by all the amazing live foods, and get used to the lighter feelings of live food, we often crave the heavy, cooked food feelings that nuts and avocados will give us if we over eat them. Lots of greens will be very important.

In my experience as a recovered bread addict, flax crackers do not present any problem. It is the wheat that is really the cause of the addictive nature of bread, and as long as you stay away from wheat products, you won’t find yourself falling back in to bread chaos! Remember that wheat contains 17 different opiates!

My testimony of overcoming bread with raw foods:

Before going raw I was working part time in a Viennese Bakery and Cafe, where the most amazing baked goods were all too easy to come by. Not only did I snack at work, but I was sent home at the end of the day with some of the un-sold wares, Mille-Filles, baguettes, sourdough bread, white cloud fluffy you feel high when you eat it bread with a chewy crust and creamy body, multigrain bread, croissants, brownies, hedgehog buns, cinnamon shenekes (like a cinnamon bun but made with croissant dough), lemon tarts, lemon Coppenhagens, seven layer cream cakes, fruit pies, YOU NAME IT!! Not only was my boss a true artist of Viennese fine baking, but she used only butter from New Zealand which has 50% more fat than Canadian butter, because it made the food taste better. The daily soup was made with not just cream, but whipping cream! You can imagine the taste sensations that that place created.

I learned a lot while working there about the addictive nature of un-healthy foods. I was my own best test subject, but I also witnessed people throwing fits when we ran out of their favorite bread, or slumping with depression when we didn’t have cinnamon shenekes left at the end of the day. I also saw people go into strange fits of ecstasy with their first bite of a chocolate hazelnut cream cake, women claimed that the Mille-Fille was better than sex, and people literally squirmed with delight over the baguettes, saying that their toes curled in pleasure!! Wow. People would look at me, even in the state I was in, and ask “how do you manage to stay so slim and work here? I would be 300 lbs if I worked here!” And indeed many of the customers were close to that weight! Talk about food porn!

Needless to say, this is also when many of my worst health issues came to life. I became a sugar/carb addict! I was also working seven hour shifts there as a waitress, serving lunch, and did not get a break to sit down to lunch. I would ride my bike to work too, so you can imagine by the middle of my shift I would be crazy hungry, serving and smelling all that food, running around on my feet, grabbing a bite here and there titillating my taste buds to want even more. I also became so hypoglycemic that I would feel dizzy, shaky, and pissy around 3:00 until I ate a brownie, and then I would feel good again. To make a long, boring story short (sorry if it has gotten too long already), health wise things got worse and worse for me when I finally decided the only way to go for me was RAW!! I managed to go 3 months raw while still working there! (pat myself on the back)

It took me about a year of mostly raw foods to get over bread, to the point where I didn’t think about it constantly, crave it, and have it annoy me. The funny thing was that bread also made me feel sick, leading me to believe I am actually allergic to wheat. I grew up with a mother who made all the family’s bread with hand ground, whole wheat, and I never had a problem with bread before I started eating the white stuff. I have now been bread craving free for over a year, and I can honestly say that I don’t miss it for one second, it was not a nice friendship. I will do my best to never eat wheat again!! Phew.

If I could do it working under such breadish conditions, after growing up with such wonderful bread memories of my beautiful mother leaning over a warm oven, her blond hair lifted by the heat rising out as she removed the tins of fresh, homemade bread to soon be sliced up and spread with butter and homemade blackberry jam, than I think anyone can happily give up bread once they understand what a ill suited food wheat is for our human bodies! I just hope my story will inspire others to have hope for a bread free life, it is possible ☺

Here is some more info on grains:

Grains contain Gluten. According to David Wolfe in his book, Eating for Beauty: "Many cereal grain seeds (such as wheat berries) are so hybridized that they contain too much gluten. Gluten is an irritating inflammatory substance that can actually burn the sensitive lining of the intestines. Products made from wheat seeds (bread, pasta) can actually cause our face to become puffy. These products, like other starchy carbohydrates (baked potato), tend to make our skin pale and pasty in appearance.

Next, we find good information on grains from Dr. Gabriel Cousens in Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine: "Grains constitute the next class of yeast/fungi/mold-stimulating foods after the high-sugar foods and fruits in particular. Research shows that stored grains ferment in 90 days. Within that time many mycotoxins are produced. In essence, stored grains are a mycotoxic hazard. A correlation was found between 112 patients with esophageal cancer and eating of stored grains (Cancer, 1987). There was a particular risk factor for stomach cancer among Scandinavian and German men eating stored grains reported in The Fungal/Mycotoxin Etiology of Human Disease, vol. 2. Stored potatoes also represent a mycotoxic risk. The black spots on them are caused by the fungi aspergillus and fusarium, which produce the mycotoxins aflatoxin and fumosium.

After the Juice Feast you should be mostly free from thoughts of bread, so try to keep it that way by choosing the best foods possible!!

Another Question:

David and Katrina

My protein levels are sinking really very, very low -- to the point of starting to make my medical caregivers worry (and in turn this is making my white blood cell count and platelet counts go down). None of them asked me to stop juicing to their credit, but they were encouraging me to introduce eggs. As I don't want to, but my health situation is precarious), what do you think of the option of me supplementing with a protein powder -- maybe hemp? This was the compromise I came up with...what are your thoughts and suggestions?

Thanks guys, love Bronwyn

We Say:

Hi Bronwyn!

It is more than likely that your protein looks low because most medical testing is using a society that over eats protein as their baseline for judging protein levels. Most westerners are getting about 60-70 grams of protein a day, which skews the numbers for those of us eating a plant based diet. Just like the weight charts. Our research shows that 20-30 grams of protein is plenty! Our honest opinion is that too much protein is far more of a problem than too little. Please see the Day 28 video if you haven't yet seen it for more info on protein, or Day 28 on JuiceFeasting.com!! Loads of info there.

BUT!! If you really want to add in more protein, things to consider rather than eggs (keep it vegan darling!) for your Juice Feast are:

1.More dark, leafy greens
2. bee pollen
3. Chlorella, Spirulina, or E3live (65% protein)
4. Maca root powder
5. Goji berries (blend soaked gojis into your juice, and then strain out the pulp.)
6. If you really want to add protein powder, we would recommend a hemp protein powder. There are some really good ones you can find at Lifestyles Market in Victoria, and possible Thrifty's has them too.

If you add in more of all these things and are still protein deficient, than you may have a HCl (stomach acid) deficiency, leading to poor absorption. Let us know what your next tests look like!

Lots of love!!

Personal Journal:

Happy today. Lots of stuff manifesting in the realm of personal growth. I love Juice Feasting. I got a wonderful amount of exercise yesterday, and am feeling all aglow from it today. I went for two half hour walks, rebounded for 20 minutes, and did the 90 minute Bikram's yoga session. I have the 2 CD audio set of Bikram teaching the class, which you can find on Amazon, and I really enjoy it. I LOVE sweating, and don't know that I have ever sweated so much as I do doing Bikram's yoga. If you are interested in getting the CD and doing it at home, I would recommend going to a few live classes as well to get started and become familiar with the poses. I was doing Bikram before I came to AZ, and WOW did it ever help me in the emotional turmoil of leaving my life "before David" behind! I can remember crying my way silently through some of the most heart opening postures, and then leaving the class feeling so at peace! Yoga truly can be the marriage between body, heart, mind, and spirit.

Love to you all the cosmic 33rd day!!

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 31!

I Love My Sister!! (photo from March, 2007)

Juice Feast Day 31

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we got up and made five quarts of GVJ with parsley, cucumber, celery, romaine, spinach, carrot, and yam. We also made two quarts of orange and pineapple, two quarts of orange and blueberry, and two quarts of watermelon and lemon.

DAVID:

2.5 QUARTS GVJ, 3 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

2.5 QUARTS GVJ, 3 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS

Added to juices: MSM, bee pollen, Vitamineral Green, Hemp Oil, Flax/DHA oil, Maca and Kelp Granules.

Also taken: NCD, Vitalzym, MSM, Antioxidant Extreme (we are LOVING this stuff!), and water.

Personal Journal!

YES!!! 31 Days, the eve of April, KISS KISS HUG HUG to all you beauties who are juicing or not juicing, but who are here with us while we ARE JUICING!! We love you all.

Can you believe it is April tomorrow? I had such a beautiful closing to March today, a day full of sunshine and bliss. Did I mention LOVE?

A busy day, we went into Nogales to do chores and get more produce (we neglected to put in our order for greens with Red Mountain) We are also looking for a couch and so we went into a part of Nogales that we have only been to ONCE in the whole time we have lived here, such hermits are we! It is really the best part of the lovely little border town, and I am embarrassed to say that usually when we go into to Nogales we only attend the outskirts where there is a Safeway and the bank plopped in with all the other horrible big box stores. It was like going to an exciting new town, full of new discoveries and enchanting corners. Downtown Nogales, where it feels like a Mexican town complete with the central park where every bench is full with resting and visiting beautiful people of all ages, colors, and shapes. We checked out several thrift shops but didn’t find the couch of our dreams BUT we found a BIKINI for me.

My Bikini Story:

After my whole life of feeling uncomfortable in a bathing suit (well, I most likely didn’t when I was 10 and younger, but I was mostly an Island girl skinny dipper for those years) I put on a BIKINI today and felt FANTASTIC!! Not too long ago I hated wearing even shorts and tank tops because of the condition of my thighs and upper arms. This is truly a gift, for a time I honestly believed I would never want to wear shorts again, let alone a bikini.

So, at the beginning of this Juice Feast I told David how I felt about bathing suits and he said “well, if you want we will go and get you a really nice bathing suit at the end of the Juice Feast.” That sounded nice. But I didn’t have to wait until the end, and the best part, my new bathing suit cost $1.50!! I didn’t even try it on in the store, figuring for a buck fifty that it wasn’t much of a risk, and lo and behold it fits perfectly! I love thrift stores!!

Other wonderful things to report: I had three BMs today!! No enema but stuff certainly came forth! I discovered a file on David’s computer containing many of the photos that died with my old hard-drive, including the photo above of my sister and I. We are getting so many wonderful stories from all the Juice Feasters out there! I was able for the first time in a year and three months to listen to my music from my previous life, life before David, without it making me feel very, very sad and nostalgic. I got to have a long visit with my sister Heather on the phone tonight, and feel so close to here despite the distance of land between us. I LOVE Arizona!
We found a new grocery store where citrus is dirt cheep (although it is not organic, and does not taste nearly as good as organic, so I don’t know how often we will be going there).

Full Disclosure: I have been ODing on bee pollen. How much? Oh, about 5 TBS per day!! Too much. I have also been getting very bloated in the afternoon and evening, and I finally noticed yesterday that it was almost right after I ate bee pollen (with out putting it in to a juice, about 3 TBS at once) that I began to feel painfully bloated. So today I decided it was time to stop eating bee pollen on its own, and I only had 1 TBS in a juice, and voila, no bloating! I feel SO much better!! This does not happen to me with pollen when I am eating, so I think that is why it took me a while to catch on. I am Juice Feasting right now, not pollen feasting!!

I have been having really good results with adding in green superfoods (mostly Vitamineral Green) to my fruit juices, feel much more balanced. I have also been taking the Flora Flax/DHA oil daily and have had nice, juicy WET eyes every morning since starting that! I don’t know if I have mentioned it yet, but I have had painfully dry eyes in the morning for quite some time. Sometimes it is better than others, and it is definitely better eating RAW than it was pre-rawification, but oh how nice to wake up with WET, comfotable eyes!! DHA is very good for eye health. I’ve also been adding MSM to all my citrus juice, getting in 3 TBS a day and I feel very good on this dose. Flexibility and yummy skin are the most noticeable.

"The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off."
~ Gloria Steinem, Journalist and Activist

I think that is it for the March round up, I’ll see you all tomorrow!!

With love and peaceful steps,

Katrina and David Rain

Global Juice Feast Day 30!!

I Love Citrus!!
Juice Feast Day 30

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we got up and made six quarts of GVJ with parsley, cucumber, celery, bok choy, rainbow chard, romaine, spinach, red leaf lettuce, carrot, yam and ginger. We also made four quarts of orange and pineapple, and one quart of grapefruit garlic.

DAVID:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 2.5 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 2.5 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS

Added to juices: MSM, bee pollen, Vitamineral Green, Spirulina, Chlorella, Hemp Oil, Flax/DHA oil, and Kelp Granules.

Also taken: NCD, Vitalzym, MSM, Antioxidant Extreme, and water.

Your Questions:

I was wondering... I don't know if this has ever been asked before but: "Is there such a thing as "too much juice" on the juice feast?" I totally had 9 Litres of juice the other day... and I've consistently been doing around 8 litres/day lately. I don't know what's wrong with me... can't get enough juice! :)

Lots of love :)

- Ben

PS: I'm teaching a raw-cooking class 2 weeks after the end of my juice feast! too cool eh?? :) Awesome things are happening while on this juice feast... it's amazing! :)

We Say:

Hi Ben!

So glad to hear that wonders are occurring for you while Juice Feasting!

No, there is no such thing as too much juice on a Juice Feast. Your body is asking for it, and if you are feeling good drinking that much, by all means, drink up!! There is nothing wrong with you. You have been Feasting for quite some time now, and your body is quite able to tell you what it needs at this point.

Lot of love to you!!

Another Question:

Blessings David/Katrina,

I am losing weight (whoo hoo!!), feeling great!

Two Questions:

1. After the Feast will I regain the weight lose once I return to solid raw foods diet (seeds,nuts,mylks,raw sweets) etc?

2. Will mucous return once seed mylks & other raw food are reintroduced?
If yes, can I stop it from happening and how? Are their certain foods to avoid?

Much Gratitiude for your advice

-Kierra

We Say:

Hello Kierra

Congratulations on feeling great! We are so happy to hear this, and we feel great too over here in Arizona on Day 30!

These are very common thoughts while Juice Feasting that you have addressed. We often tell our students not to think too much about what they are going to eat after their Juice Feast, because you will really be in a different space. That being said, it can help to look ahead as well, just remember, your body will be different and will be asking for different foods.

1. Once you move back into solid foods, your weight maintenance will depend on HOW you eat a raw food diet. Of course, most of us do not stay as slim as we are while Juice Feasting if we are able to Juice Feast down to our ideal weight, but this is OK. Others who still have weight to loose after 92 Days are able to continue to loose weight doing what we now call The Four Means To Get Your Greens. David has created a very simple yet yummy raw food cuisine that he has called The Four Means To Get Your Greens. Look for the book coming out soon, it will be the ultimate post-Juice Feast raw food book! This is how we encourage all of our students to eat post-Juice Feast, and it is how David and I eat and we both feel very healthy and happy eating this way.

The Four Means insures that we get in 1-2 lbs of nutrient dense, leafy greens in every day, which insures that we don’t emotionally or physiologically feel the need to over-eat fat and sweet. Leafy greens are VERY IMPORTANT!! Greens are very balancing.

So, what are the Four Means? 1. Salad 2. Smoothie 3. Soup 4. Juice. Eat your greens in a salad, blend them into a yummy green smoothie with fruits and berries, blend them into a savory soup, or juice them. Then in addition you can add in minimal nuts and seeds, avocados, fruits, vegetables, sea vegetables, flax crackers, superfoods, etc. David and I very, very rarely prepare or eat dehydrated foods or fancy prepared raw entrees.

Other things to consider are exercise and creating a healthy relationship with food.

Moving your body with some form of exercise is vital to balancing your appetite, balancing hormones, getting a good nights sleep, creating a detoxifying sweat, building calorie burning muscles, and releasing endorphins that will make you feel happy and content. Endorphins are your body’s natural, morphine like chemicals that boost mood and produce feelings of euphoria and satisfaction. Ways to access these lovely endorphins other than food are exercise, meditation, Tai Chi, calming music, yoga, deep breathing, prayer, laughter, flowing dancing, and pleasurable experiences.

If you have not had a healthy relationship with food in the past, look at working on that now. Juice Feasting is a wonderful time for healing the emotional imbalances and turmoil that often leads us to over eat and eat less than the best foods. Often when we eat to sooth emotions we are looking to balance our emotional state, either to bring our mood up with sweets or to bring our intense experiences down a notch by dulling our selfs with heavy foods. There are many ways of doing this without food, please go on a treasure hunt for the ways that resonates with you most strongly!

Personally, I have found that the mindfulness practices of Thich Nhat Hanh, journaling, meditation, self-love, and exercise along with getting in lots of greens, have all created a state of abundant well being and health for me!!

You might also want to check out this lovely blog post by Melissa, who we are so happy to have back with us in Blogland!!

2. After your Juice Feast adding in nuts and seeds will not re-create mucous as long as you are doing them in moderation. Also, if you eat your nuts and seeds with leafy greens mid-day (when your digestion is strongest) this will help. See your mucous as a wonderful indication of how much fat you are eating! If you get all stuffed up after a day of eating too many nuts (as I tend to do), you can say to yourself “wonderful, I ate too many nuts and fat yesterday, today I will re-focus on getting in lots of greens!”

To further inspire you, here is a note from a Juice Feaster who has been eating her greens!

Hi David & Katrina-my favorite Dynamic Duo!

I want to thank you again for creating this amazing opportunity for people to cleanse, heal and gain back their god-given health. I'm definitely a proud green evangelist ;D

I've been experimenting with Four Means To Get My Greens daily since ending my Juice Feast. I've really re-set my body after all those greens I drank during the JF. I love that I eat simpler and healthier after only 8 days of JF. Truly amazing transformation can occur on JF.

In the mornings, I'm still continuing the quart of water with lemon and MSM powder then follow-up with at least a quart of either green smoothie or green juice with at least 1/2 pound (about 200+ grams) of greens. For snacks, I sometimes use large lettuce leaves for wraps and rolls. I eat some flax crackers with spinach pesto or seaweed pate. My sweet snack is a slice of sweet flax cracker with some nut butter and top with bananas and raspberries-the ultimate post workout snack! Lunch will either be smoothie or large salad (1/3 pound about 100 to 200 grams). Dinners have been green juice straight no fruits or veges (about another 200 grams) and then I add pineapple juice and drink right away. I tend to do really well on fruits. I still have yet to try green soups. I will find a good appealing recipe for tomorrow.
I'm spreading the word about JF. It's certainly will make one juicy and joyful!

Cheerios!

Joy xoxo

We Say Hip Hip Hooray!!

Personal Journal:

Yet another mellow, happy day of juice at our house today. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE citrus juice? Oh baby, I could drink a lake full of that liquid sunshine!

I have begun to make a point of journaling again and I am feeling such a sense of peace because of it. I love you dear blogging world, but there is something so much more revealing about the privacy of a black book and pen. I have been loving the hand written words as well, watching my thoughts appear on the page in ink.

Has it really been a whole month? Wow, congratulations to all who join us on Day 30!!! 92 Days looks like a breeze from here!

Have a beautiful Sunday evening!

With love and blessings,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day Twenty Nine!

I Love Spinach!!

Juice Feast Day 29

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we got up and made six quarts of GVJ with cilantro, parsley, cucumber, celery, bok choy, romaine, red leaf lettuce, carrot and ginger. We also made two quarts of orange and pineapple, and two quarts of orange, watermelon, lemon and cherry! You should see the color of this baby!

DAVID:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 2 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 2 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5 QUARTS

Added to juices: MSM, bee pollen, Vitamineral Green, Spirulina, Hemp Oil, Kelp Granules, and maca.

Also taken: NCD, Vitalzym, MSM, Antioxidant Extreme, and water.

Rainoshek’s Daily Tips:

Bill Maher says “the answer is spinach” Add spinach to your juices, yum yum yum. John Heinerman says: “Worried about wrinkles? Try this Elixir” He also shares about this dark leafy green that Fran R., a midwife who has a practice based on a lifetime of experience, says that she recommends spinach and spinach juice to newly pregnant moms to help them minimize the risks attached to child birth. She has discovered that both spinach and its juice helps to reduce the incidence of birth defects and miscarriages dramatically. Fran says “All I know is that the spinach works. Those who take the spinach regularly have more normal births, less problems you know.” Fran recommends three to four helpings of spinach or 3 glasses of spinach juice a week “is what seems to do the trick in preventing them birth accidents.”

Spinach juice is also good for:
Anemia (it has adequate levels of iron which can help alleviate some of the problems associated with anemia),
Fatigue (after a woman’s period, her iron levels drop which can lead to fatigue. Spinach juice diluted with an equal amount of carrot or tomato will provide sufficient iron to boost women’s energy levels)
and Wrinkles! (OK, so this isn’t a juice to drink but see if you are inspired to give this Heinerman trick a try. Soak some cotton balls or a cotton cloth in spinach juice, and rub in a circular motion around the corners of the eyes, across the forehead, around the corners of the mouth, and down the chin. Do this for five minutes upon getting up in the morning and before retiring at night. Afterwards, rinse the face with cold water and then rub in some persimmon or pomegranate juice using the same technique. According to Heinerman, this procedure will help to tighten the skin and get rid of about 40-60% of existing wrinkles!)

Personal Journal:

I am so in love with my juices!! I love making them, the meditation of chopping, blending, squeezing, and then the glowing jars of vibrating juices, so alive with goodness. I love drinking them, and look forward to each swallow, I anticipate my juice with excitement!

I should let you know that yesterday wound down to being a difficult yet transformative day for both David and I. We wore brave faces until around 3 o’clock when we both admitted that the day was feeling very tough, and that we were both craving food like MAD! We both also had very powerful emotional breakthroughs and by night fall did not feel hungry any more, and felt at peace once again.

We received the news of a death of someone we both knew, a very beautiful and strong soul who had battled cancer for almost 9 years when he discovered Juice Feasting. He gave it a very dedicated effort last year, and two months ago, after almost 10 years of living with cancer, he passed away. We send his family our deepest blessings and love.

We came face to face with the fact that there is not always "the solution" for each and every one of us. Sometimes the solution is to love what is. We all come from different pathways, and our pathways all lead different directions, sometimes we have to embrace death and flow into that final walk of life.

I also had yet another transformation of my personal past, shedding layers one by one, they are falling away like gauze peeled away from a wound slowly healing, and almost ready to see the sunshine. Sometimes I think the layers are all gone, and I think indeed we do experience a freedom from layers at times as they get burned away in our brightest moments of joy and bliss. Then they seem to recover, and re-bury the gold of our pure heart again, calling for action to mindfully peal them away again, putting them aside.

It can be such a delicate balance of acknowledging the shadow and filling the mind with beautiful thoughts. On the one had we don’t want to bury the sadness by ignoring it and pushing it deeper, and we also don’t want to indulge the pain body by dwelling in thoughts that cause us pain. Sometimes I get lost in how to do it all, but it all seems to come out clean and sparkling in the end!! Oh happy day! I spent a good hour journaling last night, and find such amazing answers there in my black book. Not only cathartic, but my writing seems to take the tangle of thoughts and smooth them out into a nice even thread, like taking a mess of fleece and creating not only the spool of wool, but then weaving it into a beautiful tapestry!

I have also been re-inspired to get more intimate with my dumbbells, both by Terilynn and Tony Kay. Muscle is magical. For those of you worried about how your body is going to act post-Juice Feast please please get serious about exercise! I have never really been a serious as I could be about this important nutrient since going raw, and I think now is the time. Exercise is the golden key. As Happy Oasis says, we are “EXERCISEARIANS” and it is one of the most important gifts you can give yourself! Muscle is the tissue of youth, it burns calories, it is spiritual baby!

Have a beautiful evening dear juicies,

LOVE!!

Katrina and David Rain

And here are some Day 29 Photos, we are on the eve of our 1 month Juice Feasting anniversary!!

Happy Katrina about to have some juice.
MMMMmmmm the amazing orange, watermelon, lemon and cherry juice! (I just did a workout so I am allowed to have it with out greens...I think!)
I think I like it!
Want some?
It is really good!
OK, I'll drink it myself then!