Re: 10-DAY smoothie fast/challenge

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YEA for you for taking massive positive action to improve your health - and

WELCOME to the group!

You might like to join the 30-day Green Smoothie Challenge and read past posts

to get some insight into how others do their Green Smoothies:

30DGSC/

Please keep us updated on your progress (and let us know if you're feeling

exhausted during " detox " so we can encourage you to " stay the course " :-)

Great planning by the way to keep Monday open if necessary - I can tell that you

are taking this very seriously, and your commitment will help you during the

hard times!

I am sensitive to wheat and have No Problems with the " grass " . The grain and

the grass are very different!

About the sprouts, I'd say experiment. Personally, I love to make a Green

Smoothie, add the sprouts whole then eat them out of the green smoothie with a

spoon. I love the texture of sprouts. Eating it like this is like having more

" sprout dressing " than sprouts! :-) I do the same thing with my " Blended

Salads " (check out my " Cold Green Soup " recipe here:

http://vitamixlady.com/recipes/

Since you have the dry grains container, I thought you might like to read this:

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tions_001327025225/ (look for the link titled, " Using the dry Container as a

Food Processor/Chopper " )

Also - be sure to bookmark this page:

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…and refer to it often! It is like a growing encyclopedia of collected Vitamix

Enthusiasts Wisdom!

Again, WELCOME!!!

Blessings,

Lea Ann Savage

Satellite Beach, FL

(321) 773-7088 (home)

(321-961-9219 (cell)

www.VitamixLady.com

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On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:27 PM, TrackerAz wrote:

After viewing the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead two nights ago I have

decided to do something similar for 10 days (Joe Cross, the narrator, did a

60-day juice fast) but with raw green juice smoothies rather than juicing.

I eat fairly well (very few processed foods and not a lot of sweets) but I am

about 60 pounds overweight at 62 years old and I'm ready to give myself a head

start on moving to a 50 to 75% raw food diet. The goal is to do smoothies for

breakfast and lunch and do a light dinner that includes some meats and dairy

(after the 10 days, that is). I start March 24th.

I decided to start on a Saturday because I understand that the first few days

you can feel a little weak and even have some headaches and stuff so I figured

I'd have Saturday and Sunday to rest, read, play and take care of myself, and

I've even cleared Monday to do the same if I need to.

I also made an appointment this week before I start with my naturopath and my

chiropractor for tips and support since they both know me so well and are just

the greatest health care professionals I've ever known. I do not take any

prescription drugs and have no chronic conditions except mild arthritis and

sciatica. I do also have occasional bouts of uticaria which worsen or may be

triggered when I eat a lot of wheat, we think.

Anyway, armed with my Vitamix, the Green Smoothie Bible and Green Smoothie

Revolution I'm going to give this thing a real college try. I feel that this is

the online group where I can get some great support so I'm sharing this with you

and thought I'd update you on my progress going forward.

Questions: If you're allergic to wheat is it likely that you'll have a problem

with sprouted wheat (wheat grass)? I do fairly well with Spelt. I just started a

bunch of sprouts (mung beans and a mix of alfalfa and other seeds)...how much

should I put in a smoothie per person? Does this constitute a " green " for that

smoothie? I have wild fennel coming up like crazy right now in my garden. This

is not the kind that makes the big bulb but the wild kind that's all foliage.

Can I use this as a green in a smoothie? How much per person (hubby is doing one

smoothie a day with me now and wants to continue doing that throughout (yay for

him!) so sometimes I'll be making for one and sometimes for two. I'm glad I got

the full Vitamix package from Costco with all three containers!

Thanks for listening!