forks over straws

How Joe Cross did it for 60 days I will never understand. I couldn’t make it past one day of just juicing. And, luckily as it turns out, I didn’t have to. While I recognize there may be significant benefits to juicing, chief among them your body’s ability to very quickly and efficiently absorb key micronutrients, I’m not convinced…

when the urge to kill surpasses the urge to eat

It’s Day 4 of my one week Juice / Cleanse / Detox program. Holy shit this is hard. Like really, really hard. My intention when I started this on Monday was to take all my meals, for 7 days, in the form of juice. Late that afternoon, when a massive headache took its vice grip-like hold on…

from sugar high to crash and burn

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Last week, I celebrated meeting my goal of working out every single day of 2013, and simultaneously lamented my poor holiday food choices. In December I fell out of many of my (formerly) healthy habits, like starting my day with a green smoothie, drinking 10+ glasses of water, and eating loads of fresh…