Luis:

Week Two:

This week was better, however because of my gym workout's. I lift heavy so I need more protein for my muscles. Though I take Truman and Crystals Greens along with M.S.M along with L-Glutamin . This week I am down to 222.5, which feels great. Both Crystal and myself drink several smoothies and juice's each day.

Crystal, has checked my eyes since the start of our juice diet and she has found the white of my eyes have cleared up some what.

Week Three:

This week I still feel the same. But have found my biggest problem to be that I don't drink enough water. I drink only Kegan water which is absorbed by my body better. My lips don't dry up like they normally do when I drink regular tap water.

I've lost another 4.3 lbs which puts me at 218.2. I do look leaner and healthier. The best combination of juice the I like is Wheat-Grass, Beet, Avocado, Figs, Mango 2 Tsp of Greek Yogurt, Banana. It seems to pick me up quickly and carry me for about three hours. However if I don't drink enough water, it seems to me to be all for naught because I get very weak.

These last three weeks, outside of some stresses, I have been sleeping better and more soundly.

30 day GLD completed!

I have completed my 30 day GLD!  I feel that I am still on it!  I have only eaten one meal.  That was a salmon dinner with boiled potatoes and veggies.  I had a smoothie this morning.  I missed my popcorn, so I had that yesterday.  But all in all I have had 95% raw so far.  I am sure that will go down in time.  I am sharing before and after sclera pictures of both Luis and I.  He really shows a lot of improvement and he is excited for the results both seen and unseen.  I have stabilized on my weight at 130 lbs.  I have plenty of energy and I am grateful that I can now fully recommend this to others, which I have. I was able to keep my goal of 8:30 or better pace on my runs throughout the GLD and still do my intense Tue and Thurs "Fit Camp" workouts.

3 WEEKS IN

Crystal:  I am 3 weeks into my fast and have had mostly good days. I am very happy today with my workout.  I ran 5 miles in a 8:08 pace..and I felt great!  It is evening now and I am still feeling really good.  This liquid diet is very doable while still working out.  The trick is to have more smoothies than raw juice, because, lets face it, if you can run and work out, then you are not in bad enough shape to do a real serious cleanse.  And that is where I am at.  I still have to drink enough calories to have the energy to workout.  I learned the hard way on that.  Last night, I made the Banana cream pie recipe.  Wow!  It was delicious!  I think that contributed to me having the stamina to run faster today.  There has only been one day that I have not had a BM.  Again, having smoothies is helping that.  Last night and one other day, I seemed a little more tired than usual, but with rest, the next day has been great.  Overall, I feel I have more energy.  I tweeked my back Saturday, but I recovered from it very quickly.  I was pleasantly surprised.  I have been having at least 8 glasses a day of water which I am hoping helped.  I am still having the gassy stomach though..I hope that can subside.  I have lost 7 lbs.

Almost 2 weeks in. Also Crystal's before and after

Crystal:  It will be two weeks tomorrow.  Time sure flies when you are feeling good!

I did discover something this week.  Every night I had been making a smoothie and then the next day I would generally workout.  On Thursday night, I didn't so when I went to run the planned 6 miles-I could only run 5 miles and I had to push myself to get that in.  I still ran a 8:30 average pace, but it wasn't easy as it usually is.  So now I know to eat...drink...something around 7-8 pm.  That way I have enough energy to do my workouts or run. Luis had the same problem so hopefully he will do the same.

I have managed to have BM's everyday. I think it is because I am having more smoothies, which has more in it than just juice.  I have lost about 6 pounds.  Again, I am not trying to lose it, but it is just coming off.

I have been taking Sclera pictures each week so I can monitor the results. Here are mine when we started:

BEFORE LLaQ

BEFORE LLoQ

BEFORE LMQ

BEFORE LUQ

These are pictures of the left eye.

Luis's BEFORE AND AFTER LEFT SCLERA

LLaQ BEFORE

AFTER

LLoQ BEFORE

AFTER

LMQ BEFORE

AFTER

LUQ BEFORE

AFTER