Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

I think I've gone crazy! It all started when I was home sick from work one day and decided to watch the documentary "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" which had been sitting, unwatched, in my Netflix instant queue for a long time.

I have no idea what made me watch it, or even put it in my queue to begin with, but the documentary was very interesting and informative. It is about a man from Australia who was living with an auto-immune disease and was generally unhealthy. He decided to take an extreme approach and go on a juice-only fast for 60 days.

Along his journey he met a very unhealthy truck driver who had the same disease as him and he gave the man his number when/if the man decided to make a change in his life. For some reason, I identified with this truck driver. He was fat and sick and tired of being fat and feeling sick all the time.

After watching the documentary, I went online to the website associated with the film (www.jointhereboot.com) and learned that they have a number or diet programs listed (of varying lengths of time). I decided that I really wanted to try one so I settled on the 10 day program. It isn't an all juice diet like the guys did in the documentary but it is a combination of eating fruits and veggies and drinking freshly made juices.

The first thing I had to do was buy a juicer (since I didn't have one) and I did a little research before setting on a Breville juicer. Next up was making a grocery list and going to the store. I have to admit that this first trip to the store was PAINFUL! I decided to only buy for the first 3 days but I still filled up my cart with practically the whole produce section! When I checked out the total came out to $175. FOR THREE DAYS OF FOOD! See what I mean -- painful! This darn economy!


I decided to start on a Sunday, because the Saturday before I was going to be in Tucson all day for a Broadway in Tucson show and of course I would have my "last meal" that day.


So now I'm all ready for this crazy adventure. I'm a little scared because I love eating meat and I love dairy (both of which I won't be having for the next 10 days). I'm not really doing this to lose weight, although I hope to lose weight -- if that makes sense. I'm doing this as a jump start for eating healthier, as a way to shock my body into walking d0wn a healthier path.

I'm going to weigh myself Sunday morning (starting day) and then not again until the morning after the last day. I'm not going to share my weight here, as I am too chicken, but I will post how much I lost (if any) at the end. I'm going to try to post my progress every day so stay tuned for the progress reports.