Day 10 Juicing is Expensive.... I Think

In all of history, my last day of fasting was day 10.  In fact, if this were last year, I'd be carefully choosing my first meal to break the fast. The theory is that after no food for so long the digestive system is extremely sensitive and you must reintroduce food lightly, starting with a couple of oranges on the fist day, working up to a salad on the second day, and proceed to cooked food slowly so that you don't shock your system.  And then I'd think, fuck that, I want a chicken pot pie bitch,  and I'd go to the Woodlands and eat that shit up with no hesitation or guilt.  (mmmm, they so gooood!)  And I would feel full but I would be fine.

But this time, day 10 is only one third of the way there.  No chicken pot pie for me bitch.  It's ok.  I'm fine, everything is JUST. FINE. And so to celebrate and to attempt to talk myself out of this 30 day commitment, I decided it would be a good time to do some math because everyone loves math.  Math about what I've consumed and what I've spent.

So- in 10 days I've spent $146.23 on produce.  Yah, I know, that's a lot of money for 10 days.  In all honestly though, I probably spend about that much eating out, though I've never really actually done that math.   Either way, it comes out to about $15 a day for this juice fast.  Do you know how much you spend on your own food per day?  I'd be curious to know how this compares to a normal person who isn't me.

THE LIST
I've purchased so far and nearly consumed all of the following:

36 lbs grapefruit

36 lbs oranges

25 lbs carrots
9 beets and all their greens
8.45 lbs pears
6.67 lbs granny smith apples
3 lbs gala apples
3.86 lbs sweet potatos
2.78 lbs papaya
12 oz of blackberries
.51 lbs ginger
8  cucumbers
6 bunches of spinach
4 bunch kale
4 bunches parsley

4 parsnips

4 lemons

1 jalapeno
3 cantelpoes
3 mangos
2 bunches celery
2 pinapples
2 brocoli stems and heads
1 quart strawberries
1 tomato
1 jalapeno

I did have some things in my fridge when I started, so I included that stuff in this comsumption list to the best of my ability, but it isn't reflected in the 146. 20.  I still have about 1/3 of the second 18# bag of oranges and about 3/4 of the 18# bag of grapefruit, but that will go fast over the next few days.  And because my fridge was bare (I pitched the old mac and cheese with sadness) I went to the store today to stock up for the next several, but that's not included here.  I'll include that after the next 10 days and we can compare.

Oh, and more math.

Ounces and Calories: Over 10 days I consumed 899.5 Ounces of juice averaging at almost 90 ounces a day. That's 30 ounces short of my goal. Oh well? In those 10 days I've consumed 10,890 calories, averaging 1089 calories per day. To increase this it just seems like I'd be adding more fruits that are high in sugars, and that's not ideal. Let's face it, there's not much juice in the greens. Perhaps I'll do some more research on good ways to increase calorie consumption during a juice fast.

Weight: As of today I weighed 105 lbs. That means I've lost 5 lbs. Losing another 5 will probably be ok, thought I havn't dropped below 105 since highschool. Much more than that and people might start to stare and make snide comments. I was wondering if I should make some kind of limit, like if I drop below x I'll stop, but I think that may be a form of a cop out. I'll judge it by how I'm feeling and if I'm still recognizably female.

Energy: Improving, I felt nearly normal today, and maybe a little hungry. No drag, things are looking up. Smoking pot while fasting is really fun.


JUICES

Cantalope Blackberry yah! 30 oz Cantalope- 225
2 oz blackberries- 23

32 oz at 248 calories

Evening usual
3.5 oz kale- 16
3.5 oz broccoli- 16
1 oz beet-5
15 oz carrot- 176
8 oz cucumber-70
3 oz celery- 16
1 oz lemon-7
9 oz apple-135
8 oz pear-150
ginger- ?

52 Ounces at 591 calories

Total: 84 Ounces at 839 calories