To Juice or Not to Juice??

Rebooting is used for many things, you can reboot your computer   maybe to add some programs to make it run better! You can also reboot your phone (if you have a smart phone), because it is running very slow and in hopes it will stop working on a snail pace you reboot! Rebooting something can improve it's function, to make it's performance better.

So why can't we reboot our bodies and make it perform at it's best, the way God created it? Well that is what my juicing journey is about rebooting my body to get the most from what God has given me, after all I was made in His image and my body is a temple I shouldn't be so careless as to what goes in whether food, drink, things I watch or listen to!

²⁶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

²⁷So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Gensis 1:26-27

¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19

We are His creation and out of all the wonderful things He created, we are by far the best thing our bodies work in such a way that I find so interesting. Just think about a woman who is blessed with carrying a child inside her belly, and how the baby gets all their nutrients from what we consume it's just amazes me! If our bodies are important enough that God would allow women (I know not all women get this blessing) to carry another human life and trust us enough to fill ourselves with good nutritious foods to help this baby grow then why don't we treat it important? I think of all the bad things I stuffed into my mouth with the excuse of "the baby wants to eat it," it really just makes me say to myself hello who is in control here your cravings or you!

This is what the enemy does to us, he uses the things that we are the weakest in and for a lot of people that happens to be food and we will include sodas and any thing else that is chemically made or altered!

We don't consume nearly enough fresh fruits and veggies on a daily and in fact a lot people don't eat any at all and because of this we live very unhealthy lives our immune system has no nutrient to help fight off diease and sickness. What is crazy to me the fact that we may even know we are sick and that changing our eating habits could result in healing our bodies, yet we don't change our habits. God made our bodies with it's own antibodies white blood cells they fight off infections but when they have no nutrients they are weakened. One of the many ways they are weakened is poor diet and all the processed foods and drinks even fruits juices they are so processed that there is no nutritional value  left in it. I don't think we realize all the toxicans we put in our bodies when we consume all the junk food we eat and drink.

Our bodies in normal function, produce toxins. This is fine, as long as our body's ability to eliminate these toxins is operating normally. All toxins created by the body or put into the body must be eliminated in order for us to be healthy. Our bodies normally eliminate toxins through the kidneys, liver, stomach, small intestines, and the skin (perspiration).

When toxins are allowed to accumulate, they cause the immune system to be suppressed, and the body becomes acidic. Accumulated toxins that have not been flushed out or eliminated allow the body to create an environment where illness and disease can flourish.  

If we are clogging up our system it can't function the way God made it too, it is why Americans are sick, over weight and dying. People may not agree with me on this but we have become lazy and careless of our bodies. We are slowly killing ourselves and passing on our bad habits to our children and in return will bring on a more obese, sick and unhealthy genration than we  have now.

This is why I have started my juicing of the the fresh fruits and veggies and drinking only water, I want to cleanse/detox my body of all the hamburgers, pizzas, cakes and sodas that I have ingested over my life span of 28 years. I couldn't tell how many of the above items I have consumed in just the last year other than A LOT but I could tell you my fruit and veggie intake was probably not even a 1/3 of what I needed. This is common for most Americans in fact a Gallup poll released Friday found that 55.9 percent of Americans reported eating five or more serving of fruits or vegetables at least four days in a week in May of this year. That number was 57.8 percent in May 2010.

Produce consumption is down the most among Hispanics, young adults, seniors, and women this year compared with 2010, the poll found. That is what we need in a day actually we need 3-5 servings of veggies and 2-4 servings daily with that being said juicing is a great way to consume the amount needed daily.

 I have been doing nothing but the fresh juices and I am on day 5 of my day 10 challenge, and days 1-2 went great I just had some headaches and little sick to my stomach, days 3-4 I was very tired and didn't want to do anything. Now I am on day 5 which has been great I have had energy to get some cleaning and washing done and I don't feel tird or sick. I challenge everyone to try the reboot program it is not easy but as it says in the Bible we have self control, often we just don't practice it. If you would like to see what the reboot program is google Joe Cross and you can read up on it and you can sign up for a program fit for you! Doing this doesn't mean I can never again eat something that I want, but I am doing this for a healthy life style change, it's not logical to say I will never again eat a slice of pizza or enjoy a piece of cake again that just won't happen. What  I am saying is that I can retrain my brain to make better choices, and to enjoy this amazing creation God has created and allow it to perform at it's best by putting in the best fuel (foods) for it to run off of!! So thank you for taking the time to read this and I ask that you please be in prayer for me as a continue on this journey I feel God wants me to travel in order to appeciate the body He has given me!!

 ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23