We struck a deal!

After several days of pestering Aaron and showing him that I was going to be relentless until he caved, we made a deal. So I am putting away $50 a month that I would usually use for clothes, jewelry, going out to eat with friends, etc. for 3 months. Once that 3 months hits then Aaron has agreed to let me use my $150 and $150 of our money to get my juicer! Yay!

However I didn't want to wait around for 3 months so I went to the library yesterday and checked out The Gerson Therapy so that I could know exactly what I have to do and hopefully get started. Aaron's parents have a juicer, I don't think it's a masticating juicer but it's gotta be better than nothing right? At least I can get my tastebuds used to a super bland diet. I think I'm going to follow their breakfast and lunch plan and then do regular dinner with the hubs. I'll try to make dinner healthy too though. So basically it's fresh squeezed orange juice and oatmeal for breakfast, baked potato, apple-carrot juice, salad, and "special soup" for lunch. I'll throw in green juice somewhere in there too, maybe for dinner.

Even though I don't have cancer or any degenerative disease, which is what the Gerson Therapy is used for, there are still a few benefits I would like to achieve. I would like to...

Have more energy

Not be constipated

Have better skin

Have fewer headaches, or any kind of ache for that matter

Oh and did I mention coffee enemas? Yup! You are required to do coffee enemas to pull the toxins out of your body. So that should be real fun. I'm hoping to pick up my supplies this weekend and start next Monday. I'll post again once I start.

Here we go!

I have always thought I was a generally healthy eater, and compared to some people I am, however after watching a few documentaries and doing some of my own research I have decided my eating habits aren't all that great. But I also decided I need to take this 1 step at a time. I don't think I can adopt an all organic, totally vegan, raw diet overnight, maybe not ever. But if I stick with the motto "moderation in all things" I think I can improve my health while still treating myself once in a while. Then again who knows...maybe I'll feel so good treats will no longer be appealing...only time will tell.

So to start this journey, I'm going to start supplementing with fresh juices (that is, if my husband will let me spend $300 on a juicer, if not, this will be the first and last post, thus ending my experiment) All of the documentaries and books I have watched/read stress the importance of juicing, and I think it will be easier to add things to my diet rather than cut things out in the beginning.

From this I hope to gain overall better health, especially long term health. I just had my first baby and want to be apart of as much of her life as possible. I also want her to be healthy and establish good eating habits from the beginning. After living in Africa for a few months I am a firm believer that kids will eat anything as long as that's what they grow up with.

Hopefully as the journey progresses I'll be able to find things that work and things that don't, post good juice recipes, ways to make it budget friendly, etc. And in the event that someone reads this, maybe it will help them make a healthy change in their life also. :) But first things first...I must convince my husband to let me spend the money to start this adventure, wish me luck!