How to use your Healthy Juicer

Growing Wheatgrass

What you will need:

1. Wide-Mouth Mason Jar (the bigger the better)
2. Black Trays w/slots
3. Black Trays w/out slots
4. Organic Hard Red Winter wheat Berries (actually seeds)
5. Sprout Toppers
6. Organic Soil

Step 1. Soak 1 1/2 cups of seed in water for 16-24 hours (this yields approx 8-10oz of juice)

Step 2. Rinse 2-3 times a day until little "tails" start to grow

Step 3. Fill slotted black tray half way with organic soil

Step 4. Place several rocks in the tray with no holes

Step 5. Put the slotted tray into the other tray with rocks in it

Step 6.  Place the seeds that have started the tail on top of soil (do not cover w/soil)

Step 7. Water the tray until you can hear the water draining to the bottom tray

Step 8. Cover with dark plastic or a dark cloth (for three days)

Step 9. Water generously everyday in the morning and mist at night

Step 10. After three days uncover the grass. (grass color will be a yellowish color)

Step 11. Continue to water and mist until the grass blade splits.

Step 12. One blade has split Harvest the entire tray and place into a plastic bag

Step 13. Juice

Here are some pictures of my grass:

I cover my seeds for three days with an extra black tray but you can use anything dark. If mold starts to grow put a fan on your grass.

This grass has just been uncovered after three days in the dark

 This grass is ready to be harvested  because the blade has split

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This is grass that I have harvested. Keeps up to 14 days in refrigerator

Hello Again

I have been reading some fabulous books! One of my favorites: Eating For Beauty by David Wolfe. Great book. I could not put it down. I am slowly going to add some of these super foods into my diet:
Cacao
Goji Berries
hemp
figs
olives

He also gives examples of Alkaline and Acidic fruits and veggies and how to eat them to best absorb their nutrients. This book talks much about the ph of your blood and what foods to eat to ensure your blood is slightly alkaline. (similar to the wheatgrass stay tuned)

Next.....Finding some good recipes for my new foods!

I'm so proud of my Mom! She got on her treadmill for 15 minutes this morning! What a Jock

A Must Read

Outsmarting the Female Fat cell by Debra Waterhouse is an amazing book for women who would like to lose weight permanently without "Dieting". She has six strategies to the OFF (outsmarting Female Fat) plan.

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• Aerobicize Your Fat Cells
• Stop Dieting and Start Eating
• Feed Your Body Not Your Fat Cells
• Shrink and Multiply Your Meals
• Become a Daytime Eater
• Fat-Proof Your Diet

Debra Waterhouse gives many real life examples of excuses and how to over come them. She takes the reader through a three month plan where you slowly integrate each one of these strategies into your life. This is not a diet plan this is a a lifestyle.

The key points I got out of the book are:

1. Stop starving yourself. When a female goes on a diet her body is actually storing more fat. Her fat cells enlarge, her metabolism slows down and she gains weight. Waterhouse goes into great detail on the science of this process and it is well worth reading. If you are hungry EAT
2. Stop eating after 6pm. 75% of calories are burned between 6am and 6pm. 25% are burned between 6pm to 6am
3. Do Not Over Eat.  Anything is fattening if you over eat it. Your body will store extra calories whether it is fruit or cake.
4. Exercise

It Takes Time! There is no such thing as a quick fix. Dieting does not work. Starving does not work.The last few months I have taken the information in this book and have gave it a shot. It works. I'm not starving. I have energy and I feel great. There are going to be times when I break the rules but there is always a new day to start again.

Source: Outsmarting The Female Fat cell by Debra Waterhouse M.P.H ,R.D

Here is where (some of the time) comes in

Friday = It was bad, real bad!

Breakfast:

• bagel w/ cream cheese + H20

Lunch

• egg and cheese sandwich on an English muffin + a can of coke

Dinner

• small veggie Italian w/ lays chips + Gatorade

Dessert

• cake!

NO EXERCISE

Need I say more?

Wednesday

Breakfast

• 2oz wheatgrass+ banana+H20

Snack

• granola + grapes

Lunch

• Half ham pita

snack

• hummus + carrots+ 2 cups of broccoli

Dinner

• Out to Chipotle for a cheese quesadilla + guac

Exercise:

•  elliptical for 30 minutes.

*I miss my Chia! Life is not the same. Back on board tomorrow!