15 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

Day 4: Shopping and Craving

by brandon in Juicing Days

I started to feel a little better today. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still having trouble thinking straight, and I still have no motivation or energy.

To begin the day, I woke up with quite an appetite. I immediately grabbed some of my non soupish juice and chugged down about 800ml. It really did make me feel better.

Today, I went on a little trip to an actual town with an actual supermarket with actual veggies that looked good. I was in luck today, New Frontiers was having as sale on kale, 2 for $3. And she wasn’t just any Kale she had a hard, tart body, with big bushy green hair. I splurged and bought 6 of her. Then a bunch of spinach, 4 green bell peppers, 4 bushels of celery, 6 heads of romaine lettuce, a box of roma tomatoes, a couple cucumbers, a couple zucchini, some galangal, a couple pounds of carrots, and a bushel of green grapes. I did this all while smelling that damn pizza being cooked in the store. Yep.. that was my grocery shopping for a day or two.

Did I mention, that I rarely eat out? I typically have oatmeal, or oatmeal pancakes with almond butter and honey for breakfast. Then when I typically cook, I will cook a rather large amount and then have leftovers for the next couple meals. I really do like leftovers. So all this produce mixed with the fact that I spend over an hour and half each day is driving me nuts. Probably because I would much rather spend hours cooking than juicing and having to smell freshly cut grass for hours.

It is strange… I have had nothing but veggie/minimal fruit for 4 straight days and only water the previous and I really have not had the same type of hunger I had prior to this insane fast. It’s kind of hard to explain. Before, when I was hunger I felt kinda sick to my stomach and would just about kill someone for the flesh hanging in their hand. This entire time, well after the first day, I have had moments of hunger, but they were very subtle. It is almost like my stomach just feels empty but I do not have uncontrollable urge to go out and ravage anything I can find.

Now while, I may not be going food crazy when my stomach is empty, I do get some odd cravings that would be really hard to control if I had it right in front of me. Today for instance, I could smell and taste easy cheese. I fucking hate easy cheese, but I could not get the thought out of my head for about an hour. It was weird because, I serious could taste every single molecule of some past easy cheese from when I was like 10.

The easy cheese thoughts past thankfully because now it makes me noxious, but what craving comes next? Yep, you guessed it, Haribo Gummi Bears. I must admit, I do love myself a good gummi bear and Haribo is one of the better ones in my opinion. I thought with my mouth salivating until my pants were to wet, then another craving came to me. Cheezits! Not like the ones on your face, the made with real fake cheese cheezits. They are another one of my guilty pleasures. It was the salt that was driving me nuts with this one. I wanted to just grab a cheezit and suck the salt off it pretty little block figured body. Instead, I went for a run, hoping it would get rid of some of these cravings. Nope, instead all I could think about was pizza. Not your healthnut flat cardboard tasting pizza. I’m talking some thick crusted, cheesy, greasy, meat and veggie covered masterpiece of joy. Oh boy did that sound amazing. I could just fill the bite and the cheese burning the roof of my mouth as the greasy bread caressed my tongue filling my body with all sorts of flavourish goodness. Noo. Stop. Get this thoughts out of your head! I’m done. So done!

 

14 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

Day 3: Whaaa? What’s going on?

by brandon in Juicing Days

I can’t put any less blunt than, I was fucking out of it! I didnt necessarily feel bad. I just could not think, I could not think of thinking, I could not even think about the normal male thoughts, which doesn’t even require thinking.

For starters, I did not sleep at all. I finally fell asleep for like 5 minutes, then I woke up AGAIN, but this time for the last. When I opened my eyes, well I should say tried to open my eyes, they were stuck shut. It was like they were sewn shut. Once they finally decided to open, I thought about doing some morning stretching and a quick lift or jog. Noooope.

Yep. I get like that when Carrot is near.

I got out of bed and basically wobbled over to the bathroom and urinated like a diabetic Clydesdale.

Now I felt better and I thought to myself, the day is going to be  ok. Then just as that thought started to work its way down the chain of command, another little asshole of a thought named hunger chimed in. Then just as that little bastard worked his way down, the bitch called realization set into it. I am so hungry and all I have in this whole house, juice or produce wise, is that putrefied bottle of excrement that I made last night. The same putrefied vile of bile, that I had to literally force down my throat with massive amounts of water and breathing in my backup brown paper back.

I dub thee Harry!

So what did I do? Yep, I pounded it and felt all proud. Like I had just cured cancer, or put a chimp in space. I did my little victory dance around the house, stepped in cat throwup, but didn’t care because I just fucking conquered the world!

Then it hit me like a woman driving her 4th car. I feel like…. the day of a hangover, noo… not like that, almost worse. More like the day after a hangover, when you feel fine, but you’re all hazy. You keep wondering if perhaps you killed to many brain cells two nights ago and hoping this cloudy haze isn’t permanent. Well probably not. But that’s how I felt.

I spent the next couple hours like that and then came to my senses and went to the store to get some more fruits and veggies, YAAAAY! Notice I said FRUITS and veggies, there is no way I am going to try to be like the second part of Alick and do soup juice anymore. No way, no how. The truly sad thing is that before this, I loved raw veggies, almost any kind. I really liked a good soup with the flavors of onion and I liked garlic in almost anything. But at this current state of mind and still with the taste of that horrific bottle of corona filled with chew spit and a hint of lime (I hoped it would make it taste better) from this morning, I don’t think I could ever, ever, ever eat anything with those flavors again.

It’s ok though, the feeling past and I bought a bunch green veggies and a fruit to put in this next batch. Still no onion or cabbage though! But maybe a smidgen garlic.

What?!? That's not right!

I went home, made a decent juice (not great) drank about 800ml, retired to my room and watched the entire season 4 of Californication, while going in and out of sleep, up and down for juice, and in and out of the bathroom for urination. That was my day. I had zero energy, zero motivation, zero ability to think. So I veggitated on veggie and FRUIT juice while watching David Duchovny chase women and their vejayjays (actually the other way around, but whatever).

13 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

Day 2: Hmmm… What to say?

by brandon in Juicing Days

To be honest, I felt pretty normal for most of the morning. I arose from bed, did some lifting and by this time I was hungry so I went and had my first drink of the day, 800g (~800ml or ~27 fl oz) of a new juice I concocted. Its not worth noting the recipe as it was mediocre, but it was packed full of nutrients.

Anyway, as the morning went on, I got super hyper/anxious again. It was a little unnerving, but manageable.

Later on, about 1 or 2 I started to have a little hunger so I made the same size drink with the remnants from the morning session. The hunger subsided and I actually felt normal, nothing special.

Around 6 or so I talked to the second part of Alick and had a little discussion about the typical stuff, bowl movements, urination, insanity, you know… the typical stuff two grown males talk about. Anyway he confirmed a wonder I had been having and had been kinda concerning me. Well apparently, after the first day, which was a water fast for me (day 0), some people don’t poop anymore during the fast. It was kinda setting off a red flag in my brain and I was glad to hear a positive confirmation on that.

Caution: Thinking is Beginning

Caution: Thinking is Beginning

Then I learned that he was actually doing a pure vegetable fast. This started the little man pumping some coal into my brain! Ah ha! Maybe this is why I have been feeling soooooooo hyper. I am getting too much fruit sugar. So, to make a long story shorter I decided to make a soupish juice concoction with what I had in the fridge. So in went collard greens, carrots, 1/2 Onion, 3 cloves garlic, 1/2 cabbage, celery, 1 sweet potato, and a couple other things. I did do all the yeilds for these, but I really don’t feel like typing them all out right now.

Another thing to note is how I am beginning to feel about the fast and my juicer at this point. IT TAKES FOREVER TO JUICE ANYTHING! On top of that, I am trying to keep accurate amounts, quite insane, I know. The J8005 has this itty bitty teeny weenie non polka dot food shoot. You have to slice each item small enough to fit, next put one in at a time and shove it down with the plunger quite forcefully. Then you have the issue with the receiving bowls. They are so small that I fill the pulp bowl 6 times over and the juice bowl 4 times over. Its kind of a pain. I tried to make the juicer taller by staking it on a box so that I could fit bigger bowls underneith, but I had to push so hard down on the plunger that the box broke.

Also I should note that all the reviews and videos that promote this device say it only takes 1 1/2 min to 3 min to clean. Huh, yeah right, maybe if you live in a 3 world country and don’t mind pulp and stains all over your machine! I will admit that there are only 8 parts to clean and they give you a little brush, but it takes more along the lines of 5-8 minutes to clean to an actual cleanliness. Take into account that when I was doing my test yields, I was cleaning the device after each item. I’ll never do that again.

Ok back to the point and off my rant. I made about 800g (~800ml or ~28 fl oz) of my second part Alick soupish styled juice and it was absolutely horrendous (I didn’t actually use any of his recipes, purely my doing). Actually, the first couple sips were like walking to school in the fall, very soup tasting and comfortable. Then I realized I forgot to stir it as I was adding the different juices.

Yuck is Right!

Ooops, I probably should not have stirred it because that brought up all the garlic, onion, and cabbage, rather than the sweet potato, carrot, celery I was tasting before. Again the first couple drinks weren’t bad, but trying to drink the entire amount was torture. Absolute punishment! I had way too much garlic, onion and/or cabbage. It actually kinda upset my stomach. I started to feel a little better about an hour later, but all I could taste or smell was garlic and onion. It drove me absolutely nuts, especially when I could not get rid of it. I finally got frustrated and fell into a slumber.

12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

Day 1 Conquered: Only 9 more to go ;(

by brandon in Juicing Days, The Fasting Experiance

Since I already had all the juice from my testing, I went ahead and made a second batch so that I would have enough for a couple meals.

Just to note, my naked weight before the water fast was 152 lbs. I have been urinating quite a lot, which is normal because of the amount of water, and ****GROSS NOTICE — But its ok because I’m a guy and only guys poop**** I relieved my self 4 times, in champion amounts. So it is safe to say my body is probably mostly empty. My weight before my very first juice was 149 lbs.

Due to my unorthodox and probably quite stupid water fast, I had to wait until 5PM to drink anything. As you can imagine, I was quite hungry. I poured 400g (400ml or ~14 fl oz) of the drink and tasted a bit. It was not bad at all! It had some interesting flavors with the kale and ginger (which I only added about 10g (10ml) ginger juice). But what shocked me was how much the apple flavoring came out. I think this is probably why I did not mind the drink. It was a little thick for my liking and I had already planned to cut my juices with 1/4 part water, to help make it a little smoother to drink and help with the absorption of nutrients. Adding the water neutralized the apple flavoring and brought out a few in the background with a hint of lemony freshness at the end. All in all not a bad drink.

I waited about 20 minutes to let the juice start absorption and I was still a little hungry so I pored the same drink again. Just to experiment, I cut this with 1/2 water. It was a little too much water and I was extremely full after the glass was finished.

I did not really know what to expect, but after about an hour or so I was a little hyper or anxious. I think there might have been too much fruit sugars in this drink for me directly after a 24 hour water fast. However, it definitely  gave me enough energy to lift and then do a nice little jog (which about killed me). It had been quite awhile.

By bedtime I was still full, so I just had another of my 400g juice (400ml or ~27oz) for day 1. I am sure day 2 will be different.

Day 1 is gone forever!

12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

Day 1: Testing Juice Yields

by brandon in Juice Yields, The Fasting Experiance

Ok… I just returned from a couple corners down the way. I was able to pickup quite an assortment of subjects. Some of which are I think are willing and some of which I don’t think will put out. The names of the subjects are as follows:

  • Kale – She is long, lengthy with a nice bust. Some have had difficulty with her in the past, but I think she will put out just fine with my masticator.
  • Carrot – She is fiery in appearance, but oh so sweet. From what I hear she is quite good at mastication.
  • Minnie Cucumber – She looks a little pickle, or perhaps fickle, but I know she is juicy and sweet.
  • Baby Spinach –  As with kale some have had problems in the past, but I feel she is no match for my masication machine.
  • Granny Smith – Ain’t she a little plump tart. Again, I have heard good and bad things.
  • Lemon – She is a sparkling image of freshness. I have had her on many occasion.
  • Ginger – Ginger is a bitch! She can really throw some heat. Don’t get me wrong, I am totally infatuated with her. Weird how that works, right? Her smell, her texture and the way she can make any thing seem better.

There are two that I really don’t think will put out, but I just can’t resist them so I’m going to give them a shot anyway.

  • Banana – To be honest, I don’t even know why I am trying her. Banana is a good friend, but I think she might be a little shy and soft for my masticator.
  • Strawberry – I saved her for last. Strawberry is the one I would take home to mother. She has such a beauty, smell, and of course tastes like spring and summer given as a Christmas present on a miserable winter day. But I am pretty sure she wont let me use my masticator on her.

Ok, now that I have introduced all my lovely subjects. LET’S JUICE!

Kale

  • Weight: 200 g
  • Results
    • Pass 1
      • Extraction: 92 g (46%)
      • Pulp Left in Machine: 43 g
      • ml/g of raw Kale: 0.46 ml/g
    • Pass 2
      • Extraction: 109 g (55%)
      • Pass 2 Pulp Left in Machine: 58 g
      • ml/g of raw Kale:  0.55 ml/g
    • 2 Run Increase
      • Extraction: 17 g (9%)
      • ml/g of raw Kale: 0.09 ml/g
    • She likes to take it slow, the machine wasn’t quite big enough for her. But extremely satisfying none the less.
    • Worth doing 2 runs: Maybe?

Carrot

  • Weight: 200 g
  • Results
    • Pass 1
      • Extraction: 121 g (61%)
      • Pulp Left in Machine: 15 g
      • ml/g of raw Carrot: 0.61 ml/g
    • Pass 2
      • Extraction: 134 g (67%)
      • Pass 2 Pulp Left in Machine: 19 g
      • ml/g of raw Carrot:  0.67 ml/g
    • 2 Run Increase
      • Extraction: 13 g (7%)
      • ml/g of raw Carrot: 0.07 ml/g
    • Carrot took it like a champ. She was in and out and relieved me some good quality juice.
    • Worth doing 2 runs: Maybe?

Cucumber

  • Weight: 200 g
  • Results
    • Pass 1
      • Extraction: 123 g (62%)
      • Pulp Left in Machine: 30 g
      • ml/g of raw Cucumber: 0.62 ml/g
    • Pass 2
      • Extraction: 145 g (73%)
      • Pass 2 Pulp Left in Machine: 45 g
      • ml/g of raw Cucumber:  0.73 ml/g
    • 2 Run Increase
      • Extraction: 22 g (11%)
      • ml/g of raw Cucumber: 0.11 ml/g
    • We’ve got a squirter hear! Quite literally shot me in the eye. Worked very well but, had to let the masticator run quite awhile to get all the juice out.
    • Worth doing 2 runs: Maybe?

Baby Spinach

  • Weight: 100 g
  • Results
    • Pass 1
      • Extraction: 34 g (34%)
      • Pulp Left in Machine: 34 g
      • ml/g of raw Baby Spinach: 0.34 ml/g
    • Pass 2
      • Extraction: 45 g (45%)
      • Pass 2 Pulp Left in Machine: 35 g
      • ml/g of raw Baby Spinach:  0.45 ml/g
    • 2 Run Increase
      • Extraction: 11 g (11%)
      • ml/g of raw Baby Spinach: 0.11 ml/g
    • Baby Spinach is Kales twin. They both loved it slow and released some decent juice for their physiques .
    • Worth doing 2 runs: Maybe?

Lemon

  • Weight: 110 g
  • Results
    • Pass 1
      • Extraction: 48 g (44%)
      • Pulp Left in Machine: 22 g
      • ml/g of raw Lemon: 0.44 ml/g
    • Pass 2
      • Extraction: 52 g (47%)
      • Pass 2 Pulp Left in Machine: 26 g
      • ml/g of raw Lemon:  0.47 ml/g
    • 2 Run Increase
      • Extraction: 4 g (4%)
      • ml/g of raw Lemon: 0.04 ml/g
    • Yikes! Two squirters in one day? My eye is burning from this one. She was in and out, burn ya later. Very Awesome!
    • Worth doing 2 runs: Maybe?

Granny Smith Apple

  • Weight: 150 g
  • Results
    • Pass 1
      • Extraction: 109 g (73%)
      • Pulp Left in Machine: 36 g
      • ml/g of raw Granny: 0.73 ml/g
    • Pass 2
      • Extraction: 109 g (73%)
      • Pass 2 Pulp Left in Machine: Most
      • ml/g of raw Granny:  0.73 ml/g
    • 2 Run Increase
      • Extraction: 0 g (0%)
      • ml/g of raw Granny: 0 ml/g
    • Here’s an experienced one. I had to give her a quick little quartered rejuvenation so my masticator would work with her. But she was a champ. Lots juice still flowin from this granny.
    • Worth doing 2 runs: Nope

Ginger

  • Weight: 40 g
  • Results
    • Pass 1
      • Extraction: 30 g (75%)
      • Pulp Left in Machine: 1 g
      • ml/g of raw Ginger: 0.75 ml/g
    • Not enough to run a second time
    • Ginger just loves to make you love her. She gave it all at once. I am quite certain she didn’t have much left in her for a second time around the block.
    • Worth doing 2 runs: Nope

Banana

  • weight: 200 g
  • Testing Runs
    • She is too soft, but did gush some sweet yellow puddin!

Strawberry

  • weight: 100 g
  • Extraction: 29 g / 23 ml / 29.0% – “Really thick just stuck on screen”
  • I was a little surprised, she did give me a little honey, but in the end just ended up tantalizing me with her sexy Sorbet!



All in all, I really don’t think it is worth the hassle of taking the pulp and juicing it a second time. The three that had the highest double pass yield were:

  1. Cucumber: 11.0%
  2. Baby Spinach: 11.0%
  3. Kale: 8.5%

I believe these had the highest two pass yields due to the fact they were all too infatuated with the machine and got a little stuck in it. They would require something hard and heavy from behind to help push out all the pulp left in the machine. The cucumber just burst with juices and made the machine work extra hard to recover it all. The Baby Spinach and Kale were the only busty greens I had and they just withered down to almost nothing because they needed something from behind.

My opinion is that it is not worth the extra effort or cleanup to double masticate the subjects. The greatest additional yield I received was 11%. If I were doing Scooter sized subjects I might rerun double masticate them, but with the petites I had, once was all I needed.

I would like to point out that with almost every subject I tested the total yield about about 55%, so roughly 1g juice per  2g produce. Within my test group, I choose a variety of different profiles with all different textures and flesh. The only negative tests (for juicing) came with the softer subjects (banana and strawberry). I believe any soft subject you put through the J8005, J8006, J8004, or J8003 will just come out as a pudding due to their unwillingness to let loose with the exit hole, just emitting a pudding or sorbet of mush. I know.. I know.. Some people are into that kinky stuff. Don’t worry though, I will be in 10 days.

It is also worth noting that the whole processes of juicing these subjects, took forever! I am kinda second guessing my masticator or any juicer for that matter. It seems to be a very wasteful process. The average juice gained from raw produce was around 55%. Which is actually pretty good for juicers, but want to get me some more!

While I was researching my machine all the reviews and videos explained how dry the pulp was, “Almost like sawdust”. However, I did notice that in those same videos it would stick to their hand and looked glossy. Well, to be quite honest, it is not as dry as they make it sound. It is decent, but there is still a lot of color and wetness to it. My pulp looks the same as all the videos, but it just seems wasteful to me.

Anyway.. The J8005 doesn’t seem juice anything relatively soft at all. It looks like this masticator is best for harder and crisper bodies, but who isn’t?

12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

Geekish Setup and Methodology

by brandon in The Fasting Experiance Tags: , ,

Ok so here is how it is going to go down for this first day of insatiable insanity.

Produce InspectionFirst, I plan to take a various assortment of fruit and veggie sexual organs. Inspect them for disease or other reproductive problems. Then give them a thorough cleansing to remove any dirt and debris that may inhibit my satisfaction.

Next, I want to establish or perhaps more correctly stated, “approximate”, how much juice my masticator, with its squeezing and grinding, can get from each of my healthy fruits and veggies. To do this, I plan to weigh the subjects prior to mastication. Then with only good intensions, I will masticate them until they erupt with vibrantly colored juices, continuing until no more flows.

Upon completion of the mastication process, I plan to weigh the juice as well as determine the volume that was secreted. Now, because I am quite convinced that a single mastication session will not fully extract all the subjects juices, I will take the subject and place them within the masticator one final time. Then, record the final weight and volume followed by disposal of the subjects skeletal remains.

Now it should be noted that due a limitation with the device, at the end of each mastication procedure there will still part of the subject with its juice left inside the masticator. This is one of the main reasons for a second pass through. The mastication machine will be cleansed between each subject to remove any remains of the prior in order to help eliminate contamination.

Finally, I plan to personally taste each of the subjects secreted juices. Purely for unscientific data collection of course. I want to know what type of satanic group juicing I can contrive.

On that note, let the testing begin!

12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

Fasting Preparations

by brandon in The Fasting Experiance Tags: , , ,

Disclaimer: I really have no idea what I am talking about! You should view every internet article in this manner, especially blogs from people you do not know. I do not really have any scientific data for what I am about to say. It is just what makes sense to me with my limited knowledge which is stored in a filing cabinet with no sort of understandable arrangement.

Well, since I am a little skeptical on this whole thing I decided to at least give it a jump start. In my previous post I explained a couple of the reasons I don’t really like this idea of a juice fast/detox. I failed to mention one of my main reasons for skepticism. The juice fast is for 10 days, it takes the body 3 days to finish processing what it already has in it and get rid of the waste. It takes the liver about 5 days to disregard the crap it has going on. So essentially a 10 day juice fast/detox, is much more like a 5 day flush, and 5 day detox.

So, with my highly limited grey matter I decided to do a 24 hour water fast. Basically not eating anything and just drinking water. A bit more water than your average day. Yes this sounds insane and it probably is. But in my feeble organic matter I call Gehirn, my brain, it makes sense. Basically, I am trying to get my body to pull as much as it can from what it already has to help speed up the digestive system. Basically a quick flush before I start giving it a plethora of nutrients from my juicing.

Now in experimentation form, I probably should have done this with my second juice fast to compare the difference, but to be honest, I will probably never do this again, unless I feel AMAZING at the end.

I firmly believe all a person needs to do is eat in smaller portions with more less-processed foods as well be a bit more active. If a person was active and trained their body to feel hunger when it was hungry and not bored, they would be more likely to be healthy.

Either way, I have about 5 hours left on my water fast. Then let the juicing begin!

12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

My Thoughts Going into the Fast

by brandon in The Fasting Experiance Tags: , , ,

Disclaimer: I really have no idea what I am talking about! You should view every internet article in this manner, especially blogs from people you do not know. I do not really have any scientific data for what I am about to say. It is just what makes sense to me with my limited knowledge which is stored in a filing cabinet with no sort of understandable arrangement.

Ok.. So I now have my juicer and I’m now about to embark upon the current fad among my peers, a Juice Fast. I’ve done a bit of research and listened to others. So what do I actually think on this matter? To be blunt, I think this is just another fad diet or earthy detox trend. Now with that said, I do also believe there is some truth to this. The only reason I believe any truth is that for 10 days you are only taking in raw fruits and vegetables. So of course it will be packed with nutrients, minerals, awesome natural vitamins and very minimal fat (which could be good or bad).

Fruits and VegetablesWith this detox, diet, craziness, or whatever you want to call it, there are some serious flaws in my mind. For starters, it is extremely wasteful. From what I have seen almost equal proportions of pulp and juice come out and you are supposed to discard the pulp. So it will probably take twice as much produce to give you a full satisfaction.

Secondly, every fruit and vegetable has natural sugars in it. By juicing it you are still getting most of the sugars that were in the produce. Fructose aka fruit sugarNow combine that with the fact that you are now taking in twice the amount of food, you are getting twice the amount the sugars. Now add to it the fact that you do not have any fiber or other debris to help slow the intake of sugars into your body. This could start a chain reaction of things in a persons body. Especially if they are well overweight or have certain aliments.

Next, your body is only going to take in the nutrients it needs, so while this fast does supply the body with a steady stream of juicy nutrient enriched goodness, I think the body will expel most of it. My reasoning for this is that your body has been accustomed to a certain nutrient average over its lifetime. Now because we are a highly adaptive creature, our bodies will set limits, being maximum and minimum.Too Much or Too Little There is a minimum nutrient level for us to function and there is a maximum nutrient level for us to thrive. Now when we consistently hit the minimum level or lower, the body is going to begin to try to adapt to that level. If it is too far below, for a long time, we will get sick and die. But if it is right near its minimum most peoples bodies will adapt and their minimum and maximum levels will shift. The same thing would apply for the maximum. With the maximum, if you exceeded the maximum in extreme for an extended period of time it would probably overload the body and put too much stress on it, causing you to get sick and die. This why there are maximum doses on supplement containers and people still often overdose.

The over maximum death would probably be pretty hard to accomplish from your standard and varied fruits and vegetables (you must remember to vary your produce), even in a juiced state mainly due to the size of your stomach. The real maximum issue with a juice fast is that while you’re reaching and exceeding your maximum nutrient intake level, the body is going to try to only take what it needs and what it needs is probably similar what you have put in it for the past year. It will probably take a little more but it will try to ignore what it does not need.

Nutrient AbsorptionNow over time with this increased nutrient intake, your maximum and minimum levels will of course shift because the human body is quite adaptive. But here lies the biggest problem I see. If a person was to go on a quite extended juice fast (30+ days), they would probably get to a very ideal figure, but if the person was to all of a sudden have a dramatic relapse to their old diet for an extended time, it would probably shock the body and make them sick and then really accelerate a decline in their health. My reasoning for this is that it is probably a lot easier for the body to function with an abundance of nutrients compared to a lack in nutrients within its current minimum and maximum nutrient levels. There are a bunch of other issues I see but those are the main ones.

Now what do I hypothesize will occur with my juice fast? In regards to weight, I will probably loose about 7-10 lbs.  I believe this will mainly be due to the lower intake of fat and calories my body is accustomed to.  And also because I plan to lift and run throughout the fast, which I have neglected to do for quite some time.

In regards to mental state, I really doubt it does anything other than give me a sense of satisfaction from being so called, “healthy”.

Well, I am tired of typing and I’m sure you either stopped reading my guff by now or are tired as well, so I am going to go do something else now.

11 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment

The J8005 has arrived!

by brandon in Omega J8005, The Fasting Experiance

My Dream UPS Representative
My brand new Omega J8005 Juicer/Nutrition System has arrived. I wasn’t greeted with my dream UPS girl, but none the less my sexy, lean, mastication machine has arrived! I opened it up, all the parts as well as others I didn’t expect were included. I cant wait to use it!

Included were the following:

  • 1 The housing with motor
  • 1 Plunger
  • 2 collection bowls (same size)
  • 1 cleaning brush
  • 1 sieve
  • 1 white auger
  • 1 funnel mount for auger drum
  • 1 juicing screen
  • 1 blank screen (for non juicing purposes)
  • 2 round noodle nozzels (small and larger hole)
  • 2 flat noodle nozzles (small and larger hole)
  • 2 bread stick nozzles (one round. one oval)
  • 1 end cap
  • 1 manal




11 Jan 2012 1 Comment

Today is the day

by brandon in The Fasting Experiance Tags: , ,

Today is the day of all days. Well, perhaps not all days, but it is the day my new juicer comes in the mail. So for the webs sake this will be the day of all days just for today. I have been searching for a juicer for about 2 months now. The juicer I finally purchased was the Amazon Lightning deal Omega J8005 for $199. I had been searching for a good deal on a Omega J8006 for the past month, but could not pass up the great deal on the J8005.

Omega J8005The Omega J8005 is what is called a masticating juicer. To masticate is to reduce to a pulp through crushing or kneading. This device is basically like an old school meat grinder. It has an auger that pull the produce in and pushes it through while the augers grooves get smaller and smaller. It operates at around 80 rpm so it is very quicker and basically squeezes the juice out with very little oxidation. I like the J design series because it is very universal. Omega actually markets it as the total nutrition system. It is not just purely a juice, it also grinds, shreds, and processes.  I plan to make lots of nut butter and milks, fruit/vegetable sorbets, curry pastes, juice and may other items. I only hope it works as well in person as it does in my mind right now. Reviews were all good so I am still positive.

As I said, originally I wanted to get the J8006. But to be honest there are only a few differences between the two.

  1. The J8006 has an auger made from GE ULTEM, which is supposed to be 8 times stronger than the J8005 which is an industry standard hardened plastic
  2. The J8006 has a 15 year warranty compared to the J8005′s 10 year warranty
  3. The J8006 has an always visible handle compared to the J8005, which has a flip up handle
  4. The J8006 has increased the size of the accessory bowls form the J8005
  5. The J8006 has changed the shape of the feed bowl

Other than those 5 items, they are the exact same machine. Now I should also not that each version also has a twin. The J8006 has the J8004 and the J8005 has the J8003. The only difference between the twins are the color and the price. The J8006 and J8005 are both silver. The J8004 and J8003 are white and on average 20$-30$ cheaper. So with that said, the white ones are probably the ones you want to get.

I originally wanted a juicer because I like juice and it just seemed logical. Then about a month ago Alick (Ali and Mick) mentioned a quaint documentary called “fat, sick and nearly dead” or was it “sick, fat, and nearly dead”, whatever, it was one of those because the guys were all three fat, sick, and approaching death. Anyways over the next couple weeks I had a few conversations with the old clan and well, it all lead me the grand ole’ netflix where I began watching “sick, dead, and nearly fat”. Three things caught my attention:

  1. The trucker  transitioned from rather large to being in quite good health
  2. Australians are freakin crazy!

But on a less serious matter, the video did demonstrate in a very effective manner how our society has been pushed through a squeeze shoot of preservatives and over processed gunk. Not that it really takes this video to point that out, but being the glued to computer, phone, and television screen social republic we are, it was very easy to process. None the less… here are my extremely under edjumicated and quite contrived views from the documentary.

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

First, the results these now finely fit men received from such a twisted, crazy and cruel way of living, was astonishing! I think that anyone who is actually overweight will gain quite a bit of hope from this video. Now while I feel these are astonishing, the video did promote a marginal amount of excercise and a slim bit of what to put in the juice. It should have added more as there is no way, in my mind, you can go from quite large trucker to health guru in one year without doing a moderate amount of cardio, especially if your juice if full of natural suger! If you think you are going to start juicing with fruits or even most decent tasting vegetables, sit on the couch, watch “biggest loser”, and get to a healthy weight, you probably shouldn’t even attempt this. You will probably cause more harm to your body then helping. It takes work and effort to accomplish anything worth succeeding in.

Second, the human body is to some a very simplistic and elegant organic system. Stop right there!?!? To you it is the most complicated, worst designed, unpleasant, malice form of being ever contrived. Before you do anything to it, you better read the damn manual, not once but a few hundred times. The best part of the whole documentary, which I sure was just for liability, was the repetitive mentioning of seeking a physicians assistance and approval through the whole en devour. So let me repeat myself, If you looking to loose more than 10 pounds or fast for more than 10 days within a 2 month period, take any sort of prescription drug, or have any sort of medical or dental issues, seek a doctors assistance and approval before attempting a pure juice fast! And no matter what health or what you decide about the doctor, make sure you research what you are doing through multiple sources and definitely keep a good and solid log of what you do decide to do. Plan things out ahead of time and make sure it is somewhat intelligent (I know… easier said than done).

Third, your body is the most complicated, worst designed, unpleasent, malice form of being ever contrived. And with that in mind, no ones body is the same and no one will have the same effects as others. What you witness in the video can most definitely be achieved by a large percent of the population doing just what they did, eat/drink healthy and moderatly, stay active both mentally and physically, and stay positive. But, some others will probably have to do things differently with their own customization with respect to their body. For one thing, I highly believe more fiber along with the juicing will help most people immensely. Fiber, again to my under-educated mind acts as a spacer in the stomach, it will help to give the body the feeling of being full and it also acts as a displacement for slowly introducing the absorption of nutrients and sugar into the body so it is not shocked with too much goodness at once. It also helps the digestive system in evacuating your waste. So I would highly recommend anyone who is going to try juicing, to also mix some pulp in their drinks.

There were a lot of other things I processed through my minimal grey matter while watching the documentary, but now it is time to go watch the door for the elusive UPS man. Has anyone every seen a UPS girl? I really don’t think I ever have. Maybe I will be waiting for some UPS hottie bringing my contraption of joy. Well, it is called a masticator.

My Dream UPS Representative

Ok. I think that’s a good place to end.