It's the end of the orange project!!

In total ive munched…. 295 carrots!!!

I'm sorry ive had a recent rubbish problem with the blogging its just towards the end I was suffering from carrot depression and they drove me to madness…

Ive been so sick and tired but finally celebrated with a tub of Ben and Jerry's and a drunken night on the Toon!

The orange project has been so much fun… In the begging it was great especially my 15 seconds of fame… Then I convinced myself I was going to die... Then I convinced myself I wasn't…Then in the end I was just sad…ive had a huge amount of support and I love that… I had a couple of haters but loved that too!

I plan to post a conclusion and take some final pics

I will also do a FAQ

I urge! Someone else to do a human experiment! (But be better with the myspace thingJ)

Sorry to Sky news that I didn't get in touch my phone has been broke… I did love this though! http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1249959,00.html?f=rss

People to thank…

Nana…for my carroty food

Mother…Is so disappointed with me

The Blender…couldn't have done this without you

Rob… for trying to make me a website and convincing me to do the mission

Alan…also trying to make me a website and helping me get through carrot depression

Kyle… convinced me to go on the news which I hated but cheers

Disco…for the hate campaign

All the supporters

Almost done im getting oranger too effing sick of carrots! kill me...

more pics tomoro... promice :)

Carrot Count

245

Day 25

I haven't been online for a while, I know im always full of excuses but ive been far too drunk and our internet has been down.

Nothing much has happened in our house I drank bicarb soda and vinegar last night that was fun… I recommend it, it makes big explosions in your mouth. ive just been working and getting essays done had a few small drunken get together in the house.

It has taken me ages to get some pics that actually show my hands as orange, they are very orange and people really can't believe it when I show them! When I take a pic though they just look dirty…

ive finally got a half decent one! I will try and get someone's better cam later tonight and take a good one!

Day 1

Day 12

Day 21!

This pic is a little darker (difficult to get the same light)

As for the carrots ive come to the conclusion that the only way i will get them down these days is by blending them. for the past 4 days or so ive done not but eat them like this and it gross... :(

Carrot Count

205

Day 21

(200 mark big cheer)

My hands are deffo going orange i cant wait to get a decent camera to show every1!

Our little friend disco posted a new bulleton saying how every 1 is abusing me? and pleading his buds to join his hate cmpaign

I did however love this debate that i read when i got up this morning think the best thing for it is a vote... reply yes to keep him (bless him he does amuse us.) or no if you think enough is enough (its getting boring now love.)

I ate 10 carrots today! its hard to get the carrots in with all the hard core revision im doing at the mo...

Duffy gave me ths i promice to try it:

Spicy Carrot Soup ingredients list:
8 carrots, roughly chopped.
5 celery sticks, cut into pieces.
2 cloves of garlic, chopped.
1 large onion, chopped.
4 cups of water.
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 teaspoon of curry powder.
Salt.

Instructions for Spicy Carrot Soup:
Heat up the olive oil in a frying pan; then fry the chopped garlic and chopped onion for 4-5 minutes.

Add a teaspoon of curry powder, then stir.

Add all of the remaining ingredients except the salt and cook until the vegetables are tender.

Mix in a blender until the soup is smooth.

Add salt to taste and serve.

nice recipe for some spicy carrot soup if your still on the 10 carrot a day initialization period this is 4/5 of your daily intake of Daucus Carota.

lol xxx

This is good too: http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/laser.html

Carrot Count

135

Day 14

I dyed my hair today… kind of orange but will match my skin I guess

10 carrots today all blended… we really need a shop…

There is this hilarious little myspacer out there who makes me laugh so much and has started a little hate campaign about me…bless…

Carrot Count

125

Day 13

I've been working and revising the past 2 days forgot to take carrots to work both days so ive been starving myself of carrots till around 7 and putting all 10 in a blender and downing them before bedtime…

Im a bit disappointed with the pics… ive got paler rather than oranger… my hands look a little rosier? But im going to blame this on a cold day. The camera also just pales everything out i do belive my hands have a yellow tinge but it dissapears on the camera but im sure we will see a difference before long.

Day 1

Day 12

Day 1

Day 12

My posts till Friday will be very short (exam day!)

Carrot Count

115

Day 12

Ive finally decided I hate carrots… they make me wretch with every mouthful I doubt I will ever eat another carrot once this is over,

Okies… today im in a much better mood, well I am now… I wasn't earlier, some columnist in the Echo wrote mean stuff about me doing a publicity stunt, so ive decided not to have anything more to do with the press radio etc…

I AM going to complete the orange project and figured I was only feeling ill yesterday because of the death and gloom emails.

I feel SUPER today J

We DO have photos to post but ive lost the Bluetooth thingy for my laptop…

I munched 10 carrots today in 2 and half pints of carrot juice (big carrots) and I feel Grrreat!

Carrot Count

96

Day 10

(A little behind target but almost 100! Superb!)

I woke up this morning feeling very dehydrated and hung over (I wasn't on the lash last night) ive been in bed most of the day I'm full of flu and not in the mood for carrots.

I feel upset when I think of TOP at the moment, I'm getting a huge amount of emails telling me I'm going to die or do myself serious liver damage, I found out today that I only have 1 liver so this worries me a little. My main worry is how thirsty I am im unsure whether to blame the carrots.

I found this on www.carrotmuseum.co.uk

Though the yellowing of the skin from indulging in a heavy dose of carrots is seldom serious and will disappear in a few days, continued carrot gorging can cause medical problems. In 1974 one unfortunate English health advocate named Basil Brown consumed 10 gallons of carrot juice and took 10,000 times the recommended RDA of vitamin A in a period of 10 days. Those 10 days were the unfortunate man's undoing--his skin turned bright yellow and he died of severe liver damage.

Pro-vitamin A is converted to vitamin A in the body. It is true that drinking more than five glasses of carrot juice per week may cause the skin to yellow slightly. This is simply a manifestation of the toxins that the liver is excreting. As an overall tonic and rejuvenator, carrot juice, in moderation, can't be beat.

The good thing about beta-carotene overdosing, is that the body doesn't convert the excess to vitamin A.  If this were the case, serious toxicity problems, such as liver damage, would occur. Instead, the excess carotene accumulates over a period of weeks in the skin, primarily on the palms of hands and feet, lending a yellow-orange hue.

The amount of carotene that causes notable skin colour changes varies, but one study showed that approximately 50 milligrams daily led to discolouration in about 10 days. The skin discolouration is completely harmless, except perhaps to friends who may find this appearance startling.
While this orange skin is not a threat to health, the over-emphasis on one source of beta carotene, from carrots/juice, is a concern. You are missing out on health benefits from the family of carotenes and other phytochemicals by not eating a variety of vegetables (such as tomatoes, kale, spinach, winter squashes, broccoli and romaine lettuce) and fruit (including apricots, tangerines, watermelon, cantaloupe and grapefruit).

I'd love it if people would comment on this.

I'd like to apologise to the 3 radio stations I dropped in this morning. Simply my phone battery died and I just wondered why people hadn't rang me, im not the brightest spark.

I only just managed 6 carrots today but I will do a catch up.

We still haven't got around to taking this weeks photo's we will try our best to do this tomorrow.

Carrot Count

86

Day 9

You wouldnt belive what a couple of days i have had! im on the front page of the sunderland echo how strange! anywho with all the different media contacting me i plan to up the anti a bit and try my best to overdo the 300 target!

anywho ive munched 20 carrots over the past 2 days

http://www.sunderlandtoday.co.uk/Vi...ticleID=1962608

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c...apony/cover.jpg

as i said above im getting all kinds of phone calls its mad!

i will update tonight!

Carrot Count

68

Day 7

I blended 6 carrots to take to work this morning and ate another 6 blended when I got home that makes a total of 12! The most in one day yet! I feel very sick, my belly is bloated and i'm very tired…

<3

Im still having the strangest dreams and waking up early i blame this on the carrots,

<3

Carrot Count

48

Today I woke up and forced myself to have carrot juice with pulp made from 6! Carrots!

I gave some of this to my cat... and it made him twitch....

Later I had one carrot fried in butter... not too nice but different,

Again I had more carrot juice (2 carrots)

Photo day is getting closer (Wednesday) and im dead excited to see if im any orangier.

Carrot Count

36

Day 4

I had a very strange dream and I woke up very early, i do feel this is somehow somthing to do with the carrots...

I had somemore of that carrot juice im so fond of (3 carrots) then later i had some carrot soup (2 carrots) made by my nana <3

Later more juice...(3 carrots)

i didnt feel like i had worn myself out today so later before bed 1 raw unpeeled unwashed carrot.

i feel less hungry than i usually do i think this is because im  more regularly i also feel a little thinner i never eat my 5 a day but i might even keep it up after this experiment is over...

I noticed that my nails were going orange... i think its the beta-caroteine but alan says its just because ive been cutting carrots... we will see...

Carrot Count

27

Day 3

I went to work this morning with 1 raw and peeled carrot with a thousand islands dressing dip. It was gross. i deffinetly prefer my carrots unpeeled and unwashed i didnt bother with the dip either i did manage to force it down,

Later i had more carrot juice (3 carrots), 1 raw carrot unpeeled, unwashed i grated it into a cup of soup, raw carrot doesnt float... later i had even more juice (3 carrots)

This is me pretending i still looove Carrot juice

we took these pics day one and were gunna take a pic every wednesday. They say that your palms turn first hence the pic of a hand.

Today i feel like i dont like carrots as much as yesterday...In fact i never really liked carrots anyway but this adds to the challenge. i would really apprechiate it if someone would send me some carrot recipies.

I also was extremely tired today and going to go to bed very early... could this be to do with the carrots?

Carrot Count

18

Day 2