Fast: Day 30
So, I didn’t update as much as I would’ve like to, but most people know already anyway because everyone was so involved with what I did. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support and understanding. Lots of people have asked me about it, called and mailed me about how I was doing and things like that are very necessary when doing something like this. I only made the full 30 days because of you guys. 
Weight : 126 kgs (-9 kgs)
Mood : Energetic, but mentally aching for some solid food 
Juice intake: At the end I drank a little less juice because my stomach couldn’t handle having so much juice on one day, so mostly I tuned down to 3-4 glasses of 500ml
Water intake: 3,0 ltrs per day
Exercise: daily a 30-45 minute walk (except since last saturday, when I brutally twisted my ankle)
After all, I can happily look back at this past month and can honestly say I have done a great job. I’m feeling a lot better, I have plenty of energy for everything, my skin isn’t so darn dry anymore and I even lost some weight. Losing the weight wasn’t exactly the main focus of this month, but of course it’s a great ‘side-effect’ to the juice-fast.
I think that with my new diet which is going to be implemented starting tomorrow, I will still include 1 glass of juice as a replacement of a meal every day, because I love the energyboost right after drinking one. For athletes, I can seriously consider drinking one before and after exercise, it works a lot better than the usual hydrants and shakes. From tomorrow on, I am going to try and go back to basics with all food; No food that’s been processed, organic if possible/affordable and of course try to eat the food as pure as possible. Aside from the fact that this is way more healthy than what I did before, it’s also a new challenge for me as a cook to try new kinds of food and recipes. Luckily, I have the internet at my disposal and lots of websites give tips and amazing recipes, like the Fruit Pursuit [1] for instance, which gives a fun to read blog about eating and living healthy with lots of tips and tricks and amazing recipes, which I know I’m going to try to make them all somewhere in the near future.
If I am invited for dinner somewhere, I’m not going to impose a strict diet for me on them and neither am I going to complain about the food, but for myself I’m going back to basic.
Bottomline for me is; Lots of fruits and vegetables, combined with beans and nuts. Less potatoes and grains, way less meat (and this will be my biggest challenge )and fish, and trying the shun the satured fats alltogether.
Again, I couldn’t have done it without you people, thanks for your support!
ps: I am probably going to do shorter juicefasts all around the year, perhaps 1 day every month. While shorter juicefasts are not as effective as the month I have done now, they are still enormous energyboosts and detoxing.
[1] http://www.thefruitpursuit.com/
For me an hour of low-intensity exercise twice a day and a low-carb diet worked wonders.
The two main challenges for me where finding two free hours each day and sticking to the low-intensity workout. But when you’re out of shape the key isn’t high intensity, it’s kickstarting your body by changing your routine.
Awesome to see your efforts and good luck.