"It took me a little while to get over the hump of being really hungry and irritated and loopy, and after about the third, fourth, fifth day, I was kinda cruising," he said.
I just think there's a bit more handling that needs to happen, and tying this event in at the end of the fast is a great way to celebrate."Īs seen in the award-winning documentary, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead (about an overweight and chronically ill guy who loses 60 pounds and completely cures himself of disease simply by juicing) the first few days of the fast are the hardest, and Cuevas' experience was no different.
So that tells me that there's great promise for it. It's a great learning experience for me, because I saw that I had 54 people or so join the fast, and about a fifth to a third actually succeed in it.
JUICE JAM SUPPORT PLUS
"I think that the juice fast plus the juice party is an excellent combination. He said he plans to initiate shorter group juice fasts in the future, and provide more education and guidance throughout the fasts to keep participants motivated. Sometimes you get stuck thinking that a juice is made only a certain way or you think a juice tastes like crap because it's made with "X-Y-Z," but you here see that you can put in "A-B-C," you could put "X-G-S," there's all kinds of combinations of numbers and letters that you can put in to make lots of juices or smoothies." "I think people learned that they can make all kinds of different smoothies and juices and diversify their options. We have raw vegans and vegetarians talking to people who aren't, exchanging ideas and communicating, so I think it was great," Cuevas said. "We had a lot of different pockets of people come through the door. Fasters and non-fasters were equally welcomed, so long as they paid the entrace fee: a bag of organic produce. It marks the end of a mass 5- or 7-day juice fast led by Cuevas via Facebook, which involved upwards of 50 people. The party was hosted by Alex Cuevas, vegan activist and founder of the forthcoming Choices Cafe. All told, the juicesters cranked out at least 25 pitchers of unique juice cocktails throughout the night, while raw vegan DJ Golden Del (AKA Jordan Franchini-Wolfe) spun smooth house music he likes to call "organic beats." Watch this video produced by Aiden Dillard for a vivid look at the shindig: Vegans, raw foodists, animal rights activists, open-mined laypeople, and eccentrics congregated to toast the fruits (or the juice of the fruits) of nature's genius, guzzling organic wheatgrass, sweet potato, carrot, strawberry, ginger, sunflower greens, celery, kale, beet, jalapeno, lemon, orange, and many other juices. Juice bartenders worked up a sweat as they chopped and fed pound after pound of organic produce into various juicing machines and blenders. This product was the center of celebration at the communal space above the soon-to-be-open Choices Vegan Cafe (379 SW 15th St.) Saturday night. In the world of puritan health foodies, Welch's grape, Capri Sun, and even Tropicana are not acceptable examples of "juice." The word, and associated terms like "juice fasting," "juicing," or "on the juice," instead refer to the nutrient-rich liquid produced by the complete removal of skin, pulp, pits, and fiber from a fruit or vegetable, through use of specialized juice-extracting machinery.
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