I watch advertisements and think I need things when I don't really, and one of those things was a slower juicer. About 10 years ago, I bought a really good juicer, and I used it all the time. I'm going to start that practice back up again. I had stopped for a long while because I mostly juice carrots, and I get REALLY good carrot juice at Sam's for next to nothing. It's a week's supply for $4.92 -- c'mon, you can't hardly juice the actual carrots for that -- or can you? (can I?)
Kroger grocery has had 2-pound bags of carrots on sale for literally .19 a bag for at least a month. If I juice the entire bag of carrots, it's enough for 3 servings, so if I bought 3 bags a week even, that would be literally under $1.00 after tax. Wow. Anyway, that's another story worth bringing to the forefront. I need to juice my veggies and fruits, and when I do, I add things like psyllium husk, hyaluronic acid, and a few other supplements that I have in liquid or powder form to get the digestion in shape as well as trigger the GLP and GLP-1 hormones to lose weight.
You've seen the injections you can get online or through your doctors that help with losing weight. I'm not giving myself shots. I'm not a diabetic, and I don't have experience poking needles into my body, so I'm not doing that. I'll do liquid drops, solid pills, or powder, but yeah, not gonna do the jabs! Nope! I'll find another way.
The best way for me is to drink a juice of solid vegetables and fruits daily, so that's the go-to. I've done it in the past and felt really good, so it's time to bring it back. That was my thought process over this past week when I decided to buy a slow juicer, one that is smaller than my older machine and one that has an auger versus the spinning diamond cut razor sharp cone thing that my old model uses. The older model is fantastic, but it's big, bulky, takes up space, and I just wanted something new.
I bought one, I won't say which one, but APPARENTLY, I didn't really look at it when I saw it online. When it arrived the next day by Amazon, it was FAR too narrow for my liking. I would have to cut up every last piece of fruit before loading it. MAYBE a stem of celery could fit through the "mouth" to be augered. No, thank you. It was repacked and sent back. I will tell you that it wasn't repacked as nicely as it came. I'm not one to repack anything; don't expect me to learn how to do that. Not happening.
Amazon is GREAT, and they had an option to deliver one on the SAME day, so I took that option. I ordered a bigger machine, it was a bit more expensive, but worth it for me, if I was going to have room to put all my veggies and fruit through the mouth. Well, it came to the house, I opened it, and yes, I drug it out of the box - destroying any hope of ever putting it back into the box the same as it had been sent. The machine was good -- very good indeed -- until it wasn't.
When I took all the pieces out of the box, set them to the side, and looked at them, I had a bear of a time placing the top part onto the machine or auger part - there was even a little red dot on the side to line up with the other red dot for proper placement. I'm not kidding, I couldn't get it to go into place. If I was fighting with it from the get-go, it was somewhat repackaged and sent right back to where it came from. I will NOT be inconvenienced by a machine that I bought to be less inconvenienced.
The UPS store is very used to seeing me. I order and return quite a lot of things if they don't meet my satisfaction once I've seen it, held it, tried to use it, or in some cases, I even use it, but if it's not going to work out - it goes back! I love Amazon. I will likely never stray again -- sorry, it's becoming a hardened fact in my life.
While online shopping for groceries is my go-to now as well, online shopping for 90% of whatever it is that I need is what I do now. I drive my car less than 2x a week, and I may go less than 2 miles when I do. This fact upsets my Progressive Accident-Free app on my phone; I drive so little that it kicks me out of the app at least once a month. I want the discount, so I keep adding myself to it. If I'm not driving, I'm not apt to be in an accident, so they have to include me in their discount!
Anyway, the juicer thing happened. They were both sent back today, and I pulled out the big honkin' monster that I have for juicing and made myself a nice apple, cucumber, and celery juice with all the fixings -- I'm so healthy (she giggles). Thank God because He's the one who made the vegetables and fruits to begin with -- He also made the supplements. When I think about it, and I do, I remember being and feeling so much better when I gave up the carbs, took in more veggies, ate more nuts and fruit, and drank copious amounts of lemon or lime water -- it's time to get back to it.
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