Update on the Juice Plus - 7 days in

I've been on the Juice Plus for exactly a week now and after 2 days, I started feeling more energy. After 3 days, I made it through my first 8 hours of sleep without having to wake up to go to the bathroom and haven't been woken up in the middle of the night since that first day. I also made it through an entire day at work without having to go Wed-Fri. I started marathon training this week, did 5 miles Monday, 6 miles Wednesday, and 8 on Saturday without having to stop. So basically, its a miracle, I'm feeling 97% of full health. I haven't felt this good since January.

Now is it the Juice Plus? I think it has to be. First of all, I can't believe its working at all, especially after only a few days of taking it! I'm even hesitant to write this post because its been such a short period of time, but I can't argue with how I'm feeling. I am going to give it a few more weeks before I go stand on the hill tops and shout about how great it is to everyone I know.

I've really restricted my diet (no veggies, only bananas for fruit, no fried foods, no pizza, no tomato type sauces, limited candy - a chubby kid needs his candy!) and alcohol intake (2-3 drinks per week) and feeling this good makes it really tempting to go out and throw down a couple beers and a couple starbursts, but I can't go there yet.

I'm so pumped right now, feeling alive and healthy! Colitis.... go away forever!

Is Juice Plus+ Legit?

I haven't updated the site in a while and I really wish I kept better track on here of how I've been feeling. Since my last post when I was put on all those different meds that made me feel like an elderly woman with a pill box, I have stopped taking all of them. It sounds like that's a good thing, but I'm still not 100%. In fact, I'm about 85% and I've been feeling the same for about a month. I stopped taking the Sulfasalazine May 16th because I was feeling a 'different' kind of stomach pains than I was feeling from the Colitis itself. After I stopped, I started feeling better, but still having the 'oh shit' feeling daily.

I talked to a friend that has Chron's which is a similar IBD, but effects the small intestine instead of the large intestine like Colitis. Anyways, this person has been taking Juice Plus, which is a supplement that is basically a bunch of vegetables and fruits dehydrated fully, crushed, and some of the fiber removed from it and all stuffed into a little pill sized capsule. I started taking the fruit, vegetable, and antioxidant capsules sunday night and they say it takes a few weeks to a few months, but eventually I will be 'amazed' by how great I feel. Normally, I wouldn't buy something like this, I would write it off as a gimmick, but there is a lot of research behind it and I can't eat fruits and veggies due to my problems, so why not give it a shot? Besides, none of the medicines they are giving me are helping and I'm still struggling with this flare-up since February.

I'm feeling tired and worn out all the time, not getting full nights of sleep because I'm waking up in the middle of the night at least once and sometimes multiple times. All of that, and I'm 31 now, getting old, need my beauty sleep! Hopefully this Juice Plus gimmick actually works. If this fails and I'm still having problems in 2-3 months, I'll have to go back to the doc to go to the next level of treatment. Yikes!

Hope you are all having healthy poops!