So we did something crazy....

Last week we watched the most fascinating movie.  I am all about the documentaries but Trent is not so much. So on top of the fact we were watching a documentary, (did I mention it was a FOOD documentary?? I love learning about food)  we FINALLY got our wireless router to work so we now have instant NetFlix (best invention ever, right?!)  Have I lost you yet?!  Stick around, things are about to get VERY interesting...so the documentary was...Fat Sick and Nearly Dead.  Talk about fascinating!!  The basic premise is that the guy is overweight, some may say fat (as in the title:)) and he starts a juice fast.  He does this for 60 days.  60 DAYS!!!!  Good Golly Miss Molly! <-my sweet nephew says that.  

SPOILER ALERT**  He ends up losing a ton of weight, feels a million times better, gains a new perspective and looks amazing.  

So my lovely husband was ready to start!  I, of course, agreed because I love activities and we immediately started planning.  We began our quest on Monday.  10 days was our goal. The first day was ok...not super bad but not super great. On Sunday we made juice for breakfast, lunch, a snack and dinner. Monday night we made our juice for Tuesday.  It was not as exciting as Sunday and became quite obvious that we did not have the same energy we did Sunday.  Jen (the bff) came over Monday (to watch the Kim Kardashian (or is she now Humphries?) wedding. Duh.)  and was convinced I had been drinking because I was so ridiculous.  Tuesday arrived and we spent a major portion of the day, dreaming about pasta, cake, pizza...I even was daydreaming about eating marshmallows.  EVERYTHING sounded good.  We watched movies and went to bed around 9.  It was a delight.  Please note the sarcasm.  Wednesday arrived and we did our juice, daydreamed, were Grumpy Gertrudes and then....we hit the wall.  Trent had lost over 5 pounds, his wedding band was too big for his middle finger and I was a walking skeleton...we both felt terrible.  We determined when we were too exhausted to get out of the car at Meijer that we were in fact not cut out for starvation.  We then went in the store and wandered around aimlessly because we were so hungry (and had no brainpower left) but couldn't decide what to buy to eat...we are ridiculous...always.  So what did we learn? 

Things I noticed from being so food deprived.  

1.  I seemed like I was drunk.  Blurred vision, no memory, laughing at pretty much nothing.

2.  Headaches.

3.  I get very grumpy when hungry, yes I already knew this but goodness did it become prevalent the past 3 days.

4.  I could not remember anything (left my house keys in the backdoor last night, safe huh?)  

5.  Zero energy.

The positives, because in everything there are positives.

1.  We bonded over our intense hunger.  Constantly texting about when we finally ate again, what would be on the menu.

2.  We worked together, juicing and cleaning up.  It was great!

3.  We are great at encouraging each other and this was a good opportunity to practice...lots of practice.

I am sure there was a better way to do this, we however will NEVER try this again.  Mark that off the ol' bucket list!

Sadly I did not document this part of our journey...so the snapshot is a mental one.  Hope you were able to capture it :)

xoxox