22 Aug, 2010
Ramping up the LGS 85% Challenge again!
Posted by: Angela Leeds In: *JUICING|*Live Green Smoothie 85% Challenge
(The Floridian view above my laptop whilst working on the lanai...)
I’m picking up where I left off with documenting my own Live Green Smoothie 85% Challenge activities, including what I’m eating, my estimated cost, and any exercise or other commentary that seems relevant to the experience.
Last told, I documented through Day 17, but I stayed with it for about a month, at which point funds and some other personal matters became restrictive and I had to ease off. But… not one to back off forever from something I care about, here we go again! 
I’ll start with tomorrow’s activities.
I don’t know to what extent anyone is benefiting from this information, but I imagine that ultimately it provides a sense of what how regular people — not just 100% raw “rawkstar” types — can fit living foods in greater quantities into their very real lives. And as I am tracking cost estimates and averages, that’s a decent point of reference as well, I’d say.
For anyone who’s doing the LGS 85% Challenge as well… feel free to comment! I’d love to see some discussion happening on the site!
New Jack La Lanne “Powerjuicer Elite” Juicer!
My new juicer arrived this week, so you’ll be seeing a lot of fresh juices included in my 85% Challenge for the time being. The juicing isn’t formally part of the challenge — I find that the smoothies are better, generally speaking, primarily because they are far more convenient, which means that someone has a greater chance of staying with the routine of adding raw & living foods to their diet.
But I’ve been wanting to do a “juice feast” for a couple years, and am quite keen on adding as much fresh juice as I can right now. Juicing was my first “raw love”, going back to the late 80s, and it’s just tops for rejuvenation and revitalization.
100% “juice feasting”, however, requires a financial commitment I’m not currently able to make, so I’ll just be including as much fresh juice as I can.
My first batch of juice: a “Purple Gingerade”, made with the following:
* Two large chunks of fresh ginger root
* Large bunch kale
* Big stack of carrots
* 2 large beets
* pile of red grapes
* large handful cherries (didn’t even have to de-stone them — the juicer did the work for me!)
* a couple apples
Made about 3/4 gallon, which I drank over two days. Finished off the last of it tonight, topped with some “premium”, super-gingery ginger ale. Yummm.
