Juice diet Day 2

Here I am on the 2 nd day of my juice diet. I was invited to a friend's house for the day and she is an amazing cook and they are from the southern part of Indian. So you can guess where this is going. More of that later.

Yesterday when I had my glass of juice, I could not resist a small roti. I forgave myself for it. That is the attitude I have decided I will take. Whenever I fall off the wagon, I will forgive myself and get back on the wagon, instead of feeling down and depressed and abandoning the wagon all together. I think this is a better way as I am sure to stick with it longer.

What I was feeling last night was strange. I was actually looking forward to my breakfast glass of juice. I was thinking of what I will put in it and how it will taste. It is the same feeling I have every day about everything I eat. I think of a taste that I want to have at that particular meal and then I go ahead and either cook it or buy it. But I do think about food a lot. Now I feel that for my food thought to have changed a little to the juice thought is a good thing. But in the back of my head a small voice is going, ' parathaaaaa, muli ka paratha, alu ka paratha, gobi ka paratha, roti with subzi, roti just like that, mmmmmm noooodles, mmmmmmmmmm ravioli, mmmmmmmm croissants, bagels and the list goes on.

At the moment for me to think of fighting this voice is difficult. So I have decided that instead of fighting this voice, I will add the juice as a part of my diet. I will have three big glasses of juice a day. And if I feel like having any of the other foods, I will still eat them and not feel guilty about it. I believe after some time my body will adjust to the juice and I will myself slowly reduce the other foods and be more interested in only fruits and vegetables.

Breakfast today was as follows:
2 green apples
2 carrots
1lb Indian gourd
2 sprigs of mint

It tasted really good. I feel really bad throwing away all the pulp. So after I had taken the juice of the apples, I put the pulp back in it. Just could not throw all the goodness away.

Then around 2pm I picked up Jayatidi and her daughter Jhinuk and went to our other friend Raji's house. We were all very hungry by then. She served us curd rice, bisibele bhaat which is essentially spiced rice with loads of vegetables and lentil, aviyal which a mixed vegetable with generous portion of coconut in it and a potato dish. Guess what I did. I ate the food. Yes I did. I did avoid the potato. But I ate a lot of the aviyal and the bisibele bhaat. They were simply great. Before today I had never understood why people like bisibele bhaat. Now I know why. There is something about great home cooks which can never be copied in a restaurant.

Then we went out to the grocery store to get some things and when we got back, around 6:30pm, Raji made the softest, most delicate and fluffiest idlis with sambhar and chutney. Hmmmmmmmm I ate that too followed by the most flavorful south Indian filter coffee which she had brought from Chennai.What a treat to the senses.

We reached back home around 8:30pm. By 9:30 I felt hungry again. So for dinner I made the following juice:
1 Carrot
2 Tomatoes
1/2lb spinach
1 big zucchini
2 cucumbers
1inch cube of ginger
2sprigs of mint

As I am writing this, I am enjoying this delicious juice. I am craving some carb. I will eat few spoonfuls of the bisibele bhaat that Raji gave me to bring home. In the future I will have the will to say, 'no I will not take any food back with me', but today was not one of those days.

So on the 2 nd day of my juice diet, I have eaten lots of good food. I have tried to watch what I eat.

I feel good about the fact that I have incorporated juice in the diet.

Tomorrow is another day and lets see what it holds for me.

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!